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Legislation to offer high-tech security systemIndiana legislators made history on Feb. 29 by doing something no other state has done before: creating standards that will protect schools while also empowering law enforcement, all without adding to the state's budget....more >> |
The Crawford County Board of Commissioners have said it would leave three polling precincts that the county's election board requested be moved to Leavenworth Elementary School in their current locations....more >> |
The Indiana Department of Transportation crew working out of Grantsburg is now reporting to Birdseye. ...more >> |
An early morning pursuit ended with an English man behind bars last Thursday after the motorcycle he was operating was caught traveling at speeds higher than 100 miles per hour. ...more >> |
In what seemed to be a record-breaking night, the Georgetown Town Council last month proposed a way to settle the MS4 loan without raising the rate, as well as conducting other business, all in less than an hour and a half, substantially less than its previous two-and-a-half-to-three-hour meetings. This proposal, however, would entail using money from the general fund to pay back the loan....more >> |
Recent News Lady Cats fall, but leave Goliath bruisedMarch 02, 2016The North Harrison Lady Cats brought their big blue ocean to Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis Saturday night in hopes of taking home their first state championship. Almost 2,000 people, some in their old school jackets, many in their blue-and-white war paint, and the rest wearing some sort of blue in one way or another, showed up in support. There were even some from rival schools who put on blue in support of the Lady Cats.
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Commissioners hope to get full-time ERC position fundedOfficials say millions of dollars of federal bridge aid at jeopardyMarch 02, 2016Having first approached the Crawford County Council last summer about the need for a full-time employee to oversee the mandated paperwork associated with several multi-million-dollar federally-assisted bridge projects for fear of losing the funding, the president of the Board of Commissioners last month returned with the same request. Just like before, however, the council balked at funding a full-time position.
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CCJSHS recovering from water damageMarch 02, 2016For its regular monthly meeting, per the public agenda, the Crawford County School Corp. Board of Trustees met in executive session to discuss school consolidation, the purchase or lease of real property and the training of its members with an outside consultant about the performance of the role of its members as public officials, none of which was discussed in the 10-minute public meeting that followed Tuesday, Feb. 16.
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E.D. director funding remains top topic at meetingsFebruary 24, 2016It appeared that there may have been some progress made toward getting Crawford County’s economic development office running again, when the county council earlier this month voted to provide partial funding for three months as a transition is made to a new director.
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Ponders owner faces 19 counts of theftFebruary 24, 2016The owner of Ponders Boat Sales and Services in Taswell, Robert Jones, faces 19 counts of theft totaling at least $40,000 spanning from March 2012 to October 2014. Of those 19 counts, 11 are Class D felonies, two are Class A misdemeanors and six are Level 6 felonies.
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Grain entrapment prevention topic at 67th SWCD meetingFebruary 24, 2016For the 67th time, farmers and landowners gathered earlier this month for the Crawford County Soil and Water Conservation District’s annual breakfast meeting. The focus of this year’s keynote speaker was farm safety, specifically in regard to grain silos.
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As YSB merges into Boys & Girls Club, county asked to roll over assetsCommissioners also receive request to utilize facility as law enforcement substationFebruary 17, 2016The Crawford County Board of Commissioners received formal notice last month that the Crawford County Youth Services Program Inc. will merge into the Boys & Girls Clubs of Harrison-Crawford Counties Inc. and, with that, received a request to transfer the program’s funds to the BGC.
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With no primary challenges, District 74 race takes shapeFebruary 17, 2016With only a single Republican and Democrat filed to run in the primary election race for state representative for District 74, which includes all of Crawford and Perry counties and portions of Spencer, Orange and Dubois counties, the race between the incumbent, Lloyd Arnold, of Leavenworth, and Larry Kleeman, of Tell City, should last the long haul until November.
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Board backtracks; principals continue double dutyWater damage becomes heart
of discussionFebruary 17, 2016During a special meeting, which took place Jan. 21, the Crawford County School Corp. Board of Trustees flip-flopped on its decision to approve Superintendent Garry DeRossett’s recommendation to hire two former elementary principals to fill the gaps at English and Leavenworth Elementary schools for the remainder of the academic year. The initial decision would have again allowed every building to have its own principal, aiding Alan Cox and Lisa Smith, who have pulled double duty for all of the 2015-16 school year.
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