Two Seymour residents were among the 26 students at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus recognized during the annual Scholarship Luncheon on Oct. 25 at the Columbus Learning Center. The two, the names and amounts of their scholarships and their majors are: Michael...
Cookie grandma Thumbs-up to Joanne Sunbury for her support of the Seymour High School cross-country teams. The 81-year-old earned the nickname "The Owls Power Cookie Grandma" by baking Owl-shaped, purple-frosted cookies for both the boys and the girls teams' postseason...
To the editor: Do the people in Jackson County know how blessed they are to have a cancer center here? What a wonderful, compassionate, friendly group of people who work there. Dr. Higinia...
To the editor: Comments about the newspaper article by Andrea Neal, “Blast from the Past — Hoosier drive-in restaurants rocked.” I have enjoyed many of the essays that Neal has written leading up to the state’s...
CROTHERSVILLE Sharpshooters can make or break a game in the fourth quarter. For Crothersville’s girls basketball team, they propelled it to its first victory of the season Tuesday. Crothersville senior Kashmir Kelshaw buried a pair of treys midway through the fourth quarter...
While accolades for on-field performances have their place, the awards presented for classroom work are more important for Seymour girls soccer coach Greg Musser. At their awards program on Tuesday, Musser grinned ear-to-ear before announcing that 10 of his players...
Each time she laced up her cleats, Seymour senior Marie Lenart always had one individual goal on top of getting a team win: Outwork every other player on the field. The Seymour High School senior’s effort never came into question...

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The old federal building at Third and Chestnut streets in Seymour has a long history of providing services to the public. If one group of local residents has its way, that building, which has stood empty for nearly a decade,...
At one time, Bill Hougland said he wasn't a morning person. But for the past five years, the Brownstown man has walked into Teresa Meyer's first-grade classroom at Brownstown Elementary School bright and early on weekday mornings and stayed until...
Visitors to Jackson County's geographic information system website will notice several upgrades. The biggest difference is with the images. Aerial photography taken this past summer went from 12-inch pixelation to 6-inch pixelation, making property images clearer to see. Several of the...