News and sports in the Whitewater Valley
A blog about what is going on in the Whitewater Valley
By John Estridge Union County Council members took a mulligan Thursday morning, September 17. Council attempted to increase its Local Income Tax, sometimes called Public Safety Income Tax, by 0.5 percent. However, an ordinance must pass on a unanimous vote at first reading. If it does not, then, at the next meeting, it can be …
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By John Estridge For the past several years when Union County Council members got together for a budget workshop, to plan out the following year’s budget, there was a lot of anguish. Union County has watched its revenues decrease and expenses increase to the point, a few years ago, there was talk of sending some …
By John Estridge Union County/College Corner Joint School District Superintendent Aron Borowiak said while two students and two staff members have tested positive for COVID-19 since the start of school, the school system’s reentry program is going smoothly. He said it is actually beyond the reentry plan at this time, as school has been in …
According to the Daughters of the American Revolution website, Constitution Week is the commemoration of America’s most important document. It is celebrated annually during the week of September 17-23.
By John Estridge from ISDH data Franklin County apparently still has not had all of its COVID-19 positive test results counted as its number increased by just two in the Thursday, September 17 update from the Indiana State Department of Health. On Tuesday, September 15, it was announced by the Franklin County Community School Corporation …
By John Estridge The man accused of killing Denise Pflum may have his alleged admission of guilt thrown out. Shawn McClung is charged in Fayette County with Voluntary Manslaughter (in sudden heat and without a deadly weapon), as a class B felony, in the March 28, 1986, death of Pflum. Police allege McClung admitted to …
BETTE G. THIELKING Bette G. Thielking, 87, of Connersville, passed away on Sunday, September 13, 2020, in Indianapolis. She was born on November 24, 1932, in Petroleum, Indiana, and is the daughter of Ralph Leon Terrel and G. Lucille (Neff) Terrell. She graduated from Batesville High School in 1950, and completed the Ball Hospital RN …
BETTY M. DEFUR Betty M. DeFur, age 90, of Connersville, joined the love of her life in heaven on September 14, 2020. Betty was born June 19, 1930, in East Chicago, to Joseph Gish and Mayme Babincsak Gish. She grew up in East Chicago and is a 1948 high school graduate. She is a 1953 graduate …
By John Estridge from ISDH data Apparently, positive COVID-19 test results are delayed getting to the Indiana State Department of Health. Franklin County High School is closed Wednesday, September 16, as six students tested positive and more than 150 students were placed in quarantine. This prompted the high school to go on a hybrid scheduling …
Indiana State Health Department press release State health officials are urging Indiana residents to protect themselves from mosquito bites following reports of a probable case of Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) in a LaPorte County resident and the detection of the virus in horses in northern Indiana. As of Sept. 14, two horses in LaGrange County …
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