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2015 — the Tax Court reverses DLGF for the township (12 November); the Sauer brothers buy South Bend Motor Speedway (trade press, December); F.C. Indiana begins playing at Newton Park; boys' basketball's Bi-County crown, its first since 1974. 2016 — the town creates the Fall Festival and Art in the Park; Palmer buys the 1931 school (the Palmer Community Complex follows); Continental AG buys Hoosier Racing Tire (4 October; the price in conflict, $140 million against "nearing $155 million," carried whole in the wealth file). 2017 — the zoning successor ordinance takes effect (11 September, repealing Ordinance 02-1975); the band prints thin by design. 2018 — Town Hall remodelled and occupied; IU South Bend announces its women's soccer for Newton Park (October; seasons played there a named gap). 2019 — the Newtons enter the BPA Hall of Fame (3 November). 2020 — Biker Church of the Heartland seats itself in Lakeville in its own building; 48 Hours premieres its Pelley telling (25 January). 2021 — football's sectional title, 41–0 over Pioneer. 2022 — the successor-tower fund opens; football's first conference title since 1986. 2023 — the Independence Day Parade restarts; a third sectional title of the century's third decade follows in November (the association's list: 2023, 2A). 2024 — the water-tower project runs (2024–June 2026); the All Hallows Eve Party is created; LaVille moves to the Indiana Northern State Conference; girls' basketball takes Sectional 34 (6 February), baseball its first sectional since 1991. 2025 — the Fall Festival's tenth year; the Court of Appeals affirms the Pelley post-conviction denial (13 August) — the case's state today; the new tower is raised; Culp Park gets electric and the tree lighting. 2026 — the corporation becomes LaVille Community Schools (board vote, 8 June); the water project completes (June); Community Crossings brings $71,846.40; cameras go up at Culp Park; a fifteenth head football coach is named (10 February).
Principal sources: the banked this history (events, controversies, today), Culture, this history, The Story of Lakeville, Churches & Religion; the IHSAA list and the school's reports as cited in this history; Pelley v. State (Ind. Ct. App., 13 August 2025).