WARSAW — No comments from the general public were heard during a public hearing on Warsaw’s 2016 Budget. The budget was adopted Monday evening, Oct. 5, during the Warsaw Common Council meeting.

WARSAW — The city of Warsaw will be going paperless, a little at a time, in regards to board packets for the Board of Works an Common Council meeting. Other city boards may follow at a later time. The city will also have its own mobile application. During the Friday, Aug. 7, Board of Public …read more.

Yesterday evening during the monthly Silver Lake town council meeting Eric Walsh, a representative from Umbaugh, presented information on an upcoming raise in both sewage and water rates throughout the town. According to Walsh, the need to raise the water and sewer rates arose after numerous years passed where the rate was unchanged or even …read more.

Kosciusko County Commissioners discussed re-establishing, and possibly doubling, the cumulative capital development tax rate to help maintain the county’s roads. On June 3, they introduced an ordinance that may double the cumulative capital development tax rate. Commissioners are proposing to re-establish the CCD rate to $0.0333 per $100 of assessed value of real and personal …read more.

At the joint Kosciusko County Council/Kosciusko County Commissioners meeting, held Thursday night, it was reported that the disbursements of the county’s operating funds have exceeded annual receipts. Earlier today, we reported that enactment of a wheel tax will most likely be voted on at the Kosciusko County Council’s Thursday, June 12, meeting. The new tax would …read more.

At the Kosciusko County Council meeting on Thursday, May 8, Kosciusko County Commissioner Ron Truex came before the council to express that Kosciusko County was in dire straits financially. Umbaugh, a financial advisory firm out of Indianapolis, has been working with the county to identify problem areas in the budget and recommend strategies to rectify …read more.

At the Kosciusko County Council meeting on the evening of May 8, Kosciusko County Commissioner Ron Truex presented the council with some disturbing data. “I’m once again coming to you guys to ask for money for the highway department,” he told the council. “We’ve got enough money to do about a third of what we …read more.

During today’s meeting of the Milford Redevelopment Commission, the town accepted a proposal from Umbaugh and Associates to develop an Economic Impact Study for a Tax Increment Financing district. The study will look at the affects of extension on the town, county, township, library, school and any other government-funded establishments. In January, the commission discussed …read more.

Emily Umbaugh, a WCHS graduate, has been honored for her work in the classroom as a student-athlete at Williams Baptist College. Umbaugh, a 6-1 sophomore opposite for the volleyball team, earned Academic All-American Midwest Conference accolades for the 2012 season. Umbaugh, a 2011 WCHS grad who participated in both volleyball and track and field in …read more.