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Jasper Man Arrested after Attempting to Elude Troopers

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Dubois – Pike County:  Friday evening, April 22, at approximately 5:10 p.m., Trooper Boeckman was outside his patrol car at a residence on County Road 300 N near Jasper when he observed a sport bike pass the residence traveling west at a high rate of speed. Trooper Boeckman proceeded west on CR 300 N for approximately one mile and finally observed the motorcycle. Trooper Boeckman attempted to stop the motorcycle, but the rider immediately accelerated and continued west on CR 300 North into Pike County. Due to the high speed and danger to other motorists, the pursuit was terminated. Moments later, a motorist who observed the motorcycle stopped Trooper Boeckman, and identified the rider as Sterling Kiefer, 20, of Jasper. Troopers located Kiefer and his motorcycle at his residence. He was arrested without further incident. Further investigation revealed the motorcycle was not registered and Kiefer did not have a motorcycle endorsement. Kiefer was taken to the Pike County Jail where he is currently being held on bond.

Arrested and Charges:

  • Sterling Kiefer, 20, Jasper, IN
  1. Resisting Law Enforcement, Level 6 Felony
  2. Aggressive Driving, Class A Misdemeanor

Arresting Officer: Trooper C.J. Boeckman, Indiana State Police

Assisting Officer: Trooper Dustin Stein, Indiana State Police

Assisting Agency: Pike County Sheriff’s Office

Aces drop series opener to Indiana State in extras

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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – In a battle fitting of the top two teams in the Missouri Valley Conference standings, the University of Evansville baseball team was edged by Indiana State, 7-6, in 10 innings at Bob Warn Field on Friday night in Terre Haute, Ind.
“Competitive Friday night Valley game that didn’t go our way in extra innings,” said Aces head baseball coach Wes Carroll. “Shane Gray was outstanding, but credit their offense for putting the ball in play. Tanner delivered a big blow, but we squandered a couple opportunities to get that game tonight. We knew this weekend was going to be a dogfight because both teams are playing well.”

The aforementioned Gray turned-in a career-best nine innings of work on the night, allowing six runs and striking-out three and getting the Aces out of a couple of difficult situations. At the plate, Mark Shallenberger, Tanner Craig, and Ty Rumsey, the one, two, and nine hitters in the lineup all recorded a pair of hits with Craig launching his 42nd career home run.

Evansville jumped on the board first with third baseman Brent Widder capitalizing on a Sycamore mistake and ultimately scoring on an RBI groundout from Evan Berkey in the second inning. Indiana State answered, scoring a combined three runs in the third and fourth innings to take a 3-1 lead.

What would prove to be a back-and-forth affair saw the Aces battle back to tie the contest at three on a Shallenberger RBI base hit and a wild pitch that scored Rumsey. After a bunt scored a run for Indiana State in the sixth, the Aces responded in a big way in the top of the seventh. With two runners on and one out, Craig demolished a ball to left field, pushing UE back in front, 6-4, and earning the fifth-year senior his 12th blast of the season.

As was true all night, an answer was manufactured by the Sycamores with a pair of runs the next half inning, tying the game at six. That score would hold until the bottom of the 10th inning when Keegan Watson hit a walk-off home run to left to secure a 7-6 win for Indiana State.

The two sides will meet again on Saturday at 1 PM (CT) for the second game of their three-game series at Bob Warn Field in Terre Haute, Ind.

VanLannen’s big day on the mound earn Blazers doubleheader split with Illinois Central

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VINCENNES, Ind. – Vincennes University game one starter sophomore Connor VanLannen (Clinton, Ind.) pitched a gem of a game Friday afternoon, pitching four and two-thirds innings of no-hit baseball to help Vincennes earn a Mid-West Athletic Conference (MWAC) doubleheader split, taking game one 11-3 and dropping game two 5-4.

Vincennes got the scoring started early in game one of the day, with leadoff hitter freshman Ethan Burdette (Linton, Ind.) reaching on a bunt single and advancing to second on a throwing error.

Burdette would later score the first run of the game on a double steal attempt.

VU would grow their lead in the second with Burdette driving in freshman Kaden Elliott (New Albany, Ind.) on a fielder’s choice and Dale Coy came through with an RBI double in the third as VU held a 3-0 lead.

The scoring picked up for Vincennes with the Trailblazers scoring two runs per inning throughout the middle innings with freshman Will Egger (Terre Haute, Ind.) hitting an RBI triple in the fourth and Elliott scoring two on a two-RBI double in the sixth as Vincennes built a commanding 9-0 lead.

