ROGER SCHNEIDER | THE GOSHEN NEWS
Goshen Redevelopment Commission members Tuesday approved a request by the Goshen Engineering Department for permission to issue Request for Proposals for engineering services connected to plans for intersection improvements and a pedestrian crosswalk on U.S. 33 near Fidler Pond Park. The plans include the addition of a center turn lane from Plymouth Avenue to Fairfield Avenue, improved turn lanes at both intersections, and the installation of a pedestrian island and crosswalk south of Fairfield Avenue.
![BEN MIKESELL | THE GOSHEN NEWS<br />
Elkhart County Administrator Tom Byers talks with other county employees outside the Elkhart County Administration Building at 117 N. Second St., Goshen, Thursday afternoon. “Fifteen years ago you would have wadded that up and thrown it in the waste basket,” Byers said about the emailed bomb threat. “Now you have to [take it seriously]." Byers said he did not see anything of importance in the recipients section of the email. It was handed to him by a staffer, sent in to the county commissioners office email. Byers called 911.](https://photos.smugmug.com/News/Archive/2018/The-Week-in-Photos-Dec-8-14/i-RQZXFGp/0/41ebba29/Ti/NWS%20GN1214%20elkhart%20county%20bomb%20threat_1130-Ti.jpg)
