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According to Police Chief Pete Land, the bearer of badge No. 116 brings the total number of local officers to 49, the largest number of officers in department history.

After months of work, the city of Crown Point marked the end of its 101st Avenue Sanitary Sewer Infrastructure Improvement Project with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with a

Listen to this article RENSSELAER — With activity brewing at Brookside Park, Rensselaer City Council member Ernest Watson would like to see the park department headquarters moved out of Iroquois Park and into Brookside. Blacker Fields at Brookside hosted a 16-team baseball tournament the weekend of April 10-11, with an 18-team tournament scheduled for this weekend. “We will be busy every weekend until the second or third weekend of June,” said park superintendent Joe Effinger. �...

ROME CITY — Rome City police officers will soon be equipped with body cameras, becoming the latest Noble County department to add the technology. After waiting a month and getting one additional quote from a vendor, not much changed from February as Marshal Paul Hoffman suggested the town go with a system from WOLFCOM. The WOLFCOM camera system was the cheapest of the three vendors Hoffman priced, and is well-known in the law enforcement field as the company provides cameras to more than 1...

early morning Hammond fire on Hohman A Hammond firefighter sprays water on a fire Sunday morning that destroyed a building in the 6200 block of Hohman Avenue, and left some Hammond residents in the area temporarily without power. Firefighters on the scene said they went out on the call around 2am. The location ironically is very near station 5, which is 6217 Hohman. John Luke early morning Hammond fire on Hohman Ice forms on the nozzle of a fire hose as Hammond firefighters battle a...

Thursday, February 25, 2021 The Sullivan County Commissioners got a lot accomplished in a 15-minute time span during a special meeting — immediately prior to a joint meeting with the Sullivan County Council in an executive session — on Wednesday. First off, the commissioners signed an interlocal agreement between the city of Sullivan and the county concerning Commonwealth Engineers Inc. proceeding with a capacity review/sewer extension for the possible site of a new jail north of the city. ...

CROWN POINT — The Police Department is looking to upgrade its fleet of vehicles. During a Wednesday Board of Works meeting via Zoom, Crown Point Police Chief Pete Land requested to purchase 10 cars and two motorcycles for the police department.  The department contacted eight vendors for quotes, Land noted.  Land said Smith Ford in Lowell was the the lowest and most responsible bidder for the purchase of 10 cars, including eight 2021 all-wheel drive Police Interceptor Utility p...

Suzanne Crouch LAPEL — The town of Lapel has been awarded a $700,000 grant from the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs to upgrade its water system. Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch announced the awarding of the grant Thursday, with the funds going toward a planned $4 million project. The project includes installing 10,550 linear feet of water main, complete well improvements, and water treatment and storage improvements. “These grants are vital to Indiana’s economic success as these pro...