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Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Briefly 2016 Spring Property Tax Deadline set for May 10 Posey County treasurer Justin White has announced that you may pay property taxes at any Old National Banking center in Posey or Vanderburgh counties from the time you receive your tax bill until May 10, 2016. You may also pay your taxes in person, by mail, online at www.poseycountytax.com or via the drop box located at the corner of Third and Walnut streets. NPHS Honors Program to be held May 12, 2016 North Posey High School 2016 Honors Program will be held on Thursday, May 12, 2016, at 8 a.m. in the main gym. St. Wendel Catholic Church schedules Annual Rummage Sale St. Wendel Catholic Church will hold their Fourth Annual Rummage Sale Friday, May 13 from 4-7 p.m. and Saturday, May 14 from 7 a.m. to Noon. $3 bag sale begins at 10 a.m. Cash only NPJH presents Beauty and the Beast North Posey Junior High Theatre presents Beauty and the Beast Friday, April 29 and Saturday, April 30 at 7 p.m. at the North Posey Junior High’s Mass Learning Center (MLC), west side of the school. Students are $3 and Adults are $5. Griffin Alumni Banquet to be held April 30 The 83rd annual Griffin Alumni banquet will be held on Saturday April 30, 2016. Please come at 4:30 p.m. to socialize. The meal will begin at 5:30 p.m. All Alumni members and anyone that attended school in Griffin are welcome to attend. Contact Beverly Stone at 812-851-5033 with questions Poseyville Town-wide Yard Sale set for May 7 The Poseyville Town-wide yard sale will be on Saturday, May 7. Rain or shine. The Recycling Center will be taking large appliances and scrap metal again as part of the Poseyville Pride Initiative in which residents are encouraged to clean up their properties. Boy Scout Troop 387 will sell grilled food items at the Poseyville Park (across from One Stop) and Mother’s Day flower pots. The Lime Green Ladies Relay for Life team will sell Dewig’s meat fundraiser items to be ready by Memorial Day. No maps this year. Each resident is responsible for advertising their own sale FOP taking orders for Pork Loin Sale Fundraiser Contact a member or any posey county law enforcement officer to order one-half Pork Loin smoked and wrapped, ready to eat by May 1, 2016. Loins will be ready for pickup on Saturday, May 14. The $25 cost to go toward community and youth projects the lodge has planned for this year. Cynthiana Alumni 102nd Annual Meeting planned The Cynthiana Alumni Association invites members, guests and 2016 graduates to the 102nd Annual Meeting at the Cynthiana Community Center on Saturday, May 7, 2016. A ‘meet and greet’ social time will begin at 11 a.m. Lunch will be served at noon. Cost per person for the meal is $10 and annual dues are $5. New Harmony schedules Annual Spring Clean-Up Days Clean-Up day will be May 13, 2016 for residents of the Town of New Harmony. Bulky items such as TV’s, washers, dryers, sofas, mattress’s and etc., will be taken at this time. Due to certain rules and regulations, refrigerators, freezers, and other appliances with refrigerants in them can not be taken without proper certification. To be certified, the appliances must have all refrigerants removed by a qualified technician. Other items that can not be taken include: yard waste, waste oil and other petroleum products, and liquids, large concrete items, tires, anti-freeze and other items considered to be hazardous or medical waste. All items set out for disposal should be containerized or bundled for handling. Any times not containerized or bundled will be left. To help ensure compliance, city officials have asked that items not be set out for pick-up more than three days prior to clean-up day.
