Healthy Dubois County Inc. retained Steve Ripstra of Ripstra Law Offices to represent them in filings against the city concerning the city’s actions in seeking to lease the Jasper Power Plant to Jasper Clean Energy. Ripstra filed a preliminary injunction based on the fact that some proceedings the city conducted during the lease negotiations were…
The vote on the proposed lease is tomorrow at 4 p.m. at the city hall. With this looming in the near future the city held a press conference to release more details concerning changes in the lease. These changes come from questions raised at the public forum and concerns from the community. [adrotate group=”1″] The…
Here are a few of the entrants in the First Annual Boat Regatta. The sponsored boats for the Holy Family boat regatta will be making their first official public showing during the upcoming Strassenfest parade on Sunday August 7th in Jasper. [adrotate group=”1″] If you want to be part of the fun there is still…
Strassenfest 2011 Event Schedule
The Concerned Citizens has organized under the name Healthy Dubois County, Inc. a non-profit organization that just formed last week. Pastor Chris Breedlove stated that the group opposing the power plant conversion has grown and they felt there was a need to organize. Chairperson of the new organization is Dr. Norma Kreilein. Other members of…
Huntingburg Christian Ministries has started a remodeling project at Shared Abundance on 4th Street. Tuesday evening the group roped off the area around the Abundance building and at 4:30 Wednesday morning they began tearing the front off. [adrotate group=”1″] “The windows were leaky and actually beginning to fall out.” Bill Kaiser, Ministries President, said. “We…
[adrotate group=”1″] Today the candidates in the 2011 Huntingburg city election joined together to sign a Political Civility Challenge offered by the Huntingburg Chamber of Commerce. This is in keeping with a similar pledge signed between Russ Stillwell and Sue Ellspermann during their election campaigns and follows the Jasper Chamber pledge signed by Jasper candidates…
In a heartfelt and emotional announcement today at Holiday World, Dan Koch recognized Will Koch, Pat Koch, all the employees over the years, and of course all of the many guests in celebrating Holiday World and Splashin’ Safari’s 65th anniversary. Holiday World announced the newest addition to the park coming in 2012. Splashin’ Safari already…
[sj] With public hearing on the Biomass proposal for leasing Jasper’s Power Plant now behind us, and the unlikeliness of another public hearing, I think it is important to respectfully request the city council to hold a city wide vote by residents who are registered to vote. I feel this is the fairest way and…
