WMUN Local News Summary, 02/20/26
One of the highlights of the school year occurred recently at Muncie Central when the National Honor Society inductees were honored for the 2025-26 school year. Principal Chris Walker with more from WMUN’s “Delaware County Today.”
A Muncie man implicated in two 2020 shootings has been convicted on murder and attempted murder charges. 48-year-old Tavis S. Corbin was found guilty of killing 29-year-old Troy Allan Sandfair in May 2020, and he was convicted of the attempted murder of a 19-year-old woman who survived the shooting. Corbin is scheduled to be sentenced March 18 as a habitual offender.
Your ticket might say Saturday – but tonight is the moved BSU men’s basketball game on WMUN.
Frankton visits Alexandria in boys basketball tonight with pre-game beginning on Oldies 101 around 7:15 p.m. and tip-off at 7:30. A free TV-style broadcast is available at www.ihsaatv.org. Oldies 101 also will have a radio-only broadcast of Lapel’s Class 2A north girls basketball semi-state game against Bremen on Saturday at 10 a.m. The championship game is at 8 p.m. and will be broadcast if the Bulldogs advance.
Saturday, Yorktown visiting Wapahani on WMUN. Pre-game coverage is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. with tip-off scheduled for 7:30. A free TV-style broadcast will be available at www.ihsaatv.org/woofboom.
Yorktown has a new street sweeper at a cost of $250,000. But town manager Chase Bruton told WMUN’s “Delaware County Today” residents can rest assured they got full value from the previous model.
A Muncie woman has been arrested on suspicion of dealing a narcotic drug following an investigation by the Muncie-Delaware County Drug Task Force. The Star Press says 36-year-old Ashley Kay Alenne Atkinson was arrested after more than 86 grams of fentanyl was seized.
The Anderson Housing Authority will cease management of the Parkview Apartments on March 31. The Herald Bulletin says the apartments in the old YMCA building were sold to Ohio-based Episcopal Retirement Services in 2018. The AHA has managed the property since 2022.
Young’s Title & Abstract is hosting an open house Feb. 25 to celebrate its new office in Madison County on Anderson’s Enterprise Drive. A ribbon cutting will be held at 3:15 p.m., and the celebration will continue until 6 p.m. Hors d’oeuvers and drinks will be provided.
Eight Delaware County wrestlers will compete in the IHSAA state finals this weekend at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. First-round competition begins today at 3 p.m. The winners advance to the quarterfinals beginning Saturday at 9 a.m.
Democrat Phil Gift has announced he will again run to represent District 35 in the Indiana House. The Star Press says gift was Republican incumbent Elizabeth Rowray’s opponent in the 2024 election. Gift served 17 years as a registered nurse with the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The Anderson Municipal Development Department demolished vacant homes on Anderson’s Cedar Street and West 12th Street on Wednesday. The Herald Bulletin says seven properties have been demolished in 2026, and the Anderson Board of Public Works has bids to demolish 12 more.
“Just Desserts” returns to the Ivy Tech Fisher Building from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on March 10. The event has raised more than $60,000 to support the Boys & Girls Clubs of Muncie since 2018. Book a full table of six for $240 on the boys and girls club website.
