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Today's Features

  • Wrinkle in Time: Construction of I-64 bridge over Wabash is being planned by IN, IL

    50 Years Ago
    December 26, 1961
    • The home of Mr. and Mrs. Erwin L. Daws on Canal Street, and the First Christian Church on East Fifth Street were the top winners of the Mount Vernon Christmas Exterior Decorations contest.
    • Construction of a proposed Interstate 64 bridge across the Wabash River is being planned by the Indiana Commission and the Illinois State Division of Highways. Advertisement for the project will appear in papers this week.

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  • County’s newest centenarian honored

    Bertha (Bottomly) Tuley, a lifelong resident of Mount Vernon, turned 100 on Friday, Dec. 2.

    Tuley, a resident of Mount Vernon Nursing and Rehab, was surrounded by friends and family during her birthday celebration.
    Her two children, Marion and Doris traveled to Mount Vernon to celebrate the day with their mother and family members. Marion and his wife, Pat both live in England. Doris and her husband live in Phoenix, Ariz.

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  • Griffin alumni talk about old times


    A group of former students of Griffin School was undeterred by high temperatures and heat indexes topping 100 late last month as they met to catch up and reminisce.
    Ron Nesler of New Harmony spearheaded the group's formation, a group he calls the Griffin Old Timers. July's meeting was the second and was a little smaller than the June meeting. Those who did make it out speculated that the heat kept many others from attending the July get-together.

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  • Posey Humane Society, Aug. 10


    • Delilah is a 1-year-old loving female cat. She enjoys hugs and cuddles. She is a black and gray classic tabby.

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  • Knight night at APL

    Society for Creative Anachronism demonstrates aspects of medieval life, including fighting and dance, as part of the Alexandrian Public Library’s Summer Reading program.

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  • Survivor tells story of 1925 Tri-State Tornado


    Waking up after being knocked out by flying debris, Ellen Van Way (Sears) Nottingham didn't know where she was.
    Nottingham is one out of a handful survivors who lived through the nation's most devastating tornado, the 1925 Tri-State Tornado, and she told her story to more than 40 people who attended a presentation hosted by the Posey County Historical Society on Saturday.
    Nottingham, who's 98, gave a crystal-clear recount of what happened March 18, 1925 — a day that devastated a thriving Posey County town.

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  • Project aims to make better writers

    By LANCE FERRELL
    AND MARY KECK
    Specials to the Democrat
     
    New Harmony recently hosted the National Writing Project’s River Bend Summer Institute.  In this community-service oriented professional development seminar, fellows of the Summer Institute meet daily for five weeks to work on individual writing projects and share best teaching practices from K through college.  

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  • Theater teacher is Artist of the Year

    A Mount Vernon High School teacher has been recognized for his contribution to the region's arts community.
    Dana Taylor, theater and choral director at the high school, was recently named the Arts Council of Southwest Indiana's Artist of the Year.
    Taylor has worked in choral music and theater at Mount Vernon High School for about 22 years, but if you ask him what he does, his answer — “I work with teenagers.”

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  • Farmers market offers fresh produce and more


    Mary McGrew bags some items for a customer at Mount Vernon’s Farmers Market. Stacie Durbin and two-year-old Atticus Durbin do some shopping at the Farmer’s Market. Stacie Durbin said she is glad the market is in Mount Vernon. This year’s Farmer’s Market is open Tuesday afternoons beginning at 2 p.m. in the parking lot beside McDonalds.

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  • How your garden grows


    After a hard day's work in the garden, Marge Bundy pulls a chair up to the corner of her garden to relax, and to watch her garden grow.
    Bundy can be found working in her garden in the morning and evening with shade trees guarding her summer spread.
    By 6:30 a.m., she and  her 2-year-old German Shepherd, Dixie, are headed for the outdoors ready to “hoe and mow,” said Bundy.

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