Granger, Indiana · 21st century
2020s
80 dated events in 2020s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
21st century 80 dated mentions
2020s
- 2020Granger Community Church: the succession of 2020
He retired from the United Methodist Church on July 1, 2020, remaining pastor emeritus of the church he had founded.
- 2020The frame: three townships, one unincorporated ground
The 2020 census counted 30,337 people; the 2010 census, as the place's published article carries it, counted 30,465.
- 2020Density and rank, dated: Granger among Indiana's places at the 2020 census
Density is banked (1,228.6 per square mile in 2020 on the CDP's own basis) and is not re-computed here. Rank was never stated, and it is stated here from the Bureau's own 2020 place file as republished in the State of Indiana's 2020 city, town and county populations list (INDOT, from PL 94-171 totals).
- 2020–2026Amanda Fox: the Presidential Award, won for a Granger classroom
In December 2020 Fox was chosen Indiana's only state finalist in mathematics; she and the state's two science finalists were honored in April 2021 at a luncheon in Indianapolis with Indiana Secretary of Education Katie Jenner.
- 2021–2026The present state verified: the CONNECT plan, the June 2025 redesign, the September 2026 cuts, and the for-hire trade
The current network plan: Transpo, with the Michiana Area Council of Governments (MACOG) and the Interurban Trolley, ran a comprehensive operational analysis that produced the CONNECT Transit Plan — dated 2021–2023 on Transpo's own plan page, with the plan's recommendations record dating the process launch to Fall 2022…
- 2023–2026Preservation as Repair: Harris Prairie Cemetery
The repair-not-façade pattern the row asks for is the pattern of the trustee's campaign carried in the Cemeteries file: monument cleaning and repair through 2023, then a formal improvement programme.
- 2024The great fire whose cause the record never names: Juday Creek, 26 August 2024
In the early morning of Monday, 26 August 2024, just before 6 a.m., the clubhouse of the Juday Creek Golf Course at 14770 Lindy Drive, Granger, burned.
- 2024The modern ledger, from the federal count — and this place’s uncounted share
The United States Trade Representative’s state pages, republishing the Department of Commerce / International Trade Administration metropolitan export series, record for 2024 (stated there as the latest data available) goods exports of 989.6 million dollars for the South Bend–Mishawaka metropolitan area…
- 2024–2025The drone era tested as its own period: winter 2024–25
A separate period, and a separate verdict: from 13 November 2024 the United States ran a national drone-sighting episode centred on New Jersey and the Northeast — thousands of night reports over homes, reservoirs, Picatinny Arsenal and Naval Weapons Station Earle…
- 2024–2026The farm's second harvest: the data-center campus
The course, from the press of record: in May 2024 the St. Joseph County Council approved the rezoning petition; in June 2024 Microsoft purchased the site for $77.5 million (one secondary summary dates the acquisition to May; the Tribune's sequence — rezoning in May, purchase in June — is the one printed)…
- 2024–2026The Microsoft EKI campus at business strength: the purchase and development course
The largest business transaction in this ground's history is the sale of its oldest business: in May 2024 the St. Joseph County Council approved the rezoning of more than 900 acres of the St. Joseph's Farm ground — the Holy Cross farm carried in this section's third entry — for a Microsoft data-center campus.
- 2025Closures, named: Big Brothers Big Sisters of this region closed in June 2025 — the leg does not carry the dead as living
The closure: Big Brothers Big Sisters Southern Lake Michigan Region Inc. — the mentoring corporation formed 1 January 2020 when Big Brothers Big Sisters of St. Joseph County Inc. (the county's house since its 1970-era ruling) acquired the Lower West Michigan organization and took the regional name, serving St. Joseph…
- 2000sThe township parks: Granger's public athletic ground
One more holding waits at pointer size: the trustee's August 2022 account notes that "for well over 20 years, the St. Joseph county parks Department has owned 100+ acres near Anderson and Beech roads in Harris Township"…
- 2010sThe digital wire: the group that became the paper
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…
- 2026The place today
As this spine is written, in November 2026, Granger stands at the end of its filling-in and the beginning of its next argument: the census counts 30,337 people (2020), the survey estimate 30,321, in a place that held 481 at the century's turn and 2,860 in its township as late as 1970.
