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Grobe named village president By Nita Wyatt news@bcrnews.com
WALNUT — The Walnut Village Board nominated and approved a new acting village president at its meeting Monday. Village Attorney Rob LeSage outlined to the trustees the options available to them regarding the appointment of an acting board president and the options available to someone being nominated and accepting the position. The acting president will serve until the next general election to be held in two years. If no member of the board of trustees agrees to serve as the acting president, the board can look outside of its own members to select an acting village president. If a member of the board is chosen to serve as the acting president, that individual has two options. The first option is to resign their seat as a trustee and assume all the powers of the president. The most significant of those powers would be the power of veto. The second option is for the newly-elected acting president to retain his or her position as a trustee. Retaining the trustee position would not allow the acting president to break tie votes or to veto decisions made by the board. After having heard the explanations given by the LeSage, Dennis Grobe was nominated and elected to the president’s position. Grobe accepted the new position and decided to retain his position as a trustee, retaining his voting power as a trustee. In additional administrative business, it was explained by LeSage, the acting village president is required, within 60 days, to nominate a candidate to
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Showing signs of life How’s the business world in Bureau County? By Barb Kromphardt bkromphardt@bcrnews.com
The latest figures are out, and the numbers show Bureau County residents and businesses are slowly recovering from the effects of the recession. On April 30, the Census Bureau released County Business Patterns: 2011, which provides the only detailed annual information on the number of establishments,
employees, and first quarter and annual payroll for most of the 1,200 industries covered at the national, state and county levels. There were 7.4 million U.S. businesses with paid employees for 2011, a loss of 42,585 establishments from 2010. This is the fourth consecutive year of decline for the number of U.S. businesses. The good news came in terms of total employment.
Want more information? The complete report is available at www.census.gov/econ/cbp/. In 2011, total employment from all U.S. business sectors was 113.4 million, an increase of 1.5 million employees from 2010. This year is the first since 2008
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Sounds of music coming again to Princeton Area musicians begin rehearsals Thursday evening in the Logan Junior High School band room for the ninth season of the Princeton Community Band. Rehearsals will continue each Thursday through July 25, with the band open to persons who are entering their freshman year of high school this fall through adults. The band will perform six Sunday evening concerts this season, beginning June 2, at the Soldiers and Sailors Park on South Main Street in Princeton.
Are you in compliance? Police chief issues reminder By Donna Barker dbarker@bcrnews.com
PRINCETON — Princeton Police Chief Tom Root is reminding residents to make sure their properties are in compliance with the city’s nuisance codes. Root said this is an annual courtesy reminder, but he is issuing it a bit earlier this year because of the recent rains and flooding. The reminder deals with foul odors and filth, rubbish and dry grass on properties, and what happens if residents don’t comply with the city code.
According to Section 9-137 of the Princeton City Code, residents cannot conduct any business or use any premises which creates an offensive or foul odor that would taint the air and render it nauseous to persons in the vicinity. Also, residents may not keep or maintain any animal in an unclean or filthy manner or surroundings, or keep or maintain any animal which emits any particularly foul or offensive odor. Section 9-137 goes on to state residents cannot cause or permit to be collected or to remain on any premise any animal carcass or other animal matter which is likely to become putrid, foul or offensive.
The city code says residents cannot cause or permit to be collected or to remain on any premise any slop or other vegetable matter which is likely to become putrid, foul or offensive. Dealing with rubbish and dry grass, Section 138 states a person cannot cause or permit the deposit or accumulation of any refuse, oily rags, rubbish or other materials which could constitute a fire hazard. This section also deals with the accumulation or growth of dry or dead weeds, grass, vegetation or similar substances which could constitute a fire hazard.
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