News and sports in the Whitewater Valley
A blog about what is going on in the Whitewater Valley
An Editorial by John Estridge I guess with the large majority against the two new seats and with your large defeat in the State Rep race, you have come to recognize what people think of your tenure as council president. Prior to becoming president, you had a very bright political future ahead of you. Had …
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By John Estridge Brookville’s question to allow two more town council members went down in flames Tuesday, Nov. 8. Also, there will be two new school board members, and Bobby Evans replaced incumbent Democrat Joe Gillespie in District 4 County Council’s race. With the Brookville question, the No votes, which meant people were not in …
An Editorial by John Estridge This is something I promised myself and a good friend of mine I would never do again: Write an editorial about the Brookville Town Council. Being concerned by the – I’m grasping for the right adjective here – ludicrous, insane, puzzling, inexplicable, dastardly, unbelievable – actions by our Brookville Town …
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By John Estridge Brookville Town Council President Curtis Ward read four Conflict of Interest statements into record at the last BTC meeting. He did it without comment and none of the other council members commented. One of the Conflicts is with the Zimmer Building. Taxpayers purchased the Zimmer Building for $600,000. Originally, the purchase was …
By John Estridge Without publicly stating, having a vote or anything of that sort, the Brookville Town Council changed its public comment policy. On advice of council’s attorney firm for which the taxpayers are paying, Bose McKinney and Evans of Indianapolis, town council members will no longer answer any questions from the public, even when …
By John Estridge Bonds to fund the purchase of the Brook Hill Golf Club and improvements, purchase of and remodeling of the Zimmer Building, $2.2 million in total, will go on sale Tuesday, Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor Day, according to a legal ad in this week’s Brookville newspaper. Actually it is not $2.2 million that …
An EDITORIAL by John Estridge Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 2, during a special meeting and in less than two minutes three Brookville Town Council members voted to sign an engagement letter with Bose McKinney and Evans, an Indianapolis law firm, in the event felony charges against two council members are levied as a result of a …
By John Estridge It took 1:54 for Brookville Town Council to hire the Indianapolis law firm Bose McKinney & Evans to represent the town, if needed, due to the ongoing Indiana State Police investigation into BTC President Curtis Ward and BTC Member Chuck Campbell. The state police opened an investigation concerning Conflict of Interest, a …
By UC resident David Fields
By John Estridge My plan was to write one editorial/analysis on the timeline surrounding the Curtis Ward/Chuck Campbell/Brookville Town Council calamity that will negatively affect every taxpayer in Brookville and possibly in the entire county, especially Snob Knob, Snob Hill or whatever one wants to call it. However, the part about the READI Grant and …