By Leah Sander
InkFreeNews

MENTONE — The Mentone Town Council has worked out some communication issues with Indiana Telephone Network.

At its meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 3, at Mentone Town Hall, the council heard from the company’s Customer Service Manager Melanie Shortill and Bookkeeper Jamie Meek.

The town had been looking at renegotiating its contract with the company, which rents space on the town’s water tower to provide internet service.

However, the town had been having difficulties contacting the company. The town’s original contract was with KC Online, which has been acquired by Indiana Telephone Network.

Shortill and Meek gave the town a new postal address and additional contact information for the company.

In other business, the council:

• Heard from council member Tim Croy that he’s encountered a lot of people in town putting up fences and sheds without permits. He’d like to remind people they have to follow the formal process before putting them up.

• Heard from Croy that several vehicles got stuck on the railroad tracks near the downtown after the snow over the weekend. Several state highway trucks plow in that area, but they’re not required to plow the tracks. He told Utilities Superintendent Josh Shepherd to keep an eye out on that area.

• Heard from Croy who thanked Chris and Emily White for their work in picking up tree limbs that had fallen at the cemetery from winter weather.
• Heard from Shepherd that Craig Welding has finished making the legs for part of a gazebo to go up at the town’s park at Main and Morgan streets. He said someone has volunteered to cover part of the cost for the legs with someone else to possibly pay for the rest.

• Heard from Shepherd who thanked Barnwood Masters of Mentone for providing boards for hauling snow in his dump truck.