Morristown News

The Indianapolis Radio Control Modelers will take to the sky July 27 for the Second Annual Community Air Show as part of the Morristown Derby Days weekend.

The largest of a number of buildings on the site of the former Manilla grain elevator is pictured two weeks after a cleanup process began.

The Rush County Commissioners met Monday and tended to a brief agenda. The first order of business was to address cleaning up county owned property in Manilla.

US 52 milling begins between Morristown and Post Road Harry Maginity For the Republican Requests for Local Public Agency funding by Rush County officials to replace two bridges and repair another were approved ...

It had been months since I'd seen Nick, an old college friend who spends most of the year traveling on business. via Millville News

“The tear drop loop will facilitate an engine to pull in and pull out rather than push the empty and then fully-loaded rail cars to be connected”

Following a public hearing Monday, permission was granted for Morristown Grain, North Gings Road, Rushville, to build what was described as a "tear drop" loop rail line for Honey Creek Railroad, Inc. via Rushville Republican

“We will get a plan together and make this happen”

The Rush County Commissioners again conducted business with a Rushville Elementary School third grade class in attendance Monday morning. via Rushville Republican

Integrity Metals Inc., a scrap metal recycling firm based in Connerville, Ind., received approval by the Morristown, Ind., Planning Commission to build a site in the city. via Recycling Today

“In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.”

Greetings, one and all, and welcome! Mail has been pretty steady of late so I'll try to keep my own thoughts brief. via Rushville Republican

The Indiana Department of Transportation has approved a construction contract for improvements at the intersection of U.S. Highway 52 and Meridian Road just west of Fountaintown. via Rushville Republican

“In principal, I understand, as do my fellow commissioners, what you are asking. We need to explain what we have to offer and what you are proposing to the public”

Rush County Commissioners Tom Barnes, Marvin Cole and Ken Masters moved Monday's meeting from the confines of the Commissioners Room to the Assembly Room at the county courthouse. via Rushville Republican

Members of the Morristown, Indiana, Planning Commission recently heard concerns from county residents about a proposed scrap-metal processing company that has expressed an interest in locating in the town's ... via Recycling Today

Letter To the Editor: I'm writing this letter because I am very frustrated with drivers who ignore signs that say 'no right turn' in Morristown. via Daily Record

Franklin College has announced its president's list for the fall 2007 semester. Students named to the president's list have achieved academic distinction by earning a 4.0 grade point average. via Rushville Republican

“My wife and I were on our way to shop when we saw headlights spinning everywhere on the country road. I knew someone just had an accident in front of us”

A Shelbyville man, Aaron D. Overstreet, 21, escaped serious injury Thursday shortly before 11 p.m. when he lost control of his 2003 Chevrolet pickup truck and struck a Duke Energy utility pole. via Rushville Republican

“I came up on the accident moments after it happened and drove through what looked like a trail of debris. It looked as if a bomb had gone off”

A Rushville woman was seriously injured following an accident Saturday morning on U.S. 52. via Rushville Republican

“Please check that the information which you have been given is actual fact”

Our school corporation here in Rush County currently has 1,393 elementary students in grades K through 6, and 65 teachers are currently employed to teach those 1,393 students. via Rushville Republican

“They flocked(transfered) to BRMS.”

It was my original intent to limit myself to one letter to the editor concerning the proposed school project which is about to have to weather a remonstrance to survive. via Rushville Republican