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Maurice Woods had a special pair of shoes he would wear when he visited potential customers in Jasper. He wanted them to know that his fledgling printshop in Holland was hungry for business so during those meetings, he’d cross one leg over his knee to expose the hole worn in the shoe’s sole. That fledgling…
A group of new and experienced mountain bikers has been meeting since last year to build a mountain bike track in Jasper. The Jasper Bike Club also meets on Tuesdays to work on mountain biking skills. The group is open to anyone looking to be involved with the development of the track or learn about…
Todd Cassidy grew up with Jasper’s downtown as his playground. With his mom’s store — Winkler’s back then, Midwest Café & Market these days — as an anchor point, he was always in the midst of the business and residential center of the city. His close friend, Eli Ring, and he had plenty to do…
While these things continue to develop, I took what time I had to meet with several people across the county to briefly talk about this situation. While by no means a great cross-section of the diversity we have here, I decided to stop meeting with folks in person. Weston Allen is waiting out his senior…
Evelyn Rivas remembers the first time she tried spaghetti at her elementary school cafeteria. “It was like the best thing ever,” she laughed. But, when she tasted really good spaghetti at a friend’s house in Huntingburg and realized how easy it was to make, she had to share it with her Salvadoran parents. “I was…
You know Morgan Thewes is comfortable with you when she begins to season her conversation with a few swear words. They slip in easily like exclamation points in digital messages; fairly innocuous between friends and completely missing in professional situations. The 26-year-old is the community manager at LiveWire, Jasper’s coworking space that opened last year…
Quietly hustling around in the background at Brew in Jasper, Emily Huddleston busses tables, delivers meals, takes orders and makes multitudes of coffee drinks. She began working there after graduating from Jasper High School in 2018. For the 4.1 GPA student whose photography earned national recognition from Jostens when she was a junior, going to…
Megan Durlauf is the director of the Dubois County Community Corrections Center. A job she’s grown into since being hired in 2010 part-time to oversee juvenile road crews.
Mo Peraza has lived a life that brought him from the darkness of criminal activities to the light and freedom found in faith. His new nonprofit now helps to spread the love of Christ by bringing people together to be the hands and feet of God.
Late Friday night, the cold air wafts the cacophony of three different air fresheners around the cramped interior of the 2011 Chevrolet Impala. The open window allows Jasper Officer Dakota Foote to hear activity outside of his car while he patrols the streets. The car’s futile fan’s attempt to beat back the cold air by…
