Jan 12, 2011 | Local News
A combined sewer overflow project in Crothersville received a $1,428,908 grant sooner than expected. The announcement of funding approval got the town council’s year off to a pleasant start at last week’s first of the new year meeting. “I...
Jan 12, 2011 | Local News
Officers with the Indiana State Police are investigating the theft of copper from one of their radio tower sites. On Friday Master Trooper David McKalip was dispatched to the Indiana State Police radio tower site on County Road SW 60 in Decatur County on a report of...
Jan 12, 2011 | Local News
An elderly Crothersville woman received a phone call last week asking for help which turned out to be a scam. The local woman, who will remain unidentified to avoid embarrassment and possible future scams, said she received a phone call from a young man who claimed to...
Jan 12, 2011 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Everyone should be dismayed by the weekend shooting in Tucson, Arizona. Dismayed but not overly shocked. Afterall, we just concluded an election cycle where the angry, the alienated, and the unstable shouted, threatened, quoted patriotic statesmen and...
Jan 12, 2011 | Classifieds
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Jan 5, 2011 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Let’s clean out the useless trivia drawer to start the new year fresh. All are offered with unverified veracity but sometimes accompanied by comments. •The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV was Fred and Wilma Flintstone....