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By John Estridge Brookville Town Council members voted unanimously to increase water and sewer rates and took a matter of increasing and in some cases implementing fees related to the police department under advisement. Sewage rates will increase for town residents by 20 percent in the first year (2021), 3 percent the second year and …
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By John Estridge Franklin County’s important and much-anticipated public hearing on proposed zoning regulations for solar and wind-powered energy was canceled Wednesday night, February 10, due to inclement weather. Area Plan Commission members were hosting the public hearing on the matter. Currently, Franklin County’s Zoning Code does not have any regulations concerning solar and wind …
ERIC WRIGHT Eric Wright age 62, of Batesville, died Sunday, February 7, 2021, at Margaret Mary Hospital in Batesville. He was born March 9, 1958, in Oxford, Ohio, the son of Herbert and Pattie (Thurston) Wright Jr. Eric, a 1976 graduate from East Central High School, graduated from Iowa State University, worked as a mail clerk …
PAUL KRAUS Paul Kraus, 74 years old, of Dover, passed away on Tuesday, February 9, 2021. Paul was a very faithful Catholic and a lifetime member of All Saints Parish. He ministered to the parish by being a dedicated sacristan at St. Paul’s Campus. Married to Millie for more than 22 years, they had 10 …
DOUGLAS DUANE PETTY Douglas Duane Petty was born on June 22, 1961, and passed away on February 9, 2021, and is under the care of Showalter Blackwell Long Funeral Home.
SHARRON RAE BEEBE EVANS Sharron Rae Beebe Evans, 78 of Connersville passed away on Friday, February 10, 2021, at her home. She was born on August 24, 1942, to the late John “Sam” Beebe Jr. and Vivian Medcalf Cullison in Huntingburg. On June 6, 1986, she married Gerald Evans in Jellico, Tennessee. They were able …
By John Estridge Ready or not Brookville taxpayers here it comes. Brookville Town Council members voted unanimously to begin the process of building a new town hall. And they plan to do it by funding it like the new aquatic center was funded, through public and private funding. In the case of the aquatic center, …
ROBERT ERVIN Robert Ervin, 70 of Connersville, passed away on Thursday, February 4, 2021. He was born on October 20, 1950, in Connersville to the late Malcom Ervin and Irene Smith Ervin. In 1987, he married Amanda Risch; they were able to spend 31 years together before she passed away on March 15, 2018. Robert …
By John Estridge Franklin County Commissioners Tom Linkel and Gerald Wendel gave authorization to fellow commissioner Tom Wilson and his road foreman Kent Ruf to seek a replacement for the county’s dump truck recently destroyed by fire at the Oldenburg garage. Wilson was not present at the Tuesday morning, February 9, meeting because he was …
By John Estridge Franklin County High School students will return to their pre-pandemic schedule Thursday morning, February 11. The unanimous decision was made after a lengthy discussion during the public participation portion of the meeting and then again during the superintendent’s comments at the Monday, February 8, Franklin County Community School Corporation Board of Trustees’ …