CHAMBER HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE PROJECTS AT AIRPORT, ELSEWHERE

A couple of highlights from Friday’s meeting of the board of directors of the Indiana County Chamber of Commerce:

• Byron Stauffer Jr., the Executive Director of the Indiana County Development Corporation and the Indiana County Office of Planning & Development, announced that the Jimmy Stewart Airport has received $1.2 million in federal funding for a new taxiway and new hangar development. He also discussed the ICDC’s recent purchase of the six-acre property that currently houses the Carriage House and Essex House apartment complexes and said that more details will soon be announced on how the properties will be “repurposed” to improve the community and address an excess in student rental properties around the IUP campus.

• Also at Friday’s meeting, Rob Walbeck of the Homer City Business Association reported that work will soon be underway on the final phase of a waterline extension project for Metz Road. It will extend water service along Ferguson Road to tie in with existing lines and add service to ten more households on Metz Road.

• And White Township’s Chauncey Ross told the board that bids will be opened May 10^th for the Route 286 East sewage extension project. He also outlined plans for more development at the White Township Recreation Complex and Kennedy King Park.