Indiana Department of Transportation crews will work to chip and seal a portion of State Road 331 between Bourbon and State Road 25 next week.
INDOT officials say the work will begin on Monday, June 12 and continue through June 16. The length of construction time could take longer depending on weather conditions.
The staff at the Marshall County Highway Department is doing their best to make dollars stretch when it comes to road work.
Highway Supervisor Jason Peters, Highway Administrator Laurie Baker and the entire department worked hard to get the proper paperwork submitted for testing at the facility in order to be able to house millings from other road projects. Peters said the millings from the State Road 17 resurfacing project, U.S. 31 work and the Plymouth Community School Corporation parking lot paving project will be recycled and used for road paving within the county.
He said the millings the county has received look to be in good shape. Continue reading
The Marshall County Health Department will be holding a public hearing in July in order to amend some fees within the department.
Health Department Administrator Christine Stinson told the Marshall County Commissioners this week that the cost of birth and death certificates will double to $10 and paternity affidavits will increase to $35.00. New well permits will be $150 and well replacement or repair will be $100. That covers the cost of testing which detects bacteria, nitrates and arsenic.
The John Glenn School Board accepted the recommendation of Chris Manering for the position of high school assistant principal.
The position was previously held by Chris Winchell. The board accepted his resignation Tuesday night.
Manering has been with the John Glenn School Corporation for three years. He is also the athletic director.
Dave Lattimer will be retiring at the end of the month after serving seven years as the Airport Manager at the Plymouth Municipal Airport.
A celebration gathering is scheduled for Friday, June 30 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the airport.
Members of the Monterey Fire Department are teaming up with the American Red Cross to ensure members of their community stay safe in the event of a house fire. They will be doing a door-to-door canvassing campaign on Sunday, June 11 starting at 12:30 p.m. EDT. Continue reading
The State Road 17 resurfacing project is ongoing in the downtown Plymouth area. There will be no parking on both sides of Michigan Street so crews can complete the paving process.
INDOT Media Relations Director Doug Moats told MAX 98.3 FM News that paving will continue through the week. Flaggers are directing traffic and Moats notes motorists should expect delays. He encourages drivers to avoid driving on Michigan Street to reduce hazards and further delays. Parking is available on side streets and in public parking lots in the downtown area to access downtown businesses.
Motorists may also expect delays as State Road 17 winds south of Michigan Street.
Work should be done to reclaim roads by the end of this week. Marshall County Highway Supervisor Jason Peters told the commissioners that he anticipates work on 7th Road should be complete this week after repairs are made to some equipment.
The highway workers plan to pave Lilac Road as it’s next on the list. Peters hopes to use the new paving machine on Beech Road when it arrives later this month.
An initial hearing has not been set in Marshall County Superior Court 2 for a Plymouth man suspected of holding a woman against her will and brandishing a handgun threatening to kill himself and pointing the weapon at police.
The incident happened on Friday, May 26, when Vincent Carnegie allegedly handcuffed a woman while she lay in her bed with her face covered with a washcloth that had been doused in a substance. Carnegie then reportedly forced the woman from the home in the 11,000 block of Michigan Road in Plymouth. They left the residence in her car while she was still in handcuffs, according to the affidavit of probable cause.
The Plymouth Community School Board members are expected to announce a new superintendent during their regular school board meeting tomorrow night.
The board held a public hearing on the new superintendent’s contract on Wednesday, May 31 which included a $5,000 base salary increase to $120,000. The contract will be in effect July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2020.
The John Glenn School Board will meet tonight with several items of discussion on the agenda.
The board will approve digital and/or print textbooks for Urey Middle School in the amount of $96,692.43. The board is also looking to approve additions to the summer school sessions and approve a proposed curriculum and/or pacing guides for Math, Language Arts and Science at Urey Middle School. IRead 3 results will also be presented to the board.
The John Glenn School Board will meet at 7 p.m. in the meeting room in the school’s administration building.
A house fire in Plymouth last Thursday has been ruled accidental.
The Indiana State Fire Marshal was at the John Montgomery residence at 10548 King Road in Plymouth on Monday, June 5. With an investigation led by the Plymouth Fire Department Division of Investigations and the Indiana State Fire Marshal, the fire was determined to have started by an electrical issue in the garage. According to Plymouth Fire Chief Rod Miller, the investigation is now closed.
A Plymouth man is the Marshall County Jail after officers allegedly found him in possession of drugs.
A patrolman with the Marshall County Sheriff’s Department, with the assistance of officers from the Plymouth Police Department, executed an arrest warrant at the Red Rock Inn on Saturday evening. When Wesley Drew Henry, 27, was placed into police custody on a warrant, officers allegedly found several grams of methamphetamine and marijuana in his possession along with drug paraphernalia.
A South Bend man was taken into custody early Monday morning after allegedly stealing items from a Plymouth business and fleeing.
A Walmart representative notified police of a theft from the store. Police say the suspect, later identified as 40-year-old Sulton Williams, pushed a cart full of unpaid items out of the store and into an awaiting vehicle with a male driver. Williams reportedly put a computer, DVD player and some cat food into the white Ford Fusion, but left behind other items and fled in the vehicle.
The test mode time frame for the Automated Weather Observation System (AWOS) at the Plymouth Municipal Airport has been certified by the FAA and will be operational this month.
The AWOS III Weather Station will provide temperature, dew point, barometric pressures, wind direction, wind velocity, bottom and top of cloud height, and precipitation. The information will be available to the flying public, pilots flying under instrument conditions and pilots flying into the Plymouth Municipal Airport. This is vital for pilots as they can monitor more specific weather conditions in Plymouth and the surrounding area so they can better measure their landing decision height. Currently, the closest weather information pilots obtain is what South Bend’s Weather Station provides.
The Marshall County Commissioners have several action and discussion items on the agenda for their meeting this morning.
Highway Administrator Laurie Baker and Highway Supervisor Jason Peters will have an update for the board. Jackie Wright from the Marshall County Council on Aging will present the Federal Transit Act Resolution while Emergency Management Agency Director Clyde Avery will review an emergency disaster recovery document.
Culver Police Chief Wayne Bean is looking to hire officers for the department.
He told the Culver Town Council during their last meeting that one officer resigned the previous day and he will replace that officer. He is already reviewing applications for another vacancy in the department. As he reviews the applications, Chief Bean said he may go ahead and hire two in this round. He may choose to re-advertise for officers to gather more applications.
The Summer Food Service Program will assist Culver and area students at six different sites this summer.
Culver Community School Food Services Director Carin Clifton says children ages 18 and younger and people with disabilities who are still enrolled in K-12 educational programming are welcome to eat free meals this summer. She encourages students to take part in this opportunity to receive a nutritional meal. All meals must be eaten on site.
Local communities can apply for state funding to make better gathering spaces. The state’s launching a third round of Place Based Investment Funds.
Indiana posted its third-highest spring turkey harvest on record in 2017. DNR officials say hunters statewide harvested more than 13,000 wild turkeys. That’s an increase of 7-percent from the 12,081 turkeys taken last spring. Continue reading
