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South Bend Tribune, 13 March 2026 (preview); WNDU, 24 March 2026 (result) — the act carried whole in the events file
The town's largest modern civic act fails on the same test. On 24 March 2026 the township boards of Clay, Penn, Harris and German and the town councils of Osceola, Roseland and Indian Village voted at a public meeting in Mishawaka on merging the Clay and Penn fire territories into a single territory from 2027, and the merger was approved — reported for the seven communities collectively, with no unit-by-unit breakdown in any carrier read. Test one passes: the act stands in the contemporaneous press of record, preview and result. Test three passes: the town's fire protection changes hands in 2027 for the second time in its corporate life. Test two fails: no carrier reached documents an opposing vote, a dissenting unit, a public dispute, or a contested hearing — the preview and the result are the whole of the printed record, and both are the record of an agreement. Disposition: fails test two; an act of government, owned by the events and government files, not a controversy.