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National Civic League, All-America Cities by State 1949–2009; 2026 winners announced 28 June 2026; this lane's searches, November 2026
No fragment had tested the town against the civic honours at all; the test is run here against the programme's own roster, and the roster is printed so the negative carries its evidence. Indiana's All-America City winners, 1949–2009, as the National Civic League's programme lists them: Anderson 1976-77; Bloomington 1958 and 1981-82; Columbus 1994; Evansville 2004; Fort Wayne 1982-83, 1998 and 2009; Greencastle 1991; Indianapolis 1970 and 1981-82; Lafayette 1995; Michigan City 1965; New Albany 1968; Richmond 1986-87 and 2009; South Bend 1967; Vincennes 1978-79. Lakeville is not among them. The current roll agrees: the 2026 winners, announced at Denver on 28 June 2026 — Chelsea, Massachusetts; Franklin, Tennessee; Harlingen, Texas; Montgomery, Alabama; Morrisville, North Carolina; Norfolk, Virginia; North Charleston, South Carolina; Riviera Beach, Florida; Roanoke, Virginia; and Woodburn, Oregon — include no Lakeville. The lesser civic honours print on the same negative: no key to the city conferred on or by Lakeville, and no city-hall honour naming the town, appears in any carrier reached. South Bend's 1967 award is the boundary entry: it belongs to the county seat twelve miles north, and it is printed here only so the county's one All-America line is not mistaken for the town's.