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A former Portage mayor worries that ending curbside recycling pickup could pose challenges for those who may be unable to take items to recycling centers themselves. Portage ended curbside pickup in February because those items weren't actually being recycled, due to the amount of trash placed in the toters. Hobart followed suit this week.
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The Portage City Council is considering a proposal for a new coffee shop.
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Portage residents who still want to recycle can take items to the U.S. 12 compost site or the Portage Street Department during business hours.
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The city of Portage expects to bring in $1.8 million dollars more in property taxes this year than previously thought. The city's financial consultant noticed that Portage was eligible for the extra revenue, when reviewing the state's budget recommendations last week.
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Portage may soon be ending curbside recycling pickup. Due to the amount of trash being put in recycling toters, the city's contractor put the recycling program on suspension in 2021. That means nothing going in the recycling toters is actually being recycled, according to a Facebook post last week from Mayor Austin Bonta.
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Portage Mayor Austin Bonta presided over his first city council meeting Tuesday. "What I could say is that the first two days has been like drinking out of a fire hose, but I absolutely love it," Bonta said during his first mayor's report. "It has just been such a joy."
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The Portage mayor's office and city council both flipped Republican in Tuesday's election. Austin Bonta unseated Mayor Sue Lynch with almost 59 percent of the vote.
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Former Valparaiso Mayor Jon Costas easily secured the Republican nomination to get his old job back. He defeated Art Elwood by a margin of 83-to-17 percent.
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A proposed Portage subdivision is drawing concern from a plan commission member.