Government

As a part-time sanitation worker for the City of Mount Vernon, Chuck Gray never imagined a job that would put Mount Vernon on the map.
In 2000, Gray was working at the city's trash department while attending college. After graduating with a degree in information systems, Gray was appointed as street commissioner in 2004, and was also handed the water utility department in 2005, which put him in charge of both.
“I told them I didn't want that one,” Gray said about the city's water works. “It was a train wreck.”

The Posey County Clerk’s Office wants to keep Posey County’s records for Posey County’s residents. That’s how clerk Betty Postletheweight explained recent actions that limits access to geneaology records kept by the county.
According to Postletheweight, people have been coming in and stealing or cutting stamps off of some records dating back to the 1860s. Due to time constraints and the genealogy budget, the office cannot keep someone in the genealogy room all the time, she explained.

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The Posey County Solid Waste District board of directors will have a meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 7 at 11 a.m. in the district office to award a contract for demolition of the existing Mount Vernon Recycling Center and construction of a new building on the site. For more information, contact the Solid Waste District at 838-1613.

The Mount Vernon Water Utility Board voted to move forward with the last phase of the waterworks project, which will add a new water intake upgrade, leak detection system and will also include Lamella building repair.
The project, which will total $14.5 million will not affect water rates, according to a study done by Umbaugh and Associates, an accounting firm based out of Indianapolis.