The Cougars would get on the scoreboard in the seventh, scoring three and cutting the deficit to six, before Vincennes answered back with an RBI double by Connor VanLannen and a walk-off RBI single by Elliott to give the Blazers the run-rule win 11-3 in seven innings.

Connor VanLannen took the mound in game one and looked to get himself back on track in a big way, throwing six and one-third innings, allowing three runs on three hits and striking out seven.

VanLannen made it two times around the Illinois Central batting order before the Cougars could record their first hit of the game with two outs in the fifth inning.

Freshman Caleb Moore (Wentzville, Mo.) entered the game from the bullpen to record the final two outs of the seventh inning, allowing one hit and striking out one in the process.

Vincennes had six batters record multiple hits in game one, with freshman Colton Evans (Henderson, Ky.), Connor VanLannen and Kaden Elliott each recording three hits, with Evans and VanLannen hitting a pair of doubles.

Kaden Elliott picked up a three for five day at the dish, with three RBI’s and two runs scored in game one.

“Connor VanLannen did a great job for us, along with the lower half of the order in the first game,” VU Head Baseball Coach Chris Barney said. “We had multiple hits from the guys five through nine in the order. Overall game one was just a good day.”

Vincennes looked to carry this momentum into the second game of the day and the Trailblazers were again the first team to score, this time with a big two-run home run by freshman Mahkai Pelzer (Douglasville, Ga.) in the second inning.

The two teams traded runs in the third, with Colton Evans scoring for the Trailblazers on a balk, as Vincennes held a 3-1 lead.

 

Eagles Soar to NCAA II Regional After Historic Season

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EVANSVILLE, Ind. – University of Southern Indiana Men’s Golf is heading back to the NCAA II Championships for the first time as a team since 2000, where the Screaming Eagles placed 17th at the NCAA Division II North Regional. USI has also sent four individual qualifiers to the tournament since 2000, the most recent being Logan Osborne in 2013. The Eagles will play in the NCAA II Midwest/Central Regional at Purgatory Golf Club in Noblesville, Indiana on May 5-7.
 
USI earned an at-large bid after finishing fifth in the final Midwest Regional rankings after making it to the semifinals of the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championships for the first time in school history. The Eagles finished third in tournament play after shooting an 880 (+16), but they would fall in match play in the semifinals to the University of Indianapolis, 3-0-2.
 
The top three teams along with the top two individuals not with a team from each regional (regardless of region) will advance to the NCAA Division II Men’s Golf Championships, which is May 16-20 at TPC Michigan in Dearborn, Michigan. USI can also earn an at-large bid into the final if they finish outside of the top three.
 
Freshman Jason Bannister (Laguna Niguel, California) leads the Eagles this spring, posting a 73.78 shots per round average (spra). Bannister led the way for USI in the GLVC Championships, finishing tied for fourth after carding a 215 (-1) and was named to the All-Conference First Team.
 
Bannister is joined by a diverse group of Eagles, featuring fellow freshman Nathan Hoss (Evansville, Indiana), sophomore Jace Day (Bloomington, Indiana), junior Zach Williams (Mt. Vernon, Illinois), and senior Matthew Kingston (Springfield, Nebraska). Williams and Hoss were both key members to USI’s most recent team championship at the Bill Blazer Memorial Tournament. Williams finished in fourth with a 143 (-1), shooting 72-71, while Hoss finished in fifth with a 144 (E), shooting 73-71.
 
This was a historic year for the Men’s Golf program at USI. They earned multiple team championships in a spring season for the first time in program history, with victories coming at the Saginaw Valley State Spring Invitational and the Bill Blazer Memorial. The Eagles are also on pace to set a new team record in team average score this season, with a 295.64, which would break the previous record set in 2005-06 of 300.7. Along with the team accomplishments, Jason Bannister is on pace to set a new school record with his 73.78 spra, breaking the previous record set by his current teammate Zach Williams in 2018-19 with a 74.7.
 
The remaining nine slots in the field went to the University of Findlay, Grand Valley State University, the University of Missouri-St. Louis, the University of Indianapolis, Wayne State University, McKendree University, Tiffin University, Trevecca Nazarene University, and Davenport University.
 
USI begins the NCAA Division II Midwest/Central Region on May 5-7 at Purgatory Golf Club in Noblesville, Indiana.

