Tax Sales for mobile homes
BEDFORD, Ind. (AP) — Southern Indiana’s Lawrence County has approved tax sales for mobile homes.
The General Assembly this year passed a law allowing counties to start having tax sales for delinquent mobile homes.
The (Bedford) Times-Mail reports the Lawrence County commissioners on Tuesday approved an addendum to the county’s contract with SRI Services, a third party company that helps counties across the state go through sales. SRI currently handles real estate sales for other housing for Lawrence County.
Lawrence County Treasurer Paula Stewart says the county currently has 168 delinquent mobile homes with $17,000 in unpaid taxes.
Notices to the homes were sent in January and again in June.
No date has been set for any of the mobile home tax sales.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana family that lost nine relatives when a tourist boat sank on a Missouri lake is preparing to say goodbye to four of those loved ones.
Friday’s funeral services at Grace Apostolic Church in Indianapolis will honor the husband and three children of Tia Coleman.
The services for 40-year-old Glenn Coleman, 9-year-old Reece, 7-year-old Evan and 1-year-old Arya come eight days after a duck boat capsized and sank during a storm in Branson, killing 17 people .
Tia Coleman and a nephew were members who boarded the boat on July 19.
A funeral will be held Saturday for 70-year-old Horace Coleman and his 69-year-old wife, Belinda, 76-year-old Ervin Coleman, 45-year-old Angela Coleman and her 2-year-old son, Maxwell.
NEW ALBANY, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say a three-month-old boy died after he was left in a hot car parked outside his mother’s workplace in southern Indiana.
Police are investigating the death of the infant Monday in New Albany. Police said emergency responders received a call about 4:30 p.m. seeking medical aid for an unresponsive infant outside a business.
Police say the child, Aiden Miller, was pronounced dead at a hospital in the city just north of Louisville, Kentucky.
The boy’s father, Aaron Turner, says the child’s mother was supposed to drop their two children off at different daycares. The mother dropped her daughter off, but Aiden remained in the car’s back seat in the parking lot outside her workplace.
Turner tells WAVE-TV that he doesn’t understand how it happened.
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BRAZIL, Ind. (WTHI) – Several injuries were reported after a car crashed into a Brazil, Indiana restaurant. It happened Thursday afternoon at Eddie’s Sandwich Shop on South Walnut Street in Brazil.
When first responders arrived, they found a car with a female driver inside the building. She was reportedly semi-conscious, but the extent of her injuries is unclear at this time.
Several customers and employees were in the building at the time of the crash. Three suffered minor injuries. There was extensive damage to the building, however basic repairs have been made and the business is back open today (Thursday).
An untrained eye might look at the massive tree canopy of Newburgh’s Overlook Park and think it look like a beautiful forest, crawling with wildlife along the Ohio River.
While it’s true, there is plenty of wild animals, the forest is crawling with wild vines, too, and the trees are being choked.
Town Manager, Christy Powell says the problem is already out of control, and it’s likely too much work for human hands to fix.
But the mouth of a goat could help.
Down on the farm for the last 8 years, Jill Ingram at Blue Heron Farm feels right at home. Her goats are good for milk and soap, but Ingram and her husband, Curtis have bigger plans.
They’re raising a herd of landscapers, fit to clear mountains of brush because they do love to eat.
“They really enjoy wild honeysuckle, wild rose, grape vine, they can eat blackberry bushes, they can east poison oak,” Ingram says.
That is good for Newburgh, who might need a lot of hungry bellies to save the park.
“Grape vines are growing quite uncontrollably out there,” Ingram says. She took samples of the vines from Overlook to the farm and she says the goats loved it.
Ingram says a crew of 6 goats can eat their way through an acre of forest in a couple of weeks, cutting down the thick undergrowth.
The hope is, goats will carve a path through the dense vines, either enough to kill them at the root, or soften to rip down by hand.
Ingram says goats like eating weeds and thorny vines more than grass, so the nasty stuff in Overlook Park would be a perfect feast.
Ingram is putting together a proposal the town will review, and if the goats get the go-ahead it will take a little fencing, some shelter, and water before it’s an all-they-can-eat buffet.
Seymour, IN – An Indiana lawmaker plans to make a new push for medical marijuana in Indiana.
State Representative, Jim Lucas, a Republican from, Seymour said “Lives are being saved.” Soon, Republican State Rep, Jim Lucas, will travel to Denver, Colorado to learn all about cannabis.
Lucas wants to take what he learns in Colorado and use it to help create new legislation in Indiana. Legislators will talk about medical marijuana again in a Summer study committee. Lucas hopes that discussion will boost his 2019 legislative plans.
Lucas said “I will be offering again another medical cannabis bill. I’m also thinking about looking at decriminalizing 30 grams or less for individual use because.”
Lucas knows there is push-back. The Indiana Prosecuting Attorney’s Council opposes medical marijuana”.
Lucas explained “I love having opposition. That gives me a forum. We’re having this meeting now, because of this very issue. Let’s have that meeting, let’s have that discussion and get both sides up to the table.”
Lucas said thinks Indiana will see recreational marijuana legal in Indiana in 3-5 years. He also told us he believes his medical marijuana bill will pass this coming session, in 2019
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