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ANGOLA — The Angola Historic Preservation Commission has decided to write to the Indiana Department of Transportation requesting it be given time to photograph and document a Pleasant Township farmstead before it is bulldozed to make room for a traffic circle. The Commission on Tuesday voted to respond to a letter it received from the state agency about a property at 1025 N. C.R. 200W that is slated for potential demolition as part of an upcoming intersection improvement project. The letter, which was in response to a request for a review of the site to determine if it had historic poten...

ANGOLA — Designs for the new second-story windows to be installed at the former First National Bank building were unveiled during an Angola Historic Preservation Commission meeting Tuesday and received unanimous approval from the body’s members. Tuesday’s approval of a new certificate of appropriateness filed by Thomas Blake, owner of 15 S. Public Square, means he can move forward with installing the new windows, bringing him into compliance with a Steuben Circuit Court order. Blake was ordered by Judge Allen Wheat in December to work with the HPC to reach an agreement on repla...

Thanks to social media, we get to keep up with friends from long ago or reconnect with them after years of not staying in touch. Just recently, I reached out to one of my friends from junior and senior high school, Bob Yapp. Bob and I met in the seventh grade at Joseph I. Brody Junior High School on the southwest side of Des Moines, Iowa. Had I lived literally two blocks east of my boyhood home on Kirkwood Avenue, I would have gone to a different junior high school and I might never have had the occasion to meet Bob.

ANGOLA — It would appear the former First National Bank building in downtown Angola is going to get a second set of new windows just a month after replacement windows were installed by its owner, Thomas Blake. Blake and staff and representatives of Indiana Landmarks and Angola government met Thursday with the goal of meeting a resolution over the windows that were installed on the west and north sides of the building that the Angola Historic Preservation Commission ruled against allowing. The building is located at 15 S. Public Square. After the windows were installed without the require...