Both the Birdseye Park Department and Fire Department depend on an annual picnic for help with funding. As with most in Dubois County, the Fire Department is a volunteer endeavor. The Birdseye Park Department is almost such when it comes to funding. Although an appointed board under the auspices of the Town Council governs the…
A benefit pork chop and fried chicken dinner for Dakota Boeglin will be held Sunday, December 15, at the Ferdinand American Legion. Dakota Boeglin entered the world at 3:35 p.m. on April 6, 2012, weighing 8 pounds, 3 ounces and measuring 23 inches. A beautiful boy in almost every way, a “birthmark” covered the left…
A new, 60-room hotel will open at 123 Scenic Court this summer. Earthwork is near completion and building construction will begin in the near future. Universal Design Associates designed the new Super 8 for I.P.D. Hospitality, Inc., out of Suwanee, GA, and will oversee its construction. The new three story, 36,000 square-foot Super 8 will…
by Lisa W. Hoppenjans Ferdinand News Between the three of them, they claim 115 years of experience in education. At their meeting last night (Tuesday, February 5), the Southeast Dubois County School Corporation Board of Trustees reluctantly accepted the resignations of veteran educators Jeff Johnson (industrial arts and Project Lead the Way teacher at Forest…
by Lisa W. Hoppenjans Ferdinand News For the last seven years or so, Ferdinand Elementary Principal Lee Begle has promised himself the first time he wasn’t excited to be starting a new school year would be his last. That day never came. “But, ultimately, it’s time to enjoy family,” Begle says, just days before the…
