Local artist Tracy Burns has been accepted as an Indiana Artisan.
In all of her nearly 98 years, Margaret Miller couldn’t remember a cough like the one she had in early August.
At the age of 44, Kim Johnson never quite imagined that one day in the year 2020 she would become unemployed due to a widespread virus pandemic.
A local farm operation is finding success with a crop they started raising just a few years ago. Adding to the farm’s diversification, the owners are getting ready to open a home where visitors can stay for awhile and learn about farming.
Two 10-year-old girls are helping raise butterflies that they hope will be able to make an ages-old migration this fall.
Two new volunteers have taken training and promised to help local children deal with often complicated and sometimes emotional family court procedures.
Fayette County Community Voices 2020 president Alexandra Pflug presents the group’s scholarship to 2020 Connersville High School graduate Jacob McCreary.
She felt a weight on her chest but had no fever. Within two days, Crescent Caldwell was on a ventilator in Indianapolis.
A long way from home and just before Christmas day in 1944, Roy M. Aldrich found himself a prisoner of war.
Baskets, pottery, paintings and hair bows are a few of the many things that Nancy Sergent Couch enjoys making.
DUBLIN — Yard sale and antique junkies across the midwest will travel along U.S. 40 for the Historic National Road Yard Sale, which starts Wednesday.
Relaxing and celebrating brought a group of people to Connersville over the weekend.
An adventurous axolotl (a type of salamander), sparked Steven Malichi Jr., a Connersville native, to write a childrens book to show children have to be brave.
A recent Connersville High School graduate is pursuing her life dream thanks, in large part, to the generosity of a couple who left a generous bequest to provide an all-costs paid scholarship.
Like many other adults who annually display their work at the Fayette County Free Fair, Marilyn Maxwell started as a child in 4H.
With paint in place, the new futsal court at Offutts Park is complete. A grand opening tournament is being planned on a Sunday within the next several weeks.
Brightening the neighborhood
Millicent Fahie said, “My heart is overjoyed with this response.” She is pictured on Saturday, standing with bags of clothing donated to The Shelter. Fahie, a Connersville native who lives in Indianapolis, came home to collect the clothing, which will be made available to people without home…
Grand champions and reserve grand champions from 4H project judging at Expo Hall are listed.
In the most abnormal year in memory, the Fayette County Free Fair plans to be as normal as possible.
A Connersville woman has been selected for a volunteer position with the National Organization for Rare Disorders and is helping promote a virtual discussion event on Wednesday.
Kimberly Reisinger Craig and Kelly Reisinger Robinson normally spend the first weekend of August at Twinsburg, Ohio. But with that community’s annual Twins Fest cancelled by coronavirus, they are have hopes for what they are calling Twins Take Over Indiana.
Brandon Bauman has joined Union Savings and Loan Association as a trust officer at its main office, 730 Central Ave.
BROOKVILLE — The United Way of Franklin County has awarded $4,000 in scholarships to three recipients of the 2020 Live United Scholarship.
This is the third of three parts recalling Connersville’s participation in The History Channel Great Race from Boston to Sacramento in 2000. Not only did a team from here win its division in the race but the city also hosted drivers and teams on June 7, 2000.
Local 1118 Retirees meeting cancelled
I am one of the lucky ones. Both of my parents are living, a blessing that many take for granted.
David and Kathy Foerster will celebrate 50 years of marriage on Saturday, June 20. They were married in 1970 at St. John’s United Church of Christ in Evansville.
This is the second of three parts recalling Connersville’s participation in The History Channel Great Race from Boston to Sacramento in 2000. Not only did a team from here win its division in the race but the city also hosted drivers and teams on June 7, 2000.
This is the first of a three parts recalling Connersville’s participation in The History Channel Great Race from Boston to Sacramento in 2000. Not only did a team from here win its division in the race but the city also hosted drivers and teams on June 14, 2000.
Conner Quilters awarded their annual scholarship to Reagan Patton, daughter of Jason Patton and Hollie Benton. She plans on attending Ball State University in the fall to study pediatric oncology. Pictured are, from left, from Lori Dickerson, Reagan Patton, Judy Bryson; and in back, Lillian …
A few weeks of warm, sunny weather is helping improve farm morale amid trade and financial uncertainty.
Two toddlers became playmates in the pool at Roberts Park Family Aquatics Center on Monday. Kai Hughes, left, came with his mother, Kira Hughes, and Easton Abernathy, came with his mother, Natalie Abernathy. The pool, with social distancing rules in place, opened for the first time this year…
Among those coming out to the pool were Ember Paxson, left and Bella Sherwood.
Carrie Cooley didn’t have to think very long about how to answer her first question during the 62nd 2020 Fayette County Fair Queen show.
In November of 1925 Louis Armstrong recorded his first record, WSM radio premiered the Grand Ole Opry and “Silent Cal” Calvin Coolidge was in the White House.
A local volunteer leader has received an award for service to the Girl Scouts.
Members of the Fayette Garden Club and friends recently planted 17 downtown planters and the circle at the Clio Fountain at Central and Virginia avenues. Pictured at the fountain are, from left, Linda Mason, Kathy Rhodes, Barbara Hickman, Becky Kalkhoff, Donna Scott, Carol Miller, Connie Rob…
Faculty at St. Gabriel Catholic School visited sixth graders late last week, bringing them yard signs to congratulate them on passing the sixth grade. Emma Maze is pictured with her sign.
It is started in the British Columbia and is making it’s way across the world, even to Indiana.
At only six years old, Eloise Ramadanovic has created wind chimes, pillows, cross stitch pieces and much more.
Because of the COVID-19 health emergency, the eighth annual Honoring Our Elders Luncheon has been postponed until Thursday, Sept. 17, at the John H. Miller Community Center in Roberts Park.
Although the COVID-19 health emergency is serious – sometimes deadly serious – there’s no saying you can’t have a bit of fun while complying with guidelines for social distancing.
Easter Sunday won’t be the same this year.
Dear Pastor: The Bible says that Jesus laid down his own life. Isn’t that like suicide?
Most mornings I start my day with a daily reading from three different devotionals. One morning just a few days after the coronavirus event was announced, I had finished the devotionals and was meditating on the readings. All of a sudden, without thought or hesitation, I heard myself say the…
Oakley Peters, 5, and Gunlee Peters, 4, decorated the Whitewater Valley Primary Care so that all the medical staff could see something positive when they came to work. The message: Life is tough but darling so are you.
Gracie Brewer is trying to do something positive to uplift children during their time at home due to COVID-19.
Indiana’s K-12 schools will remain closed for the remainder of the academic year due to the coronavirus emergency.
4H member Keagan Ritter is living out the 4H pledge by putting her “hands to larger service” while picking up trash along the road by her house this week. Many other 4H members are doing the same.
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