NORTH MANCHESTER - Two years ago, the North Manchester Park and Recreation Department began formalizing thoughts and ideas on a trail through most of the town.Today, those thoughts are entering the first steps to becoming a reality for North Manchester. The Park and Recreation Department received a grant in 1998 from the Indiana Department of Commerce to help fund the non-motorized trail.Assistant parks director Donna Boomershine said Rundell Ernstberger Associates, Muncie, was hired in 1998 to develop a master trail plan for the parks department.The plan was completed in 1999. Parks director Brian Wagner reported Wednesday to the parks board that he and Boomershine met with Mike Helton of INDOT and gave Helton a copy of the master trail plan. "He had a lot of nice things to say about our plan," Wagner said."We're getting some really good players involved in terms of getting off on the right foot." But the parks department has run into a problem.
LAURA SLOOP, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016