City to seek grant to expand River Walk

By Joseph Slacian jslacian@thepaperofwabash.com

The City of Wabash will seek a grant from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources to extend the Wabash River Walk trail.

Mayor Scott Long announced the plans during the Wabash Park Board meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 8.

“Our trail plan has, for a long time, a River Walk extension,” Long told the board. “Let’s get rid of the misnomer right now, it’s a River Walk extension, not an extension of the Wabash River Trail, which is a totally separate project.”

A portion of the River Walk near Huntington Street historically floods, the mayor noted. The extension would help get a bypass on higher ground, enabling the walkway to remain open year round.

“As we talked to DNR about that, potentially getting a trail grant, that section wasn’t long enough for them to say, ‘Yes, this is a good project,’” Long continued. “So we said, ‘What if we extended our River Walk per the plan that’s been in place for a number of years. The length of those two combined make it fare really well, and they told us we would be looked on favorably for a grant application for the Indiana Trails program grant.”

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Play ball! Boys and girls of all ages gathered Sunday afternoon at the Wabash High School gym to try out for the 2023 Wabash Little League season. The youngsters took their turns fielding ground balls, pop-ups, throwing and batting while coaches looked on. Try outs will continue at 12:30 p.m. Feb. 19 at the high school