During the scheduled Jasper Utility Service Board meeting on Monday evening Utilities Manager Bud Hauersperger informed the board of a grant program available for Jasper. The Community Conservation Challenge is a grant program from the Indiana Office of Energy Development. The grant program is in its second year and last year four grants totaling $1.6…
Plainfield – The Indiana State Police will be giving the online community an inside look at the current ISP Academy Class for the first time as they progress through training. The Indiana State Police plans to post weekly behind-the-scenes photos of the cadets during their 24-week paramilitary training. The 71st Recruit School began in earnest…
A county-wide emergency drill was held last Wednesday at the Holland Elementary School Gymnasium and at Memorial Hospital. The team that conducted the tabletop exercise in August, Industrial Safety and Training Services (ISTS), returned to put on the full scale exercise. Here is the article about the tabletop exercise. The emergency consisted of a chemical…
“We screw up the popcorn sometimes,” Juanita Eckert said, explaining that the new gourmet popcorn ideas they have at the Jasper Gift Basket and Popcorn Company don’t always work out on the first try. “Sometimes we’ll try it and just think ‘nope that’s disgusting’, but sometimes the guys will eat it.” She explains. She and…
Two Jasper companies stood before the Jasper Economic Development Board yesterday to apply for tax abatements for expansions in Jasper. Indiana Furniture requested abatements for an expansion project at their plywood manufacturing facility and the construction of a new administrative office building. Stens applied for abatements for renovations on an existing building they are considering…
http://youtu.be/zp4zCjObA_4 In a recent interview with Mr. John Burger, Dubois County Free Press had a chance to ask the Democratic candidate for mayor of Jasper a few questions about his both his background and his hopes for the city’s future. Looking back on his history in Jasper, Burger claims he is blessed to have both…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1ACNQ9LT2M In a recent interview with Mr. Terry Seitz, Dubois County Free Press had a chance to ask the Republican candidate for mayor of Jasper a few questions about his both his background and his hopes for the city’s future. When asked to cite his qualifications for being mayor of Jasper, Seitz recounted a professional…
The final segment of the mayoral forum consisted of a selection of questions submitted by the audience and via Facebook that were then posed to both candidates as they sat on the stage together. First up was Burger, asked to rate the quality of Jasper’s infrastructure. His feeling was that the city’s road quality was…
Jasper’s mayoral forum opened Tuesday night at Vincennes University Jasper Campus with a welcome from VUJC dean Dr. Alan Johnson, where he stated that the night’s goal was to give Jasper’s residents a better idea of the two candidates’ positions on important governmental issues. The event resulted in a respectful and positive-thinking discussion, mostly centered…
JASPER, Indiana – Herald humor columnist Scott Saalman “Will Read For Food” at Vincennes University Jasper Campus (VUJC) on Tuesday, Oct. 18., to benefit the Dubois County Food Bank. Saalman, a Jasper resident, will read a few essays that span his 20-plus-year writing career. Joining him will be local musicians Ray Major and Kris Lasher,…
