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At a glance: ¯ Marietta City Council’s Streets Committee reviewed a 2020 traffic signal removal study of three Marietta intersections on Thursday: ¯ The Franklin and Market streets’ intersection in the Fourth Ward. ¯ The Second and Scammel streets’ intersection in the Second Ward. ¯ The Acme and Phillips streets’ intersection in the First Ward. ¯ Marietta City Council is not expected to advance legislation on the signal removals on Feb. 4 at 7:30 p.m. but may ad...

Today A mixture of rain and snow showers. Temps nearly steady in the mid to upper 30s. Winds N at 15 to 25 mph. Chance of precip 40%. Higher wind gusts possible.. Tonight Snow showers will become more widely scattered overnight. Low around 25F. Winds N at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of snow 40%. Updated: March 23, 2021 @ 1:14 pm

bjohnson@theintermountain.com Local law enforcement officers and the Elkins Fire Department blocked several streets near Jennings Randolph Elementary School Thursday evening. ELKINS — Elkins residents were asked to stay at home Thursday evening after a man barricaded himself inside his home and the situation developed into a police SWAT team operation. At 8:08 p.m. Thursday, the City of Elkins released the following information: “Law enforcement officers are on-scene at a house on Evans Dri...

Jan 21, 2021 ELKINS — A shelter in place advisory has been lifted for South Elkins, where a police SWAT team operation took place Thursday evening. The Elkins Police Department released the following at 10:51 p.m. Thursday: Chief Travis Bennett said, “The shelter-in-place advisory for South Elkins has been lifted. There is no further threat to public safety related to this incident.” City officials will release more information Friday as the investigation proceeds. At 8:08 p.m. Thursday, ...

TOWN OF NEWBURGH - It has been just over a year since Danskammer Energy filed an application with state regulators to revamp the River Road natural gas plant, but it is still unknown how much longer it will take before project leaders know if they can move forward. On Wednesday, Michelle Hook, Danskammers vice president of public affairs, said that the states Public Service Commission asked for more time - up to four weeks - to consider supplemental information filed with the Article 10 ...

This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today.Donate Editor’s Note from 1/15/21: Former Michigan governor Rick Snyder and eight other former officials were charged Thursday in a sweeping criminal investigation into the Flint water crisis. Snyder faces two charges of willful neglect of duty, a misdemeanor. Watch our full 49-minute report featuring voices from the front lines of Michigan’s water wars. Lead contamination in the water supply of Flint, Michigan, has forced residents t...

Freshman Athens City Councilmember Arian Smedley announced last week that she would not run for re-election, citing child care and her day job as reasons for not seeking a second term. “As much as I have enjoyed this experience, I am looking forward to scaling back a bit,” she said in a Facebook post. Smedley, a Democrat who represents Athens’ First Ward on the West Side, ran uncontested for the seat in 2019 after winning the primary. She plans to serve the remainder of the term ...

Contributing Writer I have been honored to serve as the First Ward representative to the Marshalltown City Council for the past three years. Thank you for putting your trust in me and I appreciate getting to know my constituents as we have worked together. We have worked through a tornado, a pandemic, a derecho, a new downtown master plan, a new Highway 14 master plan, rebuilding, starting fresh and moving forward. Marshalltown is ever-changing and I appreciate being a part of our vision for th...

Clay Schuldt MARSHALL — The Marshall City Council approved a $7.5 million 2021 tax levy Tuesday by a 4-3 vote. This final levy represents a $197,894 increase from the 2020 levy, an increase of 2.8%. During an August work session, the council was considering a $456,584 levy increase or 6.47%, mainly due to the street capital revolving fund, increased salary and health care costs. This increase was reduced to $246,895, or 3.5%, by the time the council set a preliminary levy on Sept. 8 and staf...

Updated 12/21/2020 8:11 PM The final day of candidate filing added four more contested village president and mayoral races in the Fox Valley to what was already shaping up to be a spring election with possible sweeping changes in local government. Geneva, East Dundee, Hampshire and West Dundee will all have contested races for the top spot in local government.   Geneva Mayor Kevin Burns has been part of the city government since 1997. To keep that streak alive, hell face a rematch of the 2017 ...