This is the area where Dyke Industries is planning to build in the West Harrison Business Park. The company is expected to employ 56 workers. Paperwork on the land sale is still being worked on. MAP USED COURTESY OF GOOGLE MAPS

New industry moving to West Harrison

A tract of land in West Harrison next to Interstate 74 is expected to be home to a new industry in the West Harrison Business Park in Dearborn County. Dyke Industries is a 150-year-old company that assembles pre-hung interior and exterior doors, windows and other building materials.

It might be spring, but salt storage is a topic

Greendale plans to construct a 30 foot by 30 foot concrete/pre-engineered metal salt storage building at 325 Rand Ave., after the Board of Works gave its approval at a meeting March 10. The project will be completed in this spring.

Kevin Leech, left, and Spencer Powell are two of the Trojan Media Productions crew that help stream live events at East Central High School. LAURA A. HOBSON/THE JOURNAL-PRESS

Crew streams from East Central

If there is a positive side to the COVID pandemic, and there are few, it’s the place Trojan Media Productions has carved out. The production “company” of the Sunman-Dearborn Community Schools Corp.

Beverly Thomas

Beverly Thomas

Beverly Thomas, 65, of Lawrenceburg, Indiana, passed away on Tuesday, March 23, 2021. She was born Jan.

Lucille Trossman

Lucille Trossman

Lucille Trossman, 94 years old, peacefully passed away on Wednesday, March 24, 2021, with her family by her side. Lucille loved her country and her hometown of Yorkville, of which she was a lifelong resident.

George Simonson

George Edward Simonson III

George Edward Simonson III, 34, of North Bend, Ohio, passed away on Wednesday, March 10, 2021. He was born April 20, 1986, in Cincinnati, Ohio, son of George and Kathy (Kernon) Simonson.

Thomas Hohmeister

Thomas Edward Hohmeister

Thomas Edward Hohmeister, 75, of Bright, Indiana, passed away in the early morning hours of March 24, 2021. While his later years were diminished by dementia, the legacy he leaves is filled with love, lessons learned and lots of laughter.

Death Notices

Leland “Dubby” Henderson, age 76, of Rising Sun, Indiana, died March 23, 2021. Arrangements entrusted to Markland Funeral Home.

Randy Frye

Supporting investments in law enforcement, broadband

The Indiana General Assembly is now moving into the second half of the 2021 legislative session, where proposed bills passed out of the House and Senate swap chambers for further consideration. Bills moving through the legislative process include the House version of the proposed two-year state budget, which makes strong investments in Hoosier law enforcement and rural broadband.