Allen County plans to use a grant from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management to educate the public on proper battery storage and recycling methods. The Allen County Board of Commissioners committed June 12 to match a $5,000 state community grant awarded to the Allen County ...
The Fort Wayne Community Schools board approved a 10-year lease for the development of a new Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics high school at Electric Works. The board approved the lease June 8. An agency representing Electric Works described the project in an announcement ...
“We are dealing with an issue — and issues — that are deeply rooted in systematic racism and oppression. … It’s unrealistic for us to think that a march to MLK Bridge is going to un-root systematic oppression and racism without formalized policies and changes.”That was the message ...
The town of Huntertown has considered pursuing several projects using coronavirus relief funding. The state has earmarked just over $219,000 for the town, which can be spent for COVID-19 relief efforts.“I was initially just thinking cleaning supplies, and they told me to think outside the ...
Allen County is planning improvements at the intersection of S.R. 37 and Rupert Road just northeast of Harlan and Grabill. The Allen County commissioners approved a contract June 5 with Engineering Resources Inc. for a study of the intersection in the total of $59,900.The county highway ...
Huntertown officials and their advisors have developed a plan to accelerate housing development in the town’s northeast quadrant, but members of the Town Council and Utility Service Board are conflicted about the associated risks.Although the construction of the town’s wastewater treatment ...
Fort Wayne City Councilman Russ Jehl, R-2nd District, pledged his support to several police reform efforts during a June 16 council meeting.Jehl closed out the meeting by reading a letter in support of two proposals being drafted by Councilwomen Sharon Tucker, D-6th District, and Michelle ...
The Allen County Prosecutor’s Office will pore over what it expects could be thousands of hours of footage from protests May 29 and 30 in downtown Fort Wayne, in order to determine how to proceed with the more than 100 arrests made in connection with those protests.Allen County Prosecutor ...
Computer time is available to Allen County Public Library patrons once again. The limited service resumed June 8, and is available only at the Main Library and the Shawnee and Pontiac branches.The ACPL has been closed since March 16 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and will continue to be closed ...
Anyone who lives or works in Allen County is invited to join an All In Allen Facebook Live discussion about the future of Allen County.The Facebook Live is scheduled for 6-7 p.m. Monday, June 15, on the City of Fort Wayne’s Facebook Page, @CityofFortWayne, and on Allen County’s Facebook ...
