Following up: Kudos to the city for the cleanup.

I'm told the city dispatched a crew to pack away the garbage and construction debris from the alley behind Pints&union, and they're to be thanked for doing so -- as is the health department for coming yesterday to have a look.

This has happened before, and it almost certainly will occur again. All we can hope for is that the city gets serious with the violators.

Why we can't have nice things, Volume 467 (illegal alley dumping edition).

As it appeared yesterday morning.

9.3 million tons of dangerous coal ash right here in Anchor City? Good thing it's not a campaign issue.

The president said something stupid about wind power, which prompted Deaf Gahan to tweet.

Google divulges little about this situation. There's this from the Indy Star last July: 'Disastrous consequences': EPA changes to toxic coal ash rules could hurt Hoosiers.

What's the plan for our ultimate neighborhood brownfield? What does it mean for us? All I'm hearing are pins dropping and crickets chirping.

Previously on July 4, 2018:

Dan Coffey wasn't making it up: 500,000 truck trips would be necessary to remove Duke's toxic coal ash from the Gallagher plant's ponds.

Coffey warned against Duke shirking the clean-up of highly toxic coal ash, and also mentioned that removing the coal ash might require 500,000 truck trips over a period of years.

There were guffaws and the rolling of eyes, but Coffey was right. Here's the source from May, 2017. Did you read it? I didn't.

And May 15, 2017:

Tonight is the public meeting about Duke Energy's coal ash disposal. Gahan to send summer intern with information about the Bicentennial Park Concert Series.

C'mon, you know exactly what Team Gahan is thinking: just get on with the power plant decommissioning, and those outlawed public housing residents can be placed there, safely out of view.

Cleanliness is next to ... Zionsville? Meanwhile, a Satanic Temple chapter joins Indiana's Adopt-A-Highway program.

Photo credit: WISH-8

Thanks for the tip, Blake.

First it was Baphomet's relocation to the Arkansas state capital ...

SHANE'S EXCELLENT NEW WORDS: Baphomet was transported to Little Rock for your sins.

 ... and now this.

Indiana Residents Are Furious That Satanists Are Picking Up Trash on the Highway, by Hemant Mehta (Friendly Atheist)

Two months ago, The Satanic Temple’s Indiana chapter, having just been accepted into the state’s Adopt-a-Highway program, completed their first clean-up event. They’ve done a second clean-up since then. In short, the Satanists are really making that stretch of highway in rural Zionsville a nice place to drive.

So naturally, locals are furious.

Maybe, but Fritz Kolmerton, also an area resident, has the right idea.

"My reaction was if they wanna clean the highway, they're more than welcome to," Kolmerton said. "It doesn't matter to me who's doing it one way or the other."

I'm liking this organization more and more. They don't merely preach cleanliness, they follow through.

Dan Coffey wasn't making it up: 500,000 truck trips would be necessary to remove Duke's toxic coal ash from the Gallagher plant's ponds.

At June's second city council meeting, 1st district councilman Dan Coffey raised an important point about Duke Energy's Gallagher power station, which has been burning coal ever since its four units were built during the period 1958-1961.

During speaking time for council members, Coffey suggested vigilance by city officials about Duke Energy’s coal ash pond cleanup, to begin as Gallagher winds down.

Coffey warned against Duke shirking the clean-up of highly toxic coal ash, and also mentioned that removing the coal ash might require 500,000 truck trips over a period of years.

There were guffaws and the rolling of eyes, but Coffey was right. Here's the source from May, 2017. Did you read it? I didn't. Tim Maloney is the Hoosier Environmental Council Senior Policy Director, and Duke Energy's spokeswoman is Angeline Protogere.

Duke Energy plans coal pond closures at Gallagher Station in New Albany
Environmentalists concerned with closure method, by Elizabeth Beilman (Unexpurgated Tom May Content)

 ... "For all these old coal-fired power plants, the real question is what happens to the waste, and is that handled in a responsible way?" Maloney said. "Leaving it sitting there next to rivers and atop shallow groundwater systems, in our view, is just the least desirable option."

