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Due to a reduced number in COVID-19 cases, the Eastern Pulaski School board announced that the corporation will move to a "mask recommended" status effective immediately. Based on the new guidelines, the mask status will depend on the number of students and/or staff quarantined or isolated in a...
Going around the table at a regular county council meeting on Monday, November 8 all of the council members shared a variety of topics that they would like to address, with the most repeated being the want to work more on the matrix. Some of the other topics brought up were budgeting,a capital...
Parks board member Brad Zellers informed the board that the splash pad has also been prepared for winter, and Britni Fritz, the mother of Owen Abbott, had gotten a memorial stone to add to the front entrance of the splash pad.
At a regular commissioners meeting on Monday, November 1 Pulaski County Community Development Commission Executive Director Nathan Origer reported that the project has been moving along, with steel beams currently being installed. In addition to that, some welding has been occurring which will be...
The town water issues that Francesville has been experiencing for some time have finally been resolved. During the water department report at a regular Francesville Town Council meeting held on Nov. 1, it was reported that the water tower is now back in service. The previous Saturday they had...
Winamac Parks Board President Chris Schramm announced at a regular parks board meeting on Thursday, Nov. 4, that he will not be asking the town board to reappointment him. Noting that he has been with the parks board since it started in June 2016, Schramm said that his time with the parks board has...
Sara Kroft and Circuit Court Judge Mary Welker asked the board for their approval on a grant for the state mandated CASA program. Welker stated that money would come from CASA funds that haven't been spent yet, so it won't be any additional funds out of the county's pocket. The CASA grant...
Pulaski County Tribe (PCT), a community focused nonprofit in Pulaski County, recently commemorated the beginning of their Art in the Park project by showing some attention to the artesian well in the Winamac town park. Work began in mid-October on the first phase of the project with volunteers and...
Every decade after a census is taken, the Indiana General Assembly is legally required to redraw its districts for the U.S. House of Representatives, the Indiana House of Representatives and Indiana Senate. According to the new state representatives map, Tippecanoe, Harrison and Van Buren townships...
Some of the highlights of the proposed teacher bargaining agreement included a teacher plus one guest athletic pass, three day association leave, and a base pay of $40,000 for teachers with a bachelor's degree. Another proposed item is a change to the family insurance plan, which in the first year...