Bill McCleery from the Indianapolis Star writes on the fallout of Judge Hughes' recent decision. "An economic development official said he expects Eli Lilly and Co. to continue efforts to close sections of several Hancock County roads despite a legal setback last week to the company's plans."
- The Indianapolis Star (Indianapolis, IN)

Eric North from the Daily Reporter on the recent decision by Judge Hughes. "A Hamilton County Judge has ruled that an ordinance to close two Hancock County roads is illegal because of problems in the legal descriptions of the two roads to be vacated."
- The Daily Reporter (Greenfield, IN)

Janet Helms from the Daily Reporter notes some reactions from the community. "While passionate about fighting Eli Lilly’s effort to close two county roads around its Westside Greenfield complex, those who fought to keep the thoroughfares open believed they never had a chance."
- The Daily Reporter (Greenfield, IN)

The "Complaint to Set Aside Vacation Ordinance" by Greenwoods LLC, the owner of property along 100S east of Meridian was filed today in the Hancock Circuit Court .adverse the Commissioners of Hancock County and Hancock County and Eli Lilly and Company. Among the many allegations were that the Ordinance was a Violation of the Comprehensive Plan, there were fatal Description Errors, that there was Constructive (not real) Fraud in the adoption of the Ordinance in that it did not serve the public interest in enumerated ways and that the actions of the Commissioners were Arbitrary and Capricious in enumerated ways, and there was failure to obtain fiscal approval from the County Council of Hancock County.

We will keep you informed of each development. Let us know any information that would be helpful as we go along. The Complaint will be published to this site soon.

In the five weeks since Eli Lilly and Co. announced it would ask the county to close portions of Meridian Road and Davis Road (CR 100S) near its facilities, critics of the move have responded in a fashion seldom seen.
- The Daily Reporter (Greenfield, IN)

"it is rare for a private company to ask that a well-used street or road be vacated for its own purposes. Unless you’re talking about Eli Lilly".
- The Daily Reporter (Greenfield, IN)

note: For those interested in further research, and unfortunately for Lilly, they do not own the "easement" and/or "technically" control our roads.

Indianapolis Channel 13 News covers the proposed road closures. Now Lilly seems to be banging the growth drum - what happened to the "security" issue?
- WTHR Channel 13 News at 11 (Indianapolis, IN)

Live! from the 'Insert-Foot-in-Mouth-Here' Department, Don Pearson of Greenfield Labs’ community relations department is quoted in the Indy Eye as saying: "We own the land on both sides of the road, therefore we technically own the road." Hey Don, if 'you' "own" the road then why ask the County for permission to close them?  Attention farmers: you've got land on boths sides of a road? Don's just shown you the way to join up your land and rid it of those pesky cars that get all jammed up behind your tractor.
- The Indianapolis Eye

By popular demand we now have signs ready for distribution. If you have not already requested signs from us, then please email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it for how to get your sign. Please include your name and phone number for any potential last minute information. The signs are for placement in any publicly visible location you own - your yard, your store etc. They are 18"x24" blue type on white plastic and read:

For any pharmaceutical firm, Eli Lilly and Co. included, its drug pipeline means everything.
- The Daily Reporter (Greenfield, IN) http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/

The ePoll on the http://www.greenfieldreporter.com has displayed some uncharacteristic behavior recently. This evidently changed the results from over 50% of votes resoundly against closing the roads to 50% of votes resoundly for closing the roads within 1 hour by some observations. David Hill, editor of the Daily Reporter, stated the poll is "unscientific" and had "no basis" since they are unable to track who is voting. He continued, that while the poll had collected 129 votes in its first 8 days, within the last 48 hours he observed the poll had now collected over 450 votes - "you make your own conclusion". They will be removing the Poll from their web site soon. Further, our technical analysis of the ePoll indicates voting unlimited times is easily achieved by simply deleting and then blocking "cookies" from the http://www.greenfieldreporter.com site within MS IE or with free trial software such as Cookie Pal. More to come...