Monthly Archives: March 2023

The Seymour Area Farmers Market is conducting a vendor registration meeting from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, 105 S. Chestnut St., Seymour.

I was not raised to say “sir” or “ma’am,” so those words have never been part of my regular vocabulary, except for three years in the Army when they were forced on enlisted personnel as the required way to address officers.

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The Schneck Guild is accepting applications for the Kim Quilleon Varnell Memorial Scholarship.

The Jackson County Election Board will meet at 9 a.m. Friday in the former Jackson Superior Court II courtroom in the courthouse annex, 220 E. Walnut St., Brownstown.

The Owen-Salt Creek Township Fire Department recently took delivery of a 2023 Kenworth tanker-pumper. Shown with the truck are, from left, Fire Chief Chad Laney, Zach Sovern, who is the Owen-Salt Creek Fire District fiscal officer, and Steve Wray, who is the fire district board’s president. The $450,000 firefighting apparatus can hold 3,500 gallons of water and pump at a rate of 500 gallons per minute for the department, which protects property in Owen and Salt Creek townships in western Jackson County. The district is the largest fire territory — over 97 square miles — in the county and covers an area from south of U.S. 50 north to the Brown County line with Jackson County.

FLOYDS KNOBS

SEYMOUR, IN

HANOVER — The first meeting between Brownstown Central and Eastern (Pekin) was a low-scoring affair on Feb. 17, and as the two teams squared off again in the first round of the sectional on Wednesday night, it was played to a similar style.

When Seymour High School senior Cory Robinson was named the Colts High School Man of the Year, he received a number of things with the honor.