Warrick County – Sunday night, November 27, at approximately 9:30, Senior Trooper Adam Davis was patrolling SR 66 near SR 61 when he observed the driver of a 2009 Pontiac G6 traveling west at 96 mph in a 60-mph speed zone. Trooper Davis attempted to stop the vehicle, but the driver refused and continued driving west on SR 66 reaching 102 mph near Sharon Road. The driver of the vehicle turned east onto Lincoln Avenue and stopped at Aberdeen Drive. The driver, Devin Matthew Dewig, 18, of Evansville, was arrested without further incident. Troopers searched Dewig’s vehicle and found two glass smoking devices and a small amount of marijuana. Dewig is currently being held on bond in the Warrick County Jail.
Arrested and Charges:
Devin Matthew Dewig, 18, Evansville, IN
Resisting Law Enforcement with a Vehicle, Level 6 Felony
Reckless Driving, Class C Misdemeanor
Possession of Marijuana, Class B Misdemeanor
Possession of Paraphernalia, Class A Misdemeanor
Arresting Officer: Senior Trooper Adam Davis, Indiana State Police
Assisting Agency: Warrick County Sheriff’s Office
SAVANNAH, Ga. – Kenny Strawbridge Jr. scored a game-high 25 points to lead all players in Sunday’s finale of the Hostilo Hoops Community Classic at Enmarket Arena. Up by nine in the second half, the University of Evansville men’s basketball team fell to Fairfield by a final of 63-56.
UE’s leading scorer finished the night hitting 11 of his 18 attempts. Yacine Toumi posted 13 points and four boards. Marvin Coleman paced the Purple Aces with 8 rebounds, 6 assists and 5 steals. Caleb Fields led the Stags with 21 points and a 10-for-12 free throw performance.
Hitting their first four attempts, Fairfield took a 10-6 lead in the opening four minutes. Yacine Toumi had the first four points of the game for UE before Kenny Strawbridge Jr. got on the board. His triple cut the deficit to one (10-9) before his third field goal of the game gave Evansville an 11-10 lead.
Antoine Smith Jr. hit a triple to cap off an 8-0 run that put the Aces up 14-10 at the 13:41 mark. Over the next six minutes, the Stags kept the Aces scoreless while forcing six missed shots. On the offensive end, they scored nine in a row to go up 19-14 inside of the 8-minute mark. Consecutive baskets by Toumi made it a 1-point game once again.
Things did not extend beyond one possession in the final six minutes with Fairfield taking a 28-27 halftime lead. Toumi lead all players with 10 tallies in the opening 20 minutes.
Strawbridge took over in the opening moments of the second half, scoring the opening eight points including a dunk as the Aces went up 35-29. Six minutes in, Sekou Kalle added a dunk that gave UE a game-high 40-31 edge. The Stags defense took over at that point as they held UE scoreless for six minutes while scoring nine in a row to tie the game at 40-40.
Once again, Strawbridge took action as he scored the next four points to put the Aces back on top with Fairfield countering with a triple on the other end with the game entering the last eight minutes. Evansville would go back up by five (48-43) with 6:58 showing on the clock. The Stags continued to inch their way back before jumping back in front at 49-48 with a pair of free throws inside the 5-minute mark.
What would turn into a 10-0 run by the Stags put them in front – 53-48 inside of three minutes left. Toumi halted the stretch with a pair of free throws but Fairfield matched those tallies on the other end to hold a 57-50 edge with 70 ticks remaining and would go on to win by the 7-point margin – 63-56.
Missouri Valley Conference action gets underway on Wednesday when the Aces welcome Southern Illinois to the Ford Center for a 7 p.m. game.
Danville, Ill.: After falling behind early, the Thunderbolts bounced back to tie the game and eventually power their way in front, before holding off the Bobcats in the third period to win 4-2 in Danville on Sunday night and reclaim sole possession of 1st place as a result.  The Thunderbolts’ next home game will be on Friday, December 2nd against the Quad City Storm at 7:00pm CT. For tickets, call (812)422-BOLT (2658), go to EvansvilleThunderbolts.com, or visit the Ford Center Ticket Office.
Vadim Vasjonkin scored to put the Bobcats in front 1-0 only 9 seconds into the game, but Evansville responded as Mathieu Cloutier tied the game at 12:38 from Hayden Hulton. After some crucial penalty killing to start the second period, Scott Kirton scored a power play goal at 9:39 off a pass from Hulton to give Evansville their first lead, 2-1. Minutes later at 14:25, Andrew Shewfelt scored from Hulton to make it 3-1 Evansville. At 16:15, Adam Eby scored to pull Vermilion County back to within a 3-2 deficit, but only 53 seconds later at 17:08 it was Brendan Harrogate scoring from Roshen Jaswal and Mike Ferraro to reassert the multi-goal lead, 4-2. No goals were scored in the third period as the Thunderbolts shut down the Bobcats’ offense, as the Thunderbolts held on for their third straight road win.
Cloutier, Kirton, Shewfelt and Harrogate finished with a goal each, while Hulton tallied three assists. In goal, Chase Perry stopped 34 of 36 shots faced in net for his 2nd win of the season. These two teams meet again on December 4th at the David S. Palmer Arena.
In those days, Harvey and I both worked for The Indianapolis News, which is also much missed. Harvey was the editor of the opinion pages. I was one of his editorial writers and a fledgling columnist.
