Debbie Lowe

By Debbie Lowe Staff writer On Nov. 1 Special Judge Frances Gull issued an order granting Richard Allen’s new defense attorneys’ motion to continue the jury trial. Allen is accused of the murders of Delphi students Liberty German and Abigail Williams in February 2017. The motion was filed in Carroll Circuit Court. Allen appeared in person with court-appointed counsel, Robert Scremin and William Lebrato. The […]

By Debbie Lowe Staff writer Being duly advised, the Court grants Respondents’ “Unopposed Motion for Extension of Time to Respond to Petition for Writs of Mandamus and Prohibition.” On Aug. 30, three attorneys in Indiana, Maggie C Smith of Frost, Brown Todd LLP, Cara S. Wienkeke and Jessie A. Cook, filed a request with the Indiana Supreme Court asking the court to correct actions by […]

By Debbie Lowe Staff writer The Delphi Community School Board will hold interviews with community members who have applied to fill the vacancy to be created when Board member Steve Myer leaves his post at the end of the year. According to Superintendent Ann Marie Circle, the interviews will be held at the Corporation Office and will be open to the public. Interviews begin at […]

The Carroll County Election Board will hold a public hearing to give community members an opportunity to comment about the preliminary result of the recent Municipal Election Friday at 12 noon in the vote center located on the ground floor of the courthouse (the location of the former historical museum). The certification of the result will be held at 12:30 […]

An official record of “In Camera Proceedings” held Oct. 10, filed by Special Judge Frances Gull, who is presiding over the Liberty German-Abigail Williams murder case involving Richard Allen, was recently released. It was stated by Defense Attorney Andrew Baldwin that incriminating evidence in the case against Richard Allen has been in the public since the beginning of the case, […]

Township District 1 seat on the Delphi Community School Corporation Board of Trustees became vacant when hold-over board member Steve Myer announced he was stepping down at the end of this year. Myer was considered a “hold over” after the last school board election four years ago because his term was ready to expire, no one ran for the seat […]

More than 50 community members attended the Monday morning Commissioners’ meeting and showed, by raising their hands, their opposition to an ordinance which would allow wind generators and solar farms in Carroll County. Two audience members did not join in the majority. It was later learned they are not residents of Carroll County. Commissioner Bill Brown stated that the current […]

A long-time veteran with the Delphi Police Department lost his job Monday, Dec. 20, by a unanimous vote of the Delphi Board of Works (BOW). Board of Works members County Deputy Spencer Kingery, Delphi Mayor Anita Werling and resident Briana Maxwell, voted in unison to follow the recommendation of Delphi Police Chief Nate LaMar to terminate Shane Bernhardt, an 18-year […]

Carroll County Drainage Board members, commissioners Steve Pearson, Bill Brown and Loren Hylton, voted to increase the assessments on two drains, the #88 James Shanks Drain and the #51 Metz Hamil drain, at the Monday, Dec. 18, meeting. County Surveyor Don Shockley reported that no one on either drain expressed an objection after being notified by mail of the proposed […]

Staff writer Carroll County Council members, Josh Plue, Paul Rider, Tim Radcliff, Lawrence “Doc” Stauffer, Taylor Fife, Tracy Martin and Scott Ayres, approved the majority of County Commissioners’ requests from the Economic Development Income Tax (EDIT) at the Thursday, Dec. 21, meeting. There was a motion by Rider to approve a $10,000 requested appropriation to the Faithful Friends of Carroll Manor. There […]