What great news. Kroger plans a $75 million expansion program in the Fort Wayne area that will add three new stores, expand two existing ones and remodel three more, creating 250 new jobs over the next three years. Guess we have to give thanks to some savvy economic development planners in local and county government and, who knows, maybe the state even had a hand in it.
Oh, wait:
So, you're just living your life, minding your own business, and one day the city stops picking up your garbage:
Alan Davis, a resident of Jeffersonville's Colonial Park, learned of a new city policy the hard way.
He put his garbage out to the curb during the first week of January and it wasn't picked up. The next trash day rolled around and so he tried it again — still the same result.
Great news for those of us who are fans of Hartley's. You might recall that the restaurant was planning to close at its location and merge with Chappell's. The latest story we had said that talks had stalled. Now, it looks like they've collapsed. I had lunch there last week and asked how much longer I'd be able to eat there. "As long as you want," was the answer.
Now, please patronize the place! Help see a good restaurant through a troubed economy. And keep me from having to face change.
Fort Wayne isn't that big, so maybe we're only half-stupid:
Things I read about in other Indiana cities are starting to remind me of Fort Wayne. In Indianapolis, for example, Lafayette Square is a mall said to be "struggling" (which I think is just a more polite way of saying "doomed"). It was the city's first enclosed mall, but it's losing three anchors and more than a third of its 1.2 million square feet of retail space.
A Fort Wayne couple decides there's not much to do here and opts for a fun day at the new casino in Anderson. They thoroughly enjoy themselves, and the husband remarks that "next year we won't have to leave Fort Wayne to have a wonderful time."
Every great catastrophe should have a memorable name. The Great Ice Storm of '08 is OK for a movie title, but a little long for casual conversation. Now we can call it the 10-12 Storm:
Bringing power back to Fort Wayne after the Dec. 19 ice storm will end up costing Indiana Michigan Power Co. $10 million to $12 million.
This sounds like a good idea:
Do you have a stack of old parking tickets lying around your home? Perhaps collecting dust and overdue fines.
How would you like to pay those tickets without paying any of the late penalties that come with them?
That's what Fort Wayne City Clerk Sandy Kennedy is proposing.
It's amazing how such a little thing can please us so much:
After missing several days last week, National Serv-All said it is now caught up in trash pick-ups.
Icy weather and the Christmas holiday last week put a large portion of Fort Wayne's trash pickup to a halt as garbage began to pile up at street corners throughout the city. A number of complaints were also called in to The News-Sentinel about the situation.