Harvey was in his 70s then and had been in print by that point for more than half a century. I was in my 20s and just getting started.
I had written a column that provoked controversy. We received letters to the editor saying things about me that wouldn’t have made my mother blush with pride.
Harvey could tell I was upset by the furor. He summoned me for a sit-down in his office.
He told me that criticism was part of the job. If I wanted to have a career as a columnist, I would have to learn how to deal with it. He reminded me that the journalists who really made an impact were marathoners, not sprinters—writers who learned how to take the hits that came along the way so they could keep moving forward.
He also said the fact that my column had created a miniature uproar was a good sign. It meant that I was being read and that my points were being taken seriously enough to inspire discussion. Even though it might not always feel like this was a good thing, Harvey assured me it was.
Then he dove into the heart of his lesson.
He said the critical responses to a writer’s work generally fell into two categories.
The first category was the one to which a responsible columnist must pay attention. These responses would come from people who took issue with what I had written and mounted serious arguments in response. They would point out the places they thought I was wrong or mistaken and provide facts that countered my arguments.
The frustrating thing, Harvey said with a smile, is that sometimes they’ll be right.
“When that happens,’ he said, still smiling, “you have to put pride aside and rethink your position. That sometimes isn’t easy to do, but you’ve got to do it, because our job always is to try to get at the truth.â€
Harvey was right about that.
The second sort of criticism, Harvey said, was the kind a columnist needn’t take so seriously.
Most people, he explained, didn’t like having their unexamined notions exposed. When a writer points out that beliefs to which they fervently adhere don’t make a whole lot of sense, they often react with fury.
“That’s when you need to remember that anyone who disagrees with you and can afford the price of a stamp buys the right to call you an idiot and you have to let it roll off your back,†Harvey said.
Harvey died at Thanksgiving time a quarter-century ago. I was one of his pallbearers.
I’ve been thinking about him a lot lately because I’ve been calling on that bit of advice he gave me with greater frequency.
I receive a lot of notes these days.
A few of them fall into the category Harvey would say I have to take seriously. They advance arguments, marshal facts in support of their points, and seek to persuade.
I give that thoughtful attention because Harvey was right. Sometimes those folks have a better take on or a deeper understanding of an issue than I do and ignoring them serves no good end.
It certainly doesn’t help one get at the truth.
Most of the emails and letters I receive, though, are in that second category. They tell me I’m an idiot or wrong about everything but decline to point out any place where I have made a factual error.
My favorite such recent missive asserted that Donald Trump was the greatest U.S. president in the past century and said the evidence to support this was overwhelming. The writer then—you guessed it—refused to cite any of that evidence.
I’m not sure Harvey Jacobs would see the fact that the people who want to call me an idiot no longer need to be able to afford the price of a stamp as a sign of progress.
But I know what his counsel would be.
It was good advice 25 years ago.
Still good advice now.
FOOTNOTE:  John Krull is director of Franklin College’s Pulliam School of Journalism and publisher of TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students. The views expressed are those of the author only and should not be attributed to Franklin College.
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The saying is true—birds of a feather flock together. Just ask the Pinders, the family behind a small Indiana turkey farm.
Their farm is just one of many, with the Hoosier state being fourth in the nation for the number of home-grown turkeys.
Stephanie Pinder, co-owner of Little by Little Farm on the edge of Zionsville, said they’ve been in the business for 20 years. Stephanie and her husband, Robert, started in 2003 with a tiny farm of just five acres with three turkeys, three goats and a few chickens. Now they have 10 acres of organic produce and poultry and pride themselves on being all organic.
Pinder said they started the farm to have land and privacy and ended up filling a need in the community for local goods.
“We’re just listening to what the community says, and it’s been beyond our wildest dream,†she said.
“People that live around us are are very thankful in the fact that they can just come up the street, walk, ride on their bike and, on Farm Days, just buy what we have. There’s nothing better than that.â€
Pinder said the farm housed 330 Heritage breed pasture-raised turkeys this year, from chicks in April to Thanksgiving-ready turkeys this month. All of this year’s LBL flock are already spoken for.
Pinder said the farm prioritizes giving the turkeys good and happy lives until the circle of life happens.
“It’s gonna be quiet for a couple months, and then in March, we’ll get the new ones, and then we’ll start it all over again. That’s kind of what keeps you going,†she said.
The turkeys from LBL make up only a fraction of the more than 20.5 million turkeys in Indiana, but every turkey counts with a turkey shortage caused by a national Avian flu outbreak earlier this year.
More than 49 million turkeys have died or been euthanized in 2022, according to the Indiana State Poultry Association. This number includes 8 million turkeys in Indiana.
Thankfully, the Pinders’ turkeys were left unscathed by the illness.
“We only raised about 300, so it did not affect us at all,†she said. “But our sales have gone through the roof because of the turkey shortage, and people are trying to get their turkeys and then realizing that local is better and fresh is better.â€
Prices for the big bird are soaring, with the price per pound up to a record high of $1.99, up 73% from last year, according to CBNC. While it may be harder to find a turkey, especially if you’re Butterball-ing on a budget, Pinder says the knowledge that you’re tasting a farm-fresh turkey is worth the extra dough.
“I think if people are more aware of where their food comes from and learn, maybe meet the farm where the food grows,†Pinder said, “they’ll come to realize that the price is a little bit more but it’s so much more worth it.â€
FOOTNOTE: Sydney Byerly is a reporter at TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.
