Todd Cassidy grew up with Jasper’s downtown as his playground. With his mom’s store — Winkler’s back then, Midwest Café & Market these days — as an anchor point, he was always in the midst of the business and residential center of the city. His close friend, Eli Ring, and he had plenty to do…
While these things continue to develop, I took what time I had to meet with several people across the county to briefly talk about this situation. While by no means a great cross-section of the diversity we have here, I decided to stop meeting with folks in person. Weston Allen is waiting out his senior…
Evelyn Rivas remembers the first time she tried spaghetti at her elementary school cafeteria. “It was like the best thing ever,” she laughed. But, when she tasted really good spaghetti at a friend’s house in Huntingburg and realized how easy it was to make, she had to share it with her Salvadoran parents. “I was…
You know Morgan Thewes is comfortable with you when she begins to season her conversation with a few swear words. They slip in easily like exclamation points in digital messages; fairly innocuous between friends and completely missing in professional situations. The 26-year-old is the community manager at LiveWire, Jasper’s coworking space that opened last year…
Quietly hustling around in the background at Brew in Jasper, Emily Huddleston busses tables, delivers meals, takes orders and makes multitudes of coffee drinks. She began working there after graduating from Jasper High School in 2018. For the 4.1 GPA student whose photography earned national recognition from Jostens when she was a junior, going to…
