Local & State News

Redevelopment Commission Asked to Consider Improvement Project to Pioneer Drive

Last week, Plymouth City Engineer, Rick Gaul asked members of the Plymouth Redevelopment Commission to consider improvements to Pioneer Drive using Community Crossing funds with the 50% match being provided by the Redevelopment Commission. ... Read more...

Marshall County 2018 Flood “Thank You Picnic”

The Marshall County Long-Term Recovery Operations in partnership with New Song Church will host a community picnic on the green-space in Centennial Park adjacent to the tennis courts in Plymouth on Wednesday, July 3rd. This free, family ... Read more...

City Meetings Monday Evening

The City of Plymouth will conduct their regular meetings Monday evening beginning at 6 p.m. with the Board of Public Works and Safety followed by the Common Council. The Board of Works will hear reports from various department heads and ... Read more...

M.C. Museum Special Brown Bag Lunch Event: Potawatomi Artwork Demonstration & History Lesson Tuesday

This Tuesday the Marshall County Museum will host a special program that will feature three ancestors of Native Americans that survived the Trail of Death. These ancestors visit Indiana each year to display their art at the Eiteljorg ... Read more...

Rep. Jack Jordan: Use Caution Near Water this Summer

Indiana State Representative Jack Jordan (R-Bremen) reminds Hoosiers of the need to put safety first when visiting bodies of water. Jordan said, “With 114 deaths caused by drowning in Indiana in 2017 and several drownings already this ... Read more...

Culver-Union Township Public Library Will Host IHS’s Indiana Through the Mapmaker’s Eye Traveling Exhibit

The ways maps can be viewed, both as documents and as mirrors of their times, are explored in one of the Indiana Historical Society’s (IHS’s) traveling exhibits, Indiana Through the Mapmaker’s Eye. Culver-Union Township ... Read more...

From the Ground Up: Help Has Arrived!

Being a task-oriented person, I always have a To-Do List on my desk.  The problem is my list keeps growing and it takes longer and longer to cross things off.  Last year I realized that I either needed to scale back on what I wanted to ... Read more...

AG Announces $5 million in Debt Relief for former Indiana ITT Tech Students

IN Attorney General Curtis Hill announced that his office has secured an agreement to obtain $5.4 million in debt relief for 602 former ITT Tech students in Indiana as part of a bipartisan multi-state settlement involving 44 attorneys ... Read more...

Young Introduces Yes In My Backyard Act to Encourage Communities to Cut Regulations and Increase Housing Supply

Thursday, U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) introduced the Yes In My Backyard (YIMBY) Act  to shed light on discriminatory land use policies, encourage localities cut burdensome regulations, and bring a new level of transparency to the ... Read more...

IT’S ROCKIE FOOTBALL RADIO AUCTION DAY

Click here for pictures of the items and listings for each half hour of the auction: ... Read more...

U.S. Highway 30 Section Renamed in Memory of Fallen Officer from Plymouth

A section of U.S. Highway 30 was renamed Thursday in memory of a local state police officer killed in the line of duty, according to State Representative Jack Jordan (R-Bremen). Indiana State Police Master Motor Carrier Inspector Ralph ... Read more...

City Board of Works Approves MOU with School Corporation for Resource Officer

Earlier this month the Plymouth Board of Public Works and Safety approved a memorandum of understanding between the Plymouth Police Department and the Plymouth Community School Corporation. The MOU approved is for the 3-year renewal of the ... Read more...

Sand Hill Farm Housing Development to Transform Culver

Sand Hill Farm is a Regional Cities funded project that served as the cornerstone for Culver’s Stellar Designation. The project will advance quality of life and provide vital workforce housing to support the town’s largest employers. ... Read more...

HEARTLAND ARTISTS INVITES YOU TO PLAY IN THE  STREET ON SATURDAY

This Saturday, the Heartland Artists will bring art outside of the Gallery. Local, regional, and member artists will be selling their art, live music and dance performances will take place on the Michigan Street stage throughout the day, ... Read more...

Young, Braun Call for Naming of Navy Ship After Senator Richard Lugar

U.S. Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Mike Braun (R-Ind.) Wednesday announced they are introducing an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that calls for the Secretary of the Navy to name the next unnamed Arleigh Burke ... Read more...

AG Curtis Hill leads 15 states supporting Virginia’s sentencing of D.C. sniper Lee Boyd Malvo

In 2002, Lee Boyd Malvo and a co-conspirator unleashed a wave of terror in the Washington D.C. area — killing 10 people and wounding multiple others in sniper attacks carried out over several weeks. Malvo, who was 17 at the time he ... Read more...

National Weather Service: Sunny and Dry on Friday, Rain over the Weekend

Here is the latest update from the National Weather Service: First the good news…..Friday is expected to be dry with some sunshine around. There is some indication that the Friday night heavy rain event might be shifted more to our ... Read more...

Rockie Football Radio Auction this Friday on WTCA

The 9th annual Rockie Football Radio Auction on WTCA begins this Friday morning right after the 9 a.m. news. Football moms have been working hard the past couple of weeks to gather hundreds of items for the auction blocks.  As in years ... Read more...

Revenue Funding Update for County Highway

Marshall County Highway Superintendent Jason Peters give County Commissioners an update on the revenue distribution during their meeting Monday.  He noted that the highway department is not funded through property taxes but through gas ... Read more...

City Attorney Discusses TIF Districts and Overlapping Taxing Units

Tuesday evening Plymouth City Attorney, Sean Surrisi gave members of the City Redevelopment Commission and representatives from overlapping taxing an overview of the TIF Districts and the projects they have completed and are working on. A ... Read more...