ALBION — The Noble County got out its figurative scissors, trimming $600,000 from the 2024 budgets presented during hearings this week with department heads.
ALBION â The Indiana Department of Environmental Management wonât let Noble County officially close its old landfill because the water leaching from the waste buried there contains toxic chemicals, including ammonia.
After years of of trying to figure out what to do with the contaminated leachate that comes to the surface with the water, the Noble County Commissioners Monday moved closer to a solution that would take a different approach.
During Mondayâs regularly scheduled meeting, the commissioners got a cost proposal from Applied Natural Sciences Inc., a company that has had success controlling leachate by strategically planting trees that soak up the water, eliminating the carrying agent that moves the contaminants to the surface.
ALBION â The Noble County Commissioners on Monday paved the way for a retail development at the southwest corner of where U.S. 6 intersects with C.R. 300E near the S.R. 9 North route to Rome City.
The commissioners agreed to change the zoning on 2.77 acres from A1 to C-3, âhighway commercial,â to allow for a 10,000-square-foot single business retail shop.
Permitted uses in a C-3 zone include businesses running retail ranging from low- to high-intensity but could also include things like automotive shops, bars/taverns, coffee shops, gas stations or restaurants, according to the countyâs Unified Development Ordinance.
The petitioner has said it intends to put in what it would only describe as âgeneral retailâ in the location.
ALBION â The Noble County Commissioners gave their blessings to the Noble County Health Departmentâs search for a centralized location to give the coronavirus vaccine â whenever that will be.
âThereâs a lot of unknowns on how this is going to roll out,â Noble County Health Nurse Cheryl Brown said.
What Brown knows for sure â and that can change by the hour she told the commissioners â is that the first doses of the vaccine to be received by Noble County will be the vaccine produced by Moderna. The Moderna vaccine does not require the super cold storage temperatures as the Pfizer vaccine currently being distributed in some areas.