The Jasper Chamber of Commerce works with businesses, merchants, and industry to advance the civic, economic, industrial, professional and cultural life in the City of Jasper and throughout Dubois County, Indiana. Support Your Local Chamber of Commerce Day is October 16, 2024. Here is some information about the Jasper Chamber and why you should support…
Voting is an essential part of our democracy and the most important step in ensuring that the people we put in leadership positions are interested in governance more than power, in making policy more than making money. We do this by listening to what they have to say…and just like in 2020 our incumbent party…
Along with many others, I attended the Mid States Corridor meeting on September 26 and was not surprised that the Lochmueller Group, which is conducting the study, were simply trying to defend an indefensible need statement for the project, which is still not defensible after four studies accompanied by much public opposition for 40 years. Just…
The Southridge graduating class of 1974, just celebrated our 50th class reunion. As part of that event many of us gathered at SHS to meet Greg Gogel, the current principal, and take a tour of the school. It’s hard to believe it was brand new 50-plus years ago when we became the first junior class…
My family owns a farm south of Huntingburg that just received a Hoosier Homestead Award at the Indiana State Fair. Parts of our farm have been passed down through the family since 1851. The people behind the Mid-States Corridor project want to destroy my farm. In the years that my family has farmed the land,…
On February 11, 2020, my grandmother, Marilyn Jane of Loogootee, Indiana, a former bank teller and assistant to the loan officer at German American Bank, passed away after a five-year battle with dementia. Her loss, combined with the commitment my family and I made to help her, left us heartbroken. We didn’t consider “The Mid-State…
Our Covid-19 lockdown had an eerie “Twilight Zone” feel to it. Now, I’m leaning into the 1959-1964 TV series to explain another modern phenomenon: Trumpism. I’ve wondered how I’d explain Trumpism to people like my parents who died long before Donald Trump’s rise to the White House. Explaining to the uninitiated would have once been…
Dear fellow Christians, I’m sure this will come as a surprise to some of you but there have been times in my life when I was wrong in my thinking. Has this ever happened to you? Perhaps you were so dug in on what you believed or felt in a conversation with your spouse or…
In most political seasons, dirty tricks abound, along with the usual October Surprise. These are used by the desperate in an attempt to sway elections. These same tactics are now being used by the Loch-Mueller Group, i.e., the Mid-States Corridor people. The recently funded Tier 2 Study is an example of the former, dirty tricks. The…
Teresa Kendall, the Democratic candidate for Indiana House District 63, has officially called for a debate with her Republican opponent, Shane Lindauer, ahead of the upcoming November elections. In a letter sent to Lindauer, Kendall emphasized the importance of providing voters in Daviess, Dubois, Martin, and Pike Counties with an opportunity to hear from both…
