Merchants prepare for shop local campaign
HANCOCK COUNTY — Twenty Hancock County businesses are participating in a campaign to support the community through charitable donations and service.
Greenfield Area Chamber of Commerce’s We’ve Got Your Back campaign’s participants will accept donations for Zoey’s Place Child Advocacy Center. Participating merchants will offer deals throughout the campaign, which runs from Nov. 15 through Dec. 31.
More information on the campaign and participants’ special offers is at localfirstgreenfield.com.
Gallery celebrating one-year anniversary
FORTVILLE — Rogue Art in the Alley invites the public to celebrate the gallery’s one-year anniversary between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, at its location at 110B S. Main St., Fortville.
The free event will have food, refreshments and music. There will also be sales, promotional giveaways and opportunities to meet exhibiting artists, including the gallery’s featured artist for November, Jeannette Pomeroy Parssi. A reception for Pomeroy Parssi will take place in conjunction with the anniversary celebration.
Construction sector posts strong jobs numbers
INDIANAPOLIS — The construction industry in Indiana has added nearly 10,000 jobs year-over-year, making it one of the strongest-performing employment sectors in the state during that period, according to a news release from Indiana Department of Workforce Development.
Construction companies collectively added 1,700 jobs within a one-month time frame, from August to September; 3,600 year-to-date, from December 2018 to September 2019; and 9,800 year-over-year, from September 2018 to September 2019.
The 9,800 year-over-year increase ranks Indiana sixth in the nation in the number of construction jobs added during that 12-month span.
Statewide building permits up from last year
INDIANAPOLIS — Statewide totals for building permits issued in September show 1,447 single-family permits were pulled, a 13% increase from September 2018, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
September permits are down 4% from August 2019, when 1,531 permits were pulled. The single-family permit numbers for 2019 are down 3% compared to the first nine months of 2018.
