Property tax payments due Tuesday
Tuesday is the final day for property tax payments. According to a press release from Dubois County Treasurer Chad Blessinger, the Treasurer’s office will be open on Tuesday, Nov. 13, until 5:00 to collect in-person payments. A drop box located on the southeast corner of the annex building is also available for after-hours payments. Payments mailed to…
Huntingburg Common Council meeting November 8
—The Huntingburg Common Council passed a resolution for a joint agreement with the City of Jasper and Dubois County for exploring the creation of Metro Fibernet tax increment financing district. Metro Fibernet would like to create a fiber to the residence or business network in Huntingburg and Jasper and rural areas in between. The goal…
Jasper Library Board expresses interest in Country Club property proposal
The Jasper Library Board expressed some interest in the potential to build a new library at the Jasper Country Club property if the City of Jasper does purchase the land. Attorney Bill Shaneyfelt told the board a representative with the city contacted him to inquire about the board’s potential interest. “Basically, at this juncture, it’s…
U.S. 231 to close for major repair work
UPDATE: Due to heavy rain forecast for the area, the closure scheduled for US 231 in Jasper has now been delayed until Tuesday, November 13. UPDATE: In addition to this major repair INDOT will be blacktopping portions of U.S. 231 between Huntingburg and Jasper. According to INDOT, traffic will not be rerouted for this work….
Kalla objects to Jasper Air Quality Permit for Jasper Power Plant
A member of Healthy Dubois County, Inc., has filed an objection to the application for a renewal of the air permit for the Jasper Power Plant. Once a permit has been filed with IDEM, notification is sent to local media sources and filed with the library. The public has 30 days to file objections to…
Dubois County Humane Society Shelter Animals’ Wish Tree
Each of the homeless dogs and cats at the Dubois County Humane Society Pet Adoption Center has requested some special items they would like to receive for Christmas this year. To achieve that goal, a Wish Tree has been put up at the Pet Adoption Center starting on Saturday, November 17. On that tree are…
Post office hours to change
New post office hours have been set for Celesting, Dubois, Holland, and Ireland post offices. According to the U.S. Postal Service the hours at these locations are only affected through the week and Saturdays will remain the same. The new hours will take effect Feb. 9. Holland Post Office – 8:00 to 10:30 a.m. and…
Country Club property dominated meeting discussion this morning
The Jasper Redevelopment Commission received preliminary information on pursuing the purchase of the Jasper Country Club property on Wednesday. Mayor Terry Seitz and Parks Director Ken Buck presented the history of the project to the commission. Buck explained he was approached in September by the owners of the country club to gauge the city’s interest…
Dale man arrested for battering and strangling his 4-month-old son
DALE — A Spencer County man was arrested on Monday for several felony charges related to the battery of his four-month-old son. Indiana State police arrested Derrick S. Lee, 23, Dale was arrested for the incident that occurred on July 8. According to the police investigation, the Spencer County Department of Child Services (DCS) was contacted…
Phoenix Drive in Huntingburg closed Tuesday
Weather permitting, final work on improvements to Phoenix Drive on the north side of Huntingburg is scheduled to be completed on Tuesday, November 6, weather permitting. Phoenix will be closed from U.S. 231 to CR 400 West, but motorists may use 12th Street and Sixth Street as alternative routes. Access to local businesses on this corridor…
Trash dumping investigation reveals who did it
NOVEMBER 5 UPDATE: Dubois County Sheriff Donnie Lampert reported Brandon Huckleby admitted to dumping the trash found along County Road 900 near the Pike County line. The case was turned over to the Sheriff’s Department in October after both parties involved denied dumping the bags. According to Lampert, Huckleby admitted to the illegal dumping during an…
Dubois County Substance Abuse Council awarded grant applications
The Dubois County Substance Abuse Council (SAC) under the direction and approval of Indiana Criminal Justice Institute awarded the September 2012 grant applications. The Governor’s Commission mandates SAC to provide funding in three categories: Treatment/Intervention, Prevention/Education, and Law Enforcement/Justice. Grants are awarded in March and September. For September the SAC executive council awarded grant applications…
Local schools graded by Indiana Department of Education
Fewer Indiana schools received A’s for the performance rating according to the Indiana Department of Education, but the changes weren’t as drastic as expected. The grades are based on ISTEP scores as well as a new formula that measures the growth in test-scores by students when measured against the past scores of their peers in…
Huntingburg Board of Public Works meeting notes – November 1
Police Chief Art Parks informed the board that off-duty officers in his Department are now getting text messages from Central Dispatch on their personal cell phones. The officers previously received notification through pagers. Parks stated with changing technology this is more expedient as the dispatch center can notify multiple officers with a single message. Parks…
Huntingburg calling on more property owners to clean up
Huntingburg continues to be active in relieving the city of problematic properties. At the Board of Public Works meeting on Thursday, City Attorney Phil Schneider reported the city might need to take action on a property at 103 S. Geiger. The owner was given a deadline of November 6 to demolish the unsafe structure there….
