Skip to main content

Government & School Board

School board approves several plans at meeting

As the school year draws to its conclusion, the Huntington County Community School Corporation Board of School Trustees approved several plans involving summer school, summer lunches and the cost of next year’s school lunches among business conducted during its meeting on Monday, March 20.

Andrews Elementary School Principal Amy Rudolf presented the 2017 summer school proposal, which the board approved unanimously.

The cost of the program was estimated at $202,621 — a high estimate, Rudolf said, that must be submitted to the state for approval by March 31.

Banks votes in favor of pair of bills affecting veterans, benefits

U.S. Rep. Jim Banks voted March 16 in favor of two bills affecting veterans.

Banks voted to terminate a regulation that classifies veterans whose disability benefits are handled by a fiduciary as mentally defective. The change would allow those veterans to purchase a firearm, a right that is denied to those classified as mentally defective.

Banks also voted for HR 1259, the VA Accountability First Act of 2017, which makes it easier for the secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs to quickly fire, demote or suspend VA employees and recoup bonuses.

Senate pages


Photo provided.

Matthew Weill (left) and Carl Danarp (right), both of Huntington, served as pages in the Indiana Senate for State Sen. Andy Zay, R-Huntington. Weill attends Crestview Middle School, and Danarp attends Huntington North High School. Pages spend a day in the Statehouse, touring the historic building, observing debates from the Senate floor and interacting with their state senators.

Senate page


Photo provided.

Danita Clark (right), of Andrews, served as a page in the Indiana Senate for State Sen. Andy Zay, R-Huntington. Clark attends Huntington North High School. Pages spend a day in the Statehouse, touring the historic building, observing debates from the Senate floor and interacting with their state senators.

Learning the process

Nicholas Perry (right), of Roanoke, served as a page in the Indiana Senate for State Sen. Andy Zay, R-Huntington. Perry attends Huntington North High School. Pages spend a day in the Statehouse, touring the historic building, observing debates from the Senate floor and interacting with their state senators.

A day in the Senate


Photo provided.

Benjamin Warpup (right), of Warren, served as a page in the Indiana Senate for State Sen. Andy Zay, R-Huntington. Warpup attends Huntington North High School. Pages spend a day in the Statehouse, touring the historic building, observing debates from the Senate floor and interacting with their state senators.

Audit reveals the good and the bad of Huntington County schools

Education consultant Dr. Steve Yager explains the purpose of an audit of the Huntington County Community School Corporation, which incorporated responses from about 1,000 people. The results of the audit were presented Monday, March 20.
Photo by Rebecca Sandlin

There was a lot of interest in the results of a district audit report presented on Monday, March 20, to the Huntington County Community School Corporation Board of School Trustees — so much, that the school board meeting was moved to the Huntington North High School auditorium.

The report, presented by Mike Pettibone and Dr. Steve Yager, focused on the school corporation’s strengths, challenges and provided suggestions on how to improve.

Warren will offer input for flood response plan

Flooding in Huntington County in 2015 prompted county officials to work to determine how responses to future floods could be better coordinated.

On Monday, March 20, Department of Community Development Executive Director Mandy Woods visited the Warren Town Council to ask town officials for input on areas in that community likely to be flooded and actions that can be taken in response to flooding.

Warren’s input will be included in the Huntington County Flood Response and Evacuation Plan — or FREP, as Woods calls it.

Roanoke council wants town to be reimbursed for water main break

The Roanoke Town Council discussed getting reimbursed for a water main break that was caused by a utility contractor last month during its meeting on Tuesday, March 21.

The break occurred at Vine and Seminary streets on Feb. 20 when Utility Solutions, of Ohio, was using a boring machine. Clerk-Treasurer JoAnne Kirchner noted that a few residents in the vicinity of the break did not have water service for two to three days afterwards.

City crews to be testing sanitary sewers for next couple of weeks

City of Huntington utility maintenance crews will be conducting inspections and smoke testing sanitary sewers around the city over the next couple of weeks.

The work will generally only last for a few moments and the sewers will then be ventilated, city officials say.

Residents who notice the “smoke” or vapor are advised it will dissipate quickly, they add. The “smoke” is actually a product with very little odor and does not smell like burning material.

State honor


Photo provided.

Representatives of the City of Huntington and the engineering firm that designed a storage facility at the city’s water pollution control plant display the award they received from the American Council of Engineering Companies Indiana for the design of the project.

Panel changes meetings

The meeting of the Huntington County Commissioners on Monday, April 3, will be canceled.

The meeting will be rescheduled to Monday, April 10, at 8:30 a.m. at the Huntington County Courthouse, Commissioners’ Room, 201 N. Jefferson St., Huntington.

Senate page


Photo provided.

Meredith Zay (left), of Huntington, served as a page in the Indiana Senate for her father, State Sen. Andy Zay, R-Huntington. Zay attends Bishop Luers High School. Pages spend a day in the Statehouse, touring the historic building, observing debates from the Senate floor and interacting with their state senators.

Legislative experience


Photo provided.

Isiah Fettinger (right), of Huntington, served as a page in the Indiana Senate for State Sen. Andy Zay, R-Huntington. Fettinger attends Bishop Luers High School. Pages spend a day in the Statehouse, touring the historic building, observing debates from the Senate floor and interacting with their state senators.