The plant is expected to start operations in 2020 and produce 80 million gallons of ethanol each year.

The Indiana Department of Transportation says the $2 million project will begin as early as December and should be complete by next summer.

A celebration of life will be held in the gymnasium of Triton Central High School in Fairland Tuesday evening.

The Hancock Madison Shelby Educational Services cooperative, which this year served about 2,500 students in five school corporations, will close at the end of the 2016-17 school year.

Local officials hope to start the "Advantage Shelby County" program in January 2016.