The Jasper Common Council approved pay raises for themselves and city employees at the council meeting last night. The salary and full-time utility department and civil city employees will receive a two percent cost of living raise. The mayor and clerk will also receive a two percent raise. Part-time employees will receive a 15 cents…
Is the next big YouTube tech reviewer a junior sitting in pre-calculus at Northeast Dubois right now? Is he the guy that has been cooking at Happy Hour in Celestine for the past two and a half years and runs cross country for the high school? Maybe; anything is possible with the equalizing effect of…
Birdseye — A Birdseye man was LifeFlighted from the scene of an accident Tuesday night when the scooter he was operating was struck by a small SUV. Zachary Russell, 23, of 1025E, was westbound on State Road 64 at about 6:12 p.m. when he attempted to turn south on State Road 145 in front of an eastbound 2003…
Jasper — The City of Jasper has made some changes and is researching others to potentially prevent another boil order similar to what happened on the morning of September 17. At Monday’s Jasper Utility Service Board meeting, the city released a detailed report of how the water plant and city personnel responded to the incident. According to…
Dubois County Catholic school system will open in 2015 Jasper — Father Gary Kaiser announced that Sally Sternberg will serve as principal, and Michelle Brandle will serve as assistant principal, of Holy Trinity Catholic School. Father Kaiser, pastor of Precious Blood Parish in Jasper and St. Mary Parish in Ireland, serves as Bishop Charles C. Thompson’s delegate…
Residents of a two-story fourplex on Circle Pine Drive were able to escape when a fire broke out in an upstairs apartment Monday night. The Jasper Fire Department was dispatched to the Precious Blood area after the emergency call came in from a resident of apartment 550 at about 8:39 p.m. The responding fire fighters were…
The Ferdinand Police Department issued an advisory of an active scam working through the area. According to authorities, male and female college age individuals are posing as college students and going door-to-door selling magazine subscriptions. These persons are accepting cash or checks as payment for the subscription(s), handing over a generic receipt and then leaving. To this…
A Huntingburg woman was killed in a single-vehicle accident at about 7:16 a.m. Sunday. According to the Warrick County Sheriff’s Department, Abbey L. Schurz, 31, of South Chestnut Street, was eastbound on I-64 near mile-marker 39 in 2012 Kia Optima when the car veered of the south side of the interstate. Schurz was not wearing…
It was an important weekend for high school marching bands as the ISSMA open class regional competitions were held on Saturday. Those bands that were awarded enough points based on their performances moved on to the semi-state competition on November 1st. Jasper, Southridge, Forest Park, Springs Valley, Paoli, and Pike Central all advanced to semi-state. In…
Santa Claus — A Ferdinand Fulda man lost his life Saturday evening in a single vehicle tractor accident northeast of Santa Claus. Charles W. Kuntz, 60, was traveling west on County Road 1700N, about a mile east of State Road 162, on a John Deere 4020 tractor. According to police, the wheels of the tractor locked…
