The Worthington Times

Worthington, Indiana made the New York Times!

Our little hometown was mentioned in an article by Nina Bernstein called "Still Trying to Bring Their Fallen Heroes Home." The story was published on February 3, 2008 and it might have appeared on the front page of the regional edition.

The story is about identifying and returning the World War II unknown soldiers, sailors, marines and others home, finally, after all these years. In the middle, the author mentions Alfred Livingston's return and burial in the Worthington Cemetery last summer....

Last year a sailor killed at Pearl Harbor in 1941, and buried as an unknown in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, was exhumed, identified as Alfred E. Livingston, and reburied in Worthington, Ind., his hometown.  

Read it and enjoy Alfred's and Worthington's moment in the NYT now because (I could be mistaken) I believe stories on that site are available to the public for a limited time before they move into the archives where one must pay an access fee to read - don't know how long they leave the stories up for free.

Here's a link to the story:

"Still Trying to Bring Their Fallen Heroes Home"
on the New York Times website

It will be some time before construction crews arrive in Worthington to start work on the upcoming Worthington Streetscape Project but on Monday, Town Street Superintendent David Dyer got a head start on the prep work that must be done to get ready.  

With beautiful skies, 70 degree temperatures and a new-to-us front loader with a back hoe, Dyer started removing the concrete chunks of sidewalk and the pool surrounding the fountain on the Triangle.

The Streetscape Project, sometimes called the Downtown Renovation Project, will be funded through a grant from INDOT (Indiana Department of Transportation) but the Town must provide some matching funds. To help meet the match, the Town can provide labor which counts the same as cash. Part of their match will be this preparation work David is doing on the Triangle.

Town Council President Hal Harp was on the Triangle working with David on Monday.