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Front Tuesday, November 8, 2022 South Gibson Star-Times A-2 3.5" x 2.5" | Maximum Font Size: 30 pt > edwardjones.com Have 401(k) questions? Let's talk. Shane Minton Financial Advisor 100 S Hull Street Ft Branch, IN 47648 812-753-3893 3.5" x 2.5" | Maximum Font Size: 30 pt > edwardjones.com Have 401(k) questions? Let's talk. Shane Minton Financial Advisor 100 S Hull Street Ft Branch, IN 47648 812-753-3893 Have retirement plan questions? Let's talk. Boxell said during the an- nouncement. The charity car show had been rained out during their annual Halloween event last weekend, so Sunday included rescheduled Halloween fes- tivities, including classic car trunk-or-treating. CRUISE-IN Continued from page 1 SOLAR Continued from page 1 TICKETS Continued from page 1 He recently stopped a coal truck in that area doing 61 in a 30 mile per hour zone, loaded down. Three days later, the deputy marshal stopped the same driver in the same area, speeding to a lesser degree. "So that guy was livid. But if you don't like it you need to slow down," he said, adding he doesn't like giving tickets to drivers with CDL licenses, but at this point they have to. The board suggested look- ing into weight limit signs for the roads. "It's not just Owensville. Haubstadt's getting calls, Fort Branch," said Leister. "I'm not giving any more warnings for coal trucks... We tried signs. We're issu- ing tickets." In other Owensville news the town board also: •Approved $ 6170 for fixing water issues at the REH Center. •Corrected an incorrect reading of a meter that had charged Williams Apart- ments an additional $5,574; they credited the overage for future bills. •Approved an adjustment to Anthony Edwards' sewer bill, related to a leak under his home. person to do that job. "The actual stipulations of our ordinance were not ignored," Fleetwood said. "This is a multi-million dollar project...a project of this magnitude requires a runoff plan." The company would bring improvements to slow storm- water, he added. Later in the meeting he described the stormwater ordinance as being in the infant phases, and suggested two companies will- ing to do third party reviews. He proposed Three i Design as the primary reviewer and Landmark Engineering as the secondary reviewer. "They are local engineering firms and I have a great deal of confidence in them," he said. County Commissioner Mary Key agreed the county needed to get reviewers in place, but said she would have preferred more information about previous municipalities the companies worked for, for example, and did not want to cut out the company that orig- inally drafted the stormwater ordinance. Commissioner Kenneth Montgomery agreed. "Why not offer it to the company that helped write stormwater plan? " he asked. Fleetwood said having local companies would allow people to go to the office in person. Montgomery and Key were unwilling to leave out the third firm, especially as Key said Landmark had 1000 acres listed as their top cutoff in their documentation. Projects like the solar project they'd discussed were much larger. "I don't want to see us in a position again where we're not ready to review," Fleet- wood said. He added he was sure landmark would want to take on even larger projects if given the opportunity. Commissioners compro- mised by adding engineer Christopher Burke Engineer- ing as a third possibility, then passed the measure unani- mously. In other county news, commissioners: •Approved paving contract for Hopkins Park •Approved increasing the contract by $28,000 on the probation building. •Dirt road the county owns, designated sold 1500 to abut- ting property owners. Multiple accidents reported this week •Fort Branch drivers Bill Knight and Ladonna Hopster were in an accident at Strain and Victor in Fort Branch Oct. 20. According to the Gibson County Sheriff's Office report, Hopster was talking with a passenger and did not see Knight's Ford Escape. •An accident Oct. 16 at CR 400S in Owensville was caused by failure to main- tain lanes. According to the GCSO report, Kourtney Collins, 16, was traveling west on CR 400 S between 700W and 850W in Owens- ville, when Tony Riley, 57, was pulling onto CR400S from a farm access road. Collins saw Riley pulling onto the roadway and swerved to miss him, causing her vehicle to flip and land upside down. At the time, Collins had been coming down a large hill with a row of trees blocking the view of Riley. No one was injured and Collins refused EMS. Both are from Owens- ville. •Michael French, 27, of Oakland City, hit a deer on Ind. 64 at the intersection of Brentwood Estates in his silver Ford Fusion. •Alan Gregory of Pomona Park, Fla. was travelling US -41 North in his semi- truck through Patoka Oct. 26 at 2:40 a.m. when, accord- ing to the Gibson County Sheriff's Office report, he may have fallen asleep when his truck left the roadway, ran down a ditch into land- scape rocks and turned over before it came to rest on its side. Police said the driver was not making sense when they arrived, and Gregory was transported for medical evaluation. •Drivers Stephanie West, 52, of Patoka, and Colton Jenkins, 