But Protegere said removing much of the 9.3 million tons of coal ash at Gallagher Station from ponds would require 500,000 truck trips over the next few decades. Closing ponds in place takes "months or years," she said.

"Obviously that has a major community impact and a significant amount of truck emissions," Protegere said. " ... There are a number of factors that go into this decision."

GREEN MOUSE SAYS: Jeff Gahan launches his 2019 campaign with more of the same threats, intimidation and mobster tactics. Is this what city employees deserve from a mayor?

New Albany is 14 months away from the primary election in 2019, and yet Team Gahan already is brandishing the well-worn brass knuckles.

Seeing as intimidation is Gahan for Life's single strongest suit, this comes as little surprise, although it's a pleasant twist that no one (apart from public housing residents) has been threatened with TASERing -- at least yet.

The Green Mouse says that Sunday's riverfront clean-up quickly became a showcase for Jeff Gahan to campaign against probable primary opponent David White.

In particular, it seems that some rank-and-file city workers were reminded again that visible public support for any opponent of Gahan's might lead to reprisals or termination.

I suppose the whip is one way of inspiring devotion.

It's a timely reminder that genuine progressives cannot trust the local Democratic Party structure to share their values when the party is invested in the continued power of a mayor who pays little heed to them. If a Democrat will not disavow Gahan's persistently non-democratic tactics, how can he or she be implement the first tenet of progressivism?

It can't be done.

If you've experienced threats and intimidation at the hands of Gahan and his thuggish inoperatives, let NA Confidential know -- confidentially, of course. Your story needs to be heard by the voters.

#FireGahan2019

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As an addendum, NA Confidential has been unable to confirm whether New Albany Mayor Jeff M. Gahan or anyone working in the city's administration is under federal investigation or indictment for corruption, bribery or racketeering. It is standard policy of the U.S. Justice Department to refuse to confirm or deny the existence or non-existence of investigations or subjects of investigations. A similar policy exists at the F.B.I.

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It's a Christmas miracle -- though when it comes to Bill Allen's shit hole properties on Main Street, even Santa knows better than to dream.

This morning there was some sort of clean-up operation underway in the outdoor cockroach dining area of notorious slumlord attorney Bill Allen's collection of neglected properties on the corner of Main and 3rd. It seems a shame to make all the rats homeless for the holidays, but when it comes to this collection of purposeful dilapidation, any news is good news.

What a community parasite.

If I were ordinance enforcement, I'd follow the wagon to make sure the contents aren't dumped illegally on the side of the road -- or at one of Allen's other trashy buildings.

But he sure has a nice house up in Silver Hills, eh?

It's forever noteworthy the way that none of Allen's residential neighbors (including Floyd County Prosecutor Keith Henderson) would tolerate squalor in their neighborhood the magnitude of which has been allowed by Allen at his Main & 3rd dump.

Bill Allen, if you're reading ... nah, there's no need to say it aloud.

ON THE AVENUES 3-PK, PART TWO: Inkem binkem notamus rex, protect us all from the city (still) with the hex (2014).

ON THE AVENUES 3-PK, PART TWO: Inkem binkem notamus rex, protect us all from the city (still) with the hex (2014).

A weekly column by Roger A. Baylor.

Back in April, 2014, there was a precursor to the current unpleasantness. Doug England's bizarre plan to hand the mayor's office to Irv Stumler had ignominiously failed, and now Jeff Gahan was poised to interfere with Irv's municipal flowery ashtrays. There was a bad moon rising, and so most of us did the sensible thing and just stayed drunk.

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"You know what I think I'm going to do? I'm going to go home, have me a little nap, and then go on over to Thelma Lou's and watch a little TV. Yeah, I believe that's what I'll do. Home. A nap. Then over to Thelma Lou's for TV. Yep, that's the plan. Home. Little nap.”
-- Barney Fife (The Andy Griffith Show)

Absurdity describes a quality of harebrained preposterousness, and arguably, it is rooted in real-world empirical judgments. Surrealism embraces a more unearthly, dreamlike weirdness of the sort that emanates from Colorado now that marijuana is legal there.

