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Below are various featured stories and photo essays we’ve done over the years.

  • Overcoming myths in the pursuit of justice for sexual assault victims

    (The victim’s name has been changed.) Jennifer wept when the jury came back with the verdict. Not tears of joy. Her molester had been acquitted. She had been able to sit in the courtroom and describe the molestation that had occurred beginning at the age of nine. Jennifer had done it as factually as possible,…

  • There is something special about the Northeast Dubois Senior Play

    The public is invited to the play this Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Northeast Dubois Intermediate School. Doors open at 1:30 p.m. and tickets are $5. Alex Dooley appears in almost every scene of this year’s Northeast Dubois Senior Play. He’s the blood-splatter guy in the playbill. And, in this loose adaption of Game…

  • Veterans event brings camaraderie and conversations

    The skeet shooting is a backdrop for the veterans talking and giving each other a hard time as they move from station to station. “When you’re in the military, there’s that jocularity,” organizer Steve Lindauer said, referring to the conversations around the event. “That’s what I love to see. You’re talking to men and women…

  • Breaking the record a book at a time

    Blaine Rohleder couldn’t let the tie stand any longer, so last Wednesday, he knocked out an Accelerated Reader (AR) test for a 16-page book, “May’s Whale,” to surpass the national record for AR points in a school year. With the record-breaking 2,718.4 AR points behind him, the Jasper Elementary School fourth grader still had a…

  • Girls on the Run of Southwest Indiana celebrates 10 years

    Girls on the Run of Southwest Indiana celebrated 10 years on Saturday with runs in Jasper and in Evansville. More than 242 participants from Dubois County and Spencer County took to the track for the celebratory 5k at Jasper Middle School, with 122 participants heading out for their 5k in Evansville at about the same…

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