Second of two parts
Leaders of Garrett, Hamilton and Waterloo described their goals for 2021 this week for the DeKalb Chamber Partnershipâs video conference, âDeKalb Vision 2021: Cities and Towns.â
Garrett Mayor Todd Fiandt noted that his city gained approximately 400 people in the past decade to reach a population of 6,651 in the 2020 census. The city also added 12 new businesses last year.
To promote more growth, the city is working to extend water lines to new residential areas on its south side and build sewer and water mains to property in its industrial park.
Fiber-optic broadband from Auburn Essential Services is being installed to residential areas, starting in newer south-side neighborhoods.
Three local counties boost rating to orange
INDIANAPOLIS â A week after seeing COVID-19 ratings worsen to their worst point ever, Indiana showed marked improvement last week, with many counties getting better ratings than the week before.
That included northeast Indiana, where Noble, DeKalb and LaGrange counties all improved from red to orange. Steuben County stayed in red, but just barely, as it showed improvement from a week ago, too, just not enough to change colors.
Overall, Indiana saw a widespread and rapid improvement from where it was a week earlier, although all but one county remained in orange and red, the two color codes representing the highest spread of COVID-19.