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Decision Will Come in March by JACK RONALD the Closing of That School (Pen - the Commercial Review Nville) in March,” Gulley Said Thursday, February 2, 2017 The Commercial Review Portland, Indiana 47371 www.thecr.com 75 cents Decision will come in March By JACK RONALD the closing of that school (Pen - The Commercial Review nville) in March,” Gulley said. A decision on the status of “In order to effect a closure by Weigh in Pennville Elementary School is the fall, March would be the likely to be made in March, Jay decision point.” Jay School Corporation is gathering Schools superintendent Jere - Meeting to discuss future He stressed that as the com - opinions on methods for dealing with my Gulley said this week. its financial challenges with an online of Pennville Elementary mittee reviews a 2015 study of survey. To answer the questions and Gulley, who is working with a the school system’s buildings provide comments, visit: newly-appointed budget con - is scheduled for Tuesday and facilities the focus will not trol committee to put the be limited to Pennville. www.jayschools.k12.in.us school corporation’s fiscal “It may feel that Pennville is and click on “Cost Reduction house in order, said a special alone,” he said. “But simultane - Input and Ideas Survey.” Jay School Board meeting has ously we will look at all the facil - Prior to taking the survey, Jay been set for 6 p.m. Tuesday at Pennville Town Council, Gulley is also seeking comment ities. … It’s not just the Pen - Schools superintendent Jeremy Gulley Pennville Elementary to hear which regularly meets on the from the public via a survey on nville school that’s being consid - recommends clicking on “Jay School the concerns of parents, teach - Budget and Finance Report” in order first Tuesday of each month, the school corporation’s website ered here. In time, there will be to understand the fiscal situation. ers and the broader Pennville has shifted its meeting to 7 p.m. — www.jayschools.k12.in.us. others.” community. Monday. “I expect a decision point for See Decision page 2 Indiana files to expand HIP pens in Washington over the next month and years.” Former Gov. Mitch Program Daniels launched Healthy Indiana in 2008. His suc - covers cessor, Mike Pence, launched HIP 2.0 in 2015, 415,000 after obtaining a federal Medicaid waiver. Hoosiers The program covers Indiana residents ages 19 to 64. It offers a basic pro - gram and an optional HIP By DAVE TAYLOR 2.0 Plus program. (Terre Haute) Tribune-Star The HIP 2.0 Plus pro - As the current plan gram provides comprehen - marks its second anniver - sive coverage, including sary, state officials are vision and dental services, seeking federal approval for those who make to continue and expand income-based contribu - the Healthy Indiana Plan, commonly known as HIP tions toward the cost of 2.0. their health care package. As of Tuesday, the pro - The current program gram covered 415,000 expires Jan. 31, 2018. The Hoosiers. application filed Tuesday Gov. Eric Holcomb sub - seeks to extend HIP 2.0 mitted the state’s applica - through Jan. 31, 2021 and tion to the Centers for add new programs to help Medicare and Medicaid eligible Hoosiers stop Services amid the back - smoking, manage chronic drop of Congressional diseases and access a vol - debate over the future of untary job referral and the Affordable Care Act, training program. often called Obamacare, The application seeks The Commercial Review/Ray Cooney but state officials note the $55 million to address the program has an estab - state’s opioid crisis. lished history. “Far too many Hoosiers “The Healthy Indiana are caught in the stran - Winning grin Plan was in place before gling grip of drugs,” Hol - Dillon Muhlenkamp grins during Wednesday’s academic competition at Jay County High ACA,” said Joe Moser, the comb said. “I intend to School after correctly answering a question about an alliance between Austria and Prussia. That state’s Medicaid director. attack Indiana’s drug epi - question vaulted Muhlenkamp and teammates Lee Habegger, Mashelle Hale and Catherine Stafford “It was a successful pro - demic with every tool to first place in the social studies competition against Winchester, Randolph Southern and gram even before 2010. We available to state govern - Centerville. JCHS also finished second in English. For more, see Capsule Reports on page 2. think HIP 2.0 will continue ment, and this application after repeal of ACA reflects my commitment to regardless of what hap - doing just that.” Minister to resign in response to new law By ANDRA TIMU Business Environment Min - evening, the Digi24 TV station since the 1989 uprising that oust - and NATO member back the anti- Bloomberg ister Florin Jianu said he and News.ro estimated. ed dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. graft drive that’s