03/19/12  The Marshall County Drainage Board and County Commissioners will meet Monday morning beginning at 8:30 in the second floor meeting room of the County Building. The Drainage Board Meets at 8:30 with an agenda that includes consideration of maintenance on the Elmer Seltenright Ditch, a public hearing on the Morgan Ward Ditch...
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   03/06/12 The County Commissioners secured the longevity of the Marshall County Housing Authority during their meeting Monday. Housing Authority Executive Director Dean Byers and Interim Director Donna Vela appeared before the Commissioners hoping the county would provide free office space for their agency. Byers, who has been the director of the Housing Authority...
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   02/21/12 The Marshall County Commissioners had a short meeting Monday morning. Jennifer Laurent, Executive Director of the Marshall County Economic Development Commission gave them an update on their 2011 activities.  She noted several companies who expanded their operations and added 220 employees last year.  Laurent said business retention and expansion is their first...
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01/04/12 The first meeting of the new year for the Marshall County Commissioners began with the election of officers.  Kevin Overmyer was again elected as President, and Jack Roose was elected as Vice President while Greg Compton will remain as the member.  Overmyer was also elected to be the representative to MACOG. The Commissioners...
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01/03/12 The Marshall County Commissioners will open the new year with their meeting Tuesday, January 3rd beginning at 8:30 a.m. in the second floor meeting room of the County Building. The agenda for the commissioner’s meeting includes the reorganization of the board with the election of the 2012 officers and MACOG representative appointment.  County...
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12/28/11 The Marshall County Commissioners will convene for an executive session Wednesday morning December 28th in their second floor meeting room.  The purpose of this executive session is to conduct performance evaluations of appointed department heads as allowed under Indiana Code.
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12/20/11 Jim Bettin from NIPSCO appeared before the Commissioners Monday to answer their question, why a gas line was installed in the area of 5B and King Road without a County permit.  The pipe is in the county’s right-of-way crossing the Seltin Right Ditch. Bettin said the project had been submitted to their Merrillville...
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12/06/11 The Marshall County Commissioner handled a number of items on their agenda Monday morning.  They approved on all three readings an ordinance that brings the current ordinance into compliance with the State ordinance that went into effect on July 1st of this year.  Homeland Security wanted to make travel advisories uniform throughout the...
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11/30/11 During last week’s County Commissioner’s meeting bids were opened for the leasing of 163 acres more or less of farm ground at Shady Rest.  Three bids were received from Smith Family Farms, Vories Farms, and Robin Roberts.  The current 3-year lease which concludes at the end of this year was with Robin Roberts. ...
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10/17/11 The Marshall County Drainage Board and Commissioners will meet Monday morning in the second floor meeting room of the County Building. The agenda for the Drainage Board includes consideration of the retention ponds in the Southpointe Subdivision developed by Del Wenzel. Other agenda items include the request to transfer the balance of the...
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