AdvancED, an international accreditation company, approved Jasper School Corporations 2016 accreditation, giving the school another five years until its next review. AdvancED is an external group that reviews members schools and corporations. From their website: AdvancED is the largest community of education professionals in the world. We are a non-profit, non-partisan organization that conducts rigorous,…
Effective Monday, April 11, 2016 the speed limit on 19th Street between CR 400 and Woodland Drive will be reduced to 25 miles an hour, per City of Huntingburg ordinance chapter 74, schedule VIII, sub-paragraph A. According to Street Department Superintendent Jason Stamm, when the area was annexed, the speed limit was not changed. Now…
Street Superintendent Jason Stamm showed the Huntingburg Board of Public Works two images of a large pile of construction material illegally dumped at the street department’s trash collection site on First Street. “We are continually fighting this,” Stamm said. This incident is one of several that have occurred in the lightly regulated trash collection site….
The Huntingburg Merchants Association presented the Huntingburg Volunteer Fire Department with a $4,000 check from proceeds from the Spring Gala. In its second year, the gala is an annual spring formal sponsored by the merchants. According to Fire Chief Scott Patberg, he was surprised by the amount awarded the fire department because originally he was…
Deputies say charges are pending in a crash that occurred Wednesday afternoon on State Road 145. According to authorities, they were called to a two-vehicle crash about 150 feet north of Borden Hill Road on State Road 145 at about 3:43 p.m. Details of the investigation are not being released but deputies did say that…
There’s been a lot of talk lately about tax increment finance (TIF) districts and how Huntingburg has been using them lately. I think this is a healthy discussion that needs to be had. I think it’s important to step back and ask ourselves what the main goal of a TIF district is. TIFs should be…
Plans for the 2016 Chalkwalk in downtown Jasper are in full swing. Corina Mack, Program Coordinator and Technical Assistant for the Jasper Arts Department revealed some additions to the popular event during Tuesday night’s Jasper Community Arts Commission meeting. “I received info from ‘Arts for Learning Indiana’ out of Indianapolis. They have an exciting opportunity…
The most sand 11 local students experienced over spring break was in a pile next to a concrete mixer that sputtered its drum around intermittently. The mixer’s dependability and the amount of work to be done forced the students to use shovels to mix concrete on the hard ground of Piedras Negras, Mexico. The concrete was…
The Dubois County Sheriff’s Department arrested Maria J. McKnight, 31, of E. 9th Street, Huntingburg, for operating while intoxicated after she crashed Tuesday evening. According to authorities, McKnight was southbound on County Road 600E north of County Road 700S at about 8:13 p.m. when the accident occurred. McKnight was going around a curve when she…
Chestnut Street in Huntingburg will be closed between 12th and 14th Streets today, April 6, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. This is being done in conjunction with the force main pipe installation work on 13th Street. The public is asked to find an alternate route during construction.
