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Its great to see it all come together; Work on second phase of major road project wraps up Phase two of the Business 50 project in Washington is expected to finish by the end of the week. Posted: May 11, 2021 5:06 PM Updated: May 12, 2021 7:28 AM Posted By: Gary Brian WASHINGTON, Ind. (WTHI) - For decades the west side of Business 50 has been rough. While crews began renovating the roadway things didnt get much better. But this week things are smoothing out. Mayor David Rhoads explains, "Th...

  "It is always disheartening to convey bad news, but we are in the red here in Adams," Rhoads said at the Selectmens meeting Wednesday. "We are definitely in a surge."   Rhoads said the town has been reporting a new case every day for the past three weeks.   Rhoads spoke directly to residents over livestreamed meeting and asked them to continue adhering to hygiene and social distancing guidelines to stop the spread, especially now that more aggressive variants have touched down in Ber...

  "I do get complaints," Chairman David Rhoads said at last weeks Board of Health meeting. "I understand a large part of this is protecting those enterprises that go by the book. I think that is really important for us."   Code Enforcement Officer Mark Blaisdell said he has received numerous complaints about unpermitted haulers picking up trash and scrap in town.   Without a proper regulation on the books, he said, there is little the town can do. He said if he observes an infraction h...

Work picks back up on Washington road project Crews began working on the north side of Business 50 in Washington on Monday. Posted: Mar 8, 2021 8:19 PM Posted By: Gary Brian WASHINGTON, Ind. (WTHI) - Monday marked a milestone on phase two of the Business 50 project. Crews began to work on the north side of the roadway. Before long residents will begin to see sidewalks and curbing taking shape. Most of this work will take place during the rest of March. The southside has already seen this t...

  "Mistakes may have been made and this is just our way of saying lets understand and lets move on," Chairman David Rhoads said Wednesday.    Late last year, the Parks Commission Chairwoman Cynthia Bird told her colleagues that she received reports that the Little League did not enforce mask-wearing. She said she received this information from the soccer league, which shares the field with the baseball league.     The commission took no action because the Little League season was ov...

ADAMS, Mass. — The Board of Health accepted a revised fee schedule that adds a cost for additional visits from the code enforcement officer. The board last week approved some revisions to the fee schedule, originally accepted in 2016, that would bring the schedule in line with the scheduling system shared with nine communities.    One more substantial change: Code Enforcement Officer Mark Blaisdell included a Code Enforcement Compliance Reinspection fee of $20 after the third and subseq...

David rhoads told the story of how his translator played soccer with his captors. that helped build trust and let him out of the compound and the knowledge getting out of the compound helped that translator help david rhoads escape because they knew the path out and they knew the way to get to a pakistani military post and thats how they survived. so those little victories along the way can mean the difference between survival and not surviving. >> still a lot to learn. appreciate it. president ...

Dissuaded from getting onto the website and signing up, that could actually undermine the entire health care law. so theres a two-pronged issue here. one thats political, so theyre trying to quiet those critics. but then just a practical problem. they need young, healthy people to sign on. they are hoping these changes will start encouraging people to do that. but a lot of question marks, a lot remains to be seen, particularly in terms of how quickly folks are able to get on. at peak hours, peop...

im meredith vieira. >> im matt lauer. what are we, 36 hours away from when the tornado struck? its still stunning to see images like these left in the wake of that deadly tornado. just this morning, president obama announced his plans. he will be touring that devastation this weekend. >> this is already the deadliest single tornado in the united states since 1953. emergency officials expect to recover even more bodies in the coming days. at its peak, the twister had winds up to 198 mil...

welcome to "today" on this tuesday morning. im meredith vieira. >> im matt lauer. what are we, 36 hours away from when the tornado struck? its still stunning to see images like these left in the wake of the deadly tornado. just this morning president obama announced his plans. he will be touring that devastation this weekend. >> this is the deadliest single tornado in the united states since 1953. emergency officials expect to recover more bodies in the coming days. at its peak the twi...