Sadie Wireman and Michael Wireman’s cases will not go to trial in Starke Circuit Court.
During a hearing held Tuesday, their defense attorney and the prosecuting attorney presented an agreed recommendation for a sentence for their guilty pleas. The mother and son would be pleading guilty to an amended charge of Possession of a Controlled Substance as a Class D felony. Judge Kim Hall will review the recommended sentence and a sentencing hearing was set for Thursday, Dec. 5 at 9 a.m.
Officers served an arrest warrant to a suspect in the LaPorte County Jail. Shalovis Robinson, 22, was being held in the jail for violating probation at the time she was served the warrant. She is now being charged with three counts of Dealing a Schedule I Controlled Substance (heroin), a Class B felony.
Freije explained the benefits of a no-salt conditioner at the Marshall County Jail. He claimed his product can cut down on scale build-up and leave water lines clear of debris. This technology would take the place of a salt conditioner and reportedly be maintenance-free for 10 to 20 years.
The salary and benefits will be published for review by the public and your support or opposition will be called upon during the hearing.
“We think it’s going to have a great impact on our school. What our plans are, is we are going to have a resource officer now, not only in our junior/senior high school, but we will have one in our elementary school, working with our elementary school students as well,” said Briles.
The Oregon-Davis School Board met in executive session Monday night where they voted to hold a public hearing on Monday, Nov. 18 at 6:15 p.m. This will be a time for members of the district to voice opinions on the proposed contract of employment for the Superintendent of Schools.
The QSCB money was used to renovate the pool at the high school and to work on water lines that were clogged and deteriorating. The money also allowed for the purchase and installation of new lockers at the high school.
Superintendent A.J. Gappa explained that some other projects were completed at the high school within the two year span of the funding.
“We had some monies left over so we’ve been doing some other projects at the high school that were included in the project,” said Gappa. “This was the final claim. We had a deadline coming up where we had to expend all of the money from that project. We were down to the last $7,000 and so the board had approved that last claim for some repair work at the high school.”
Sarah Gillard was named the Outstanding 4-H Leader for 2013. Gillard, the Shooting Sports leader, was nominated for this award by other 4-H volunteers and 4-H members, and was chosen by a committee of 4-H Extension educators from across the state.
Ten bands competed in Class B on Saturday and Plymouth took the field at 10:13 a.m. Plymouth was the smallest band to perform in that class and Director Bryan Ames said he was proud of the way the band played. Greenwood ended up with the first place trophy in the class.
The last time the Pride of Plymouth Marching Band went to the state level was in 2010 in Class C.
The next-to-the-last race in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) is this Friday, Nov. 8 at 8 p.m. ET at Phoenix International Raceway (PIR) and the championship battle is just heating up.
Matt Crafton leads the points by 46 over James Buescher. Buescher is closely followed by Ty Dillon and Johnny Sauter is in the fourth place spot 74 points out of first.
Crafton has been driving in the NCWTS for 13 years and it could be this race at Phoenix that clinches the title for the racer. All Crafton has to do with finish at least 18th at Phoenix and at Homestead. He will drive the No. 88 Splash/Menards Toyota Tundra this Friday.
A former Pulaski County employee has filed a tort claim against the county commissioners, attorney and auditor, claiming the officials slandered and defamed her. According to the claim that was served to the officials at the regular meeting of the county commissioners last night, Sandra Hurd served as the county home superintendent for five years before being discharged by the commissioners under suspicion of fraud.
Special Judge Patrick Blankenship has made yet another ruling in the heated case regarding a structure that was ordered to be removed before June 1 but was never taken down. Walter and Julia Ford were ordered to appear in court to argue why they should not be held in contempt of court for not removing the structure.
Marshall County Building Inspector Chuck DeWitt explained that there have been some issues with low bonding amounts for contractors. DeWitt told the commissioners that a contractor made an error in some concrete work and truss work which caused a $30,000 loss to the homeowner to have that work redone. The bond only covered $5,000. Another incident resulted in $19,000 in substandard work after an inspection.
The Starke County Commissioners during their regular meeting yesterday morning approved a motion to adopt a new health insurance plan with Anthem, dropping their previous contract with Cigna. Debbie Rykovich and Holly Horan approached the commissioners and explained that Signa provided a third proposal at their request and told the commissioners that they need to decide whether to renew Cigna or take the core option from Anthem. In addition, the commissioners were faced with the choice of whether or not to offer plan options.
Governor Mike Pence will soon be announcing more than $9 million in grant funding that will go towards improving the safety of schools and school corporations throughout the state at Knox Community High School. Pence will visit the school on Wednesday, Nov. 6 at 10 a.m. to announce the Secured School Safety Grant, a dedicated state grant fund that provides matching safety-related grants to school corporations and charter schools.
Fagner explained the grant will be used to support the coroner’s efforts, to purchase items like bodybags, toe tags, mobile printers to be used in the field, GPS units and other items.
Commissioner Larry Brady made a motion to approve her request. Terry Young seconded the motion, and it passed unanimously.
