Steve Higinbotham, the county administrator, has spent extra time working in planning and zoning since former Plan Administrator Laura Miller’s January retirement. He announced during Wayne County Council’s April 1 meeting that Angela Ebacher was promoted to fill the plan administrator’s role. That promotion and another employee leaving the building department leaves two closely connected […]
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Credit union to leave city building
The credit union serving city employees will soon leave the Richmond Municipal Building. Mayor Ron Oler told the city’s Board of Public Works and Safety during its April 2 meeting that Kemba Credit Union and the city have agreed the institution will vacate its second-floor office space by June 30. Kemba, which is a Kroger […]
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MRL reducing services to address repairs
On May 4, Morrisson-Reeves Library will move its Information Services Area from the lower level to the main floor. As a result, access to the computer lab, private study rooms and the Information Services Conference Room will no longer be available. In an effort to address immediate repairs and continue serving the public, access to […]
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County budget warning: ‘You need to cut’
Beth Leisure laid the 2027 budgeting groundwork during Wayne County Council’s April 1 finance committee meeting, and it was not an April Fools’ Day joke. “Just another reminder: Anything you can cut, you need to cut,” Leisure said to county department heads. “Don’t be coming to us with a bunch more requests for more employees […]
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Discover hope amidst tragedy in RCT’s powerful ‘26 Pebbles’
A new production from Richmond Civic Theatre will explore the effects of mass gun violence. The players will present “26 Pebbles,” a powerful work set in the aftermath of the 2012 Sandy Hook School shooting that took 26 lives. Directed by Brady Day, the script includes interviews from Connecticut residents who had to navigate through […]
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Colleges wary of new degree-reducing legislation
A push by Indiana state legislators to restructure degree programs at Hoosier colleges passed last month, and Wayne County’s various institutions of higher education could be impacted. Authored by Sen. Jeff Raatz, Republican of Richmond, Indiana Senate Bill 199 was signed in to law by Gov. Braun in March. It forces the state to consider […]
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Economy updates payroll process
The town of Economy is updating its town payroll procedures after a state audit found an outdated practice that meant state and local payroll taxes had not been withheld as required. An Indiana State Board of Accounts audit examined the town’s finances from Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2024. State examiner Paul D. Joyce […]
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PHOTOS: Volunteers make it rosy
Volunteers are getting the Richmond Rose Garden ready for the growing season by pruning bushes, clearing beds and preparing plantings in the Glen Miller Park space that features more than 100 rose varieties. The garden, now nearly 40 years old, is free and open daily and is designed to be accessible to visitors of all […]
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Earlham ends some majors to cut costs
Mathematics, philosophy and French are among the subjects that Earlham College says it will no longer provide curriculum or degree programs in which students can major. The Richmond liberal arts college’s president, Paul Sniegowski, wrote in a March 30 email to community members that Earlham has concluded a curricular planning process tied to its recent […]
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4 years, no arrests since cemetery desecration
Four years after a vandalism spree violated Cambridge City’s earliest cemetery, police haven’t announced any arrests for that crime. On April 1, 2022, police and two of the volunteers who had spent years working to preserve Cambridge City’s earliest public cemetery walked through a scene of chaotic destruction in what could only be called stunned […]