Vanderburgh County Crash Report

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Crash Report

City Council Meeting APRIL 25, 2022

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EVANSVILLE City Council Meeting FOR APRIL 25, 2022

AGENDA

I. INTRODUCTION

 

04-25-2022 Agenda Attachment:
II. APPROVAL OF MEETING MEMORANDUM

 

04-11-2022 Memo Attachment:
III. REPORTS AND COMMUNICATIONS

 

IV. SPECIAL ORDERS OF THE DAY

 

V. CONSENT AGENDA:  FIRST READING OF ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS

 

A. ORDINANCE G-2022-04 An Ordinance to Vacate Certain Public Ways or Public Places within the City of Evansville, Indiana, Commonly Known as The 12’ Alleyway running East and West, between Lot 1-6 to the South and Lot 10 to the North in Block 1 of the Plat of Jacobsville Which Alley is East of Mary Street, Between the Deaconess Heart Care Center and Maryland Street in Evansville, IN Sponsor(s): Heronemus Discussion Led By: Public Works Chair Brinkmeyer Discussion Date: 5/9/2022 Notify: Lyle Mehringer, Three I Design
G-2022-04 Attachment:
B. ORDINANCE F-2022-08 An Ordinance of the Common Council of the City of Evansville Authorizing Transfers of Appropriations, Additional Appropriations and Repeal and Re-Appropriation of Funds for Various City Funds Sponsor(s): Moore Discussion Led By: Finance Chair Moore Discussion Date: 5/9/2022 Notify: Russ Lloyd, Jr., Controller
F-2022-08 Attachment:
C. ORDINANCE R-2022-15 An Ordinance to Rezone Certain Real Estate in the City of Evansville, State of Indiana, More Commonly Known as 3331 Wimberg Ave Petitioner: Coulter Investments Owner: Coulter Investments Requested Change: R1 to R2 Ward: 6 Brinkmeyer Representative: Aaron Coulter
R-2022-15 Attachment:
VI. COMMITTEE REPORTS

 

VII. REGULAR AGENDA:  SECOND READING OF ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS

 

A. ORDINANCE F-2022-07 AMENDED An Ordinance of the Common Council of the City of Evansville Authorizing Repeals and Re-Appropriations of Funds within the Department of Metropolitan Development Sponsor(s): Moore Discussion Led By: Finance Chair Moore Discussion Date: 4/25/2022 Notify: Kelley Coures, DMD
F-2022-07 Amended Attachment:
B. ORDINANCE R-2022-05 AMENDED An Ordinance to Rezone Certain Real Estate in the City of Evansville, State of Indiana, More Commonly Known as 768 Lincoln Ave Petitioner: Derrick Hardin Owner: Derrick Hardin Requested Change: C1 to C4 w/ UDC Ward: 4 Burton Representative: Matt R Lehman, RLehman & Son Consulting
R-2022-05 Amended Attachment:
C. ORDINANCE R-2022-09 AMENDED An Ordinance to Rezone Certain Real Estate in the City of Evansville, State of Indiana, More Commonly Known as 21 and 23 E Columbia St Petitioner: Foster Care in the U.S., Inc Owner: Foster Care in the U.S., Inc Requested Change: R2 to R4 Ward: 3 Heronemus Representative: Jessica Angelique, Foster Care in the U.S., Inc
R-2022-09 Amended Attachment:
D. ORDINANCE R-2022-10 An Ordinance to Rezone Certain Real Estate in the City of Evansville, State of Indiana, More Commonly Known as 5402 & 5428 E Virginia St Petitioner: Spurling Development LLC Owner: Spurling Development LLC Requested Change: C4 to C2 Ward: 1 Trockman Representative: James E Morley & Bret Sermersheim, Morley
R-2022-10 Attachment:
E. ORDINANCE R-2022-12 AMENDED An Ordinance to Rezone Certain Real Estate in the City of Evansville, State of Indiana, More Commonly Known as 3300 Maxx Rd (Partial) Petitioner: Briar Pointe Development, LLC Owner: Briar Pointe Development, LLC Requested Change: M2 to R4 Ward: 5 Elpers Representative: Scott Buedel, Cash Waggner & Associates
R-2022-12 Amended Attachment:
F. ORDINANCE R-2022-13 AMENDED An Ordinance to Rezone Certain Real Estate in the City of Evansville, State of Indiana, More Commonly Known as 207 & 211 S Green River Rd Petitioner: HIRA, Inc. Owner: HIRA, Inc. Requested Change: C1 to C4 w/ UDC Ward: 3 Heronemus Representative: Krista Lockyear, Stoll, Keenon, Ogden, PLLC
R-2022-13 Amended Attachment:
VIII. RESOLUTION DOCKET

