This is the online home of the Crothersville Times — the largest weekly newspaper in Jackson and Scott County — first online in 2000.
Communities Set Trick-Or-Treating Times For This Weekend
Halloween is this Saturday and the communities of Crothersville Austin and Scottsburg have established times for trick or treating for area youngsters.The City of Austin & Scottsburg’s trick-or-treat night will be Friday, October 30, from 6 to 8 p.m.The town of...
27 Properties Sell At Jackson County Tax Sale For Over $734,000
When the Jackson County delinquent property tax sale list was first advertised in September there were 141 parcels with back taxes owed. By the time of the tax sale last Thursday, Oct. 22, began at the courthouse, that list had been pared down to 29 after property...
Crothersville Woman Uninjured In Fatal I-65 Crash
An early morning car versus deer crash resulted in a separate fatality crash involving the car and a northbound semi-truck, last Saturday morning, Oct. 24.Shortly after 4 a.m. Saturday, a 2015 Nissan Versa traveling northbound on I-65 near the 26.5 mile-marker struck...
Meth Dealer Sentenced To 8 Years In Prison
Erica Riley, 30, of Underwood, who had pled guilty to a level 2 felony of dealing in methamphetamine was sentenced on Friday by Scott Circuit Court Judge Jason Mount to 8 years in prison followed by two years on home detention, then will have six years of probation...
America’s Dirty Secret: The Power Of The Minority
by Lee H. HamiltonAs the Senate held hearings and debated the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, attention understandably focused on the policy implications of a 6th conservative vote. What got less notice was an important political fact: If...
An All Hallow’s Eve History
by Curt Kovener All Hollow’s Eve is this Saturday, but how did it get to be what it is today?Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago, mostly in the area that is now Ireland, the...