The Constantine Village Council will meet in regular session Monday evening (August 20). The agenda for the session lists three items of Unfinished Business: 460 White Pigeon Street – Update 340 White Pigeon Street (Rabbits) Sewer Ad Hoc – Attorney Recommendations. The agenda also shows one item of New Business:  Village Clerk and Village Treasurer [...]

The cockroach-infested residence at 460 White Pigeon Street in Constantine has been given the first in a series of four treatments for pests by Terminix. That was the report from Village Manager Mark Honeysett during the Constantine Village Council meeting Monday evening (August 6). In action during its previous meeting on July 16, the council [...]

Three Rivers Fire Chief Dan Tomlinson appeared before the Constantine Village Council Monday evening (August 6) to distribute a handout with information on LifeCare Ambulance Service. He compared the EMS services provided by LifeCare and the Three Rivers Fire Department. LifeCare has provided ambulance service in St. Joseph County since 1996. Tomlinson said he has [...]

Updates regarding four items of Unfinished Business are on the agenda for the Constantine Village Council meeting scheduled for Monday evening (August 6). The updates pertain to: 460 White Pigeon Street Sewer Ad Hoc Committee Riverview Park Acquisition Grant Riverview Park Improvement Grant. Three items of New Business are also up for consideration: Domestic and [...]

The Constantine Village Council has adopted a resolution declaring a home at 460 White Pigeon Street a “public nuisance” and ordering that it be vacated “until such time as it is safe for habitation.” The unanimous action came Monday evening (July 16) in response to a report and recommendation by Village Manager Mark Honeysett and [...]

Four items of Unfinished Business are on the agenda for the Constantine Village Council meeting Monday evening (July 16): ProForm Attorney RFP Riverview Park Improvement Project Fourth of July Update. There’s one item of New Business, that being 460 White Pigeon Street – Building Code. Robert Pattison, one of three candidates for St. Joseph County [...]

Constantine Village Council voted to spend $6,500 on this year’s 4th of July fireworks at its meeting Monday evening (June 18) and was tempted to spend more, with funding coming from several sources. President Pro Tem Gary Mathers filled in for the absent President MacKenzie Strawser at the meeting. “For the last couple of years [...]

Three items of Unfinished Business are on the agenda for the Constantine Village Council meeting Monday evening (June 18): ProForm Debt Service Bonds Attorney RFP. There’s also one item of New Business:  Fireworks Contract. The meeting will get underway at 7 p.m. in the Constantine Village Council. To view the agenda for the meeting, click [...]

Constantine Village Manager Mark Honeysett is back on the job after being gone for a few weeks because of heart surgery in April. Honeysett was on hand for the Constantine Village Council meeting Monday evening (June 4), marking his return to council meetings.  At the end of the 29-minute session, Honeysett asked Village President MacKenzie [...]

“One of the best pieces of news I got last week.” These were words Village Manager Mark Honeysett used in reporting the results of Request for Proposal (RFP) activity in which financial institutions were asked to bid on ‘refunding’ or ‘refinancing’ of three outstanding sewer and water improvement bonds totaling just over $2 million. Honeysett [...]

Christine Yancey, one of five candidates for St. Joseph County Probate Judge, is slated to address the Constantine Village Council during the Audience Participation part of its meeting Monday evening (June 4). There’s a light agenda for the meeting with three items of Unfinished Business: Update from ProForm Update from Sewer Ad Hoc Committee Water [...]

The already light agenda for the Constantine Village Council meeting Monday evening (May 21) became even lighter with action at the outset of the gathering to remove one item of Unfinished Business. In considering approval of the agenda, Trustee Gary Mathers said, “I just want to make a suggestion that we take off Item IX-A [...]

There’s a light agenda for the Constantine Village Council meeting scheduled for Monday evening (May 21). The agenda lists one item of Unfinished Business:  Housing Discrimination Complaint – 340 White Pigeon Street. Two items appear under New Business: Resolution for MDOT SAAC (Sturgis Area Ambulance Committee) update. The meeting will get underway at 7 p.m. [...]

The Constantine Village Council has appointed Police Chief Jim Bedell as interim village manager until Mark Honeysett is able to return to work.  The action came during the council meeting Monday evening (May 7).  Honeysett is off for several more weeks following heart surgery. The Council praised Honeysett and Bedell alike at the meeting. “It [...]

There’s a light agenda for the Constantine Village Council meeting Monday evening (May 7). Two items of Unfinished Business are listed: Update from ProForm Update from Sewer Ad Hoc Committee The meeting will get underway at 7 p.m. in the Constantine Village Hall.

Village manager Mark Honeysett received high marks in a manager evaluation by the Constantine Village Council at its meeting Monday evening (April 16). Trustee Cindy LaFluer, chair of the Personnel Committee, introduced an evaluation summary for discussion.  One criticism made was that work needed to be done on communication with interoffice personnel, to reduce stress levels and [...]

The Constantine Village Council is slated to meet in regular session Monday evening (April 16). Dave Tomlinson, a Colon attorney who is a candidate for St. Joseph County Probate Judge, is slated to address the council during the ‘Audience Participation’ portion of the meeting. Two items of Unfinished Business are on the agenda:  ProForm and [...]

Big Trash Day is slated for Saturday, May 5, in Constantine.  The event will feature a curbside general trash pickup one day only. The Constantine Village Council firmed up arrangements for the pickup last week with action to authorize Village Manager Mark Honeysett to contract with Republic Services of Elkhart, Indiana – the lowest of [...]

The Constantine Village Council has agreed to continue downtown revitalization efforts through the Constantine Downtown Development Authority and tax increment financing (TIF). Action to adopt a resolution for an updated Downtown Development Plan and a related TIF Plan came on a unanimous vote Monday evening (April 2), but not without a lot of questions and [...]

“It’s something that, obviously, is unpleasant to us all.” The action came on a 6-to-1 vote to adopted ‘Resolution No. 12-14’ to “adjust water and sewer rates for the Village of Constantine.”  Village President MacKenzie Strawser cast the dissenting vote. Action on the resolution followed a seven-minute public hearing on the subject during which three [...]