County councilman announces run for county commission
Dubois County Councilman Nick Hostetter announced he will run for the office of Dubois County Commissioner representing District #3. There are three commissioner districts in Dubois County. District #3 consists of Cass, Ferdinand, Hall, Jackson, Jefferson and Marion Townships. A candidate for the office must live in the district but is elected by all of…
Schuetter holding on decision after Seitz’s reelection refusal
Wayne Schuetter had stated he would let the public know what his next step would be if Mayor Terry Seitz refused to participate in another election to break the tie in the Jasper Mayor’s Race. Schuetter had challenged Seitz based on his view that throwing out the ballot on the lack of a set of…
County council meeting: Quick meeting completes necessary moves to close out 2015
For their final meeting of 2015, the Dubois County Council approved abating $846,000 in property taxes for a St. Anthony company, adjusted the 10 percent pay issue again and moved some money to avoid being in the red. The council approved a 5-year property tax abatement for Temple-Inland for $846,000 they invested in equipment. Property…
Downed tree closes U.S. 231, causes crash
A Huntingburg teen collided with a tree down across U.S. 231 near Witz Road at about 8:30 p.m. Monday night. The crash and tree blocked both lanes of the highway for about 45 minutes while crews from the Jasper fire and police departments joined the sheriff’s department in removing the tree and car. According to…
Police seeking car involved in head-on collision in Jasper
(Photos of the suspect car have been removed at the request of the Jasper Police Department due to a corporate privacy policy.) Police are seeking a white sedan involved in a head-on collision in the Jasper IGA parking lot Sunday at 5:50 p.m. The car, possibly a Mercury originally reported as a 2-door sedan, left…
Pair arrested for credit card theft, identity theft and more
The Jasper Police Department arrested a pair after finding stolen credit cards, a magnetic strip reader and other stolen items Monday morning at a Jasper residence. According to police, the investigation began after they received a notice at about 6 p.m. Sunday from an Indianapolis woman that her credit card information had been used fraudulently…
Road closures in Dubois County
Due to over 2 inches of precipitation falling over parts of the area, several county roads are flooded. Madison Township County Road 875 West south of County Road 150 North County Road 800 West north of County Road 300 South – river bottoms County Road 150 South west of Old Huntingburg Road Ell Creek Road…
Swearing-in ceremonies scheduled
Swearing in ceremonies for the newly elected officials in Jasper and Huntingburg will be held this week. The City of Huntingburg will swear in Mayor Denny Spinner and council members Tim Wehr (At-Large), Glen Kissling (Precinct 1), Jeff Bounds (Precinct 2), Steve McPherron (Precinct 3) and Kerry Blessinger (Precinct 4). The ceremony will be held…
$42 million injected into regional development
Effort supported through grants from Lilly Endowment Inc. Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded three grants totaling $42 million to organizations in the Southwest Central Indiana region. The grants will support regional development initiatives in an 11-county area that encompasses Brown, Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Greene, Lawrence, Martin, Monroe, Orange, Owen and Washington counties. The funds will advance…
Three taken to hospital after crash on State Road 56
Three people were taken to the hospital early Sunday morning after the car they were in went off State Road 56 and rolled several times Lindsey Quinn, 27, of Dubois, told police she was driving a 2006 Ford Focus westbound on SR 56 at about 1 a.m. when she overcorrected around a curve just west…
Truck driver disregards signs, destroys iron bridge in Paoli
The old iron bridge on South Gospel Street in Paoli was destroyed when a truck driver disregarded the weight and height and drove a load weighing over 43,000 lbs. over it Christmas Day. According to police, Mary Lambright, 23, of Fredricksburg, Ind., was operating a 2015 Volvo tractor pulling a 53-foot semi-trailer loaded with bottled water…
Head-on collision ends with arrest
Deputies charged a Jasper man with drunken driving after he caused a head-on collision north of Phoenix Drive Tuesday evening. Deputies responded to the collision at about 8:53 p.m. Witnesses at the scene told police that Lionel Vasquez Rodrigues, 25, of Circle Pine Drive, was southbound on U.S. 231 in a 2001 Ford Focus in…
18 percent sewer rate hike approved
The Huntingburg Common Council approved the proposed 18 percent sewer rate hike Tuesday evening. The increase was recommended by Crohn and Associates to cover the operational costs of the wastewater department as well as fund a portion of the $4.3 million in needed upgrades to the aging infrastructure. The council held a public hearing at…
Police seeking tips on Ruxer Field break-in
Jasper Police Department is going to the community for tips to determine who broke into the Ruxer Field concession stand. According to authorities, the concession stand was broken into sometime between Sunday afternoon and 5:45 a.m. Wednesday. The subjects broke a window on the east side of the stand and then took between 10 and…
The final meeting
Four Jasper Councilmen took part in their final meeting Tuesday evening. The mayor presented each with a key to the city in honor of their service and three of the councilmen who are retiring were presented with a special plaque from the rest of the council.
