SOUTH WHITLEY — South Whitley Elementary School recently received a welcome gift from several Whitko Community School alums who set out to help students in need. Dan Cochran and Scott Rupert, along with their local motorcycle group, Jingoes Motorcycle Club, visited the school and presented Principal Bryan Emmert with 21 backpacks they had collected for …read more.

MILFORD — Lizards Bar and Grill, 132 S. Main St., celebrated its grand opening under new ownership with a well-attended ribbon cutting ceremony Saturday afternoon, Aug. 18. Owners Rich Miotto Jr. and Tracy Miotto assumed ownership of the restaurant on July 1. Milford is a venue that suited Rich’s tastes. “Something that always attracted me …read more.

MILFORD — The Milford Town Council voted to accept the resignation of Randy Veach from his position as utilities superintendent at a public town hall meeting, Thursday, May 26. Utilities department employee Steve Marquart will serve as temporary certified operator. In a letter, Veach wrote, “I have been asked by the town council to resign …read more.

Milford Town Council was again visited by Timothy Wall and Michael Reese of Troyer Group at its monthly meeting Monday evening, Aug. 10. The consultants presented overviews of three plans for moving ahead with the town facilities study.

Milford’s proposed 2016 budget managed to successfully cut close to 6 percent from last year, bringing its total to $1,585,450, down from $1,684,402 in 2015. “It will be a tight year,” Town Treasurer Joellen Free stated. This is the second year the town has had to reduce its budget.

According to John Julien of Umbaugh and Associates, “Cash is king,” and cash is what the town of Milford is lacking when it comes to proper maintenance of its water utilities.
Julien and Ross Hagen, also from Umbaugh, were on hand at the Milford Town Council meeting Monday evening, July 13, to present the water rate study the town commissioned in the spring of 2015.

After making five trips to Milford in the last few months, Timothy Wall of Troyer Group finally got the news he was hoping for. On Monday, June 8, Milford Town Council passed a motion to go ahead with Troyer’s Town Facilities Study. Earlier in the day, Milford Redevelopment Commission voted to pay for half of …read more.

Tom and Brenda Bulger attended Monday night’s Milford Town Council meeting in the hopes of finding out what, if anything, can be done about the “eyesore” they’ve been living next to for 20 years. The house at the corner of West and Fourth streets burned in an electrical fire in 1995. For the last five …read more.

  Milford Town Council could vote as soon as May 11 on whether or not to hire Troyer Group of Mishawaka to study town facilities and the possible construction of an emergency first responder station combining fire, police and emergency medical technician personnel. The study would also examine relocation of utilities to the current fire …read more.

Monday night’s Milford Town Council meeting started with public complaints about billing, plowing and ended with considerations of how to improve public buildings. Steve Morris of Bio Waste brought what he considered to be billing discrepancies to the attention of the council. “You guys are doubling what I should be paying,” he said. He believes …read more.

Milford’s town council held its last meeting of 2014 Tuesday morning. Items on the agenda included a change to election practices as well as a pay raise for city employees. Ordinance 2014-9 changes the election year for town council members to coincide with federal and state elections. Those members elected in 2015 will serve a …read more.

Milford Town Council President Bob Cockburn is looking forward to doing some house cleaning in 2015. “My main concern is cleaning up these old buildings … eyesores that have been uninhabited for years,” he said. A recent example is the Medina’s Body Repair building gutted by a fire last February, which still sits in disrepair, …read more.

During its regular monthly meeting Monday evening, Milford Town Council decided to table any decision to adjust the 2015 pay rates of town employees until their end-of-year meeting, scheduled for 8 a.m. Dec. 30. Council member Doug Ruch made a motion to freeze pay increases at the current levels following Town Clerk Joellen Free’s estimate …read more.

The Milford Town Council had quite a few important discussions Monday night, beginning with the consideration of a Verizon cell tower to be placed behind the sewer plant. While it is not yet confirmed by Verizon engineers, a representative of Verizon visited the site, and three other potential sites, and told the council last night …read more.

Two new ordinances were enacted during Milford Town Council on Monday night and one of those means a water rate increase for residents. A long-standing issue of a potential water rate increase was resolved with the council’s vote. After final adjustments to the Umbaugh and Associates’ rate study were completed, it was determined that a …read more.

Members of the Milford Town Council, including Bob Cockburn, didn’t hold back Monday night as they took up discussion about a letter the town received recently from Multi-Township Emergency Medical Service. Much as council members Cockburn, Dan Cochran and Doug Ruch suspected when they debated signing a 2012 contract with MTEMS earlier this year, MTEMS …read more.