By FRED SWIFT The County Line Adding up the costs of the Carmel community’s current public building projects, the total is enormously impressive and probably historic. These local government projects…
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By FRED SWIFT Final figures on the official 2020 U.S. Census have not been released yet, but are expected in the next couple of months, a year and a half…
By FRED SWIFT County Auditor Robin Mills said Monday that her office has scheduled a joint meeting of the Hamilton County Council and County Commissioners for April 23 to hopefully…
Changing sports history By FRED SWIFT The County Line Americans are taught that James Naismith invented the game of basketball in 1891 at a Springfield, Mass. YMCA. But, Floyd Ainsworth,…
By FRED SWIFT Charles (Chuck) Kiphart, longtime Director of the Hamilton County Planning Department, will retire on April 16. No successor has yet been named. Applications for the position are…
Carmel vs. LN on the big screen By FRED SWIFT The County Line Is Indiana’s widely-known high school basketball tourney, often called Hoosier Hysteria, being overshadowed this year by collegiate…
By FRED SWIFT County and municipal government officials are awaiting guidelines on how massive COVID relief grants can be spent. The money, which begins coming to local entities on May…
By FRED SWIFT Amanda Engle has been appointed to complete the unexpired term of the late Mitch Russell on the Arcadia Town Council. Engle is Russell’s daughter and a teacher…
By FRED SWIFT The County Line I am not going to pretend that the contents of this column are going to be popular with everyone. But, I think there is…
By FRED SWIFT Hamilton County government will share ‘big time’ in the federal stimulus grants to local governments, getting $65,555,000. The money will arrive in two disbursements, the first half…