- 2026The election of 2026: both townships at the ballot
Township officers in Indiana are elected for four-year terms at the general election and take office on the January 1 following: the election of November 3, 2026, therefore chose both townships' governments entire — trustee and all three board seats in each…
- 2026The county over both townships
The seat's modern line runs: Andy Kostielney, placed by Republican caucus in 2009 in succession to Mark Dobson and long the board's president, retired at the end of 2022; Carl H. Baxmeyer (R) has held the district through 2026, as president of the board.
- 2026The school board: Penn-Harris-Madison, seat by seat
Its superintendent line is settled in the Story of Granger section and is not re-dug here: Dr. Jerry Thacker, 2006–2025, succeeded by Dr. Heather Short , appointed May 27, 2025, by a 7–0 vote, effective July 1, 2025, and confirmed in office in the district's releases through the autumn of 2026.
- 2026The library district: Mishawaka-Penn-Harris
The board as the library prints it, verified November 11, 2026: Jenny McNeil , president (appointed by the Mishawaka school board; term ends December 31, 2026); Dee Dee Gerber , vice-president (Mishawaka school board; ends December 31, 2029); Mark Bagwell (County Council; ends December 31, 2028)…
- 2026The current seats, Clay Township: the one township this place cannot yet name its government for
The state of the fixture: The banked Government file verifies the current seats of Harris Township (Trustee Kenneth E. Lindsay; Board Bob Fox, Charles (Chuck) Sulok, Karen Vargo), the county, the school boards, and the library board as of 11 November 2026, and this section's State Board of Accounts pull firms the…
- 2026The ambulance course: no wagon era — the medic units became the department's main work
The police course of this ground — justices and constables from 1830–36 forward, the sheriff succession, and the modern course of the county police alone, dated 2021–2026…
- 2026The completeness sweep: the names the rosters missed, entered whole
The State Board of Accounts' compliance engagement report for Harris Township, 2019–2023, prints the board's chairs year by year — Karen Vargo in 2019, Chuck Sulok in 2020, Jeff Broadwick in 2021, Karen Vargo again from 2022 to 2024…
- 2026Firsts in public office, tested one by one: one chairmanship dated, one claim dispelled, the rest refused
Karen Vargo, Harris Township board chairman, 2019 and 2022–24 — not a first on this record: Vargo's chairmanships are documented whole in the Board's 2019–2023 report, and she sits on the board as the township prints it in 2026.
- 2026Water, in sequence: the marsh, the state ditch, a gauged creek — and no crest the record will sign
The gauge's carried record, as the USGS-derived flow reporting stood in November 2026, shows an ordinary creek at ordinary work — flowing at 10 cubic feet per second with a gage height of 2.31 feet on November 10, 2026 — and a maximum recorded discharge of 306 cfs across its record.
- 2026The improvised-ingenuity class, tested: no boat graded a Granger street
Both shelves were searched whole in November 2026: the Gazette's archive for its history columns and for the class's own vocabulary (boat, drag, grade, improvised, jury-rigged, threshing, ice crossing), and the Tribune's indexed local-history coverage for any Clay or Harris township ingenuity anecdote.
- 2026A world-record attempt, tested: none stands on this ground
The tests the audit named were run in November 2026: the Guinness World Records record itself, searched for Granger, Indiana, and for the ground's two named venues; the South Bend Tribune 's archive, searched for any record attempt staged in the CDP; and the event records of the two venues the class would naturally use…
- 2026Schools: Not Found in the Record
And no private school seated in the CDP stands in the record beyond the five carried in this section — St. Pius X, Granger Christian (closed 2026), Peace Lutheran, Calvary Christian, and Michiana Covenant Academy…
- 2026Dispositions re-settled from the appellate record, and the cold cases carried
(3) The Fir Road case of July 2026 — the unnamed man's charge and disposition likewise sit in the court record; the Tribune's July 2026 reports reached carry the arrest and referral, not an outcome.
- 2026The line itself: ZIP against CDP, and the southern edge, as of November 2026
Against them, the file shows essentially no city-taxed residential parcels inside the Census boundary — with one fresh exception that proves the motion: at Grande Vista Estates, a small plat on the Gumwood corridor at the boundary's southern doorstep, the Morningstar Replat's Lot B carries an annexation ordinance in…
- 2026The transit test: no bus has ever run here
Public transit in this county is TRANSPO, the South Bend Public Transportation Corporation, heir of the Northern Indiana Railway's streetcars (converted to buses between 1934 and 15 June 1940) and of the city's transit district…
- 2026The standing modern unit test: no unit stationed inside the line, as of November 2026
Tested at locator strength, like the Legion and VFW test in Wars & Military Service: as of November 2026, no National Guard, reserve or active-duty unit is stationed inside the Granger CDP.
