Lots of minutia (albeit important stuff) was covered Tuesday night during the Town Council’s regular June meeting. Much of it, however, would fall under the heading “details that would not interest the general populace.” So, while the meeting lasted a little over an hour, much of it fits into a “meeting in a minute” format….
No doubt about it — a cool $500,000 or so would go a long way towards improving many of the streets and sidewalks in the Town of Ferdinand’s road inventory. And right now, the Indiana Department of Transportation had a 50/50 grant match program with $100 million in the coffers. According to Ferdinand Town Attorney…
Following an hour-long executive session on Tuesday, April 26, Birdseye Town Council members opened a special meeting and closed it about two minutes later — their work done. “It is with great sadness I make a motion to terminate your employment, effective immediately,” said Council President Jerry Alstadt to Water and Sewer Superintendent Glenn Bayer….
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? That age-old question can be applied to many things in life and is particularly apt during Ferdinand Economic Development Commission meetings, held the second Tuesday of every month at 6 p.m. in Town Hall. At the April 12 meeting, the query was raised again. The commission was…
It was a dastardly deed — one that hopefully will not go unpunished. The depth of the disaster would not yet have been revealed, had not communication been a tad better within the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM). During the Ferdinand Town Council’s Tuesday night meeting, Wastewater Superintendent Roger Schaefer publicly shared the news that…
Some things are far too important to forget, while others may be too painful to remember Barbara Mohr remembers it like it was yesterday. Her father-in-law, by then an elderly wheelchair-bound gent, just needed to tell his story. “You know Bob [Barb’s husband, Robert “Bobo” Mohr] was not our oldest,” he began. He went on…
The Lincolns are coming, the Lincolns are coming — to Spencer County for the Association of Lincoln Presenters (ALP) 2016 convention, to be held April 14-17 near Lincoln’s boyhood home. The ALP Convention coincides with Indiana’s Bicentennial of Statehood, which in turn coincides with the 200th anniversary of the Lincoln’s family’s move from Kentucky to…
They came. They listened. They suggested. Around 20 people gathered at the Tri-County YMCA in Ferdinand Monday night, to discuss Ferdinand’s future and to provide a bit more form and function to the town’s Comprehensive Plan. For the first time in recent memory, members of the Town Council, Plan Commission, Board of Zoning Appeals, Economic…
Attendance at the Ferdinand Town Council’s Tuesday night meeting was lighter than usual, with only three students, two parents and one Boy Scout in addition to the regulars. Also missing was Councilman Ron Weyer, who had just come out of back surgery. Still, that didn’t prevent a heavy slate of items from being checked off…
Want to enjoy a splendid evening while simultaneously helping the Huntingburg Volunteer Fire Department? A night of dining and dancing, complete with both a silent and live auction and all sorts of other festive entertainment? A night on which to don your most sumptuous semi-formal attire and welcome spring? You are in luck — just such a night is…
