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Officials got a close-up perspective of the wetlands, and got a first-hand view of the celebration of the Colonial Heritage Wetlands.

Fort Wayne officials on Friday celebrated the completion of a project they deemed both useful and beautiful.

Preserving path of the Maumee Nonprofit takes 1st steps in restoration of wetlands ROSA SALTER RODRIGUEZ | The Journal Gazette Andrea Hamman jumps out of the ATV that's been navigating a narrow path through a wooded wetland along the Maumee River. She gives a vigorous-looking plant just starting to show its four-petaled white flowers a quick yank. “That's garlic mustard,” says her companion, Lauren Conklin. “Get it!” Garlic mustard, an invasive species that outcompetes native plants, is a bane of those trying to return land to a more natural state. And that's what Conklin and Hamman, ...

County gives OK to several projects Pair of structures to cost $1.5 million ROSA SALTER RODRIGUEZ | The Journal Gazette The Allen County commissioners agreed Friday to spend $777,814 on a bridge over the Ellison Ditch on Ternet Road and $721,207 on a structure on Foote Road over the Hamm stormwater interceptor. Both projects had multiple bidders. Primco, Fort Wayne was the low bidder for the Ellison project and R.G. Zachrich Construction LLC of Defiance, Ohio, was the low bidder on the Foote Road project. Taken together, the projects shave about 4% from engineer's estimates, commissioners wer...