Wednesday, March 18, 2015 The Commercial Review Portland, Indiana 47371 www.thecr.com 75 cents INDOT selects bid for Ind. 26 By RAY COONEY The Commercial Review A contractor has been select - ed to repair Indiana 26 East. Indiana Department of Transportation told Portland Mayor Randy Geesaman on Tuesday that it has selected Brooks Construction of Fort Wayne for the project that has been under consideration since 2001. The company had a bid of $4.24 million. Geesaman said he hopes work can begin as soon as pos - sible after a public meeting, which is scheduled for 6 p.m. March 31 at East Jay Middle School. “This is a major thorough - fare, not only for Ohio, but for us locally,” the mayor said. “With all the traffic, to me it’s just an unsafe hazard that has been neglected way too long.” The Commercial Review/Devin Zimmerman The biggest part of the proj - ect is reconstruction of the road from Meridian Street to Fearless on four wheels the bridge at the eastern edge Jacoby Penrod, 5, took advantage of the sunshine on Tuesday and ventured outdoors to try out some moves of the city near Jay-Randolph on his toy four-wheeler near the corner of Commerce and High streets in Portland. Developmental Services. Sewer and water lines, which in some cases are more than 100 years old, will be replaced. Also included in the work are new Americans with Disabili - FR students donate to facility ties Act compliant sidewalks and LED lighting. By RAY COONEY Fort Recovery Middle School pretty cool. … It’s great to be raised nearly $7,000 to help 14 INDOT is paying for the $2.7 The Commercial Review student council member able to give back a little bit of local families in need during million road reconstruction FORT RECOVERY — Fort Kendra Lennartz and sponsor what we got to benefit from.” the holiday season. and is also contributing Recovery students are making Jessica Jutte told the board Board member Dave Hull also High school principal Jeff $500,000 toward the sewer work. helping a habit. about the Ronald McDonald noted that he stayed at the facil - Hobbs said the first round of Portland will be responsible for The latest project included the House donation visit, which ity. PARCC testing, which began the rest of the cost, about $1.04 delivery last week of more than has become an annual project. The donations to Ronald Feb. 24, went smoothly. Fresh - million. $800 in donations of food and Elementary and middle school McDonald House come on the man took tests in algebra, Geesaman said he appreci - other items to Ronald McDonald students donated food items heels of the elementary school American history and English ates the work his city employ - House in Dayton, Fort Recovery and toiletries to the organiza - raising $2,616 earlier this year as part of Common Core. ees, engineering firm GAI Con - School Board learned Tuesday. tion, which provides temporary for Pennies for Patients, which “I thought it went really sultants and INDOT did to work The board also got an update housing for families of chil - raises money for The Leukemia well,” said Hobbs. “I thought together and save money on the on Partnership for Assessment dren who are hospitalized. & Lymphoma Society. In the schedule went very well project. of Readiness for College and “My husband and I have December, middle school stu - where the freshman were just “I think we came up with a Careers (PARCC) testing at the already stayed there with our dents shipped 109 shoeboxes in their own little wing and all solution that is very cost effec - high school and approved an son, and my sister stayed full of supplies and gifts the other classes ran at their tive but also is not changing agreement with Fort Recovery there,” said Jutte. “So having through Operation Christmas regularly-scheduled times.” any of the integrity of the Education Association. those personal connections is Child and high school students See FR page 2 entire project,” Geesaman said. Committee passes photo-less ID proposal By LAURYN SCHROEDER allow a religious exemp - rent photo requirement farms where an ID card is to keep specific informa - to Indiana’s current licens - Associated Press tion to Indiana’s photo conflicts with the Biblical necessary,” said Rep. tion about account holders. es and would list the hold - INDIANAPOLIS — The requirement on state IDs. prohibition against the Robert Morris, R-Fort “We need different types er’s height, weight, gender, Indiana Bureau of Motor The measure now goes to making of “graven Wayne, who authored the of ID for that,” Beaumont birth date, address and a Vehicles could soon issue the full Senate for consid - images,” and many have bill. “Really anything said. “This would be an unique license number. photo-less state identifica - eration. The House already trouble accessing outside imaginable where