News & Events

The trail at Fidler Pond Park has been closed on the east side due to the trail being washed out by the rain. There is no estimated time for when the trail will be reopened. Parts of Shanklin and Rogers parks have standing water. It may take a while for the water to recede. Though […]

The Goshen Street Department will have its spring brush and leaf collection from April 29, 2019 to May 12, 2019. During this first collection the Street Department will pick up both leaves and brush. Please have the brush and leaves out before the April 29 start date to ensure pickup. Because of the large amount […]

The Goshen City Forestry Division will launch the goal of “45 by ’45”— a goal of increasing the city’s tree canopy to 45 percent by the year 2045. This canopy goal will diversify the kinds of trees living in Goshen, which will in turn expand and increase their benefits to all residents, and help us […]

The City of Goshen has formed a task force to look at options and develop a short-term solution to the homeless encampment along the Millrace Trail. Mayor Jeremy Stutsman’s office and the Police Department have received complaints of the presence of tents, campfires and verbal fighting among homeless people from residents who use or live […]

In conjunction with the Goshen Chamber of Commerce’s Beautify Goshen Week, the Goshen Street Department will be making additional disposal services available to assist city residents in their “Beautify Goshen” tasks. This free service is offered only during the first full week in May (an eight-day week, May 4–11, with two Saturdays), and there is […]

Walsh & Kelly is scheduled to install permanent striping inside the westbound lane of Third Street between Main Street and Jefferson Street the week of April 15. This work is being done in advance of transferring Third Street to the Indiana Department of Transportation.

Contractor Selge Construction is building a sanitary sewer on South Fifth Street ahead of pavement resurfacing work. The road has been closed between the alley at 240 S. Fifth St. and Madison Street from April 15 until May 3.

Contractor Rieth Riley will be working on the first part of the Kercher Road Phase 2 project. The week of Monday, April 15, they will start restricting Kercher Road by keeping only westbound traffic open and will detour eastbound traffic south on Dierdorff Road to Waterford Parkway and CR 40. The construction on this phase […]

Goshen City offices will be closed beginning at 1 p.m. Friday, April 19 in observance of the holiday. Normal business hours will resume Monday, April 22.

Goshen is a member of the Sister Cities International Program and has been in partnership with Sister City Bexbach, Germany, since June 1979. The Sister City Program enriches the Goshen community with cultural and educational exchanges. More than 1,000 visitors from Bexbach have been in Goshen the past 40 years. About 100 families in Goshen […]