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$1.00  24 PAGES  Four SECTIoNS  oNE INSErT  PETErSBurG, IN 47567-0068 WEdNESdAy, oCToBEr 19, 2022  PIKE PUBLISHING  VoLuME 152, NuMBEr 41 SAVE SAVE $ 3 NEWS TIPS Phone: ���������������������812-354-8500 Email ����� editor@pressdispatch�net INSIDE Local ����������������� A1-6 Sports �����������������B1-5 Home Life ������������C1-2 Obituaries ��������������� C3 Classifieds ���������� C5-6 Legals �������������������� C6 Church �������������� D1-2 School ��������������������D3 Opinion �������������D4-5 History �������������������D6 uSPS 604-34012 bargain bargain PERIOD PERIOD SEE DETAILS ON C-4 Winslow faces critical water issues By Sherri Sebella News Editor sherri@pressdispatch.net The Town of Winslow faced a cri- sis last week as residents were with- out water off and on for the entire week. According to Dee Fiscus, Vice President of the Winslow Town Council, "The main reason for our water leaks is that we had to shut down our tower for inspection, be- cause we were getting bad readings, so they wanted to have it inspected, so we shut it down and were oper- ating just off of Pike Gibson water," Fiscus said. "When we did that, it was putting too much pressure through our lines and wherever we had a weak pipe, is where the water line gave out, so on Saturday, on the first leak, we had to call in the 811 locater for the util- ities, so they came and marked ev- erything. Then we had another leak at the school. There was a temporary boil advisory in effect then we got an- other call on a leak on Main Street again, so we got on that leak, took care of that one, and got another call of a leak about 40 yards up from that one, so on all these leaks, we had to take water samples and wait for the results." The town then faced a bigger leak on Second Street, that took a while to get fixed," according to Fiscus. "The big thing was finding the valves to shut water down," Fiscus said. "I know the people in town were upset with us, but we did the best we could, with as many leaks we had ended up with, the total of five leaks, so we had to include the State on the big one, on Main Street, because of the road belonging to them. We had to have permits for temporary detour. Like I said, we did everything in our best to get water back on. We had volun- teers from town that stepped up and helped." Crews worked late into the night to make repairs to the broken pipes and clean up the mess left behind, and the Patoka Fire Department helped the town greatly with water supply while water was shut off to residents. "We are responsible for paying for Winslow to host 'Meet the Candidates' The Town of Winslow will host a 'Meet the Candidates' forum at 6 p.m. Monday, Oc- tober 24 in the Winslow Com- munity Center. "We hope this event will give our residents a chance to get a better understanding of each candidate's views as well as an opportunity to ex- press their own," said Coun- cil member Debra Lamb. The six Winslow Town Council candidates are: Tim- othy Ennis, Donna Fiscus, Kavin Gayhart, Barry Park- er, Jeffrey Powers and Joni Stafford. Subscribe or renew and beat the price increase Subscribe or renew your subscrip- tion by October 31 to save $ 3 off the price of your yearly subscription, during The Press-Dispatch Bargain Period, whether it is $ 39 for both the print + NetEdition, $ 34 for the print only subscription or $ 34 for the NetE- dition only. The Press-Dispatch has been keep- ing the residents of Pike County in- formed about what is happening in their community since March of 1898. 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Early voting continues in county By Andy Heuring Press-Dispatch Editor editor@pressdispatch.net Early voting for the fall gener- al election is underway and will continue in Pike County. Vote cen- ters are now being used instead of a polling place being in each pre- cinct. There will be three voting centers in Pike County on elec- tion day. They are the Petersburg Com- munity Church (formerly The Gospel Center on Illinois St.), Winslow Community Center and Otwell Community Center. However there are opportuni- ties to vote in other locations on other days. Voting in the County Clerk's office is available now from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday until noon Monday, November 7. October 20 is the first day for the travel board to go out and as- sist people voting. A mobile vote center will be in Union at the Union Community Church from 4 to 8 p.m. on Tues- day, October 25. Thursday, October 27 is the last day to receive applications to vote by mail. Development main topic of city council By Andy Heuring Press-Dispatch Editor editor@pressdispatch.net Development was the main top- ic of Monday night's Petersburg City Council meeting. The council scheduled a special council meet- ing to deal with annexation of a proposed new housing develop- ment near Hornady Park and two Redevelopment Committee meet- ings to establish a TIF district for those. The housing development will have more than 100 lots for new single family residences. Petersburg Mayor RC Klipsch said a special meeting of the Re- development Committee has been scheduled for 4 p.m. on Novem- ber 1 for them to consider annex- ing the area of the proposed hous- ing addition just south of Horna- dy Park. Petersburg City Council will meet immediately following the Redevelopment meeting to con- sider establishing a Tax Incre- ment Finance district. A TIF dis- trict would allow the property tax from any new development in that area to go to the redevelopment district. The Redevelopment Commit- Les Nixon of Nixon Construction works to clean up the mess on Main Street in Winslow last Thursday, after multiple water leaks re- quired town employees to work late into the night fixing broken pipes. Petersburg water plant under construction Construction on a new water plant for Petersburg began recently and is progressing well, ac- cording to Petersburg Mayor RC Klipsch. It is part of a comprehensive water system improvement project costing more than $17 million. The improvements also include a new water tower, water lines, water wells and rehabiltating the two existing water towers. See DEVELOPMENT on 5 See WINSLOW on page 2 See VOTING on page 2

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