Jason Boyd, director of the Lake County Planning Commission, says the new 2011 Lake County Public Officials Directory  is at the printers and should be available within the week.

The cost of this booklet - which lists the names, telephone numbers and other such useful information of every township, village, city, county, state and federal official  impacting Lake County - will be $5.

My current 2008 copy is becoming dog-eared, ratty and is terribly out of date with a lot of penned updates. It's time for a new one.

And though a person can access the Planning Commission's web site and download PDF versions, the actual hard, printed copy is way more convenient to use than the electronic version. If you have multiple people to reach or have your computer latched to something else all you have to do is flip pages. Much simpler and more handy.

- Jeffrey L. Frischkorn
JFrischkorn@News-Herald.com