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MUNCIE, Ind. Having to stop for trains is nothing new in Muncie; in fact, it s almost like a right of passage at this point.
The age-old problem of completely stopped trains blocking major city thoroughfares is rearing its head again, however.
Muncie s Deputy Mayor Richard Ivy has said this issue has become almost a daily inquiry to the city administration. The city has received over 50 complaints from numerous stakeholders in Muncie just at the start of the year. Angry people, people saying it s not good, city workers as well as fire and police, Ivy said.
Issues are arising on many of the busiest roads through the city, all of which are affected by east to west railroad lines. These include crossings crossings on McGalliard Road, Tillotson Avenue, Batavia Avenue, Walnut Street and more that crisscross the city.
INDIANAPOLIS Nearly three years after he was indicted by a U.S. District Court grand jury investigating local government corruption, ex-Muncie Sanitary District official Tracy Barton has agreed to enter a guilty plea.
A 29-page plea agreement signed last week by Barton, a 51-year-old Delaware County resident, details among other things his alleged delivery of a $5,000 bribe from a contractor to then-Muncie Mayor Dennis Tyler in December 2015.
The deal calls for Barton who was the sanitary district’s superintendent of sewer maintenance and engineering for five years before his September 2018 indictment to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
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