- 2026The modern position, as of November 2026
The position, dated: as of November 2026 the designated estate stands exactly where the search found it — four DNR-cooperative trails and one association trail in Indiana, Buffalo Run the county's one, its map reissued 8 January 2026 with the season's terms unchanged: posted open, snow permitting, 1 December to 31 March.
- 2026Before the institutions: the street band and the bandshell tests
The county's bandshell line states the contrast plainly: South Bend itself has concerted in Howard Park for generations without a built shell, and its Howard Park bandshell — $3 million in READI money, design funded in 2026, construction projected April to December 2027 — is a building of the future, not of the band era.
- 2026The music schools: Suzuki on Gumwood Road, and the lesson trade
The school's own published record, read in November 2026, carries its present state plainly: its current building "will only be available for the next year or two," and the school has opened a first-phase campaign of one hundred thousand dollars to build or purchase a home of its own, so that the school "will serve…
- 2026The gallery, and the houses that are not here
At 7225 Heritage Square Drive, in the lifestyle center the Businesses leg carries whole, Max Black Fine Art keeps the designated place's only gallery-form business…
- 2026The state of the making, November 2026
As of November 2026: the Conservatory of Dance and Tutu School are teaching on published 2026–27 schedules at 14678 State Road 23, a nonprofit dance institution of twenty-six years' standing sharing its address with a franchise — the corridor's whole dance establishment under one roof number.
- 2026Mental health and addiction care: offices, not institutions
The county's institutional course — the designated community mental health center's succession from Madison Center to Oaklawn, the commitment traffic, the county's behavioral-health consolidation of 2026 — is the South Bend build's mental-health leg, whole…
- 2026The surviving-charity-clinic test, run for this ground: negative
The South Bend Clinic's Granger Campus roster and Beacon Health System's financial-assistance record, as printed November 2026.
- 2026The register read whole: 212 organisations at the ZIP, counted and dated
The sector can be counted because it keeps a register: the Internal Revenue Service's exempt-organisations master record, read whole for this section in its TaxExemptWorld Granger presentation, November 2026.
- 2026The universities' money, tested: a by-design absence, explained
The universities' corporate and Form 990 record as presented in the exempt registers read November 2026 (the University of Notre Dame, Saint Mary's College, Indiana University and Bethel University each exempt in the institution's own name…
- 2026The fellowship test: enFocus, positive at county frame
The corporation's course is growth on the same model: a $3 million Lilly Endowment grant in 2013 to grow and replicate the model across Indiana…
- 2026The present shape, November 2026: consolidation, endurance, and the quiet exits — named
The sector's shape in November 2026 is three shapes at once.
- 2026The disco and big-room era, tested: the word "nightclub" is not missing by accident
The tests were run in November 2026 across the era's own shelves: the city and county directories of the 1970s through the 1990s for any Granger listing under nightclub, disco or dance club; the South Bend Tribune 's record for those decades, searched on the same words against the CDP and both townships…
- 2026The place's own name: the institutional tests
The rankings: what the place holds instead of civic honors is a grade sheet from the commercial ranking industry — AreaVibes' livability score of 78 of 100, twenty-seventh in Indiana, with an F for amenities in the same table…
- 2026Awards & Honors: Open Questions
Prairie Vista to Elsie Rogers falls between April 2021 and February 2022 on the records read, and the move from Elsie Rogers to the Moran assistant-principalship falls between 2022 and the directory read of November 2026; neither date is fixed.
- 2026The patent place in aggregate — a floor count, a county instrument, no invented rank
At state strength, the verified frame is Indiana's: 1,627 utility patents granted to Indiana-resident first inventors in 2023, a state rank of 22nd, and 13,267 total patents across 2018–2023, rank 19th (StatsAmerica from USPTO data, generated 10 November 2026).
- 2026The school dress record, school system by school system: a code kept, and the uniform school
The abolished-code half of the checklist's pattern was tested and not found: no Granger-seated school in the record reached has abolished a dress code or dropped a uniform; the two systems stand as they are printed above, one coded and one uniformed, as of November 2026.