So, was Tuesday afternoon in New Albany merely absurd, or did it ascend to the rarified level of surreal?

Or both?

To even begin making a determination, one must parse a few pansies. It was only a few weeks ago that volunteers under the aegis of Keep New Albany Clean and Green were out and about, tidying the flower planters placed in recent years by the organization on downtown street corners.

Full disclosure dictates personal honesty: I’ve had plenty of issues with the planters, even as I appreciate and respect the good intentions of the organization. In the first place, the planters have tended to look like (and be used as) ashtrays. Moreover, as an ambulatory adult who walks downtown on a daily basis, I’ve found it annoying to be forced to reach an arm’s length over the planters to click the street crossing button.

What’s more, it has been obvious to many (apart from Clean and Green itself), and for quite some time, that those among us most in need of a signal’s assistance in crossing New Albany’s almost entirely unregulated streets – namely those in wheelchairs, the handicapped, the elderly and children – were being more than merely inconvenienced by the positioning of the planters, at least some of which effectively blocked any reasonable ease of use.

I’ve mentioned it, both to Clean and Green and city officials, and have found little evident traction, generally being looked at (yet again) as a space alien, primarily because there isn’t a single member of either city government or Clean and Green who has even the slightest grasp of the theory and practice of walkability, and as one might expect, even fewer are willing to learn.

But I digress.

For weeks, and perhaps even months, Clean and Green has petitioned the Board of Public Works to grant it permission to place even more of these saucer-like planters downtown, and the board has continually dragged its feet, pleading for more time to amass the single item most often missing from the collective hard drives of city officials – namely, crucial information.

Apparently Tuesday was the time of denouement, during which the needed information abruptly materialized, and a conclusion finally was reached: Not only was Clean and Green precluded from expanding the planter program, but the planters currently in use would have to go, lock, stock and petunia.

Thus ensued a textbook illustration of the city’s innate, enduring, politicized dysfunction; with any semblance of compromise yanked inelegantly from the table, a Keystone Kops movie abruptly broke out, the city moving with uncommon, absurd and perhaps even surreal speed to remove the offending planters, while Clean and Green’s own volunteers were racing just as quickly to move their dirt bowls out of the way, or collect them altogether, before the other side got to them first.

That’s right. They’re adults … at least in a chronological sense.

Predictably, the city has since re-circled its wagons and imposed the usual embargo on clear rationales and public explanations, and of course, Clean and Green has taken to the Court of Facebook to decry the death of private-public partnerships – except in truth, the organization’s work has never been a public-private partnership in any coherent, readily transparent way.

Because that’s not the way we do things New Mayberry.

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Rather, the “partnership” dates (what slipshod stop-gap mechanism doesn’t?) from England Doug and Carl Ford Maalox’s calculated electoral jury-rigging in 2010/11, back when Irv Stumler was declared overnight to be Hizzoner’s anointed successor.

With the Urban Enterprise Association’s till set for emptying, Stumler’s Clean and Green would then function as a source of elder-think beautification monies that the dynamic duo couldn’t or wouldn’t find elsewhere.

Meanwhile, the current Gahan administration, which seems to believe (how would we ever know for sure?) that the only way to think outside a self-imposed economic development box and actually do something (anything) to incentivize entrepreneurial activities downtown is to convince the Horseshoe Foundation to give away millions of dollars for use in a county that rejected the casino – not once, but twice – has decided to seize upon the street corner planters to publicly humiliate Clean and Green, a prime mover of which is Jerry Finn … who has his hand on the Horseshoe spigot.

Talk about winning friends and influencing people … so why bother writing fiction when reality keeps handing you pre-written comic opera scripts?

In other cities, there are economic plans, creativity and empowerment. People read books, and parking ordinances are enforced uniformly. Vital improvements occur without deforestation, and farmers markets somehow operate successfully atop the asphalt of parking lots.

