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🌱 How a Michigan City double murder led to 110-year sentence

Michigan City, Indiana Patch AM: a 5 min read

What's up Michigan City! Let's start this morning right by getting caught up on what's going on around town. Keep reading to stay in the loop. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • How a Michigan City double murder led to 110-year sentence
  • What Michigan City’s new data center moratorium really does—and doesn’t
  • Will Michigan City’s data-center pause really rein in future projects?

Also on today's calendar: Blood Pressure and Bingo - HealthLinc Michigan City and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What sits at the bottom of the ocean and Shakes? 🤔 (Answer below!)

☑️ Important voting information: The Nov. 3 general election is coming up. Official Indiana election resources: Find your polling place | Register to vote | Check your registration | Absentee, mail and early voting.

Weather forecast:

  • Sunday: Sun and areas of high clouds, with a high of 68 and low of 50 degrees.
  • Monday: Partly sunny and pleasant, temps: high: 66, low: 50.
  • Tuesday: Variable cloudiness, with a high of 66 and low of 52 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. 110 Year Sentence for Revenge-Driven Slayings (wsbt.com) — A Michigan City man has been sentenced to 110 years in prison for the 2024 murders of his former girlfriend and her new boyfriend at Normandy Village Apartments on the city’s west side. Investigators tied him to the shooting using license plate reader data, vehicle evidence, and witness accounts, closing a case that deeply shook a local workplace and neighborhood.
   

2. NWI government this week mulled budgets and retirements this week (nwitimes.com) — Michigan City’s City Council advanced a moratorium on new data centers while residents urged leaders to go further and challenge a proposed Google facility, which councilors warned could bring legal risks. The council also adopted a Vision Zero resolution, committing the city to eliminating traffic deaths and severe injuries on local streets by 2040.
   

3. Michigan City's New Data-Center Pause Exempts Google and Drops Its Tax-Break Ban (hoosierenquirer.com) — Michigan City’s Common Council is weighing a new moratorium that would pause additional data-center projects until mid-2028 while leaving Google’s already-approved Royal Road campus and its long-term tax abatements untouched. Residents are pressing council members to tighten rules, reconsider future tax breaks, and limit any expansion as the ordinance moves toward a November 4 second reading.
   

4. Northwest Indiana school boards approve their 2027 budgets and more this week at meetings (nwitimes.com) — Michigan City Area Schools is moving forward with an $80 million operating referendum on November’s ballot, asking local voters to bolster public education funding. The roundup also details 2027 budget approvals and referendum plans in nearby districts, plus new state grants and absenteeism trends that will shape classrooms across Northwest Indiana.
   

5. Harvest Festival follows ribbon-cutting as Walker Street Park garden mural debuts (wsbt.com) — Michigan City neighbors gathered at Walker Street Park Community Garden to unveil a bright new mural shaped by Eastport residents’ ideas about fruits, pollinators, and native plants. The ribbon-cutting rolled into the garden’s Harvest Festival and final market day, celebrating the space’s growing role as a fresh-food and community hub for local families and farmers.
   

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Ok Michigan City! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What sits at the bottom of the ocean and Shakes?" — A nervous wreck (Thank you Fiona M. for sending it in!)
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