Coverage today: the county seat's daily, the town's own website, and no home paper

AS OF NOVEMBER 2026 · dated from the coverage itself

Since the News closed in January 2015, New Carlisle's news has run the way Walkerton's does — through the county seat: the South Bend Tribune is the town's paper of record in practice, and its New Carlisle coverage in the record reached is neither occasional nor small. Through December 2025 the Tribune carried the largest story in the town's modern history beat by beat: the Amazon Web Services data-center campus east of New Carlisle, the proposed third data center on 1,057 acres along Chicago Trail, the letter of the two mayors and three county commissioners supporting the proposals (reported 2 December 2025), the proponents' press conference of 8 December, and the County Council's 7–2 vote against the rezoning after a meeting of more than ten hours (reported 10 December 2025) — with the New Carlisle Town Council's own resolution opposing the rezoning reported inside the county story. That is what coverage of a paperless town looks like in 2026: complete, professional, and filed from fourteen miles away. The town's own voice is its website: the Town of New Carlisle publishes its government in the open at its official site — council agendas and minutes current through the 2025–26 cycle, board minutes into 2026 — the primary record of the town's doings, written by the town itself, where a weekly's legal-notice and council-report columns used to stand. No New Carlisle social-media news page, digital-only outlet, or successor paper was found's searches at a size the record would carry; the digital layer, as it stands in November 2026, is the town site for the record and the Tribune for the news. Across the county line west, La Porte's papers cover the Hudson Lake and Indiana Enterprise Center country that trades through New Carlisle, at pointer size only — no La Porte title's New Carlisle coverage was read first-hand, and none is claimed.

Sources:

1. South Bend Tribune, December 2025 — "5 top local officials write letter supporting data center proposals" (2 December 2025); "Local officials call for support for data centers ahead of Dec. 9 vote" (8 December 2025); "St. Joseph County Council rejects proposed third data center" (10 December 2025), read in the paper's own reporting.
2. Town of New Carlisle official website (townofnewcarlisle.in.gov) — council agendas and minutes of the 2025 cycle and board minutes of 2026 (including the Cemetery Board minutes of 16 June 2026), read first-hand.
3. Library of Congress title record for the New Carlisle News, as above — the 2015 closing that dates the home paper's end.