The St. Joseph County Road Commission has announced TWO road closures: MUSKRAT ROAD Beginning Saturday, May 5th @ 6:00 a.m. until Monday, May 7th @ 6:00 a.m. the railroad crossing on Muskrat Road between US 131 and 15th Street will be closed for repairs. Detour routes would be 15th Street to YZ Avenue to US [...]
The St. Joseph County Road Commission has announced that it will begin summer hours of 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday and closed on Friday starting April 30 through September 30, 2012. Winter hours will resume October 1, 2012. Source: News release from St. Joseph County Road Commission
The St. Joseph County Board of Commissioners had an opportunity to meet the St. Joseph County Road Commission’s new ‘Director of Engineering’ at the outset of Tuesday’s (February 21st) board meeting. Road Commission Chairman John Bippus introduced Christopher Bolt who “just joined our management team.” In brief remarks to the board, Bolt provided a quick [...]
The St. Joseph County Road Commission has announced that – effective immediately Monday (December 5th) – Kime Road between Fawn River Road and Stoney Road, located in Fawn River Township, will be closed to through traffic while the bridge is being repaired. No estimated time for reopening can be made at this time. A detour [...]
The St. Joseph County Road Commission reports that Plumb School Road – between US-12 and Big Hill Road – was reopened Friday (November 11th) at noon. In making the announcement, the Road Commission said, “We apologize for any inconvenience.”
The St. Joseph County Road Commission has announced that it will begin ‘winter hours’ of 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday, starting on October 3, 2011. For more information about the Road Commission, visit the agency’s website at www.stjoeroads.com.
LEAF BURNING The St. Joseph County Road Commission would like to remind everyone that land adjacent to roads under the jurisdiction of the Road Commission is not an area to burn leaves within. This not only creates a sight problem for the traveling public, but in the case of a blacktop road could permanently damage [...]
The St. Joseph County Road Commission has announced that it will be doing a ‘test spray’ of chemicals this fall to control brush in the road right-of-way along approximately 18 miles of roadway. The program is designed to aid drainage and contain roadside brush that could obstruct motorists’ vision. Roads affected will be Shimmel from [...]
The St. Joseph County Road Commission has announced new summer hours of 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday (closed Friday) starting May 2nd through September 30th. Winter hours of 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday will resume on October 1st. Source: News release from St. Joseph County Road Commission
Roads were in the spotlight during the April meeting of the Fabius Township Board – and a badly-deteriorated, two-mile stretch of Harder Road received a good deal of the attention. Louis Csokasy, manager of the St. Joseph County Road Commission, and Rick Jackson, superintendent of operations, were featured guests at the meeting Wednesday evening (April [...]
The St. Joseph County Board of Commissioners has taken action to expand the St. Joseph County Board of County Road Commissioners from its current three-member configuration to five. In action Tuesday (March 15th), commissioners adopted a resolution authorizing the expansion “with one of the new member’s term to expire December 31, 2013 and the other [...]
A proposed increase in the number of members on the St. Joseph County Road Commission board took another step forward Tuesday (March 1) as the St. Joseph County Board of Commissioners held a public hearing on the subject. County commissioners scheduled the hearing during their January 18th meeting after reaching consensus during a January 11th work [...]
The proposed increase in the number of members on the board of the St. Joseph County Road Commission – from three to five – will be the subject of a public hearing during the St. Joseph County Board of Commissioners meeting on Tuesday (March 1st). County commissioners scheduled the hearing during their January 18th meeting [...]
SEASONAL SPEED AND WEIGHT RESTRICTIONS The Board of County Road Commissioners of the County of St. Joseph will impose seasonal speed and weight restrictions on all county roads, under its jurisdiction, with the exception of “All Weather” routes, listed below. These restrictions go into effect at 7:00 a.m., Thursday, February 17, 2011 and will remain [...]
The St. Joseph County Road Commission issued the following ‘Road Commission Update’ Wednesday morning (February 2nd) regarding snow plowing operations in the county: “The St. Joseph County Road Commission started their plowing operations at 4:00 am on Wednesday morning. Current plans call for working throughout the day and starting at 5:00 am on Thursday. “The [...]
Action to set a public hearing on increasing the size of the St. Joseph County Road Commission Board from three members to five is an agenda item for Tuesday’s (January 18th) meeting of the St. Joseph County Board of Commissioners. A ‘work session’ last week yielded a consensus to put the matter of scheduling the [...]
The St. Joseph County Board of Commissioners will hold a ‘work session’ next week to discuss the idea of expanding the size of the St. Joseph County Road Commission board from the current three members to five. Commissioner John Dobberteen suggested the work session during the board’s initial meeting of the New Year Tuesday (January [...]
CASSOPOLIS – A ‘joint purchasing council,’ another step toward a formal joint operation, will be proposed to the Cass and St. Joseph County road commission boards at their respective meetings in January, Louis Csokasy, manager of the joint operations has announced. Details of the proposed council will be shared with the Cass County Road Commission [...]
The St. Joseph County Board of Commissioners heard about the St. Joseph County Road Commission during Tuesday’s (November 16th) board meeting. During ‘Citizen Comments’ at the outset of the meeting, John Bippus, the newest Road Commission member, offered what he described as “an unofficial update on the happenings of the St. Joseph County Road Commission.” [...]
Hats off to Cheryl Arver for 39 years of service to the St. Joseph County Road Commission! You can learn more about this record of achievement via a front page story by Rick Cordes in Thursday’s (November 11th) edition of the Three Rivers Commercial-News or ‘online’ through the following link: Arver feted for road commission [...]
