NORTH WEBSTER — A crowd of 250 attended the official public hearing on the petition to form the Tippecanoe-Chapman Regional Sewer District tonight, Wednesday, June 26. The number was less than those who attended a public meeting Sept. 29, 2018 when attendance was estimated close to 400 and information … Read More
SYRACUSE — Judge David Cates will hear the case of the Town of Syracuse has against Triad Engineering and Severen Trent. Paperwork was filed in Kosciusko County Court May 1. A trial date has yet to be set. The Town of Syracuse is seeking to have Severen Trent … Read More
SYRACUSE — Robin Merchant, public works superintendent, provided an update on the wastewater treatment plant to the Syracuse Town Council during its regular monthly meeting Tuesday night, March 20. Merchant said plant flow was very heavy after the snow melt and heavy rain experienced at the end … Read More
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the 10th in a series continuing to look at proposed sewers around Tippecanoe Lakes.) LEESBURG — The possibility of two entities attempting to have sewers installed around Tippecanoe Lakes may be known Tuesday morning following the Kosciusko County Commissioners meeting. The commissioners tabled a … Read More
MILFORD — Ryan Brauen of Wessler Engineering was present at Milford’s monthly public town council meeting Monday evening, Oct. 9, to oversee the opening of bids on the town’s wastewater plant renovation project. The bids, in order they were opened, were: R.E. Crosby Construction, $648,900; Kleenco, $634,900; Mason … Read More
MILFORD — The Milford Town Council held an unusually short and sparsely attended public meeting Monday, Aug. 14, where it heard good and bad news about the upcoming wastewater treatment plant renovation. The good news, according to Ryan Brauen, Wessler Engineering project manager, is the construction permit was … Read More
MILFORD — Milford residents concerned about derelict properties may be happy to know the town now has a new building commissioner. At its monthly public meeting Monday, April 10, the council voted to hire Scott Mast to fill the position. “Anything I can do to help,” affirmed Mast, … Read More
WARSAW — Every five years, the Warsaw Department of Parks and Recreation prepares a master plan for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. The plan serves as a guide, a budgeting tool and a means of acquiring grant funding. “Not everything will be accomplished in five years,” said … Read More
NORTH WEBSTER — “We can see the end of the tunnel,” said Lakeland Regional Sewer District Board of Trustees member Bob Sanders at a special meeting held Monday, Oct. 17, at the North Webster Community Center. The special meeting was held because asphalt plants close in the next … Read More
Ryan Brauen, project manager for Wessler Engineering, left the members of Milford’s Town Council in a considerably better mood Monday, Sept. 12, than he did back in June. Then, Brauen’s answer to Milford’s wastewater plant upgrades, mandated by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management to meet new requirements … Read More
INDIANA — The Indiana Department of Environmental Management has declared tomorrow, Wednesday Aug. 3, is an Air Quality Action Day for St. Joseph and Elkhart Counties. This means meteorologists have forecasted weather conditions will be conducive to high levels of ozone pollution. These actions will help lower emissions that … Read More
MILFORD — Milford citizens can expect another rate increase in the next year as the town council comes to grips with the economic realities of the Indiana Department of Environmental Management’s new wastewater regulations, according to John Julien of Umbaugh and Associates. Julien was at Milford Town Hall … Read More
MILFORD — Milford Town Council is currently wrestling with how to bring its ailing utilities into compliance with new regulations by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management. A preliminary report, presented at the monthly public meeting June 13, by Ryan Brown of Wessler Engineering, puts the cost of … Read More
Temporary no parking on Colfax, agreements, contracts, and pay applications on projects were among items of business for Warsaw Board of Public Works and Safety Friday morning, Feb. 5. The board unanimously passed a resolution establishing temporary no parking on the west side of North Colfax Street, between … Read More
MILFORD —Milford Town Council got down to business Monday evening, Dec. 14, in a three hour session that included the passage of a motion to raise water rates by as much as $11 per month effective January 2016 in a two-to-one vote.
Read MoreSYRACUSE — Syracuse residents downwind of the small channel off Harkless Drive may be smelling more than just fried foods lately.
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