A committee of county officials has decided the time to move forward with a proposal to establish a public defender’s office in Jackson County has arrived.
Jackson Circuit Judge Richard Poynter has been the pushing for the...
Local Christian pop-rock band The Lasting Hope has gone through a few changes since forming in 2010.
The group used to have six members, but it is now down to four.
Also, the band began...
CROTHERSVILLE
In the 2015-16 school year, six Crothersville High School students will have a chance to earn college credit, and possibly a certification.
Through the early college program, three juniors and three seniors will spend...
In Jackson County, 81 percent of third-graders passed the state’s reading proficiency test this spring.
But that leaves 108 of 468 students countywide who did not pass the Indiana Reading Evaluation and Determination assessment, or IREAD-3. Preliminary...
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Are you or anyone you know actually excited by the fact that the 2016 presidential campaign is underway?
Of course not. It’s 2015, and it’s springtime at that. There are dozens of...
TAMPICO
James D. Long Sr., 86, of Tampico, and a lifelong resident of Jackson County, passed away at 9:45 p.m. Wednesday, May 13, 2015, at Schneck Medical Center in Seymour.
Born April 8, 1929, he...
Friday's events
Girls tennis
Hoosier Hills Conference Championship
At Seymour
Seymour 5, Floyd Central 0
No. 1 singles: Julia Adam def. Kailyn Little 6-1, 6-2.
No. 2...
CROTHERSVILLE
Paul Thomas Mazur, 47, of Crothersville, passed away Thursday, May 14, 2015, at his home with his family by his side.
Born Aug. 17, 1967, in Chicago, Paul was the son of Matthew Mazur...
Families formed through adoption are more common in Indiana compared with other states.
According to the National Council for Adoption, Indiana has the nation’s fourth-highest rate of adoption per live births, the ninth-highest rate of adoption per...
I’ve seen a lot over my decades in politics, and not much alarms me. But I have to be blunt: Money is poisoning our political system.
The people who matter most to a representative democracy — the...