Matthew Crane

The joke is that Aaron isn’t allowed to attend auctions unsupervised. As part of his family’s Southern Illinois business, Aaron attended auctions and business sales to purchase used greenhouses and other gardening supply business equipment. The equipment was refurbished and sold to other greenhouses, growers, or horticultural businesses. It just so happened that on President’s...

High Ponies is about two hours of controlled chaos each Tuesday evening in April. Led by Jill Wigand and her entourage of volunteer Jasper High School Dance team members, about 180 to 200 girls and some boys fill the Jasper Middle School gym. Through the evening, they move from station to station, performing and practicing...

The Huntingburg Common Council, Huntingburg Rate Advisory Board and the Huntingburg Board of Public Works and Safety met in a special meeting and ultimately made several decisions to move forward with a complete update of the wastewater treatment facility.

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...

If he knows your favorite musician, Ty Neighbors will try to have them on the radio when you stop by his new Huntingburg barber shop, Back Alley Barber Club, for your appointment. You’ll also be able to grab a cup of his personal roast of coffee from St. Anthony-based roaster Stay Brewed or a Sprecher...

Martin County resident Jason McCoy recently hosted a public meeting at Loogootee High School, advocating for residents to stand against the Mid-States Corridor.

The Heart of Jasper presented the Jasper Redevelopment Commission with renderings for a proposed micro-park at the corner of Fourth and Main Streets in downtown Jasper. In a multi-phase approach, the nonprofit group is working to add a trail from the Thyen-Clark Cultural Center to Main Street, with the park anchoring the trail to the...

Blaine Rohleder couldn’t let the tie stand any longer, so 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 personal goal...

Tike Kilburn of Washington fires at the final station of the skeet range at Cool Springs in Velpen. Cool Springs is owned by OFS and was opened for the event held last Saturday in which eight local veterans took part.

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 of Tiaras, Don Zigaris’ adaption of Shakespeare’s King Lear, featuring the 63 members of the Northeast Dubois graduating class, he gleefully explodes on stage as nearly every...