The Morgan County Correspondent

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The Morgan County Sheriff's Office has confirmed a motorcyclist has died this afternoon following an accident off Ind. 4...
10/03/2025

The Morgan County Sheriff's Office has confirmed a motorcyclist has died this afternoon following an accident off Ind. 42 near Antioch Road.

The Morgan County Plan Commission voted 5-2 — with members Joe Crone and Jason Maxwell opposed, and Kenny Hale and Brian...
09/30/2025

The Morgan County Plan Commission voted 5-2 — with members Joe Crone and Jason Maxwell opposed, and Kenny Hale and Brian Patrick absent — at a special meeting last night to give a favorable recommendation to a rezone request for more than 150 additional acres for the proposed data center just outside Monrovia. That would bring the total acreage to nearly 550 acres.
The meeting lasted over two hours, as the plan commission heard from more than 30 citizens opposed to the data center, including a man who was escorted back to his seat by sheriff's deputies.
Here, he pointedly asks the data center representative to state the name of the company that's planning the project, which remains undisclosed apart from elected officials who signed non-disclosure agreements at the first of the year. (Morgan County Indiana Government screenshot / YouTube)
The plan commission recommendation now goes to the county commissioners, who are expected to make the final vote on the rezone request at their 9:30 a.m. meeting on Monday, Oct. 6.

The acoustic guitars await their musicians on the stage of the new Martinsville Entertainment Theater tonight, as downto...
09/26/2025

The acoustic guitars await their musicians on the stage of the new Martinsville Entertainment Theater tonight, as downtown developer Craig Fenneman hosts a "soft opening" featuring Nashville (Tenn.) singer-songwriter duo, Middleman Burr.
Fenneman bought the building in 2023 and completed construction of the theater this year. The city then purchased the theater over the summer for $2.9 million.

Adios, amigo! A demolition excavator from Lafary Group Corp. drops another load of rubbish into the demo dumpster at the...
09/25/2025

Adios, amigo! A demolition excavator from Lafary Group Corp. drops another load of rubbish into the demo dumpster at the former site of Los Tres Caminos off Bills Boulevard, just south of Ohio Street in Martinsville. The longtime, former Pizza Hut building in the background will be demolished next.
Both are being razed to make way for a new Jimmy John's sandwich shop as well as a Dunkin' Donuts location at the site.

Jefferson Street is now open! ...which adds about three dozen spaces back to the downtown corridor.
09/19/2025

Jefferson Street is now open! ...which adds about three dozen spaces back to the downtown corridor.

A new rendering of the courthouse remodel has been released by the county. It shows both the traffic and parking configu...
09/18/2025

A new rendering of the courthouse remodel has been released by the county. It shows both the traffic and parking configuration as well as the planned improvements of the courthouse itself, which includes the addition on the north end of the building. The improvements around the courthouse include an array of aesthetic and landscape improvements, along with the relocation of the stone monuments and the historic canons. The flagpole and military wall will remain in the same location.
Here, you'll find the whole rendering, as well as the rendering split up into four parts for a more detailed view of each quadrant.

It's delivery day!! And this week's front-page package highlights one of the first events for the annual Fall Foliage Fe...
09/18/2025

It's delivery day!!
And this week's front-page package highlights one of the first events for the annual Fall Foliage Festival — the pageant! Last Saturday, Sienna Alexander was named FFF Queen, Ella Richhart was named FFF Princess, Braylie Drummond was named FFF Little Miss and Quinn Rutherford was named FFF Junior Princess — all pictured here with FFF board member Ron Bowling at Saturday's pageant. FFF will take place Oct. 9-12 at the fairgrounds.
As usual, single copies have been delivered to 21 locations throughout the county.
To subscribe, call 765-201-0302, visit our office 109 E. Morgan St. in Martinsville, or visit morgancountycorrespondent.com/subscribe .
Happy reading, Morgan County!
— Your friends at The Correspondent

Paving operations have begun this morning on Jefferson Street on the courthouse square in Martinsville. The street is ex...
09/17/2025

Paving operations have begun this morning on Jefferson Street on the courthouse square in Martinsville. The street is expected to be opened up to vehicular traffic/parking next week, once paving and striping are finished up.
*Note: If you look closely, you can see a guy on top of the clock tower as roof panels are replaced.

An estimated 600 to 800 have showed up to The Venue in downtown Martinsville for a vigil in the wake of Charlie Kirk's d...
09/17/2025

An estimated 600 to 800 have showed up to The Venue in downtown Martinsville for a vigil in the wake of Charlie Kirk's death on Sept. 10.

Members of the Martinsville Fire Department hosted a memorial ceremony at 8:30 a.m. this morning, remembering the events...
09/11/2025

Members of the Martinsville Fire Department hosted a memorial ceremony at 8:30 a.m. this morning, remembering the events of Sept. 11, 2001, and the sacrifices made. They were joined by other city officials and personnel, along with members of the Morgan County Sheriff's Office, Martinsville PD, American Legion, VFW, Indiana Spirit of '45 and the general public.
Our editor also weighed in on the events of Sept. 11 in this week's Opinion page — https://morgancountycorrespondent.com/2025/09/11/a-lesson-learned/.
We must never forget the events of that day, and the lessons we learned in the wake.
— Your friends at The Correspondent

A truck from IMI pours concrete for the new sidewalk at the northeast corner of the intersection at Jefferson and Washin...
09/10/2025

A truck from IMI pours concrete for the new sidewalk at the northeast corner of the intersection at Jefferson and Washington streets this afternoon. With a couple of days for curing, the sidewalk should be reopened to foot traffic by the end of the week.
Contractors will be moving over to the other side of Jefferson Street to pour and complete that sidewalk later this week.
And according to the site contractor, Jefferson Street in general — weather permitting — should be reopened to vehicle traffic the week of Sept. 22 after the paving and striping have been completed.
As you'll notice, the clock tower also has scaffolding nearly to the top, where crews are doing tuck point work on the masonry, fixing up mortar joints and ensuring the structural integrity of the materials in place.

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09/08/2025

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