Eckerty Y General Store gutted in blaze Tuesday night
Eckerty — The Indiana State Fire Marshal was on the scene at the Eckerty Y General Store on Wednesday investigating the fire that broke out overnight and destroyed the building. English Volunteer Fire Department responded to the building located at the 7895 W. State Road 64 in Crawford County at around 8:50 p.m. After arriving English called…
Holland Post Office not closing but hours cut
About 50 people sat in the pews at the St. James Lutheran Church in Holland Tuesday evening waiting to hear if they would still have a Post Office. The Holland Post Office is one of about seventy-five that Cindy Klaiber, the manager for Post Office operations in this region, has slated for realignment. The move…
Early Voting update
Absentee voting has been so popular this year that the Dubois County Courthouse will allow voting to continue through lunchtime rather than closing from 11 a.m. to noon. Voters can come in from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, and from 8 a.m. to noon Monday. Satellite…
Dubois County Council meeting October 29
The Dubois County Council heard a request from Dubois County Prosecutor Kevin Crouse to purchase a new Computer Voice Stress Analyzer to add to the Sheriff’s Department to help in obtaining information from suspects. Crouse explained that the Department does have an old unit that is out-of-date and is becoming cumbersome to operate and unreliable….
VUJC to show documentary on horrific radiation experiments that occurred in Southern Indiana
Jasper –Vincennes University Jasper Campus is hosting a screening of the documentary Hole in the Head: A Life Revealed, followed by a discussion with the author, Wilbert Smith. Wilbert Smith wrote the book and created the documentary, along with Director Brett Leonard, about the radiation experiments conducted in 1927 on black children at Lyles Station,…
Huntingburg investigating natural gas powered city vehicles
“This is cutting edge, not bleeding edge technology,” Deron Hawkins, account executive with Energy Systems Group told the Huntingburg Common Council on Thursday night. Hawkins and Installation Engineer Adam Goldstein presented the council with information and costs associated with converting 21 existing city vehicles to run on compressed natural gas with the option to switch…
Huntingburg Common Council meeting October 25
Notes from the Huntingburg Common Council meeting Thursday night. The Council approved the 2013 budget in the amount of $7,364,768.00 and a tax rate of $1.2378 per $100 of assessed value. O. W. Krohn Associates representative Otto “Buzz” Krohn gave the Council an update on the state of the utilities in Huntingburg. According to Krohn…
Jasper police release more information about burglaries
UPDATE: (October 29) Jasper police have released more information about the five burglaries that occurred last week. One of the businesses is reporting a large amount of $2 bills being stolen. In addition the reward for information has been increased. The Community Strike Force Against Crime is now offering $1500 for any information that leads to the…
Jasper High School new scoreboard and gymnasium update
“Mr. Stenftenagel, 214 days until graduation. Are we gonna make it,” Bob Hacker, Assistant Superintendent of Jasper Consolidated School Corporation said to Clerk of the Works Scott Stenftenagel at Tuesday’s School Board meeting in regards to the gymnasium construction. Stenftenagel assured the board the construction was on schedule and should be available for the 2013…
Jasper Middle and High Schools facing high rates of substance abuse prompting new task force
In response to annual surveys of substance abuse among middle and high school students conducted by Indiana University, the Greater Jasper Consolidated School Corporation has formed a task force to deal with high rates of substance abuse among its students. “We received our Indiana University Surveys back,” Assistant Superintendent Bob Hacker said. “The kids do…
Jasper Consolidated School Corporation to hold first public forum Nov. 5
Greater Jasper Consolidated School District will hold its first public forum on November 5 at 6:30 p.m., at the Jasper High School Auditorium. The A through F Accountability Grade from the state will be discussed. The A through F accountability Grade is a state metric that measures how well a school is doing. The metric looks…
Jasper storm sewer collapse step closer to being fixed (updated)
Update: The Jasper Board of Publics Work excepted the bid from Blankenburger Brothers, Inc., for $276,825 to repair the collapsed storm sewer line along South Newton. According to City Engineer Chad Hurm, work is expected to start withing two weeks and the company has a 90 day window of completion. Original story: The hole on South Newton…
Birdseye man dies after rolling truck over in single vehicle accident
A Birdseye man passed away in the emergency room after being extracted from a flipped truck near Schnellville. Schnellville First Responders, Dubois County Sheriff’s Deputies and Memorial EMS were dispatched to a single vehicle accident this morning around 6:30 a.m., in which an 87-year-old Birdseye man was trapped in a vehicle that ran off of the road…
Will Koch family to be honored
Lori Koch and children Lauren, Leah and William will be honored at the Historic Santa Claus Campground in Santa Claus Indiana on November 10 at 3 p.m. CST for their generous donation of the Playground Boulders given in memory of their beloved father and husband, Will Koch. Will Koch, Past President of Holiday World and Splashin…
Mission accomplished for Enlow
Southwest School Superintendent Terry Enlow took the job as superintendent with the goal of fixing a bad financial situation. Now, with the completion of the school’s major renovation around the corner and a positive cash balance in the school reserves and rainy day fund, Enlow is ready to retire. These days the school has a…
Ferdinand to host brainstorming and creative idea event in November
Ferdinand’s Entrepreneurship pillar of the Hometown Competitiveness Initiative is looking for any individual interested in starting a business or bring a creative idea into reality to attend an upcoming free sharing event. The FHTC initiative is hosting a free brainstorming and creative idea-sharing event on Saturday, November 10, 2012, beginning at 8:30 a.m. in Forest…
