LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Small hike for health insurance (6/13/05)
A search for ways to limit increases in budget requests for next year has led Jay County Commissioners to health insurance.
JCSWCD funding OK'd (6/28/05)
A change of heart meant a change in next year’s budget even before it was read.
Tyson, others ask to be annexed (6/21/05)
The process of expanding the city’s limits has begun.
Commissioners OK EDIT change (6/14/05)
A decision to loan tax money to a Portland home improvement store earned the approval — a week late — from Jay County Commissioners.
State ag rep cool to proposals (6/20/05)
Proposed changes in the way that livestock operations are regulated locally drew a rather cool reception from an official from the newly-created Indiana Department of Agriculture.
Land near airport to be appraised (6/16/05)
The second phase of the taxiway and runway extension projects at Portland Municipal Airport will take off soon.
Dunkirk employees get 3 percent hike (6/28/05)
DUNKIRK — A 3 percent across-the-board pay hike in 2006 for all hourly city employees will be granted by council members here, following action taken Monday night.
Rock carpet set for outside Fort hall
FORT RECOVERY — Areas outside the village hall are going to get rocked.
Pay raises may be limited (7/14/05)
As they prepare to head into budget season, members of the Jay County Council are hinting that raises for county employees, if given at all, won’t be overly generous.
SA labor complaint reassigned (6/21/05)
An unfair labor practice filed against the South Adams School Corporation will go before another state hearing examiner for consideration.
Small county parcel grows (6/21/05)
A small piece of county-owned property near the county jail has more than doubled in size thanks to the acquisition of a former railroad right-of-way.
GFT nets state grant (7/7/05)
PENNVILLE — A start-up high-tech firm is the recipient of a high-dollar state grant.
Dust control completed (7/12/05)
Even at the apparent end of an abnormally dry period, about 40 percent of Jay County’s stone roads should be a lot less dusty than normal.
Powercoat business gets OK (7/20/05)
A planned powder coating business in Portland cleared its final hurdle Tuesday evening when it was granted a special exception by the Portland Board of Zoning Appeals.
'Community has lost a friend'
Barbara Blackford, Portland’s clerk-treasurer for the past nine and a half years, died Wednesday at Jay County Hospital following a sudden illness.
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