A sign to display LED messages will soon be installed in Culver near State Road 10.
Culver Community School Superintendent Karen Shuman updated the school board last week on its progress as it will be erected on school property near State Road 10. She told board members that it is the hope that the double-sided sign could be seen from State Road 17.
She explained that the sign was purchased by the Marshall County Crossroads Regional Stellar Initiative to improve communications with local residents and visitors to Marshall County. Each community in the county received a sign and it was decided through a partnership with the school and the Town of Culver that it would be placed on school property.
According to a recent news release, the signs will be used to deliver COVID-related information from the county offices, plus local quarantine and mask requirements, locations of pop-up food pantries and promotional and marketing help for reopening businesses are also envisioned. Post pandemic, county information would include such things as Amber alerts, snow emergencies and other important news to be simultaneously broadcast in each town. Public service messages will also be included.
The school corporation will also have access to put some school corporation information to appear on the sign as well.
The corporation will trade the town for the cost of the water use at Cavalier Park at the school for the town’s use of the electricity to power the sign on the school’s property.
The location has been staked for future construction.
