Archive - 2013
April 4th
While new details on the city's second sculpture tour were unveiled at Tuesday night's Decatur City Council meeting, further details also were given council on yet another large event scheduled here this summer: the ABATE of Indiana Region 0's annual Mayor's Ride.
A single-vehicle mishap Wednesday at 10:03 a.m. sent the driver of an auto to Adams Memorial Hospital with what the Adams County Sheriff's Department report said was a chest injury.
Police said Lauren E. Bowman, 19, E. Monroe Street, Decatur, was eastbound on C.R. 700N between 200 and 300E when her vehicle went off the south side of the road and hit a bridge abutment. The vehicle flew over some water and came to rest on its top.
Bowman was able to get out of the vehicle under her own power
The Geneva Town Council held a public hearing Tuesday for additional appropriations for the town's 2013 budget.
Clerk-Treasurer Bill Warren's initial budget for 2013 had been submitted a day late to the state Department of Local Government Funding (DLGF) because he had been waiting on some materials, so the DLGF approved the budget for the 2012 levels instead of 2013.
April 3rd
Bellmont opened their season on Wednesday night at the Teepee but may have left their bats in Florida as Bluffton's Kaitlyn Lovell pitched a one-run no-hitter against the Squaws in a 5-1 decision.
The Squaws looked like a team who had only been on the ball diamond once this season...because they were. Tuesday night's practice was the first time coach Rich Burkhalter was able to get out on the field between the weather this month and then a spring break vacation last week.
Pam Johnson, 63, of Decatur, died Tuesday.
Arrangements are pending at Zwick & Jahn Funeral Home.
Nicholas Liechty, 32, of Aurora, Colo., formerly of Adams County, died Sunday.
Arrangements are pending at Zwick & Jahn Funeral Home.
A more extensive and improved sculpture extravaganza in Decatur was unveiled on Tuesday night before city council.
More and new sculptures, an extended area, an arts festival, added attractions and a "stand alone" event are just some of what will be coming up in early June.
Decatur's first sculpture walk, held last year, was designed in part to attract people to the community, and it was highly successful. With the changes unveiled at Tuesday night's city council meeting, an even larger turnout is highly likely this year.
"From a business standpoint, it brought a lot of people to town (last year). It was very impressive," Councilman Matt Dyer said.
The second reading of Geneva's new noise ordinance was held at the town council's meeting on Tuesday night.
The ordinance has been completely revised and is much less specific than the first reading, while still ensuring that the town will not get loud or chaotic, it was noted.
