The digital wire: the group that became the paper

2010s–2026

The searches were run as the leg requires — the place-name against the platforms, the creator directories, the aggregator lists — and what they return for this ground is other people's record: South Bend's creators (Brandon Reed's Cartoon Connect is South Bend's, born and raised and built there, and prints in that city's leg at full size) and South Bend's history podcast, Round the Bend Now and Then — hosted by Matt Emery, telling "the stories of South Bend and Mishawaka" since April 2023, forty-nine episodes in the directories by 2026 — which is boundary here under the standing INF-1 ruling, however often its subject matter crosses the river. No Granger-seated channel, show, or digital-native news outlet was verified; the record prints thin because it is thin, and the assumed cases are dispelled in the next entry. What the digital era actually seated here is not a creator. It is a group.

The "Neighbors of Granger, IN" Facebook group functions, in the documented record, as this place's news wire and civic floor. The evidence is the press of record quoting it as such: in the Tribune's data-center coverage of December 2025 and February 2026, the group's administrator — named by the paper in her public advocacy role, Emily Trausch — speaks for it on the record: the group "has fought against several proposals and projects in and around Granger, including the Microsoft data center," works "to raise public awareness," and aligned itself with New Carlisle's residents against the data center proposed there; by May 2026 the Tribune is reporting "Neighbors of Granger" members by that collective name at Microsoft's own community event, passing out "no data center" stickers. A Facebook group whose administrator the daily quotes as a civic actor, whose members the daily identifies by the group's name at a public meeting, is performing the exact office the township-items column performed in 1900 — gathering the place's news, arguing its cases, and carrying its name into the county's record — and it does so from inside the ground, which no medium seated here had done since the Gazette's founding. The official channels run beside it at their documented size: Harris Township's own website and Facebook page (@HarrisTownshipIN), to which the township's FAQ directs residents for meeting announcements alongside the Gateway and — the old wire, still named in 2026 — the South Bend Tribune; the anti-data-center campaign's own site (Stop Data SJC) as the fight's publication of record; and the generic neighborhood layer (Nextdoor and the Facebook groups the newcomer's guides advise joining) at directory strength. Private individuals' accounts are out of scope throughout, and none is touched; the group's internal life is not this section's — its public, quoted, on-the-record course is.

Sources:

1. South Bend Tribune, December 12, 2025, February 20, 2026, and May 20, 2026: the "Neighbors of Granger, IN" group, its administrator quoted in her public role, its campaigns and its alignment with New Carlisle; members identified by the group's name at the May 19, 2026 Microsoft community event.
2. Round the Bend Now and Then (Captivate; Listen Notes directory): Matt Emery, host; South Bend and Mishawaka subject; from April 2023; forty-nine episodes — boundary under INF-1. Cartoon Connect / Brandon Reed: South Bend's, per that city's record.
3. Harris Township FAQ (harristwp.com), read November 2026: meeting announcements on the township website, the township Facebook page, Indiana's Gateway, and the South Bend Tribune. Stop Data SJC (stopdatasjc.com): the campaign's published record of the Granger and New Carlisle fights.