On Thursday, December 19th at 6:00 p.m., Raise Up will be hosting a community meeting through Freedom Indiana to discuss efforts to combat HJR-6 and support same-sex marriage and benefits throughout Indiana. The meeting will be held at VUJC in the JCCB Lecture Hall. If you would like to attend, please click here to RSVP….
Indianapolis — Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz filed suit Tuesday morning alleging violations of the Open Door Law by members of the State Board of Education. The suit names ten members of the Board as defendants over allegations they violated Indiana’s Open Door Law “by taking action in secret by drafting, or directing the…
Indianapolis — Southern Indiana will be assigned a new area code – 930 – with the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission’s adoption of an overlay to resolve the 812 area code numbering shortage. An area code overlay allows a new area code to be assigned over the same geographic area as an existing area code, which means any customer requesting…
Healthy Dubois County, Inc., (HDC) a not-for-profit public benefit organization advocating for the health and well-being of the area residents, has recently been notified that it has received a significant grant from the Indiana Utility Rate Payers Trust (IURPT). In a press release HDC stated they will apply the award to expenses incurred in the…
Jasper’s LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer) awareness organization, Raise Up, is launching a series of new projects and events this year. Raise Up was created by Jasper natives Sarah Barry and Tommy Craven in 2011. Since then they have held a series of events including educational film screenings at VUJC, a suicide awareness event at the Dubois…
Chicago – OFS Brands, a leading manufacturer for contract furniture, announced today that the company won three Best of NeoCon Awards. OFS Brands products honored with a Best of NeoCon award include Eleven Work Space, Slate by OFS and Carolina’s Mile Marker. These collections are currently on display at the company’s showroom located on the…
Consumers should enjoy a summer driving season without unusually high gasoline prices and probably lower than they were last summer, says a Purdue University agricultural economist. Wally Tyner, who specializes in energy economics and policy, expects prices in the Midwest to be between $3.50 and $3.90 a gallon, with prices in the South and Southeast…
The Indiana University School of Medicine-Evansville announced that a unified delegation of state legislators was successful in securing $2 million in planning funds in the 2013-15 biennium budget for the planning of a regional academic health science education and research campus in southern Indiana. In 2012, the IU School of Medicine-Evansville initiated a study process with…
Farmers to donate nearly nine million fresh eggs to food banks nationwide during Easter season Jasper — Wabash Valley Produce of Dubois, IN,is helping in the fight against hunger by donating nearly 300,000 eggs to Indiana food assistance organizations, including the local Community Food Bank, during the month of March. Families continue to struggle to…
Kimball Electronics Group has been awarded a new assembly contract with Consumer Safety Technologies (CST), headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa. The contract includes manufacturing of printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs) and system build for electronic controls used in the CTS Intoxalock eLERT product. The Intoxalock brand breath alcohol ignition interlock device (BAIID or IID) has…