- 2026The present state, dated: what of the trade survives on this ground
What does not survive, as of November 2026: no clothing manufacturer, no mill, no factory of the trade is seated on this ground — the manufacture never came, the custom trade survives only inside a luxury boutique's service list and a boutique's alteration Fridays, and the trade's present form entire is selling: prom…
- 2026The route map as of November 2026
The dated route map, verified November 2026, stands at five carriers. Allegiant serves Fort Lauderdale, Knoxville (from June 14, 2024), Las Vegas, Orlando/Sanford, Phoenix/Mesa, Punta Gorda, and St. Petersburg/Clearwater, with seasonal Sarasota service.
- 2026The serving posts, post by post: Mishawaka 161 and 360
American Legion Post 161, Mishawaka — the Ryan A. Balmer Post — stands at 133 E. Mishawaka Avenue, Mishawaka, and is active as of November 2026: the Legion's locator lists it active, telephone 574-255-8319, open Monday and Thursday 5–9 p.m. and Friday 4–9 p.m.
- 2026The smaller banners, one by one
Each negative is a November 2026 locator-and-web sweep result, printed at that strength: the record reached holds no seat for these five banners in the county, while the county's veterans are served by the banners that are seated…
- 2026The system as it stands, November 2026
Named as of November 2026, the system this ground's residents use stands as follows.
- 2026The smallest form at true size: the meadery-winery, searched as its own class
Searched as its own class — Indiana winery licence and guide lists under meadery and mead terms, the current commercial directories for Granger and the two townships, and the state winery register record…
- 2026The present map: the tables standing in November 2026
On Adams Road: The Chief's year-round room at 12479, and the farmers market's Adams Road listing in the federal directory — while the market's own season, in its park form, closed on September 27, 2026, at Centennial Park.
- 2026Founders & CEOs: Not Found in the Record
Searched the same record for an outside firm's local keeper carried as a chief: Granger's branches are retail and banking branches, and the only keeper the record names at any strength is a store director…
- 2026The modern founders and chiefs, named as of November 2026
On November 1, 2017 Newbold stepped down and the board appointed his chief operating officer, Kreg Gruber — who had served as president of Memorial Hospital, of Elkhart General and of Beacon Medical Group — as CEO…
- 2026Women and Minority Founders
Pass four, the chiefs' bench as of November 2026: the sweep's strongest modern finding is at the top of the bank row — Andrea G. Short, CEO and president of 1st Source Corporation from October 1, 2025, the first woman to head the row's lead house in its 162 years, and Bridget Brady, CFO and co-chairman of Big C Lumber…
- 2026The designation record, counted at a date
National Register of Historic Places, county: 102 properties and districts listed in St. Joseph County, including one National Historic Landmark, with four further properties once listed and since removed (National Park Service list, complete through listings posted 18 September 2026).
- 2026Anniversaries as heritage acts, and the regime as it stands, November 2026
The regime as it stands in November 2026, named whole: the governing body is the Historic Preservation Commission of South Bend and St. Joseph County, five of nine seats filled (President Sarah Andrews; Vice President Kathryn Hough; Secretary Michael Skaggs; Andrew Fowler…
- 2026The present map, dated November 2026
As of November 2026, the standing map is two houses on the southern doorstep and none anywhere else inside the line — and the two do not stand on the same side of it.
- 2026The appointed machinery named: plan commission, zoning appeals, drainage board
The commission's officers at their documented points: Daniel Brewer was its president in 2017, with Elizabeth Maradik vice-president; Adam DeVon was elected chair on February 19, 2025, with Tom England vice-chair, and was elected president again on January 20, 2026, with Eugene Matzat as vice-president and Tom England…
- 2026The county's firsts, tested office by office
When Amy Cressy filed for the office on January 21, 2026, the Tribune reported she was "potentially becoming the first female prosecutor in the county's history"; the banked leg records her election on November 3, 2026.
- 2026The federal bench from this ground
Search record, November 2026: FJC directory searched for birth location "Granger, Indiana" (no result); web queries for a Northern District judge born or resident in Granger, Indiana (no result).
- 2026The verified programs, dated: trauma, stroke, psychiatry
Memorial Hospital of South Bend stands, as of November 2026, as an American College of Surgeons–verified Level II Trauma Center — stated in Beacon's own current location record ("As the region's only Level II Trauma Center… Trauma care at Memorial meets rigorous national standards for quality as evaluated by the…
- 2026The dealer record to the present row: the heading outlives the farm
The leg prints that as the present row's whole finding: the trade that served these farms from South Bend and Mishawaka in 1910 serves their successor suburb from South Bend and Mishawaka in 2026, and the CDP line has never once contained the counter.
