General News

The City of West Lafayette and Indiana Department of Transportation are looking to reduce traffic delays for northbound Salisbury Street.

A second left hand turn lane is installed at the intersection of Salisbury and U.S 52.   Drivers headed northbound at U.S 52 (Sagamore Parkway) and Salisbury need to use the right lane to continue north or turn right, and use the center or left lanes to turn left (westbound).

Drivers are encouraged to use alternate routes including North River Road, Happy Hollow Road, and Kalberer.

The United Way of Greater Lafayette still has 41 spots available for potential participants in the Leaders of Tomorrow program this summer.

Volunteer Associate Amy Wood says the eleven to 18 year olds gain valuable experience at area nonprofits.

"They have to fill out questionnaires each week during the program, and I remember one young lady who wrote that her mom made her volunteer, but that she came to love it and can't wait to do it again the next year."

Participants spend two days a week for one to four hours each day helping at such places as the Almost Home Humane Society and Tippecanoe County Childcare. Wood says the 14 agencies participating appreciate the help.

The Director of the Tippecanoe County Project Safe Neighborhoods Anti-Gang Initiative says gang violence is the number one threat to the community.

Kathy Redd says that type of activity is prevalent in the area and targets children even before elementary school.

She says to combat the problem, the entire community needs to become more proactive.

Redd says her organization has identified nearly two dozen gangs within the local school corporations and at least 48 national and regional gangs in the county, but says the amount is likely closer to 70.

She says one stigma is that gangs are often associated with people in poverty.

However, Redd says that is not true and gang affiliation is not confined to any socio-economic status.

The Lafayette Police Department is showing off its new training center.

The facility is at South and 13th streets, the site of the former Ford School, in a building that was once the U.S. Army Reserve Center. The city bought the property, in part, to alleviate overcrowding at the police department.

Chief Don Roush hopes the building serves as a regional training facility for agencies in northwest Indiana.

"We probably have a duty, I think, to provide not only a facility, but trainers and opportunities. We have hundreds and hundreds of police officers in Tippecanoe and surrounding counties that if they'd like a facility, they can come and use it."

Delphi is one of two cities in the state being recognized as “stellar.”

Several Indiana organizations including the Department of Transportation and Community Development Authority picked the Carroll County community, as well as Princeton, for the second annual Stellar Communities Award.

Mayor Randy Strasser says the recognition and money that comes with it will serve as a tool for attracting and keeping businesses in Delphi.

More than 40 cities applied for the recognition, but only Delphi and Princeton were selected.

They will split more than $20-million for projects over the next three years.

Lieutenant Governor Becky Skillman says completing those will make Delphi an important part of Indiana’s growth

Here's yet another reminder about why it's important to have somebody write down the rules and keep accurate records if you're pooling money at the office to buy lottery tickets.

After all, for every heart-warming story about "three amigos" who seem to have gotten along swimmingly and deserved the money they won, there are tales such as this:

Six of the top 100 reasons for businesses to move to Indiana involve Purdue.

That’s according to a new report by The Indiana Economic Development Corporation.

The study found the university’s business school, its preparation of students for the workforce, international population, and supercomputer as attractive resources for companies considering locating in the state.

Katelyn Hancock with the Indiana Economic Development Corporation says the final list came from hundreds of suggestions.

The aspect of Purdue that ranked highest on the list is its Research Park.

It is the largest university-affiliated incubation complex in

the country and is considered the 22nd best reason for businesses to come to Indiana.

A center serving the uninsured and underinsured in Lafayette is moving its primary care services down the street.

Riggs Community Health Center will operate prenatal, adult health, women’s health and pediatric care out of a renovated 28,000 square foot facility on South Street.

The building is the old Woman’s Health Clinic, but Riggs received more than $3.5 million in federal money to revitalize it.

Riggs CEO Veronique LeBlanc hopes to have it open in October. She says primary care services are currently run out of its Hartford Street facility. 

Once the transition is made to the South Street location, that building will be for a family medicine residency program and expansion of the dental clinic.