 

A. RESOLUTION C-2022-10 A Resolution of the Common Council of the City of Evansville Approving the HOME-ARP Allocation Plan Sponsor(s): Moore, Burton, Mosby Discussion Led By: President Heronemus Discussion Date: 4/25/2022 Notify: Kelley Coures, DMD
C-2022-10 Attachment:
B. RESOLUTION C-2022-11 A Preliminary Resolution of the Common Council of the City of Evansville Declaring an Economic Revitalization Area for Property Tax Phase-In for the Rehabilitation of Real Property at 22-40 West Illinois Street and 27-41 West Indiana Street Evansville, IN 47710 (Partnership for Affordable Housing, Inc) Sponsor(s): Heronemus, Trockman, Elpers Discussion Led By: President Heronemus Discussion Date: 4/25/2022 Notify: Andrea Lendy, Evansville Regional Economic Partnership
C-2022-11 Attachment:
C. RESOLUTION C-2022-12 A Resolution of the Common Council of the City of Evansville, Indiana, Approving Various Matters in Connection with the Lease of a City Garage Project in the City Sponsor(s): Heronemus, Moore, Beane Discussion Led By: President Heronemus Discussion Date: 4/25/2022 Notify: Marco Delucio, ZSWS
C-2022-12 Attachment:
Lease Agreement Attachment:
IX. MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS

 

A. THE NEXT MEETING of the Common Council will be Monday, May 9, 2022 at 5:30 p.m.
B. ADDITIONAL MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS
X. COMMITTEE REPORTS

 

XI. ADJOURNMENT

 EVPL And League Of Women Voters To Unveil Women’s Suffrage Marker 

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 EVPL And League Of Women Voters To Unveil Women’s Suffrage Marker 

Evansville, IN, April 20, 2022 – The Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library and the League of Women Voters of Southwestern Indiana are pleased to announce the upcoming unveiling of a marker honoring local women’s suffrage leader Lucia Blount. 

Lucia Blount was a local community leader who advocated for women’s voting rights in our community during the late 1800s. The marker will be dedicated at 1:00 pm on Tuesday, May 10 at EVPL Central. Mayor Lloyd Winnecke, EVPL officials, and leaders of the League of Women Voters will make remarks. A celebratory reception in EVPL Central’s atrium will follow the unveiling. 

“We are honored to partner with the League of Women Voters to dedicate this marker commemorating Lucia Blount,” said EVPL CEO-Director Scott Kinney. “We recognize the importance voting has on shaping our past, present, and future. Thanks to the efforts of suffragist leaders like Ms. Blount, women in our community have the right to cast their ballot.” 

Made possible thanks to the National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites and the William G. Pomeroy Foundation, the marker will be part of the National Votes for Women Trail, which seeks to recognize and celebrate the diversity of people and groups active in the struggle for women’s suffrage. The marker will be installed in a dedication at the corner of Chestnut and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, the location of Blount’s home where she held suffragist meetings. 

The National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites is a non-profit organization established to support and promote the preservation and interpretation of sites and locales that bear witness to women’s participation in American history. NCWHS is dedicated to making women’s contributions to history visible so all women’s experiences and potential are fully valued. 

The William G. Pomeroy Foundation is committed to supporting the celebration and preservation of community history; and to raising awareness, supporting research and improving the quality of care for patients and their families who are facing a blood cancer diagnosis. One of its initiatives is helping people to celebrate their community’s history. The Pomeroy Foundation meets this part of its mission by providing grants to obtain signage in the form of historic roadside markers and plaques. Since 2006, they have funded over 1,400 markers and plaques across the United States, all the way to Alaska. 

The League of Women Voters of Southwestern Indiana is a nonpartisan, nonprofit civic organization that encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy. The national League of Women Voters, organized in 1920, is the successor to the National American Woman Suffrage Association, which successfully advocated for the 19th Amendment that guarantees women the right to vote. 

The Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library has served our community for more than a century. With eight locations throughout Vanderburgh County, immediate access to hundreds of thousands of digital resources, and a dedicated team of library professionals, EVPL strives to create opportunities for you to discover, explore, and connect with your library. For more information, visit evpl.org. 

