The board of supervisors recently passed an ordinance after the state approved $3,000 hazard pay bonuses for sheriff’s deputies using American Rescue Plan funds back in August.
Local Amateur Radio Group Seeks Donations to Help Community (KY)
The Jennings County Amateur Radio Association is raising money to help with rehab and build out of a radio tower in Freetown Indiana. This will go towards providing last line of defense communication support to the residents and public safety agencies of Jennings County and South Central Indiana in the event of current public safety communications system overload or failure.
“We are skilled at composing and relaying messages by voice and through computer via Amateur Radio communications modes. Our group will support emergency activities ranging from equipment logistics, victim location and identification, emergency shelter, food and water information, medical equipment and material distribution and sometimes life-and-death communications…
