Festival fun fills Fountain City Fountain City’s annual Levi Coffin Days festival, which happens the third weekend of September, featured live music, history and good food for festivalgoers this year. View photos of the weekend captured by Joshua Smith below.
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Clerk: Don’t fall for election registration scam
Wayne County’s Election Board has begun taking steps to make sure that ballots for the Nov. 5 election are accurate and will be counted correctly. However, not everyone has residents’ best interests at heart. Wayne County’s clerk is already aware of at least one scammer’s efforts to try to get local voters to share their […]
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Drug Task Force dissolves
For about three decades, the Wayne County Drug Task Force investigated drug crimes in Richmond and Wayne County. The Richmond Police Department and Wayne County Sheriff’s Office supplied personnel to investigate drug activity, arrange controlled buys through confidential informants and arrest drug dealers. In so doing, the officers took drugs off local streets and jailed […]
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Want to vote this year?
If you’re grabbing your wallet to head to a fall festival, it might be a good time to ensure your ID card is present and current before heading to the polls in the next few weeks. Here are some election-related deadlines and tips that prospective voters should keep in mind in the coming days. Register […]
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Windfall for water
After an extensive application process, Cambridge City has received a $2.8 million grant to increase water capacity and support regional industrial growth at Wayne County’s Gateway Industrial Park. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo made the announcement Sept. 10. The Economic Development Administration, which is an agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce, is providing […]
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Richmond store is all about 4 R’s
Earth Day reached out and touched Penny Ausmus more than 50 years ago. She is still trying to do what she can to get people to recycle, reuse and repurpose waste. Ausmus and a group of like-minded friends have opened the East Central Indiana RE Hub at 1700 N.W. Fifth St. in Richmond. To the […]
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Queen Anne home given another chance
The Queen Anne-style home exhibits obvious signs of distress. The front porch, for example, looks dangerous, the light blue and red paint is peeling, and there’s debris everywhere. Richmond’s Historic Preservation Commission, however, sees a brighter future at 1828 E. Main St., and its members gave the structure a third chance. The board voted 6-0 […]
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Door closes on shed business
Storage sheds will not be displayed in a vacant lot at the corner of South West Third Street and National Road West in Richmond. During a Sept. 11 meeting, the city’s Board of Zoning Appeals denied a variance of use petition that would have permitted the business. The petitioner, Adam Powell, then withdrew a petition […]
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Wayne, other counties implement burn bans
Wayne County has joined surrounding counties in issuing a burn ban because of continued dry conditions. The ban took effect at noon Sept. 19 after the Wayne County Firefighter’s Association and the county’s fire chiefs requested a ban. During their Sept. 18 meeting, Wayne County’s commissioners approved implementing a ban if requested by the fire […]
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Chester Blvd. projects seek zoning
Projects that would provide an assisted living facility and apartments along Chester Boulevard both require zoning changes to multiple family residential (M2). Ordinances for those zoning changes were on the Richmond Common Council agenda for Sept. 16 and are on the Richmond Advisory Plan Commission’s Sept. 25 agenda. Council would then have the final say […]