Community leaders to encourage full participation in important, safe decennial population tally

Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry welcomed the City'€™s 2010 Census Complete Count Committee as they started their work today to encourage all Fort Wayne residents to complete the 10-question census form that will...

Henry praises community organizations addressing needs, citizen advisers who helped set funding priorities



Mayor Tom Henry joined a group of 6- and 7-year-olds who are attending Wellspring'€™s Daycamp at First Presbyterian Church this morning to announce 2009 Community Development Block Grant

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Topics include legal structures for companies, financial statements

The City of Fort Wayne in cooperation with the Greater Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce, Women'€™s Enterprise '€“ A Program of the Fort Wayne Women'€™s Bureau, Small Business Administration, SCORE, Community Development Corp. and...

Parks and Recreation Director Al Moll and Historic Fort Wayne President Ken Sorg thanked Lincoln Financial Group for donating a 19th century reproduction cannon to the Old Fort today.

“The addition of this fine Civil War era artillery piece allows Historic Fort Wayne the opportunity to display and...

More Training Available to Homeowners, Those Considering Home Ownership
                                                                                        
This month the City of Fort Wayne will offer home ownership education classes on two upcoming Saturdays: July 18 and July 25, both 8AM to noon, in the Omni Room at the City-County Building. The 8-hour training is broken into...

The Three Rivers Jack & Jill Golf Tournament scheduled for July 11th was rained out. The tournament has been rescheduled for Saturday, July 25th. Players should call the McMillen Pro Shop at 427-6710 for a tee time.

 

Regional attraction scores hat trick of jobs, private investment, tourism boost

 

 Celebrating the start of an ice facility unique to Indiana, Mayor Tom Henry and representatives from 3 Sheets Development LLC, HRC Hotels LLC and Canlan Ice Sports plus youth hockey players, figure skaters and a Komet

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Fort Wayne City Utilities will be “smoke testing” sewer lines in the southeast Fort Wayne beginning Monday July 13, 2009. The area being tested is bounded by Pontiac Street to the north, Abbott Street to the west, Oxford Street to south, and Wayne Trace Avenue on the east.  The testing should be...

Most restrictions Saturday only, another will be about a year

Construction on the Courtyard by Marriott hotel at Harrison Square and the Parkview Cycling Festival at Parkview Field will result in some additional lane and road closures Saturday and a new lane closure for the duration of the...

26 projects in targeted locations to make exterior improvements

 

Mayor Tom Henry announced today that the City'€™s $400,000 commercial façade grant program will result in nearly $1.1 million of private investment for improving commercial properties in Fort Wayne. The 26 projects will infuse $1.47

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In a morning news conference, Fort Wayne Animal Care & Control was recognized by The Humane Society of the United States for being a progressive leader among US shelters and public safety programs.  

According to the recent article, “Out of Control, Into Compassion,” that appeared in The Humane Society of...

Local artists age 50 and older are invited to enter the Fort Wayne Parks & Recreation'€™s Annual Senior Judged Art Show at the Community Center, 233 W. Main Street. Categories include Acrylic, Oil, Watercolor, Photography/Computer imagery, Sculpture/3-D art and Mixed Media. The entry fee is $3 per...

Free Seminar Coming to Help More Businesses

The City of Fort Wayne'€™s Green City Business Program received the Technology Solutions Award presented by Public Technology Institute. The Washington D.C. based group recognized Fort Wayne'€™s Green City program for its efforts to merge ecological,...

Session will focus on state'€™s efforts to bring passenger rail service back to Fort Wayne as Midwest looks to high-speed rail network

State Sen. Tom Wyss (R-Fort Wayne) and the Northeast Indiana Passenger Rail Association and in cooperation with the City of Fort Wayne will host a forum with...

Mayor Tom Henry honored two long-time Foster Park residents by proclaiming July 1st John and Julia Oldenkamp Day. City Council President Tom Smith read the proclamation at Foster Park today on behalf of the Mayor, who was unable to attend. Parks and Recreation Director Al Moll, Friends of the...

Landlines unaffected, will update when service is restored

People using cellular phones to reach the City of Fort Wayne or Allen County Communications'€™ 911 service need to use an alternate number until further notice. Landlines are unaffected by this outage.

For cell phone users only, they...

Along with every Hoosier, I am pleased that the Indiana General Assembly has concluded its work and approved a new two-year budget for the citizens of our state.

As Mayor of Indiana'€™s second largest city, however, I had hoped that several issues of importance to Fort Wayne would have been...

A portion of  Fort Wayne'€™s Rivergreenway around the City'€™s water filtration plant is being repaired, and a detour is now in place for greenway users at the Spy Run underpass.

During repair work greenway users will be re-routed to the traffic light to the south of the river on Lafayette to avoid...