But in New Albany, we rerun old Andy Griffith episodes on imaginary Bicentennial Park drive-in screens, dating from the collective childhood of a leadership caste that imagines itself comfortably ensconced in Floyd’s familiarly comfy chair, with sideburns trimmed and tonic dutifully splashed, and as such, Deputy Fife said it best -- and he never even lived here.

All I'm saying is that there are some things beyond the ken of mortal man that shouldn't be tampered with. We don't know everything, Andy. There's plenty going on right now in the Twilight Zone that we don't know anything about and I think we ought to stay clear.

Jeff Speck has no idea what he’s gotten himself into, does he?

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September 29: ON THE AVENUES 3-PK, PART ONE: Chocolate covered frozen banana republic, or "understanding" Harvest Homecoming, our peculiar institution (2014).

September 22: ON THE AVENUES: On two-way streets, a modest proposal for the consideration of my disoriented one-way counterpart.

September 15: ON THE AVENUES Now for my next amazing conversion trick (KABOOM!!!) – look at those pretty windows on Schmitt Furniture.

September 8: ON THE AVENUES: It no longer keeps me waiting.

Jeff Gahan's re-election campaign, and what $9 million IS and IS NOT buying.

$9  million is buying a shiny wet bauble, and with this being an election year, the mayor (or more likely, an acolyte) finally has returned to his Facebook page to campaign after a couple of years off-line, and on the seemingly permanent down-low.

My first reply was deleted. Let's see how the second one fares.

Meanwhile, a vast selection of needed improvements will not receive $9 million or portions thereof. A few of these are depicted below.

Flashing lights at a crosswalk adjacent to an urban elementary school (they've been out for months, and the street department told a constituent it couldn't afford to fix them).

An explanation as to why New Albany's premier autumn festival gives independent small businesses the ingratitude of a bum's rush.

A crosswalk and calmed streets, so this lady can get from one side to another without being hit by ...

... trucks that shouldn't be allowed in a residential area in the first place.

Of course, it would help if signals like this one worked.

$9 million won't purchase relief for this house, located a fee blocks from the planned Coyle redevelopment, the city's cost for which isn't yet known, but hey: A million here, a million there, and it's okay, because HE'LL be paying for it:

(Can you find the truck that shouldn't be there in the first place?)

$9 million won't be addressing the city's trashiness.

It won't be used to address the abominable decay at Fairview Cemetery, where "perpetual maintenance" signs are used as metaphorical doorstops.

It didn't save the building at 922 Culbertson, which came down for no reason apart from the mayor's need to humiliate Landmarks -- and Dan Coffey's penny ante electoral deal-making with CCE's demolition teams.

There'll be no love for the Amphitheater, although 2015 will see a renewal of temporary re-election shows in places not built for the purpose, which require abnormally high expenditures for temporary infrastructure.

I could continue until bandwidth is as limp and exhausted as Jeff Gahan's governing tactics, but the message is fairly clear. Look past the shiny baubles to be financed by your (and their) grandchildren, and ask: Is New Albany genuinely cleaner and fundamentally better than it was four years ago?

If properly directed, territorial pissing might serve to fertilize the plants.

Three weeks ago, I devoted a column to this very topic.

ON THE AVENUES: Inkem binkem notamus rex, protect us all from the city with the hex.

 ... Thus ensued a textbook illustration of the city’s innate, enduring, politicized dysfunction; with any semblance of compromise yanked inelegantly from the table, a Keystone Kops movie broke out, the city moving with uncommon, absurd and perhaps even surreal speed to remove the offending planters, while Clean and Green’s own volunteers were racing just as quickly to move their dirt bowls out of the way, or collect them altogether, before the other side got to them first.

That’s right. They’re adults … at least in a chronological sense.

Before we turn to the newspaper's coverage, consider this.

