LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Tax rate down

City tax rates are going down.

Taking on security

At some point, you have to stop kicking the can down the road.

Recurring topics

Familiar issues resurfaced Monday for Jay County Commissioners.

Festival leaders resign positions

Dunkirk’s Glass Days Committee is in need of volunteers after its leadership resigned.

Sewer substantially complete

The project to update the town’s sewer system is almost finished.

Portland is getting new decorations

Christmas season will be a little brighter in downtown Portland this winter.

Runway timeline taking shape

The 2020 timeline for initial work on extension of the runway at Portland Municipal Airport has begun to take shape.

Seeing Red

INDIANAPOLIS — Several thousand teachers, including dozens from Jay County, surrounded the Indiana Statehouse on Tuesday to call for better pay and more respect from the Republican-dominated state government in a protest that closed more than half of the state’s school districts for the day.

Holdman, Prescott respond

Teachers are being heard. Education funding was increased. Testing is too extensive.

Who's in charge?

Who is in charge of what?

Council talks about facility’s future

What’s the future of Jay County Retirement Center?

County insurance will stay with PHP

Jay County will stick with Physicians Health Plan for employee health insurance in 2020.

Security questions remain

The committee working on security at Jay County Courthouse still has some key questions to answer.

Dunkirk utility plan is approved

The plan is in place.

City plant to get upgrade

Total cost of the project is $346,300, with $179,000 of that coming from the state revolving loan fund and $167,300 from the city’s sewage fund.
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