they say, important tool for us to However, they would not be tion cards under a propos - passed the measure on an businesses such as banks ‘Can we see an identifica - help serve our members recognized by the federal al that an Indiana Senate 82-14 vote. and pharmacies that tion card?’” who are part of the Amish government, and those committee passed Tuesday. Indiana has the third require a state-issued ID. Chris Beaumont, vice community.” who choose this ID would The Homeland Security largest Amish population It could be “anything president of governmental The Indiana Bankers not be able to use it to fly and Transportation Com - in the country, behind from mortgages to real affairs for the Indiana Association also supports commercially, cross federal mittee voted 8-0 to approve Ohio and Pennsylvania. estate transactions, to pur - Credit Union League, said the measure. borders, enter federal the measure, which would The Amish believe the cur - chasing supplies for their federal laws require banks The IDs would be similar buildings, drive or vote. Eight arrested for massacre By JOVANA GEC, AIDA CERKEZ Srebrenica, a team of Serbian More than 100,000 people were and DUSAN STOJANOVIC and Bosnian prosecutors told the killed and millions left homeless Associated Press AP. Altogether, more than 8,000 in Bosnia’s 1992-95 war when SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herze - Bosnian Muslim men and boys Bosnian Serbs, supported by govina — In a first for Serbia, were killed in the eastern Bosn - neighboring Serbia, rebelled police today arrested eight men ian by the Serbs in 1995 — the against Bosnia’s declaration of accused of taking part in killing only atrocity in Europe to be independence from Serb-led more than 1,000 Bosnian Muslims labeled genocide by the United Yugoslavia. in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Nations since World War II. Serbia in the past has put on The Associated Press has Serbian prosecutors initially trial men who took a group of learned. arrested seven suspects in pre- prisoners away from Srebrenica The move could be a significant dawn raids today at different loca - to be killed. And in 2011 it arrest - milestone toward healing the tions in Serbia, then caught the ed Ratko Mladic — the warlord wounds of Europe’s worst slaugh - eighth suspect later after an who masterminded the slaugh - ter of civilians since World War hours-long manhunt. The prose - ter — and sent him to an inter - II. cutors also said they are trying to national criminal court in The Chief Serbian War Crimes locate more suspects who may be Hague, Netherlands. Associated Press/Sulejman Omerbasic Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic hiding in Bosnia. But today’s arrests are Ser - told the AP that all those arrested The biggest arrest in the sweep bia’s first attempt to bring to jus - This March 7 photo of the memorial cemetery “are former members of a special was Nedeljko Milidragovic, the tice men who got their hands Potocari, outside Srebrenica, 90 miles northeast of Sarajevo brigade of the Bosnian Serb commander dubbed “Nedjo the bloody in the killing machine police.” Butcher,” who went on to become known as the Srebrenica mas - shows the gravestone of Muriz Sinanovic. Sinanovic was The massacre took place at a a successful businessman in Ser - sacre. among the 8,000 Muslim Bosniak men and boys killed in the warehouse on the outskirts of bia, the AP has learned. See Arrested page 5 July 1995 Srebrenica massacre. Deaths Weather In review Coming up The high temperature Tues - Thursday — Coverage of Alliyia Curtis, 17 months, day at Portland’s weather sta - The Portland Park Board today’s Portland Board of Avi - Geneva tion was 45 degrees. The meeting that was scheduled ation meeting. Paul Holcomb, 80, Hartford overnight low was 22. for 4 p.m. Thursday has been City Tonight’s low will be 29, and canceled. The board’s next Saturday — South Adams Diane Garbacz, 57, St. John skies will be mostly cloudy regularly-scheduled meeting High School has been nomi - Dorothy Keller, 97, Albany Thursday with a high of 50. is 7 p.m. April 2. nated for a National Blue Rib - Details on page 2. For an extended forecast, bon. see page 2. The Commercial Review Page 2 Local/Indiana Wednesday, March 18, 2015 Obituaries FR ... Alliyia Curtis Diane Garbacz Chapel in St. John, followed by a donor’s choice. Online condo - Continued from page 1 memorial service at noon. lences may be sent to Board members Jose Sept. 30, 2013-March 14, 2015 April 12, 1957-March 12, 2015 In lieu of flowers, memorials http://www.bairdfreeman.com . Faller, Ginny Fortkamp, Alliyia Maria Curtis, 17 Diane Rose Garbacz, 57, St. may be sent to Humane Society Aaron Guggenbiller, Amy months, Geneva, died Saturday John, died Thursday after an 18- Calumet Area.