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March 14th, 2013
PLYMOUTH - Oliver Ford in Plymouth invited local state, county and city law enforcement officers out to a special event Tuesday.
Oliver unveiled the new Ford Interceptor vehicles for area police. The vehicle is the very first all wheel drive utility vehicle by any auto manufacturer that meets all law enforcement specifications.
âFord didnât design this the way a car is normally designed,â said Steve Keiser of Oliver. âLaw enforcement officers designed this vehicle. They spent a lot of time with people who drive them everyday and made it the way they wanted it.â
March 12th
MARSHALL CO. â Law clerks working for county departments could soon be making nearly $6 more per hour.
Judge Dean Colvin asked Marshall County Council members to raise the pay range available to pay law clerks Monday.
âI canât compete anymore,â said Colvin, adding that he keeps losing his clerks to better-paying positions.
The current county pay range for law clerks is between $11.37 and $13.08 per hour. Colvinâs current clerk will be leaving at the end of the week for a job that pays $18 per hour.
March 11th
HAMLET - Oregon-Davis Community School Corporation (OD) went on lockdown this morning after threatening graffiti was found on the boy's bathroom wall at the high school.
The graffiti is believed to have been left during a basketball tournament that took place at the high school on Saturday.
"When the graffiti was discovered, we immediately contacted Sheriff Oscar Cowen at the Starke County Sheriff's Department. They sent over a detective to take some photos. We also contacted our Student Resource Officer Freddy Baker,"OD School's Superintendent Dr. Steve Disney said.
MARSHALL CO. â Texting while driving has been illegal in Indiana since 2011. But will police actually pull you over if they see you looking at your phone behind the wheel?
Plymouth Police Chief Dave Bacon said itâs possible â but the law is a tough one for his officers to enforce.
âThe way the current law is written, itâs for text messaging and emailing (on a mobile device),â said Bacon. âWell, people could be looking at a map online. Will we stop them? Yes, we will stop them. But I donât think the law is highly enforced the way itâs written now.â
March 8th
PLYMOUTH â Every year, the Plymouth Public Library encourages patrons to read one book as a community.
The âOne Book One Townâ program is similar to a giant book club â one that everyone is welcome to.
âThe idea is to promote lifelong literacy and to share ideas â so we read one book together,â said Anna Liechty, a Friends of the Library member and the leader of the upcoming community book talk.
This yearâs book is The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, a memoir by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer.
March 7th
MARSHALL CO. â Spending cuts in Washington could be affecting some Marshall County children soon.
President and CEO of Marshall-Starke Development Center Mike Lintner visited the county commissionersâ meeting Monday to give an annual report. During the report, Lintner said that he was notified Friday that the federal funding for Head Start â a preschool program for children ages 3 to 5 from low-income families â could be cut by up to 5 percent as a result of the federal sequester.
March 6th
PLYMOUTH - Sometimes waiting is the hard part.
With winter storm warnings in the forecast Tuesday local road crews were on âhigh alertâ.
âWe were actually ready for it yesterday (Monday),â said Plymouth Street Department Superintendent Jim Marquardt on Tuesday morning waiting for the storm. âWe had a crew come in at 4 a.m. because of what was predicted last night because we thought it would be good to get a jump on it.â
March 5th
PLYMOUTH - It will be at the very least another month, but it appears that a Hacienda restaurant is on the way to Plymouth.
The Marshall County Alcoholic Beverage Commission will hear an application for the chain to obtain a liquor license at next monthâs meeting. In February, a representative from the Mexican restaurant chain confirmed to the Pilot News that they were considering the city as a possible place for a new location.
PLYMOUTH - A local man has entered a not guilty plea on a charge of murder and drug dealing.
Friday afternoon Marshall County Superior Court Judge Robert Bowen held an initial hearing by video conference on Friday in the case of Olan Howard who has been charged with Murder and Dealing in a Schedule I Controlled Substance.
MARSHALL CO. â The company that rebuilt the 13th Road bridge a couple years ago wonât be fully paid for the project because it wasnât completed on time. The projectâs original completion date was July 2011. The bridge was finally finished in November 2011.
County Highway Department Superintendent Neal Haeck explained that Jack Isom Construction in Reynolds was hired to fix up the bridge â which needed significant work.
âThe bridge was a box beam construction and it was coming apart,â said Haeck. âIt was time to have it replaced.â