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Alldredge is new Mount Vernon Police Chief By Lois Mittino Gray Mount Vernon’s new police chief has set his main goal as encouraging a strong relationship between his officers and the community. Mayor Bill Curtis announced the appointment of Anthony D. ‘Tony’ Alldredge to the position of Mount Vernon Police Chief at a press conference last Wednesday morning. The 17-year veteran of the force officially began the job at midnight on April 26, when former chief Grant Beloat completes his compensatory days. Alldredge, 45, has been on the force since his graduation from the Plainfield Police Academy in 1999. He has served as a patrol officer and for years was the training officer for the department, earning him the rank of Detective Sergeant by the time of his promotion to chief. In his new role, Chief Alldredge wants to encourage positive interactions among his officers, business community, schools and citizens. He will supervise thirteen officers on the force. He feels the force is strong and wants to “build upon all that we have done already.” Tony is a Mount Vernon native and a Mount Vernon High School Class of 1989 member. He jokes that he is often known as ‘Karen Lawson’s Son.’ He is married to Joy, who teaches Latin at Reitz High School. They have two sons: Bryce, 13 and Max, 10 and one family cat. Tony has a family legacy to keep up as his grandfather, Herman, was
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Mount Vernon Mayor Bill Curtis hands new Mount Vernon Police Chief Tony Alldredge his letter of appointment to the position. Photo by Lois Mittino Gray
Full time police patrols set in NH by May’s end
Professor Dave Andrus of John Brown University was one of the many artists who took part in this year’s First Brush of Spring plein air compeition. Participants from around the nation take part in the competition, as Dave and his family traveled from Siloam Springs, Arkansas, nearly an eight hour trip. Photo by Zach Straw
By Lois Mittino Gray Members of the New Harmony Town Council met on April 19 to discuss work required after the April 6 storm, off road vehicle usage, mowing and alley repairs, citizen requests and two board appointments. The council also answered audience questions on when the town marshal would begin working and golf cart trail monitoring and registration fee deadlines. Town resident Tom Stahl asked when New Harmony would get full time police coverage. Newly-ap-
pointed Town Marshal Caleb McDaniel is away attending 17 weeks of training at the Plainfield Police Academy. Council President Alvin Blaylock estimated that he will be finished by the end of May. In the interim, state police and sheriff deputies patrol intermittently passing through town. Council Member Gary Watson said he has requested extra patrols during Heritage Week. When McDaniel is on duty, Blaylock said he will be checking
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High-speed fiber optic could come to Posey By Valerie Werkmeister Could high speed internet options be coming to Posey County? John Taylor of the Posey County Economic Development Partnership arranged a meeting last Tuesday, April 19, between Posey County officials and attorney Richard Starkey of Barnes & Thornburg, LLP of Indianapolis and James Higgins, CPA of London Witte Group, also from Indianapolis to discuss how slow internet and satellite internet could be a thing of the past. The duo has assisted communities throughout the state obtain high speed internet. Counties that already have high speed internet or fiber optic infrastructure are preferred by business prospects over those that do not. Taylor says that companies who have a choice to come to
Posey County or another county with high speed internet, they will choose the other county. The problem lies in how to fund the expensive installation or entice internet companies to bring the service to the mostly rural county. Starkey explained one way is via the formation of a TIF or Tax Increment Financing District. The word TIF is by no means strange to Posey County as it is currently being used to help fund other large construction projects. In simple terms, a TIF district is formed to capture taxes on the growth in a specific geographic area. Those tax monies generated by the new growth, are then used to pay for the development costs. The taxes that were being paid to
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Savannah Bush and Riley Snodgrass were selected as Mount Vernon’s prom king and queen on Saturday evening at the Old National Events Plaza in Evansville. Photo courtesy of Studio B
Poseyville baseball legends are honored By Valerie Werkmeister They may not have their likeness on baseball cards that Little Leaguers can idolize and trade, but two Poseyville ‘Greats’ got something even better on opening day at the Poseyville Ballpark…honor. Jerry Wilder and George Kraft Jr., both instrumental in helping the youth baseball program and softball park become what it is today, were honored for their contributions to the program. Wilder’s name now marks the roadway entering the ballfield and Kraft’s name was placed on the new softball field. It was a picture-perfect day for the start of the season with tempera-
tures in the mid-70s and sunny skies. The ballpark was bustling with happy youngsters sporting new cleats or gloves and visions of homeruns gleaming in their eyes. And – that’s just how Jerry and George would have wanted it. Perhaps Nancy Wilder, Jerry’s wife, said it best. “He did it for the kids.” That’s just how Jerry Wilder was. A fun-loving man with a heart of gold
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Members of the Barton Automotive Family, left to right, Donna and Gerald Kaiser, Maureen Barton holding daughter Katherine, Will Barton, Nick Barton, and Marilyn and Rick Barton were honored by the Evansville Better Business Bureau for Integrity during the awards ceremony on Thursday. Photo by Dave Pearce