July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.

Farmers' market moving from courthouse (4/13/04)

Will be located at Ship and Water streets in Portland

By By Mike [email protected]

The long-standing tradition of holding a farmers’ market on the south side of the Jay County Courthouse will not continue this summer.

Jay County Commissioners were told Monday by an official who helps coordinate the market that it will be held this year on a county-owned lot on the southwest corner of Ship and Water streets across from the county jail.

John Knipp, county director for the Jay County office of Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service, said Monday that problems with parking and other factors caused the move.

At least one person has sold vegetables regularly at the new site over the past few years.

Knipp said that plans are in the works to build a shelter at the new location that can be used by vendors and customers.

The county-owned lot extends along Ship Street all the way from Water Street to the Salamonie River.

The farmers’ market at the courthouse was normally held on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Knipp told the commissioners that the operating hours at the new site will vary.

Also Monday, the commissioners approved a new line item that will allow the Jay County Cemetery Commission to pay someone for part-time clerical work.

A few weeks ago, cemetery commission official Roy Leverich told the commissioners that the group had found a person who would volunteer clerical service.

But Leverich said Monday that the person had reconsidered and would like to be paid.

The cemetery commission will ask the county council next month for an additional appropriation of approximately $800 to put into the part-time clerical line item in the budget.

In other business, Commissioner Milo Miller Jr., Gary Theurer and Mike Leonhard:

•Accepted all annual bids for materials for chip-and-sealing and paving county roads. The low bid for emulsion, the oil used to bind stone together for chip-and-sealing, was from Terry Materials of Hamilton, Ohio, at 63 cents per gallon. That amount was the same as in 2003.

•Approved, while meeting as the Jay County Drainage Board, drainage plans for a building that will house a gymnastics center.

Portland Economic Development Corporation is paying to build the facility, which will be located in front of a water tower near Tyson Foods-Mexican Original along Tyson Road.

Gym City Gymnastics has agreed to a five-year lease of the 9,000-square foot building.[[In-content Ad]]
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