Brooke Mcafee

Kate Hess Pace is the rural organizing fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies and the director of Hoosier Action, an independent community organizing group in Southern Indiana. This column originally appeared at

Gina Anderson, a Purdue Extension educator, was the guest speaker at Thursday's program at the Floyd County Library.

From left to right: Diane Geise, Shelly Doss, Elizabeth Murphy, Sue-Ellen Koetter and Marlea Ferber.

Attendees had the option of 25 different restaurants to choose to eat from at the 2024 annual Taste of Southern Indiana.

The Floyd County Carnegie Library Cultural Arts Center will be offering a three-part course on the basics of drawing beginning Aug. 5.

Attendees and patrons filled the Spring Street sidewalks, sampling wine as they stop into the local stores and eateries in downtown Jeffersonville during the 2019 Wine Walk. The Wine Walk this year will be Friday, July 28.

Sam Peden Community Park in New Albany is pictured in August 2021. Floyd County's parks and recreation fund is among those that need to be monitored, according to financial projections from Baker Tilly.

A New Albany Police Department body camera is pictured in 2024. The Floyd County Sheriff's Department received the OK from the commissioners to enter a contract for the use of body cameras.

SELLERSBURG – Art lovers from across Southern Indiana and the Greater Louisville area are invited to the 5th Annual Art Near Speed Park, a juried fine art show featuring talented