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Lawrenceburg, IN — Early last week, Officers with the Dearborn County Special Crimes Unit began investigating Daniel Widener, age 45, of Lawrenceburg, and his potential involvement in allegations of a large amount of methamphetamine being […]

Statewide — According to Purdue University, the 17-year cicadas are on their way in the next few months. 17-year cicadas can be found throughout Indiana but the biggest populations will be in southern Indiana. According […]

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 […]