18, of Petersburg, were in an accident on Old US Hwy. 41 near the Seed - tick Road intersection in Princeton Oct. 31 at 3:40 p.m., according to a Gibson County Sheriff's Office report. According to the report, West was stopped wait- ing for a vehicle to turn onto Seedtick in her black Nissan Rogue, when Jenkins rear-ended her in his Ford F150, which was towed for disabling damage. •Joseph Lawrence, 45, of Browns, Ill., hit a deer on Ind. 64 at CR 850 W in Owens- ville at 6:05 a.m. on Oct. 26, according to a Gibson County Sheriff's Office report. He had damage to the fender, bumper, head - light, hood and grill, and was towed from the scene. •According to the Gibson County Sheriff's Office report, Nolan McKeethan, 18, of Evansville, fled the scene of an accident on 900S at Ind. 57 at 11:04 p.m. on Oct. 28 in Buckskin. McKeethan, who the report said had been drinking, struck the garage door of a residence, fled the scene, and was identified by video. The garage door will need replaced, said the report. No one was injured; McKeethan was cited with a misdemeanor. •Drivers Maison Gomez, 21, of Evansville, and Dustin Bratcher, 21, of Haubstadt, were in an accident on US -41 in Fort Branch at 7:11 p.m. on Oct. 28. According to the report, Gomez drifted into Bratcher's lane, sideswip- ing him. Bratcher then lost control, spun in the roadway, was again struck by Gomez in the driver's side door. Bratch- er's vehicle flipped and stuck the guardrail before landing right-side-up. Bratcher said he may have glass in his arm or face, but denied an ambu- lance ride, saying family could drive him to medical treatment. •Kevin Lewis, 49, of Carl- isle, hit a deer on US -41 at CR225 N Oct. 27 at 6:45 p.m. in his tan Toyota Tundra. •Drake Melvin, 18, of Winslow, hit a deer at 6:55 a.m. Oct. 27 on CR 250 S in Princeton. •Michael McElmurry backed into Timothy White's driver's side cab with his trailer Oct. 16 on CR 1250 S, in Haubstadt. White was parked and sleeping at the time of the crash. Both are commercial drivers. •Emmanuel Rivera, 34, of Owensville, hit a deer on US -41 at 10 :57 Oct. 29 in Fort Branch. •According to police Kayden Riley, 20, of Oakland City, stopped at College Street and Ind. 57 in Oakland City, then pulled out in front of Dylan Buck, 17, of Oakland City, who told police he couldn't avoid the t-bone crash Oct. 29. •Kaeden Cates, of Linton, hit a deer on East Steelman Road in Patoka Oct. 30. Princeton requests $2M in road development By Janice Barniak Star-Times Editor editor@sgstartimes.com Princeton Mayor Greg Wright told Gibson County Commissioners that, despite a major manufacturer moving to Princeton, the population of the city has not changed significantly due in large part to an unavailability of housing; as a developer Wayne Kinney, with CWK Investments, moves into the area the city would like to create efficient traffic patterns to the apart- ment complex he's building in a recently-annexed area of Princeton. Wright said development in Princeton's Second Avenue corridor is adding 130 town homes, and, when combined with a 144-unit apartment complex will increase the town by approximately 800 people. "Eight hundred new citizens will increase population by 10 percent in one fell swoop," he said. Those will include more students in the schools, more customers in local businesses, and a positive on impact prop- erty taxes. He said as the developer looks at the road around Menards, a relay road, he's willing to donate land for the city to run a road across the land for the development. The cost to create the road is $4 million, and the city has raised $1 million. Wright asked the commissioners to forward the project to rede- velopment so the board could look at potentially funding the $ 3 million. "The longer we wait the more expensive it is to do," Wright said. The project will be 2,300 feet of pavement, and the road will be in city limits. Commissioner Mary Key said she believed it would be a good investment for the county and city of Princeton, motioning to pass it along for up to $ 3 million. Commissioner Warren Fleetwood said he'd prefer time to further investigate it and talk to the county engi- neer and look for road-build- ing grants. Princeton County Coun- cil member Sherri Greene told Fleetwood they'd asked about grants and there are none currently for road build- ing, only Community Cross- ings, for maintaining existing roads. Key agreed. "It's moving Gibson County into the future...if we don't grow we're just going to go downhill," said Key. "Since there's no second, how about $2 million? " Commissioner Kenneth Montgomery seconded the motion, and voted in favor of it at the $2 million mark, giving it a majority to pass on to redevelopment. Fleetwood dissented, preferring more investigation. "We consider it a perfect TIF project," Wright said. St. Joseph Chicken Dinner Above: St. Joseph Chicken Dinner saw hundreds of orders Sunday in Princeton while many church volunteers handled carry-out, drive- through and dine-in orders. Right: JD Wildt greets his uncle in the drive-through line at the St. Joseph Chicken Dinner Sun- day in Princeton.

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