Both Clean and Green and the city of New Albany want to beautify New Albany. However, consensus on the meaning of the word "beautification" is non-existent, and there exists no plan or template to achieve it. Might this absence of a mission statement be the basic reason for the disagreement?

Perhaps if there were a summit of sorts -- a public open house or meeting, no less -- of interested parties, there might emerge a basic plan, to which responsibilities could be assigned, and rowing in the same direction of beautification actually facilitated.

It's what I'd do if I were mayor.

Or does this make way too much sense for New Albany?

A MAKEOVER OR A TAKEOVER? New Albany Clean and Green, mayor butt heads ... Beautification group says it wants to improve city; mayor says rules must be followed, by Daniel Suddeath (N and T)

NEW ALBANY — Keep New Albany Clean and Green was established with the goal of beautifying the city, but the organization has spent much of its time weeding through issues with the city’s administration.

From disagreements over planters to a stop-work order on the rehabilitation of Town Clock Church, Mayor Jeff Gahan’s administration and the New Albany Board of Public Works and Safety have had more than a round or two of sparring with the organization.

Scatological canine placemaking comes to the hood.

It's a worthy idea, leaving an unasked question dangling near the turds: Who cleans up after the filthy humans?

In the time it took for Matt to write this, 14,765 cigarette butts hit New Albany pavement.

Food and drink for thought:

If (in theory) both impaired driving and littering are illegal 'round here, and if bar owners are held responsible for customers driving impaired, then why isn't Rally's held responsible for eaters who litter?

I'm fully with Matt on these sentiments, and I try to do my bit, although the truth's a bit too obvious: We don't have a litter problem, we have a dumbass human problem.

NASH: Time to clean up this town, by Matt Nash (Bamagacious Jehoshaphat)

Over the last couple of years, as the weather started to get warmer and the official end of winter was right around the corner, I have noticed how much garbage was just lying around. You might not see it when you are driving along the roads in an automobile, but if you go for a walk or ride a bike around town, you will begin to notice it nearly everywhere. It is an epidemic that has gotten out of hand and it is up to everyone to try to make it go away.

"Do something positive" by helping "Clean Up New Albany" on Saturday, April 28.

(Submitted ... I'd settle for cleaning up the ORBP)

Clean Up New Albany Event - April 28th - 8am - Noon

Beautiful spring weather provides the opportunity to beautify the City of New Albany! 

Come enjoy the outdoors and do something positive for your community Saturday, April 28th to help with the beautification of the City of New Albany.  Keep New Albany Clean and Green, in partnership with the City, Develop New Albany, and the Horseshoe Foundation of Floyd County is sponsoring a Citywide Clean-up and Planting Event from 8:00am- 12:00pm on Saturday, April 28th. Participants will help plant flowers, mulch, pull weeds, and assist in trash pickup throughout the city. Last year's event was a success with over 120 volunteers ranging from scout troops to individuals. This is a city wide event so help organize your friends, family, and club members to make this year's beautification even better than last.

Volunteers are asked to bring their own gloves, shovels, brooms, weed pullers, and other landscaping equipment. Mulch and garbage bags will be provided by Keep New Albany Clean and Green and Develop New Albany. A grant from the Horseshoe Foundation of Floyd County is providing the funds for flowers, plants, and mulch. Refreshments will be provided by MainSource Bank and volunteers should meet at the parking lot of MainSource Bank, 100 East Spring Street, anytime during event hours. Neighborhood organizations are invited to organize groups to focus on their neighborhood.  If you are interested in more information or having your club, civic group, or scout troop, please let us know in advance by calling 812-941-0018, 812-945-4332. 

Nash: "It is amazing how much garbage you will see on the ground."

The city's first government-sanctioned street spam sign sharking campaign in recent memory, perhaps ever, was supposed to have started on Friday, March 16. Did any readers actually witness city workers uprooting yard signs in rights-of-way? If so, were they including utility poles as part of the rights-of-way directive?  They should have, but this was not made clear in previous releases and news reports.

