The $150,000 purchase is the last of the property acquisitions the town needs for the project, Jim Gorman, the town’s director of operations, told The Times.
CROWN POINT â The city has expressed interested in purchasing rights of way from East Summit to East North streets to expand trails in the city.Â
The City Council unanimously approved a resolution stating the city s interest in the land during its Monday meeting.
Mayor David Uran later told The Times the city is hoping to acquire the land to complete a trail expansion project, and any stormwater improvements along the trail. We re not buying the property, we re just buying the right of way where the trail s going to go on, Uran said, noting homes will not be affected by stormwater plans for the trail.Â
Gov. Eric Holcomb
As the pandemic spread across the world creating countless problems, Fred Geyer possessed a solution in Northwest Indiana.
N95 masks, vital to protecting health care workers exposed to the coronavirus, were in short global supply, and his business, American Melt Blown & Filtration, already produced the filtration for the short-supplied N95 masks made in other countries. So why not create the entire masks in the Hoosier state?
That question led to the creation of a new company: Indiana Face Mask. This December, out of thousands of submissions, the company was one of only five nationwide to receive CDC approval to manufacture N95s. A significant achievement as the majority of N95s were made overseas prior to the pandemic.