ensnared top Romania’s political crisis deep - couldn’t support the govern - “I don’t want to have to tell my The third government in the past officials, including an ex-Social ened today as a minister pledged ment’s stance after at least child I was a coward and I agreed two years incurred the wrath of Democrat premier. to resign amid the largest 300,000 people took to the to something I don’t believe in,” the public and President Klaus The turmoil sent the leu 1 per - protests since the collapse of streets of cities across the Jianu said, according to a post on Iohannis by unexpectedly easing cent weaker against the euro on communism following sudden country. About 150,000 gathered his Facebook page. punishments for officials who Wednesday, the steepest decline changes to criminal law that in freezing temperatures out - Romania’s ruling Social abuse their positions and seeking in more than two years and one undermine a four-year anti-cor - side the government building Democrats, in power for only a to free others from prison. The that erased all of its 2017 gains. ruption clampdown. in Bucharest on Wednesday month, face the largest backlash protesters in the European Union See Response page 5 Protests cancel speech By JOCELYN GECKER ers dressed in black and in There were no immedi - Associated Press hooded sweatshirts that ate reports of arrests or BERKELEY, Calif. — A showed up as night fell to serious injuries, she said. crowd protesting a far- break windows, throw President Donald right commentator’s smoke bombs and flares, Trump took to Twitter appearance at the Univer - and start the raging blaze this morning to comment, sity of California at Berke - outside the building. tweeting: “If U.C. Berkeley ley hurled smoke bombs, “This was a group of agi - does not allow free speech broke windows and tators who were masked and practices violence on sparked a massive bonfire, up, throwing rocks, com - innocent people with a dif - prompting officials to call mercial grade fireworks ferent point of view – NO off the event. and Molotov cocktails at FEDERAL FUNDS?” The decision came two officers,” said UC Berkeley Prior to the burst of vio - hours before Wednesday’s Police Chief Margo Ben - lence, hundreds of peace - talk by Milo Yiannopoulos, net. ful demonstrators carry - a polarizing editor of Bre - Bennet said police deter - ing signs that read “Hate Associated Press/Ben Margot itbart News, after some mined at that point they Speech Is Not Free 1,500 people had gathered couldn’t guarantee securi - Speech” had been protest - outside the venue. ty, canceled the event and ing the appearance for Protesters against a scheduled speaking appearance by Breitbart But officials said it was a evacuated Yiannopoulos hours. News editor Milo Yiannopoulos on the University of California at Berkeley smaller group of protest - from the building. See Cancel page 5 campus march Wednesday on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, Calif. Weather In review Inside Coming up The high temperature Page 4 — Letter to the edi - Friday — A look at crime reached 38 degrees Wednesday A free training session for tor questions whether leaders statistics in Jay County and its at Portland’s weather station. weather spotting is scheduled got the message from Novem - municipalities for the 2016 cal - The overnight low was 22. for 6:30 p.m. Feb. 9 at Jay Coun - ber’s election. endar year. The low will dip to 15 ty Courthouse. Those interest - degrees tonight. Friday’s fore - ed can register at jayINSpot - Page 10 — Collegiate Monday — Results from cast calls for partly sunny ter.eventzilla.net or by calling Check-up takes a look at how the wrestling regional and skies with a high of 25. (260) 726-6909. local athletes are performing girls swimming sectional For an extended outlook, at the next level. meets at Jay County. see page 2. The Commercial Review Page 2 Local/Indiana Thursday, February 2, 2017 Decision ... Continued from page 1 $384,370 in 2017, and the current “I do not feel that anyone who has met with representatives of aired via the corporation’s web - The Jay School Board in Janu - cash balance is already at a 20- wants to keep their school is an Jay Classroom Teachers Associ - site. Gulley noted that a survey ary unanimously adopted a year low. obstacle or an opponent,” he said. ation to review the RIF policy. at the site has already received budget control framework “The school board sent a very “I respect that. … The emotional The focus of next week’s about 100 responses. aimed at ending deficit spend - unified message,” said Gulley. meaning of a school is heartfelt. meeting will be to hear the con - “It’s intended to give a voice,” ing in the system’s general fund, He noted that because of the … It is something I relate to.” cerns of those directly affected he said.
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