This is the online home of the Crothersville Times — the largest weekly newspaper in Jackson and Scott County — first online in 2000.
The Simple Memories Of Christmas
by Curt Kovener For the next several days, the greeting du jour for too many will be “WadjagetfirChrismus?” But I have found in my half-life on this earth that it isn’t in the getting but in the giving that makes for warm Christmas memories. Sure, in my youth it was...
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Winter Weather Putting The Freeze On Holiday Giving For Needy
Aisin Drivetrain employees and local FFA members stand with some of the new toys ADI employees bought to be a part of this year’s FFA toy drive. Recent inclement weather, school closings and two-hour delays have resulted in individual contributions being down for this...
Matt Browning, Ben Spencer Receive Top VFD Awards
Fire Chief Lynn Howard (left) and department president Marty Hoevener (right) congratulate Matt Browning after being named 2013 EMS First Responder of the Year. Matt Browning was named the 2013 EMS 1st Responder of the Year during the recent Crothersville-Vernon...
Government Stand-Off On Farm Bill Will Cause Rise In Milk Prices Next Year
While a budget compromise was reached late last week a new farm bill was not, leaving farmers in limbo once again, a Purdue Extension farm policy expert says. The Senate and the House have each passed their own vastly different versions. Dairy support programs, the...
It’s Snow Fun
by Curt Kovener Back in the middle of the last century when I was young, I would talk to those whom I thought were my very elders who would tell me about their holidays in the early part of the last century. For those who didn't pay attention in Charles A. Bard's...