St. Joseph County Commissioners

Solar farms and data centers were hot topics during St. Joseph County’s first “Coffee with Your Commissioners” event Saturday.

UKA Group, based in Germany with a North American headquarters in Florida, recently sent a letter to farm owners in southern St. Joseph County, asking their interest in leasing parts of their land for wind towers.

Republican St. Joseph County Commissioners President Carl Baxmeyer would only say that commissioners have made no decisions on what to do with the Portage Manor property.

St. Joseph County Commissioners in December announced they were considering moving the health department out of the County-City Building to its own building at Jefferson Boulevard and Eddy Street.

The commissioners awarded the no-bid contract to a company owned by Joshua Gobel, a Republican who they appointed to the county redevelopment commission in 2022.

Mark Huffman and some others forced from their Portage Manor homes first went to a former hotel in Fort Wayne. Friend Jenny Piontek says Huffman was happy to be back in South Bend.

The former Associates Building has been vacant since the private, for-profit American National University closed its location there in 2019.

The county will forward to Amazon invoices from contractors building new water and sewer infrastructure

From solar to data centers, Joe Carbone says the county should be open for development as long as it's good for the community

Migliore will split duties with departing officer Diana Purushotham