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A United Way fundraising project started by Megan Barron, Plymouth High School senior, to promote friendly competition between Plymouth and Triton Schools, led to the United Way benefitting with $3,201 raised from both communities.
 
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Old jail will be taken down E-mail
Tuesday, 01 July 2008

By Rusty Nixon
Correspondent

PLYMOUTH — The old county jail may not be around much longer as plans continue to move ahead to bring the structure down.

The Marshall County Commissioners recently solicited companies interested in the project to submit their “resumes” for consideration.

By the time the commissioners meet again, the committee working on the project could have some recommendations.

“A couple of companies showed up last Wednesday to have a brief look at the building inside and out to be able to make a their proposals,” said Commissioner Kevin Overmyer. “They’re supposed to have their final proposals in by Tuesday so that hopefully the committee can go over them and make a recommendation to the Commissioners at their next meeting.

“There are quite a few companies interested in the project so I expect the bidding should be very competitive.”

What will happen with the property where the building sat has also been decided. Those doing business at the Courthouse or Marshall County Office Building will be grateful for the plans.

“It’s going to be a parking lot,” said Overmyer. “Parking around the Courthhouse and County Building is really at a premium right now. It’s possible the same company that undertakes the demolition will also build the parking lot. We may build the lot ourselves. We have the equipment and if (County Surveyor) Larry Fisher helped out we could get the topography and all that, but we really haven’t decided that’s the way we’re going to go.”

Recently the county was able to take another step that enables the project to go forward.

“We’re able to turn off electricity to the building now,” said Overmyer. “We had that tower that had all the communications on it but we moved that over to the Court House so we can shut off the electricity now. The gas is already off.”

Overmyer could only hazard a guess as to the time frame for the project saying that a approximately a month from the beginning would see completion. Of course that is barring any unforeseen circumstances as well.
“I don’t think there’s anything we don’t know about,” said Overmyer. “The even older jail sat on that property and there were also several houses there years ago. Hopefully we’re not going to find any unforeseen surprises, underground or anywhere else.”
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 02 July 2008 )
 
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