Tell City municipal truck recovered and Jasper man arrested
A Jasper man was arrested Tuesday after police stopped a truck that was believed to have been stolen from Tell City. Police were on the lookout for a white Ford pickup reported stolen from Tell City at about 9 a.m. According to police, a Tell City municipal employee went into a law office for some…
Jasper man arrested for attempted murder and strangulation
Casey Myers, 34, of 412 E. 7th Street, is charged with a Level 1 felony count of attempted murder and a Level 6 felony count of strangulation after he allegedly took a serrated steak knife to his ex-wife’s throat Monday night. Myers, who is being held at the Dubois County Security Center without bond, entered…
Mayor replaces Jasper Street Commissioner and assistant
Jasper Mayor Terry Seitz will not reappoint Raymie Eckerle as the city’s street commissioner nor Lois Kuntz as the mayoral assistant in 2016. Eckerle learned about the change after this morning’s Jasper Board of Public Works meeting. He has been the city’s street commissioner since 2000. Here is a story about Eckerle’s recent recognition by…
Jasper Utility Service Board: Power Plant for sale
What would you do with the Jasper Power Plant? The Jasper Utility Service Board approved sending out requests for proposals to purchase the property or salvage it (with the caveat that the salvage included asbestos remediation). Evansville-based Cardno completed the request for proposal that includes the request for bids to demolition the building and abate…
Dubois County Treasurer to run for county commissioner in 2016
Dubois County Treasurer, Chad Blessinger, announced he will run for the office of Dubois County Commissioner representing District #1. There are three commissioner districts in Dubois County. District #1 consists of Boone, Columbia, Harbison, Madison and Patoka Townships. A candidate for the office must live in the district but is elected by all of the…
Jasper man arrested for attempted murder
This story has been updated here. Jasper police arrested a Jasper man for attempted murder overnight. According to police, a call for help was received at about 9 p.m. Monday night from 412 E. 7th Street. Responding police found a 28-year-old female victim — later determined to be the ex-wife of Casey A. Myer, 34,…
Stolen motorhome recovered in Crawford County
A 37-foot Executive motorhome reported stolen from Muncie was recovered near Carefree in Crawford County, Friday morning. According to the Crawford County Sheriff’s Department, a resident located on State Road 66 north of Carefree reported a motorhome parked in his driveway without any occupant or driver in it. When a deputy arrived, he was able…
Indiana Dems file records request over Jasper recount
Following the official results of the Jasper mayoral election recount — where the race was determined by a single vote — the Indiana Democratic Party today filed an open records request with Governor Mike Pence regarding the involvement of a senior administration official in the recount proceedings. During formal recount proceedings, Samantha DeWester, Assistant Commissioner…
Stenftenagel nominated for national LifeChanger award
Photo from this Wildcat Weekly story. http://wildcatweekly.org/?p=5841 Jasper High School Special Education Teacher Rick Steftenagel has been nominated as a LifeChanger of the Year. A group of 15 LifeChanger awardees will determine the LifeChanger award winner based on several criteria including: a proven ability to make a beneficial difference in the lives of students; an ability…
Seitz refuses special election option
Jasper Mayor Terry Seitz refused to participate in the special election proposed by challenger Democrat Wayne Schuetter. Schuetter made the request known at a press conference held at the Jasper Train Depot. (Story here.) In response, Mayor Seitz held a press conference at the City Hall at 1 p.m. Seitz prefaced the conference by stating…
Schuetter calls for special election over voter disenfranchisement
Mayor Terry Seitz’s original challenge to the tie decision in the 2015 Jasper Mayoral tie included a demand for a special election. Today, after losing the election to a single vote being cast out due to what largely amounts to a clerical error, challenger Wayne Schuetter asked that Mayor Seitz agree to the special election…
Huntingburg woman LifeFlighted; faces charges of drunken driving
A Huntingburg resident who was airlifted to St. Mary’s for injuries she received after crashing her car early Monday morning had a blood alcohol content of .23 percent, according to police. Melissa S. Wheatley, 30, of N. Jackson Street, suffered a head injury during the single-vehicle accident she was involved in on South Meridian Road…
Initial decision; Seitz wins by one ballot being thrown out
The initials are supposed to be on the ballots before they ever go out the door of the Dubois County Clerk’s office. Everything is done in a bipartisan way; a Democrat and Republican verify the ballots used by the travel board or as an absentee ballot. They ensure the ballots are clean and valid; that…
Car hits front porch in Ferdinand
A rural Ferdinand teen lost control of his car while attempting to avoid a collision and ran into the front porch of a residence on Main Street, Friday. Ferdinand Police Department responded to the accident at 955 Main Street at about 3:20 p.m. According to police, Gavyn Huff, 17, of E. State Road 62, was…
2015 Jasper Christmas decorating contest winners announced
The Jasper Jaycees and Jasper Chamber of Commerce announced the winners of the annual Christmas home decorating and lighting contest for this year. Entries were judged Friday, December 11. Prizes were awarded to first, second and third places in various categories. Family Theme Kevin Howard @ 858 N. Evergreen Drive Glen and Becky Hopf @…
County Surveyor to seek re-election
Kenneth R. Brosmer announced today his intention to seek re-election as Dubois County Surveyor. He was elected Surveyor in 1992 and has served in that post since January, 1993. Brosmer, 55, is a licensed surveyor. He started Brosmer Land Surveying, Inc. in 1990 and sold the business in 2013. He is a member of the…
