Serving Carroll County, Indiana since 1974
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Dr. Roland Grieb, chair of the Indiana Adult Immunization Coalition (IAIC) says the best way to reduce the effects of influenza is through annual vaccination. "Influenza vaccines are safe and effective. Although mild side effects are possible, a person cannot get influenza from the vaccine. More ... The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) announces State Road 18 between State Road 43 in White County and U.S. 421/State Road 39 in Carroll County is restricted to one lane as directed by flag persons through Saturday. This is allowing crews to perform resurface construction on the roadway. Work began Monday. More ... YMCA Camp Tecumseh entered into a unique partnership with the Carroll County Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD), Tippecanoe Nature Conservancy (TNC), and the Indiana State Department of Agriculture to address storm water runoff that was threatening the camp lake. More ... After a public hearing during which no citizens commented, the area plan commission voted to certify the Carroll County Comprehensive Plan at a meeting Oct. 28. The plan will now go out to each city or town to be certified before it will be presented to the county commissioners. More ... Carroll County put the 2008 election behind it with one or two surprises, along with familiar faces in some of the same places for the next four years. In the end, there was little fanfare after the votes were tallied and most candidates left their party headquarters by 9 p.m. More ... Flora Town Council opened bids for the town's trash contract at Monday night's meeting. Submitting bids for the two-year contract were: Allied Waste for $270,336; Indiana Waste Systems, Inc., $401,940; Waste Management, $290,928; and Clinton County Disposal, $235,189. More ... Months of work on seven individual ordinances came to fruition for the Delphi City Council as each ordinance was passed unanimously at the Monday night meeting. The ordinance which held a significant amount of meaning for all city employees was Ordinance 2008-09 to set appropriations for the 2009 budget. More ... Carroll County Council agreed to honor 2008 financial obligations and repay all inter-fund loans with money currently accumulated in the general fund. They learned however, after the repayment, more money would have to be borrowed to cover expenses the following week. More ... The Delphi Preservation Society, Inc. (DPS) was awarded the Indiana Main Street "Best Historic Rehabilitation Project" at the 2008 Cornelius O'Brien Historic Preservation and Indiana Main Street Conference held in Bloomington in October. The award was presented to DPS for rehabilitating the façade of the Assion-Ruffing City Hall building on Washington St. More ... Soon new conservation practices will be placed on more than 28,000 acres of Hoosier farmland due to the Conservation Consultation Incentive program. Crop consultants and farmers receive financial incentives for implementing specific conservation practices and more than $132,000 in incentives is still available. More ... Paul Marcellino has left his position as Extension Educator in Carroll County and has accepted the same position in Howard County. He started working this week in the Howard County Extension Office. He served as Extension Educator ANR (Agriculture and Natural Resources) in Carroll County from January 2007 through Oct. 31, 2008. More ... Veterans Day will be observed Nov. 11 in Delphi with ceremonies conducted at the local schools and the Carroll County Courthouse, in Camden on Nov. 9, and in Burlington Nov. 15. Delphi Delphi Community Elementary School will present "This Is America" at 9 a.m. in the gymnasium. Former principal and veteran, Steven E. More ... Indiana Homeland Security has placed a 55 foot live-fire training trailer at The Andersons parking lot in Delphi. Flora Firefighter Mike Cottrell is in charge of the multicounty training sessions for firefighters from Carroll, Cass and White counties. Sessions started Monday and continue through Friday from 6 to 10 p.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. More ... |
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