By David Fenker
david@nmpaper.com
WABASH COUNTY, Ind. – Bids for a bridge project in LaFontaine and for the county’s annual materials, supplies and equipment rental needs will be accepted in the coming weeks.
County Highway Superintended John Martin requested that the county commissioners open bids for a rehabilitation project for Bridge 701 carrying Walnut Street over Grant Creek in LaFontaine at 9:30 a.m. Monday, Nov. 19.
Martin also requested that the commissioners open bids for the county’s annual materials, supplies and equipment rental costs at 9:30 a.m. Monday, Dec. 3.
The commissioners approved both requests at their Monday, Oct. 15, meeting.
Additional news from the meeting included the weekly jail report from Sheriff Bob Land.
Land said that the Wabash County Jail housed 107 inmates as of Monday morning, with an additional 44 Wabash County inmates housed in Miami County, 10 in Elkhart and one in Department of Corrections safekeep, for a total of 161.
Land said that the official peak population at WCJ this past week was 109, but that there were up to 116 inmates in the facility at one point for the second time in two weeks.
Land also said that interviews for merit deputies were conducted Thursday, Oct. 11, and that six new deputies will be hired: three before the end of the year, and three more in 2019.