While walking down Fourth Street in Huntingburg this morning I noticed what appeared to be a string ensemble in the window of the Antique Emporium. Intrigued, I entered the shop and heard the final strands of Precious Memories floating among the antiques. I shot a few pictures and then spoke with the trio as they…
This was submitted by a reader and we like to recognize people in the community doing cool things. The Nancy Hanks VEX Robotics Team was led by 6th Grade teacher Lynn Price. The teams all started with the same VEX Robotics kit, from which they worked for weeks designing their own robots. On Saturday, the…
How can a guy that makes movies with exploding entrails sit in a booth across from me sipping a white mocha? On top of that he uses “please” and “thank you” like salt and pepper; he’s a really polite, white mocha sipping (oh look, whip cream on the tip of his nose) Indiana University graduate…
When Jasper native Chelsea Gill set out to impress her favorite actor, it worked better than she could have dreamed. Not only did she gain the attention of the object of her affection, but she now has a national audience waiting with baited breath for his response. Using the power of YouTube and Twitter, Gill’s…
Southridge Senior Brandy Small thinks big; she recently started a shoe drive in Huntingburg to collect used shoes for the organization Soles4Souls. Not everyone can afford a pair of new shoe and this non-profit organization facilitates delivery of shoes to impoverished areas in 127 countries, including within the U.S. Many shoes lay idle in closets…
Brian Wongkanalasai age 24 of Chicago, Chris Ahn also 24 of Mayland, Casey Fittz 21 of Maryland, Andrew Zhao 24 of Minnesota, and Andy Petran 24 also of Minnesota left Cresent City California nearly eight weeks ago with their sights set on arriving in Assateague, Virgina in nine and a half weeks. [adrotate group=”1″] They…
Hege was an exchange student at Southridge High School in 89-90. They are from the city of Bergen on the westcoast of Norway. Bergen is the second largest city of Norway, app 250 000 people, with many historical midieval houses and castles. She loved the area and wanted to show her family her fond memories….
Remember when you were a little kid on the playground. You would get on the swings and start to push and pull your way to what seemed like dizzying heights. And then you would go higher and you imagined that if you could just get a little higher, a little faster, a little more power….
Pop quiz; point to Myanmar on a map. You can’t Google it first and truthfully I couldn’t find it either, but Liesl Eck, a 2011 graduate of Jasper High School, knows exactly where the small Asian country is and she can tell you all about it. On December 27, Liesl and her cousins, Erin Kieffner…
