Archive for Commentary
by: Robert Hill
October 14, 2010
To the editor: Just once I would like to hear the Center Grove School Administration say “We will do everything we can to ensure an excellent education for our students”. Instead they threaten, intimidate, coerce and spend thousands of taxpayer dollars to guarantee you they will cut teachers and education resources if they don’t get what they want. These [...]
by: Dick Huber
October 14, 2010
To the editor: Scared of losing teachers, increasing class size or decrease in property values? Then vote scared and yes. Center Grove schools’ referendum would bring in more than $3 million each year for seven years. Their information indicates that this money would keep 10 or more teaching positions, avoid larger class sizes, maintain athletic [...]
A newsletter preview of tomorrow’s Daily Journal says… Bargersville wants a new merger study. A missed deadline to get the merger plan on the fall ballot presents an opportunity to start a new merger study, town attorney Nicholas Kile said. If the board doesn’t agree, Bargersville will give all township residents who live south of [...]
The good news is that the Bargersville Town Council wants more time to study the issue of building a new water treatment plant and raising customer rates 77%. The not so surprising news is that common sense approaches to the issue came from customers, not the utility company masquerading as a town (see this article). Based on the [...]
We seem to get the same old story from everyone, you have two choices, vote for merger, or be left out in the cold to be gobbled up by Bargersville or become an island of unincorporated homes. What about incorporation of the Town of Center Grove? It’s been talked about, it’s been studied, people have [...]