 

Pediatric Burn Hospital In Lviv, Ukraine, Reaches Out To Shriners Help

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BLAME LUCY

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BLAME LUCY

GAVEL GAMUT By Jim Redwine

Louis and Mary Leakey discovered some early human ancestors in Tanzania, Africa’s Olduvai Gorge in 1959. Donald Johanson discovered who may be our original grandmother in Ethiopia’s Great Rift Valley in 1974. He named her Lucy because he was a Beatles fan and listened to the song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” right after his discovery. It may be uncharitable to Johanson and paleontology to point out many believe the song was a paean to LSD. On the other hand, those who question Lucy’s bona fides may find solace in this theory.

At the opposite end of those Doubting Thomas’ is the atheistic biologist Richard Dawkins from the University of Oxford who pushed human origins back to as much as five million years ago and posited his meme theory. Dawkins suggests that it is our replicating genes that determine who and what we are and why we behave as we do. One of his famous analogies to explain the evolution of human biology and behavior is to suggest we envision a long line of mothers holding hands all the way back to Lucy. And, as for me, my experiences with my mother and my wife, Peg, convince me there is some credence to the science of the Leakeys, Johanson and Dawkins.

Let’s envision Lucy, our grandmother, in her African cave while our mythical grandfather, call him Adam, goes out to hunt a mastodon for dinner. Adam is struggling with how to trick the massive beast to stampede over a cliff, but Lucy is back home planning for Adam’s return. After Lucy rearranges the lodge pole front door for the tenth time, she surveys the cave’s interior. She is dissatisfied with the position of the bearskin rug she had Adam move just yesterday. She makes a mental note to have Adam shake out the bearskin and figure out a way to attach it to the granite wall of the cave.

Next, Lucy inventories the two stone cooking utensils that Adam carved out for her last week and decides she must have another small one for their new baby’s meals. Lucy switches the positions of the two vessels for the third time. They look better to her now. Lucy gives the baby a bath in the stream running in front of their cave and realizes with only a few days of work with his stone hoe Adam could divert water right to their cave. Lucy resolves to mention her idea to Adam over a handful of fermenting blackberries when he returns. 

Meanwhile Adam is full of a sense of accomplishment because he has skinned the mastodon and is hauling the hide, one ivory tusk and a huge chunk of meat back for Lucy to admire. Adam assumes his work is done for a week or two because Lucy will need to tan the hide, process the meat and make sewing needles from the tusk as she cooks dinner and nurses the baby.

Gentle Reader, you may wonder, or you may not care, why we are discussing the lives of Lucy, Adam and baby from thousands of years ago. Well, I will tell you. About three years ago Peg and I moved into our cabin on the prairie. By unspoken agreement Peg took over all space but my barn. This worked out fine until over the two years of COVID Peg had time to organize every inch of her Girl Cave, the Bunkhouse, the Cabin and even the neutral territory of our garage. Last week spring truly arrived and Peg turned her gaze on my barn. It has not been pretty.

As long as she did not have to look at my laissez-faire system of “if it ain’t in my way, why worry about it”, well, she didn’t worry herself with it. But once she opened the overhead doors and found the mother lode of “my stuff”, she focused her female/Lucy type DNA upon my space. It reminded me of when my sainted mother would venture into my room on a Saturday morning and turn it upside down. Peg and Mom and Lucy and all wives and mothers in between have spent about two million years of two X chromosomal fixation with organization of sons’ and husbands’ behavior. I guess my three-year barn reprieve is over.

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Board Of School Trustees Of The Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation Meeting

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 The Board of School Trustees of the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation will meet for the regularly scheduled Board meeting Monday, April 25, 2022 at 5:30 PM in the Board Room of the EVSC Administration Building located at 951 Walnut Street, Evansville, IN. Seating will be limited to allow for appropriate social distancing. As always, Board meetings can also be observed by tuning to EVSC’s radio station, 90.7 WPSR or live streamed online at https://www.wpsrhd.com/. 

Prior to the regularly scheduled Board meeting, three members of the Board, along with district administrators, will hold a Town Hall beginning at 5:00 PM. This Town Hall is for Vanderburgh County residents to speak directly with Board members in attendance about issues involving EVSC schools. The Town Hall will be the process utilized to receive Public Comment. The Town Hall will be held in the Technology and Innovation Center located at 951 Walnut Street, Evansville, IN. Members of the public who would like to attend the Town Hall should register by completing the Town Hall Registration Form located on our website at district.evscschools.com 

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