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Volume 137 Edition 47
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Tuesday, November 21, 2017
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Council votes on dispatch system After heated debates, motion passes 6 to 1
Lysander, played by Jonathan Hueftle convinces Hermia, Emma Yarber, to elope with him in the woods, in the Mount Vernon Senior High School’s performance of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ by William Shakespeare on Thursday evening, November 16. Photo by Michelle Gibson
By Heather Morlan The Posey County Council met last Tuesday, November 14, 2017, in front of a packed Hovey House meeting room. A myriad of public servants, both paid and volunteer, were in attendance to hear the discussion regarding the $625,000 bid from VEI Communications to upgrade the county’s 911 Emergency Dispatch System that was tabled from the Council’s October meeting. A new system would convert the Posey County communications system from an analog system to a digital system.
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Poseyville OKs new service truck By Heather Morlan The Poseyville Town Council met at their regular monthly meeting on November 8 and began by discussing the retirement of their 1996 service truck. The board voted and passed a motion to purchase a new Silverado to take its place. The board received two estimates and decided to go with the lower bid. Although they got 21 years out of the service truck and it is mechanically inoperable, they are going to save money by removing the bed and reusing it. A bid
from Nix Coatings was approved for $2,519.07 to sandblast the bed and repaint it. It will be installed on the service truck as soon as the new truck is received. Town Clerk-Treasurer Julie Mayo reported that her office has attempted to collect all of the past due accounts for 2017 and still has an outstanding balance of $1,932.46 that she cannot recover. She recommended that the board vote
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Commissioners hear safety concerns By Heather Morlan The Posey County Commissioners meeting ended on an unusual note Tuesday. Posey County Clerk Betty Postletheweight took the podium during the department updates portion of the meeting to voice some concerns at the courthouse. “We’re having some concerns about the security in the courthouse,” Postletheweight said. “The girls from upstairs came down last week one day very upset and I don’t know what all is going on and nobody is saying anything,
Briefly St. Wendel Golf Cart and ATV Christmas Parade: Knights of St. John November 25, 6 p.m. 11714 Winery Road, WV
Annual Christmas Open House: Guilty Pleasures November 26, Noon to 4 p.m. 241 N. St. Francis Street, PV Silly Safaris: Alexandrian Public Library November 30, 6:30 p.m. 115 West Fifth Street, MV Pictures with Santa: United Fidelity Bank December 2, 9 a.m to noon 500 East Fourth Street, MV MVHS Choral Fundraiser: MV High School Cafe, December 4, 5 to 6 p.m 6700 Harriet Street, MV Winter Holiday Reception: The Red Wagon December 7, 6 to 7:30 p.m. 6950 Frontage Road, PV
More information on these and other events inside today’s Posey County News
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but we’ve got to do something about security in that courthouse, something for you to think about. I don’t know how to do it, I have no idea, but I did just talk to (Commissioner attorney) Trent (Vanhaaften) and I said that it concerns him too because he is up there a lot. You know it’s just a lot of concern in that courthouse with the things that are going on. So, I appreciate you thinking about it.”
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The Happy Campers class at the Children’s Learning Center has been celebrating the season of giving by hosting a pajama drive. The boys and girls have been collecting new pajamas to give to children in need. The two to three-year-olds posed for a quick photo with the pajamas they have collected so far during pajama day last week. Pictured above are, front row, l to r: Gabby Zhou, Lillian Hall, Adara GonzalezRamirez, Kelsey Lintzenich, and Abhiram Sista. Back row: Aarini Patil, Drew Lowery, and Kylynn Thomason. Photo by Tammy Bergstrom
Soothing the soul
Thanksgiving meal will cost more this year
Local man finds comfort in outdoors By Lois Mittino Gray This Thanksgiving holiday, one local young man will be grateful for the power of the outdoors and the family memories it makes. Although young in years, being only at the quarter century mark, he has experienced family tragedies that the outdoors helped to heal through the dark times. Sam Turpen II smiles when he talks about Foote’s Pond, a lake located near Griffin in Gibson County, abutting the Mumford Hills. Born in Evansville, he moved to Mount Vernon when in the fifth-grade and loved to spend days at the weekend destination with his father, uncles and grandfather, who grew
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After family tragedies, Sam Turpin II finds solace in the great outdoors. Photo by Lois Mittino Gray
Special to The News Hoosiers will pay significantly more for their Thanksgiving meal this year, when comparing prices to 2016, according to Indiana Farm Bureau’s annual Thanksgiving market basket survey. The average cost for a Thanksgiving dinner for 10 this year, including 12 traditional food items, is $50.88 or approximately $5.08 per person. The INFB Thanksgiving market basket survey was conducted by 37 volunteer shoppers across the state who collected prices on specific food items from one of their local grocery stores. Volunteer shoppers are asked to look for the best possible prices, without taking advantage of special promotional
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Report: Parks, recreation procedural errors found By Dave Pearce The Indiana State Board of Accounts recently submitted a supplemental compliance report to the City of Mount Vernon citing procedural errors within the Mount Vernon Parks and Recreation Department. According to information provided by State Examiner Paul Joyce, the supplemental Compliance Report was filed as a separate report for the exami-
nation of the period January 1, 2014, to December 31, 2016. “The Examination Results and Comments contained herein describe the identified reportable instances of noncompliance,” Page 3 of the report reads. “It has been provided as a separate report so that the reader may easily any Examination Results and Comments that pertain to the City.” According to the report, the park office and
community center lacked a checks and balance system as one individual in each office performed all duties related to receipting with no oversight or controls. Additional comments were made regarding Community Center Concession Receipts. “The Parks and Recreation Community Center
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