- 2026Rows 3 and 8 — The state halls: four hall cities, an empty roll at residency strength, and the Penn-pipeline roll
At residency strength — a Granger resident inducted — the combined roll of all four halls is empty : no inductee of any of the four is a Granger resident in the records reached, and the Track hall's own recent classes were read whole to test it (the 2024 class of 25 and the 2026 class of 21 carry no Penn or Granger name…
- 2026Amusement, Trolley and Kiddie Parks
The searches, shown: (1) the record of this build — the words amusement , Playland and Springbrook appear in no fragment before this section, and no park of the amusement kind appears in the parks leg's whole course of this ground's open spaces, which runs to two trustee parks, one path network and one county park…
- 2026The government that governs it today — and the one that takes over on New Year's Day
The county, this month: the whole designated place lies in Commissioner District 1, the county's northern district, and the seat is held through December 31, 2026 by Carl H. Baxmeyer (R), president of the three-member Board of Commissioners, sitting with Rafael Morton (District 2) and Anthony Hazen (District 3).
- 2026The churches as they stand
Sixteen congregations: the Religion section's closing roll seats sixteen congregations on Granger ground as of November 2026, and this chapter prints the roll at pointer size, as it stands.
- 2026The corridors as they stand, and the ground still filling
East of State Road 23, Douglas Road still runs two lanes through the subdivisions as of November 2026 — the county's designated east–west relief corridor in its unfinished half, and the standing subject of the county's next road argument.
- 2026The place’s health, as it stands
The behavioral-health consolidation the county’s record carries for December 1, 2026 stands in the Health and Mental Health legs at the strength their records give it.
- 2026The present calendar, verified to November 2026
How a place with no city hall keeps a calendar: Granger's public calendar is kept by the institutions that anchor it — the township, the library branch, the parishes and the school district — and this closing article states the current season from their published calendars, verified in November 2026.
- 2026The city in numbers, vintages named: 30,337 counted, 30,321 estimated, 324,538 in the metro
That ACS vintage now carries its release date: the Census Bureau published the 2020–2024 five-year data on 29 January 2026 , after revising the release from its originally scheduled 11 December 2025 (the revision was announced 20 November 2025 and confirmed in the Bureau's Tip Sheet 21 of 12 December 2025, with…
- 2026Major employers, ranked: the school corporation first, the hospital system second — and a data center that is not yet an employer
The campus is the ground's largest construction project and, as of November 2026, employs no operating workforce on it: the roughly 300 permanent jobs attached to the project are county officials' figure for a finished campus, the $77.5 million land purchase closed in 2024, the $65 million memorandum was voted 6…
- 2026Sports today: leagues on township ground, two golf courses, a club that merged — and still no home team
The shape has not changed: As of November 2026 Granger remains a place that plays everywhere and hosts almost nothing above the township level — no home team, no stadium, no franchise; the Sports leg's closing roster is a roster of leagues, courses and pipelines, and its state as of this month is as follows.
- 2026Arts, culture and institutions today: lessons, a library, a campaign — culture still carried, never housed
The dated state, as the Arts section leaves it and this month confirms it: As of November 2026 the Conservatory of Dance and Tutu School are teaching on published 2026–27 schedules at 14678 State Road 23…
- 2026Media today: a monthly magazine of its own, a daily at the boundary, and a Facebook group that became a paper
The Granger Gazette — monthly, published by Kerry Byler, founded in 1996 or 1997 by the evidence of its own numbering (volume 19, number 4, is dated April 2015)…
- 2026The Year's Calendar in Granger
Spring and summer belong to the township's leagues: Harris Baseball/Softball's season on the township's fields — in 2026 a displaced season, Fields 1–4 closed for the rebuild until spring 2027…
- 2026Photographs: the credits-and-rights ledger for every image this build located
(3) The Anderson Trail County Park construction photography in the county's own record: the images document the park this build's Parks leg follows to its November 2026 completion, and their rights state is unstated in the record reached (EXPAND-CURRENT-TODAY-NOTE)…
- 2026–2027The schools as they stand
The corporation is led, verified this month against its own releases, by Superintendent Dr. Heather Short, in office since July 1, 2025 after nineteen years of Dr. Jerry Thacker…