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Ripley County, IN – The Ripley County Community Foundation is pleased to announce that Clarice Patterson will serve as the new Director for Genesis: Pathways to Success. Patterson is stepping up to fulfill the Director […]

Southeastern, IN — Dearborn, Decatur, Ripley, and Franklin Counties continue to stay in the Blue 2-week metric score this week on the state’s color-coded Covid-19 metric map. This week there are no counties in Red […]

Ripley County, IN — Indiana Grown has awarded five organizations with a Food Council Development Grant. A food council is a community-based coalition created to build a stronger food system. Much of the work done […]

Decatur and Ripley Counties, IN — The Duke Energy Foundation has awarded $311,246 in grants to 22 different K-12 education programs in 15 Indiana counties for 2021. The grants support summer reading programs, energy, engineering […]

Statewide — The Indiana State Department of Health has reported that 919 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 on Wednesday. A total of 674,430 Indiana residents have tested positive for the coronavirus. To date, […]

Seymour, IN — The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office arrested eight individuals last week during an anti-human trafficking and pedophile operation. Suspects ages ranged from 19 to 60 years old. The Sheriff’s Department had assistance from […]

Alert, IN — A GoFund Me page has been set up to help the family of a recent tragedy that lost everything in a fire on Monday morning. The Westport Volunteer Fire Department along with […]

Statewide — The Indiana Department of Workforce Development released January 2021 county-wide unemployment numbers this week. All four regional counties are well below the state rate of 4.2% but were slightly higher compared with that […]

Greensburg, IN — The Greensburg/Decatur County Chamber of Commerce is hosting its annual Legislative Update on Saturday, March 27, beginning at 8:15 am and ending at 9:15 am. This event will be held virtually on […]

Oldenburg, IN — The Sisters of Saint Francis in Oldenburg are having an auction of all of their farm equipment, large and small, from Michaela Farm. The auction will be held on March 27th at […]

Statewide — The Indiana State Department of Health has reported that 568 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 on Tuesday. A total of 673,528 Indiana residents have tested positive for the coronavirus. To date, […]