Meanwhile, over at the local pop-up generator, Matt Nash correctly assesses the dismal state of the city's cleanliness, but take heart: An early spring means more greenery (and weeds), which always help to obscure the unsightliest bits.

NASH: Keeping our city clean

... I don’t remember my parents ever sitting me down and teaching me not to litter. I don’t remember an instance where they specifically said not to do it. I guess the reason I don’t litter today is because I never saw them do it. It looks like a lot of people around our city didn’t have good parents like I did.

If you travel around New Albany by any mode of transportation other than an automobile, it is amazing how much garbage you will see on the ground. With all of the nice weather that we have had this winter, I have been able to walk or ride my bike around our city and it looks terrible. Piles of garbage are collecting along our roadways and creating an unsightly mess in several locations.

Thompson: "On Friday, March 16th, we will be removing all unauthorized signs that are placed in the right-of-way.”

(Thanks D)

PRESS RELEASE
March 13th, 2012
For Immediate Release
Contact: Michael Hall

In an effort to continue his push to make New Albany a physically cleaner city, Mayor Gahan has announced that on Friday, March 16th, his team will initiate a sign cleanup blitz.

“Mayor Gahan has been adamant in his drive to make our City an attractive place,” stated Street Commissioner Mickey Thompson. “On Friday, March 16th, we will be removing all unauthorized signs that are placed in the right-of-way.”

This cleanup will affect all signs placed in the right-of-way, the grassy area between the sidewalk and the curb. In the future, if a citizen wishes to place a sign in the right-of-way, they will need to appear before the Board of Works for approval.

“I have been hearing from a large number of citizens that this is growing to be a problem, and it is something that they want addressed,” began Mayor Gahan. “I agree with them that something needs to be done, and I am confident that Mr. Thompson and his team will continue to help me succeed in my vision of a physically cleaner City.”

All signs will be held at the Street Department for 30 days, per Ordinance 99.35. A fee will be charged at pickup for removal and storage.

From Develop New Albany: "Put your best curb forward," tomorrow morning (May 15).

Passed along from Jessica Bergman and Develop New Albany.

Downtown New Albany Needs You -- Saturday May 15

Downtown needs you Saturday morning to "Pretty Up" our town. We need a crowd to bring their work gloves to help prepare for the upcoming summer events to put our best curb forward. Meet at the Farmers Market (on the Corner of Market and Bank Streets) at 9am. Food and coffee will be available for purchase at the market and at nearby establishments such as Toast, Patticakes and the Little Chef. For information about other upcoming events and what's happening in downtown New Albany visit Develop New Albany at Facebook.

Latecomers welcome, Susan Kaempfer will be at the Farmers Market from 9-1 to assist you. - If you have garden tools, please bring them as well.

Open thread: Brownfields clean-up at old Hoosier Panel site?

Here's the scoop from the morning C-J.

New Albany Redevelopment Commission order new tests on site, by Grace Schneider (Courier-Journal).

New Albany's plan to buy an old industrial woodworking site as a possible "brownfields" reclamation project has raised concerns because of a recent environmental report that found heavy metals in groundwater there.

The findings of the study prompted the New Albany Redevelopment Commission to order additional tests for the former Hoosier Panel site at 2045 Silver St. to determine whether the contamination has spread beyond the property. The 15-acre site borders a residential area.

City Hall: New Albany wind storm update.

From City Hall:

New Albany Mayor Doug England briefed members of the media on the city’s wind storm recovery operations this morning.

Here are details and highlights from his press conference:

• Bottled water will be made available at no cost at four Floyd County firehouses, including the New Albany Fire Headquarters on E. Spring and E. 4th Streets. Other locations with water include: Georgetown Fire Department on Corydon Ridge Rd., Lafayette Township Fire Department on Scottsville Rd., Greenville-Galena on U.S. 150.


• Free meals will be available at the following locations in New Albany:

Wednesday – Silver St. United Methodist, 413 Silver St., 6-6:30 p.m.
Wednesday - Main St. United Methodist, 516 W. Main St., 5:30-6:00 p.m.
Thursday – Centenary United Methodist, 309 E. Spring St., 6-7 p.m.
Friday – St. Paul’s Episcopal, 1015 E. Main St., 6-7 p.m.


