This is the online home of the Crothersville Times — the largest weekly newspaper in Jackson and Scott County — first online in 2000.
First Ripe Tomato*?
While many Jackson County residents have been dealing with snow and sub-freezing temperatures, rural Crothersville resident Mike Brumett has been dealing with ripe tomatoes. While laying claim to the first ripe tomato of 2011, Brumett acknowledged that his hothouse...
Town Gets $1.4 Million Grant For Sewer Project
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 didn't expect this good news...
Cops’ Copper Copped
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...
Senior Citizens Beware
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...
Enabling The Crackpots, Emotionally Infirmed & Village Idiots
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...
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