Holiday World officials plan to open to the public June 17 with 50 percent capacity, with reserved days earlier for Season Passholders. In place of reservations, the park will sell date-specific tickets online and officials ask that all Guests come with a ticket in hand to make sure they can enter. “We want to make…
Farbest Huntingburg announced that after a number of employees tested positive for Covid-19, the company will be testing all employees at the facility. “At this time, there are 42 confirmed cases at Farbest’s Huntingburg plant, and we are striving to contain that number,” Farbest President Ted Seger stated in a press release. “It is based…
Governor Eric J. Holcomb is directing flags statewide to be flown at half-staff on Peace Officers Memorial Day. Flags should be flown at half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Friday, May 15. Gov. Holcomb also asks businesses and residents across the state to lower their flags to half-staff on Friday to commemorate Peace Officers Memorial…
With the governor’s executive order relegating 100 or less people for events the City of Jasper has decided to postpone our Downtown Chowdown event for June. Originally scheduled to begin later this month, the first day of the event will be Wednesday, July 8th. This is subject to change pending the governor’s direction. As…
Preliminary results from a scientific study aimed at measuring the spread of the novel coronavirus in Indiana show a general population prevalence of about 2.8 percent of the state’s population. “What we knew through conventional detection methods — testing symptomatic people and those at high-risk for COVID-19 — was just the tip of the iceberg,”…
Two southwestern Indiana environmental health advocacy groups have been awarded a significant grant to undertake regional monitoring of toxic and fine particle air pollution as well as some water pollution. Southwestern Indiana Citizens for Quality of Life (SWICQL) based in Dale and Valley Watch, Inc., of Evansville, were local recipients of this award. The groups…
Farbest Huntingburg resumed full operations at the Huntingburg plant after a short shut down that took place when some employees tested positive for Covid-19. The pause in production was conducted to ensure that the company would meet the guidelines for asymptomatic individuals that could be present. According to President Ted Seger, Farbest Huntingburg started the…
The Dubois County Health Department confirmed eight more positive cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have been identified. This brings the total to 66 positive cases of COVID-19 in Dubois County residents. We are working closely with Indiana State Department of Health and local officials to ensure that close contacts of the patients are identified and monitored,…
This week, I visited a Dubois County office, where I was required to wear a mask. The Dubois County employees were not. They also did not social distance themselves from me. I believe they should be required to wear a mask also. I also saw the employees and elected officials out and about around town, talking to various people…
Officials at Jasper High School have organized a parade route through town to give the community a chance to congratulate the resilient class of 2020. Senior students will gather at the high school in their vehicles Friday evening the 22nd to begin a parade route at 6:30 p.m. (The original date and time scheduled for…
