The Huntingburg Common Council met Tuesday night for their monthly meeting. The council passed the 2012 salary ordinance, but not before it was amended so that the Mayor and City Treasurer received a pay increase of 1 ½ percent. The Council had previously approved the city employees raise of 1 1/2 percent (story here). Council…
Huntingburg–The Huntingburg Common Council met last night for their regularly scheduled meeting. With budget talks and city employee pay raises behind them it was a fairly uneventful meeting. First on the agenda was the city budget public hearing. The budget was gone over extensively this year in budget hearings that occurred on August 24 and…
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The Huntingburg Common Council meeting last night ran for about an hour and forty five minutes and in that time the Police Department Administrative Assistant received two raises and a pay cut. [adrotate group=”1″] The Council approved her position change to an administrative assistant upon the request of the Police Chief Ron Drew. She had…
September 1 – The Huntingburg Common Council grasped the prickly nettle of city employee salaries and wages tonight with Mayor Marvin Belcher stating, “In an election year it’s going to be a rough decision; regardless of what we decide.” [adrotate group=”1″] The council discussed the wage issue for over 45 minutes, including a lengthy debate…
The Dubois County Health Department issued an alert today that a sample of mosquitoes tested positive for West Nile Virus in the Huntingburg area. “West Nile is carried by birds and is transferred to mosquitoes when they bite a bird and then if the mosquito happens to bite a person it can be transferred,” Shawn…
Computer Whisper on Fourth Street in Huntingburg celebrated his opening with a ribbon cutting today. Mayor Marvin Belcher, Councilman Marvin Boeglin, Clerk-Treasurer Tom Dipple, and Huntingburg Chamber Executive Nick Stevens attended with others. David says business is picking up and he is glad he opened his store on Fourth Street. David Smith is a small,…
This Saturday is a big anniversary in Huntingburg. A community foundation is celebrating twenty years of smiles, giggles, squeals, and even tears. Its product? Kids. Its name? A Kid’s Place. Over twenty years ago, in response to a study conducted by the Huntingburg Chamber of Commerce and St. Joseph’s Hospital that showed daycare was a…
The City budget was discussed at the Utility Board and Common Council Meeting in Huntingburg Tuesday night. In setting the hearing dates for the budget, Clerk-Treasurer Tom Dipple, explained that he had a preliminary assessed value of $140 million. The actual assessed value last year was $164 million, but Dipple explained he wanted to publish…
It seemed the evening would be a simply one for the Huntingburg Parks Board however from the first speaker things were complicated. Nick Stevens, Executive Director to the Huntingburg Chamber, addressed the board concerning the use of League Stadium for showing A League of Their Own over Labor Day Weekend. [adrotate group=”1″] The Huntingburg Foundation…
