South & Southwest Fort Wayne Indiana News
Enjoy outdoors activities like gardening, camping, hiking and more? This section is for you! These articles contain the latest local outdoors news and entertainment from around the Waynedale (Fort Wayne), Indiana area.
These days, the entertainment at Fox Island County Park is about more than hiking, swimming and enjoying nature.
You can have some prehistoric fun there, too.
As it has for the past several years, the park is also offering its Fossil Pile, allowing visitors the chance to dig through mounds of sediment
“I just love to hear robins sing. When I hear robins sing, I know spring is here,” a neighbor told me recently.
Our American robin, as suggested in the book Birds of America, is perhaps the most common bird in North America. Certainly it’s one of the most widely distributed birds, and well know.
Calling 811 is not only crucial for your safety and the safety of others — it’s the law. Digging without knowing the approximate location of underground utilities can result in damage to gas, ele
The Indiana Department of Transportation announced that the agency’s annual Trash Bash! will take place April 15 through April 30. Trash Bash! brings INDOT crews together with volunteers to beautify the state’s roadside areas by cleaning trash and debris.
INDOT urges individuals, organizations,
Young, old, male, and female, we have hundreds of customers that just can’t wait for the arrival of their hummingbirds each year. If we don’t have our hummingbird supplies out by the 1st of March we hear about it! Normally mid-April is when they first appear in our area. Generally male “scouts”
Enjoy beautiful scenery while creating works of art through the Arts in the Parks and Historic Sites program, sponsored by the Indiana Arts Commission.
The program is designed to draw upon both traditional and non-traditional arts and artists in Indiana and weave arts programming into the natural beauty
Late winter flooding in 2018 severely impacted northern Indiana where more than $2.6 million in federal grant funding was provided to residents who sustained disaster damage. Already this year we’ve seen ice jams and localized flooding in the Upper Midwest caused by ice melt and water run-off –
Three Rain Garden workshops are offered this spring to help residents address standing water issues on their property while improving water quality. The sessions are free and are sponsored by a partnership between City Utilities and the St. Joseph River Watershed Initiative. A City landscape architect
We hear many customers coming into the store this time of the year craving color after the long winter. There are many plants that love and thrive in the cooler weather of April and early May that can provide the color they crave. All of these plants will bloom best in the cooler weather and so as
The Sons of the American (SAL) Legion Post #241 located on Bluffton Road has made a generous donation to send two boys to summer camp in June 2019. The Boy Scout Troop 344 is sponsored by the local Waynedale United Methodist Church.
Thanks to the SAL American Legion Post #241 donation, Troop 344 boys
There’s a bird house on the trunk of a tree near our back door, a screech owl bird house. My son-in-law made it and put it there for me after I saw what I thought were screech owl droppings on the ground near the tree. Maybe they were screech owl droppings and maybe they weren’t; no screech owls
Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) recently presented a $100,000 check on behalf of the AEP Foundation empowering Soarin’ Hawk Raptor Rehabilitation Center to begin construction on our new operations facility.
The donation equals approximately one-third of the cost of building the new facility
Last week we got in our annual truckload of Scotts fertilizer. In my 45 years in the business, there hasn’t been a year go by that this wasn’t our go-to, top of the line, lawn fertilizer product for our customers. But over the last few years there has been a number of organic options available
We can thank pollinators for many of our favorite foods. According to the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, “Scientists estimate that one out of every three bites of food we eat exists because of pollinators like bees, butterflies and moths, birds and bats, beetles, and other insects.”
Youth hunters, i.e., those who will be younger than age 18 on the day of the hunt, may apply for reserved turkey hunts March 18-29. The youth wild turkey hunting season is April 20 and 21 on selected DNR properties.
Youth hunters or an adult representing them must register in person or by phone
In a sure sign that spring is not far behind, the first Purple Martins of the year have been spotted in The Hoosier State.
The birds were seen on March 2 in the southern Indiana town of Ferdinand by a Purple Martin enthusiast – one of many people throughout the eastern and central United States who
I looked out the dining room window one morning and was astounded at the sparrows; house sparrows. They covered the ground, as numerous as dead leaves in the fall. They lined every branch of the bush near the window. They crowded the bird feeder.
I read in Birds of America that house sparrows gather
As we grow weary of winter weather, one of the most delightful perennials to have for your shade garden is the helleborus plant. They are commonly called Lenten rose. These plants are native to Europe from Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, Turkey, Greece, & Italy.
Hellebores will thrive in gardens with
-13° below zero for heaven’s sake! And what, -40° wind chill? Schools, businesses, mail/paper delivery, and sporting events closed for days. It’s been awhile since we’ve seen that kind of temperature extremes around here. Hopefully you got through it OK, but how’d your house do?
Because of
If you are a senior citizen or disabled resident who cannot physically clear the snow from your driveway and walkway, please call NeighborLink at 260.209.0074 or post your snow removal request on NLFW.org.
NeighborLink cannot guarantee assistance, but will do their best to recruit volunteers and meet
Save Maumee Grassroots Organization has completed planting 2,936 trees along 1.5 miles of streambank and submitting work reports from 2016 through 2018. The group “physically planted 2,936 trees, but trees are fragile life forms that don’t always like how or where they were planted,” says Abigail
A local organization invites anyone who is interested in weather to attend a free class on how to recognize and report severe weather phenomena to benefit public safety. The Allen County branch of the national Amateur Radio Emergency Service® (ACARES) will host the class at the Allen County Public
Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation and Friends of the Parks of Allen County are coming together to restore Foster Park Pavilion #3.
The historic stone pavilion in the Foster Park Oak Grove will be fully and accurately restored along with landscape improvements, including a new paved trail connecting the
You made it! You made it once again to the end of the holiday season. So now what? How about just hunker down in your Lazyboy with a good book and wait until spring? Well just wait a minute. I have a few suggestions! Get out your pencil – take notes! It’s January job jar list time! I bet there
January is the time when gardeners’ thoughts turn to spring and the arrival of seed catalogs in the mail bring the excitement of garden plans. The advantages to growing seeds include the numbers of varieties available, the ability to control the conditions under which they are grown, saving money,