LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Redkey to shift banking location

Switching banks will earn Redkey almost 10 times as much interest each month.

A new Method?

Lutheran Hospital, which has one of its Lutheran Air medical helicopter’s stationed at Portland Municipal Airport, has chosen not to renew its contract with service provider Air Methods, Portland Mayor John Boggs told Portland Board of Aviation on Wednesday.

Planning for future

Change is coming to Portland, said the mayor, and its residents can either get in front of it with a plan or be left scrambling in the future without one.

Getting a seat at the table

Boggs working to create new student-city council

Forum will be held on Thursday

It’s not just another meeting. At least, that’s the hope.

Dunkirk looks at ways to comply

Dunkirk has some avenues to explore to resolve a warning from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management.

Late flurry

When election filing opened Jan. 8, eight candidates turned in paperwork to run for county offices. In the last 24 hours of filing, six more joined them.

Three file for commissioner

All of a sudden, both Republican commissioners races are contested.

Board OKs purchase

“It’s February. I really don’t have anything for you,” Shauver told the board.

Tickets increase

Portland Police Department dealt more than double the amount of traffic tickets last year than it did in 2018.

Highway ready?

Senate bill introduced by Holdman would allow golf carts on state highways

Corn suspended without pay

Highway superintendent Donnie Corn has been suspended for 10 days without pay by Jay County Commissioners in connection with a Sept. 29 incident involving the use of a county dump truck to haul stone for the personal use of commissioner Chad Aker.

City is set to review its plan

A plan Portland has with the state to get its sewage treatment process to meet state regulations may be getting flushed down the drain.

New target

March 1 is the new target date for heightened security at Jay County Courthouse.

‘We have to do things’

Portland Redevelopment Commission member Mike Simons summed up the purpose of the group and its first meeting of the year Friday, which was largely used to discuss potential projects that can be implemented in the city to prove it is indeed alive.
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