Oct 18, 2023 | Local News
The 54th annual and longest continually running festival in Jackson County, Fort Vallonia Days, will swell the streets of with people this weekend. Oct. 21-22. Centered around the location of the original fort—the original center of government in Jackson County—the...
Oct 18, 2023 | Local News
Indiana judges, magistrates, and referees were recognized by Chief Justice Loretta Rush for their commitment to higher education and their long-time judicial service. Scott Circuit Court Judge Jason Mount and Magistrate Alison Frazier were among the 31 recognized last...
Oct 18, 2023 | Local News
The City of Austin will observe trick or treat on Halloween, Oct. 31 from 6-8 p.m. The Town of Crothersville will have trick or treat from 6-9 p.m. on Oct. 31. The City of Scottsburg will be having trick or treat from 6-8 on Oct. 31. It is recommended that residents...
Oct 18, 2023 | Local News
by Joseph F. Persinger in “The View from Poverty Ridge” The poet James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) asked the rhetorical question: “And what is so rare as a day in June?” My answer would be: “Just about any day in October.” October is such a dramatic month, bringing...
Oct 18, 2023 | Legal Notices
LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATIONS PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given to the taxpayers of Scott County, Indiana, that the proper legal officers of Scott County at their regular meeting place at Scott County Courthouse Annex, at 5:30 p.m....
Oct 11, 2023 | Local News
A cyber tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) led to the arrest last Wednesday of a Washington County man for possession of child pornography. Matthew T. Reid, 30, of South School Road in the Little York area of eastern Washington...
Oct 11, 2023 | Local News
When the Scott County delinquent property tax sale list was first advertised in late August there were 113 parcels with back taxes owed. By the time of last Friday’s tax sale on Oct. 6 began, that list had been pared down to 44 after property owners paid taxes owed...
Oct 11, 2023 | Local News
After first allowing a motion to provide a $5,000 retention bonus to die for lack of a second, the council approved amending the town’s salary ordinance giving local police officers a $5,000 raise next year. After councilman Jamy Greathouse’s motion for a $5,000...
Oct 11, 2023 | Local News
Olivia P Tucker Times Reporter The Scott County Board of Commissioners approved a new Veteran Court Probation Officer position at their regular meeting on Oct. 4. Scott Circuit Court Judge Jason Mount told the commissioners that Scott County shares a judicial district...
Oct 11, 2023 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Here are some thoughts, observations, and poetic wisdom of others on the Autumnal Season. •And all at once, summer collapsed into fall. – Oscar Wilde •Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if...
