Today's Feature

Grant Approved for Interchange.

The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) for the Fairview Interchange project has been approved for $500,000 according to City Administrator Tom Short.

Schrieber Foods Inc. has shown that the new interchange would improve the conditions of operation and therefore committed to creating an additional 50 new jobs and investing in a certain amount of capital improvement for the purpose of obtaining the grant. The number of jobs and amount of capital improvement determined the amount of the CDBG grant.

Short says the next step in the project at this point is to have a transition meeting with the staff of the Department of Economic Development. The City must also send out requests for proposals for grant administration from an independent source. All Community Development Block Grants must be audited to ensure that the money is properly spent and all paperwork is filed correctly.

The total estimated cost of the project is $3 million. Federal funding will pay $1 million, State funding will pay $1 million, the City will pay $500,000 and the CDBG grant will pay for the remaining $500,000.

Stench Report:
Tuesday,
07/26/05

No Stench
detected

It wasn’t the fact that she had pigs, even inside city limits. Apparently the two 300 pound hogs were legal under Hobart’s city code. The problem was the stench. Accordin to court records the animals generated as much as 35 pounds of solid waste and several gallons of liquid waste ever’ day. The neighbors complained not about the animals, but the odor. The lady who owned ‘em said she knew there wasn’t a smell cause she never smelled it. She said the odor detected by a city code inspector was due to swine flatulence. The judge viewed her testimony as hog wash and fined her $250.

I’d say that bein’ like these two pigs in a poke would be pretty uncomfortable, especially with the flatulence.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

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