In addition to a public hearing on whether the city of South Bend is doing enough to help SNAP recipients during the shutdown, Common Council Member Oliver Davis says the council should appoint a task force to be ready in case the dysfunction in Washington causes more emergencies that affect city residents in the future.
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From concerts and ceremonies to free meals and South Shore Line rides, Michiana communities are honoring veterans with events through Veterans Day.
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Fallen leaves are coating South Shore Line tracks and causing slick spots. The railroad says new equipment and slower speeds are helping reduce delays.
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The South Bend Community School Corporation, Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation and Goshen Community Schools would all give teachers raises, under contracts up for their school boards’ approval Monday.
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“The potential’s there for six to 12 inches, and where this band anchors and kind of remains stationary, there’s a potential for amounts over a foot,” National Weather Service Northern Indiana Office Lead Meteorologist Nathan Marsili said in a YouTube update Saturday afternoon.
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St. Joseph County two years ago hired a firm to identify existing Granger subdivisions with failing septic systems, but paused that work recently when its dispute with Mishawaka developed over who would serve the planned Microsoft data center with water and sewers.
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"I would say, on the whole, South Bend does pretty well," Chief Innovation Officer Denise Riedl told the common council’s Information and Technology Committee. "We were one of the first small cities in the country to deploy any kind of policy or governance document for our city, and we were one of the first small cities to roll out Copilot."
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