Mike Emery

A plan to build 78 condominiums south of Richmond’s Walmart requires the land be rezoned. The ordinance containing Christ United Church of Richmond’s rezoning request appeared before Richmond Common Council on first hearing May 4. Council President Justin Burkhardt referred it to the Richmond Advisory Plan Commission for a public hearing May 27. The church […]

Altec Industries will provide Richmond Power and Light with a new 70-foot bucket truck. The RP&L board, which is composed of Richmond Common Council members, awarded Altec the bid during its May 4 meeting. Altec, the only bidder, priced the truck for the line department at $229,764. The utility budgeted $265,000 for the truck. Altec […]

Cypress Drive in Glen Miller Park is closed daily between Elks Road and Canna Drive for installation of new gas lines. The Richmond Board of Public Works and Safety approved the road closure request by Miller Pipeline during its May 14 meeting. The closure from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily began May 18 and […]

The Wayne County Health Department plans to begin dispensing drugs through the federal 340B program. By doing that instead of contracting with a pharmacy, the department can increase its share of revenue from the program that requires eligible health organizations receive significant discounts on outpatient drugs from pharmaceutical manufacturers. Dan Burk, the health department director, […]

A Richmond Board of Zoning Appeals decision could result in increased reliability for some Indiana and Ohio electric customers. The board approved 3-0 a variance of use that permits an electrical substation in a 5 1/2-acre portion of farmland at 6155 Hodgin Road. The substation would contain equipment that connects American Electric Power and AES […]

The Wayne County Health Department will try for six months dispensing drugs through the federal 340B program, which ensures eligible health organizations receive significant discounts primarily on expensive HIV and hepatitis C medications. During their May 20 meeting, Wayne County’s commissioners approved a contract with RxFusion for the trial period. Joshua Free, who founded RxFusion […]

Wayne County could save about $1.3 million during the next decade with Enterprise Fleet Management buying and selling the county’s vehicles instead of county officials doing it themselves. That’s the number Nate Berg, an Enterprise account manager, presented during the Wayne County Council and commissioners workshop May 20. Enterprise manages fleets for 50 Indiana governmental […]

A credit union will soon occupy space in the downtown Richmond building that formerly housed a Chase bank branch. Dan Sutton, the president and CEO of Kemba Credit Union, told Richmond Common Council on May 18 that the credit union had signed a multi-year lease for space in the 630 E. Main St. building. Earlier […]

When families visit Glen Miller Park to enjoy sunny, warm days, children play on decades-old playground equipment and in a splash pad with broken components. Improvements won’t become immediately evident — not until spring 2027 — but work on that and other urgent parks projects progresses feverishly. Richmond borrowed about $4.785 million against future food […]

Brent Haworth considers it a safety problem when he crosses Backmeyer Road to retrieve his mail. Drivers zoom along the narrow, hilly road at excessive speed, he said, and Haworth certainly doesn’t want more traffic on the heavily traveled road because of a proposed 78-unit condominium development. During the May 27 Richmond Advisory Plan Commission […]