• The following New Albany-Floyd County School Corporation facilities will be open for showers:

Highland Hills Middle School
Wednesday 4-8 p.m.
Thursday 7-10 a.m. and 4-8 p.m.

Hazelwood Middle School
Wednesday 4-8 p.m.
Thursday 7-10 a.m. and 4-8 p.m.

Citizens should be reminded to bring their own towels and toiletries.


• The city’s temporary drop-off locations from vegetative waste – limbs, trees, branches, leaves and wood – remains open at the old Farmer’s Market located on Scribner Dr. between W. Oak and W. Elm Streets, across from the New Albany Little League baseball fields. The site, which is being regulated by a traffic officer from the city’s Police Department, is open to all New Albany residents.


• City forces have cleared all streets and alleyways of debris, except in locations where power lines remain entangled with trees. The city has been communicating these problematic sites on a regular basis with Duke Energy. Portions of approximately 10 streets remain blocked or closed, Street Commissioner Mickey Thompson estimated. (A separate e-mail will be distributed with current street and alley closures.)


• Property owners with damage to their residence should not only notify their insurance agent, but also Floyd County Emergency Management. Terry Herthel, the agency’s director, said compiling this information will help in their efforts to qualify Floyd County for federal funding and assistance. Citizens can call Herthel’s office at (812) 948-5454.

City Hall: Street closing update.

From Matt Denison, Assistant Director of Operations:


...here is an updated list of streets and alleys still closed in New Albany because of power lines entangled in trees or low-hanging wires.

1. Dewey St. between E. 15th and E. 16th St.

2. Near the intersection of Elm St. and Beharrell St.

3. Intersection of Crestview and Old Vincennes Rd. (two trees)

4. Alley between E. 10th St. and E. 11th St. between E. Spring St. and E. Market St.

5. Near intersection E. 11th St. Greenaway. (should be open within the next hour)

6. Intersection of Jackson St. and Hildreth Ave.

7. Alley between W. 9th St. and W. 10th St. off Cherry St.

8. Green Valley Rd. between Gordon Dr. and Greebriar Dr.

9. Alley between Beeler St. and McClain Ave. and between McDonald Ave. and Korb Ave.

10. Virginia Ct. between Spring Ave. and E. Elm St.

City Hall: Where to put (and where to take) wind storm debris.

From City Hall:

The Mayor's office has been contacted by several interested citizens who would like to volunteer their assistance in cleaning up the storm damage strewn about the City.

The Mayor has indicated that anyone wishing to volunteer should focus their efforts in their own neighborhoods. Storm debris - limbs, trees, and other refuse - should be placed at curbside or five feet back from roads without curbs.

If anyone wants to haul yard waste to a dump site, they should take this material to the designated temporary storage site at the old Farmers Market on Scribner Drive between W. Elm Street and W. Oak Street across the street from the New Albany Little League field. Please, only yard waste - limbs, branches, leaves, wood - should be dumped at this site!

Mayor England appreciates the effort of all volunteers and cautions all volunteers to emphasize "safety first".

Thank you.

Carl E. Malysz

Neighborhood clean-up Saturday morning, April 26.

From ESNA:

This is a reminder that the East Spring Street Neighborhood Association, S. Ellen Jones Neighborhood Association and Main Street Preservation Association will hold their neighborhood clean-up tomorrow morning, Saturday the 26th. There will be a dumpster located at the corner of 11th and Spring.

Please come and meet at the corner of 11th and Spring at 10:00 a.m. to meet with Mayor England, city workers who will be helping and for donuts and juice!

If you have a neighborhood association shirt please wear it. Bring any addresses you want to bring to the attention of city officials with you as well.

Thanks for doing your part to help keep our neighborhoods and city beautiful!

Courtney Paris
ESNA
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