State Reps. Randy Lyness (R-West Harrison) and Cindy Ziemke (R-Batesville) encourage local businesses in operation for at least 100 or 50 years to apply for the Governor’s Century and Half Century Business Awards before the March 31 deadline.
SUBMITTED PHOTO Thanks to three area grantors – The Brookville Foundation, Dearborn Community Foundation and Vevay-Switzerland County Foundation – Safe Passage has a much more dependable vehicle to transport larger families and for moving clients and personal belongings to safer residences. The staff can also use it for large donations or for outreach events with bulky equipment.
Dave O’Mara Contractor was awarded the bid to pave Rising Sun streets this summer as part of the Community Crossings grant. Rising Sun City Council voted for the O’Mara contract after three bids came in on the project.
COVID-19 can’t stop people from indulging in fish for Lent on Fridays this spring. Fish is cooking all over the area despite the pandemic.
Rising Sun Cub Scouts enjoyed one of their favorite events Saturday, March 13 – the annual Pinewood Derby. This year, the derby, at the Ohio County Historical Society and Museum, as with everything else, looked a bit different this year.
Online pre-registration for the 16th annual catfish tournament sponsored by the Ohio Valley River Cats will begin at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 1. The tournament is schedule for Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 11 and 12.
Jeanette M. (Brothers) Paduano, 83, from Rising Sun, Indiana, passed away March 15th 2021.
Raymond E (Gene) Roberts Jr., 78 of The Villages, Florida, died March 13, 2021. He was born March 22, 1942, in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Patricia Louise “Pat” LaVelle, 72, of Rising Sun, Indiana, passed away on Monday, March 15, 2021, at St. Elizabeth Dearborn in Lawrenceburg, Indiana.
Being a female who has worked in a “man’s” world my entire career, I would like to share my thoughts about National Women’s Month. I support it and think that it is important that we recognize women and the accomplishments that they have made. It is great to see so many qualified and accomplished women in leadership roles and in male-dominated industries today where they were not included in the past.