Information from the La Porte County Sheriff’s Office shares that as summer winds down, the La Porte County Sheriff’s Office is partnering with the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute (ICJI) to increase patrols as part of the annual Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over national enforcement campaign, supported by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
Continue readingIndiana State Police will be stepping up patrols over the Labor Day weekend. Extra troopers will be patrolling the highways, thanks to two federally-funded programs.
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Indiana’s state health commissioner is warning Hoosiers about the dangers of large group gatherings over the Labor Day weekend. During Wednesday’s briefing, Dr. Kris Box warned that COVID-19 can spread quickly, especially if people aren’t wearing masks and staying six feet apart.
Continue readingThose hitting the road this Labor Day weekend will experience the holiday’s lowest gas prices in over a decade. GasBuddy.com Senior Petroleum Analyst Patrick DeHaan says that’s in spite of a recent increase in prices. Continue reading
Monday is a holiday, and that means federal, state, and local government offices will be closed. That also means mail won’t be delivered. Continue reading
35.5 million Americans are expected to travel at least 50 miles over the Labor Day weekend. Continue reading
If you have business with the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, keep in mind they will be closed for a couple of days in observance of Labor Day. Continue reading
If you have business with the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles, you need to take care of it today or wait until Tuesday. BMV branches across the state are closing tomorrow and Monday in observance of the Labor Day holiday. Normal business hours will resume on Tuesday. More information about BMV branches and services offered is available online at www.MyBMV.com.
Most license branches will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, Sept. 3. The Demotte, Knox, Monticello, Nappanee and 12 others in the state will reopen on Wednesday, Sept. 4.
If you need to conduct business, visit the BMV’s website at http://www.mybmv.com.
Travel is expected to increase this year for the Labor Day holiday.
Despite a sluggish economy and recent rises in gas prices, the increase in travelers is driven by improving consumer confidence compared to last year.
About 85 percent of holiday travelers will journey by car and the average distance traveled by Americans is expected to be 626 miles, with a great deal of those miles to be traveled by air.
Many travelers in this area will headed to the Blueberry Festival in Plymouth and to the Monterey Days Festival this weekend. Remember that the Indiana State Police the Starke County Traffic Safety Partnership and the Marshall County Sheriff’s Department will be out in full force patrolling for unrestrained motorists, impaired drivers and those who drive at unsafe speeds.
It’s Labor Day, a national holiday observed since 1882, as a celebration of Labor.
It also is traditionally observed as the symbolic end of summer.
In the past, it was considered the last day of the season that women could wear white, and in later times, the last time men could wear white shoes.
If you’re traveling this Labor Day Weekend, you know that gasoline prices are set to break the record for this time of the year. The average price of gasoline is already 60 cents higher than it was at this time a year ago.
The highest gasoline prices on Labor Day are in Connecticut, which has an average price of $3.97 a gallon, while Alabama is the lowest at $3.48.
