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Whether walking, running, riding or playing, residents took to the parks and streets Monday afternoon to enjoy one of the warmest recorded days in February. With Punxsutawney Phil prognosticating an early spring, the warm sunshine and the mild month with Easter lilies popping up seem to support his forecast. Enjoy it while you can. This…
This week, return to the Alps with the Von Trapp family for “The Sound of Music,” presented by Southridge High School. With Nazism creeping into Austria, the Von Trapp family undergoes several awakenings during the course of events that changes their lives. The classic story may be more than 60 years old, but the divisive…
The unabashed joy of the annual Night to Shine celebration at Redemption Christian Church is a beautiful sight every year. In its ninth year, the church and hundreds of volunteers come together to put this wonderful night on for this special royal court. Created by the Tim Tebow Foundation, Night to Shine is a prom-like…
Choices. The first night Julianna could leave the Dove House for an overnight pass, she faced a choice. Her cousin had overdosed and been taken to an Evansville hospital. He wasn’t expected to live. But Evansville was an open door to a past she was attempting to overcome through the Dove Recovery House in Jasper….
A few photos of sledding fun at Buffalo Trace’s 10th hole.
When LaVonne Tisdal signed up for art class during her sophomore year at Holland High School, she didn’t imagine it leading to her career. The class sounded fun and offered a way for Tisdal to connect with her family’s history of artists. No big deal. But then she put brush to paper and ignited a…
Students at Holy Trinity Catholic Schools spent Thursday either bowling or skating to top off the final week of this semester. Throughout the week, students have had a myriad of fun events and activities. On Monday, students at Precious Blood entered the school to find the hallways transformed into the Polar Express. Tuesday, kindergarten through…
The weekly meetings are all voluntary moments that converge into guided conversations and more meetings until, eventually, a community of friends forms. Led by small groups of volunteers through local churches, Churches Embracing Offenders (CEO) has been changing people’s lives for about ten years. Brought to the area in 2013 and launched in 2014, CEO…
About 220 Holland Elementary students were treated to a trip to the Astra Theatre for a special viewing of “The Polar Express” on Wednesday. The trip was made possible through the efforts of the Positive Behavior Intervention and Support Team at Southwest Dubois County School Corporation — also known as Raider PRIDE. The initiative focuses…
The last time Huntingburg Officer Jorge Dubon took part in Cops and Kids (formerly called Shop with a Cop) he was about three or four years old. Though exact details are a bit fuzzy, he does remember how it made him feel to walk around with the police officers and their families as they shopped…
