A Letter to the Community of Jasper: From early morning on Wednesday, September 17 through mid-afternoon on Sunday, September 21, citizens of the City of Jasper experienced the first city-wide water boil order since 2004. Acknowledging the inconvenience that boiling water prior to consuming placed on our residential, commercial, and industrial customers, we also remain…
Still a young man is gone Yet his legend lingers on For he died without a cause And they say that he’ll Be known for evermore As the Rebel Without A Cause (The Beach Boys) When evening falls on the final day of September, James Byron Dean will be absent from this world 59 years….
~In Honor & Tribute To My Grandfather~ Charles William Kuebler, Junior Private First Class United States Army 42nd Rainbow Infantry Division 222nd Infantry Regiment Company B, 1st Battalion Killed In Action during “The Battle of The Bulge” (Operation Nordwind) in Alsace, France on January 25, 1945, Age 24. On November 25, 1944, the 222nd Infantry…
Here is a special story from Cathy Overton about the great season the Jasper Wildcats Girls Cross Country Team had this year. It ended at state finals on Saturday but the season was fraught with many personal and team victories.
by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, Nov. 1, 2013, 9:26 a.m. Today marks one month since the disastrous start of Healthcare.gov, the seriously impaired federal health insurance marketplace. And what a month it’s been. For the first 16 days, a federal government shutdown largely deflected attention from the website’s problems. But since then, three congressional hearings have…
Pilot John Layne doesn’t remember much about what happened to him out of the clear blue sky over Huntingburg. But he has six rods, two metal plates and hundreds of stitches in his 53-year-old body to remind him of that fateful July 19 flight.
The City of Jasper was the highlight in the INDIANA LTAP Spring Newsletter magazine for their Spotlight on Innovation: Shoring Trenches, Saving Lives: Trench Safety in the City of Jasper. The purpose of Indiana Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) is to translate the latest, state-of-the-art road, highway and bridge technologies into systems usable by local…
If the World Were 100 People infographic by KVSStudio.Info Source 100people.org
(via Evansville Courier & Press) INDIANAPOLIS — The organization that regulates high school sports will decide today whether to let some homeschooled students participate in high school athletics. The move by the Indiana High School Athletic Association comes two years after the issue bubbled up at the Indiana General Assembly,…
(via Evansville Courier & Press) Thank goodness this spring has shaped up well for morel mushrooms, which seem to be sprouting in quantity. Last year was downright weird. My father, Tom Blume, and I attended a morel foray with Chris Matherly of The Morel Mushroom Hunting Club, who has written books on morel hunting and…
