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Local Farm Honored By Area Legislators
Local Farm Honored By Area Legislators
STATEHOUSE (April 5, 2022) – Area legislators today announced the latest local recipient of the Hoosier Homestead Award, which recognizes farms that have been owned and maintained by the same family for 100 years or more.
The Hoosier Homestead Award Program honors families who have made significant contributions to Indiana agriculture. The program, instituted in 1976, recognizes the impact these family farms have made on the economic, cultural, and social advancements of Indiana. Within the past 45 years, more than 5,800 farms have received the honor.
Represented by State Sen. Jim Tomes (R-Wadesville) and State Rep. Wendy McNamara (R-Evansville), the Kenneth and Mary Seebode farm in Posey County was honored at the Statehouse with Centennial and Sesquicentennial Awards.
“It’s very important we acknowledge the achievements of local farmers, as they are truly the lifeblood of our state,” Tomes said. “I congratulate the Kenneth and Mary Seebode farm for the incredible feat of operating for more than 100 years, and thank them for their hard work and dedication.”
“Longtime farmers, like the Seebode’s, are part of what makes our state great,” McNamara said. “Their perseverance and dedication for more than 150 years is an inspiration, and I wish them continued success.”
To be named a Hoosier Homestead, farms must be owned by the same family for at least 100 consecutive years and consist of more than 20 acres or produce more than $1,000 of agricultural products per year. The award distinctions are Centennial, Sesquicentennial, and Bicentennial – for 100, 150, and 200 years respectively.
Two Hoosier Homestead award ceremonies are held each year – one at the Statehouse in April and one at the State Fair in August. To learn more about the program or to apply for a Hoosier Homestead award, visitwww.in.gov/isda/2337.htm.
EPA Releases FY 2023 Congressional Budget Justification
The President’s Fiscal Year 2023 budget requests $11.881 billion for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s essential work to protect people from pollution
WASHINGTON (April 5, 2022) – Following last week’s release of the President’s Budget for the fiscal year 2023, today the EPA announced the detailed FY 2023 Congressional Justification. These materials include further details on proposed funding across all EPA programs and descriptions of individual investments. The Budget makes historic investments to advance key priorities in the FY 2022-2026 EPA Strategic Plan, including tackling the climate crisis, advancing environmental justice, protecting air quality, upgrading the Nation’s aging water infrastructure, and rebuilding core functions at the Agency.
As highlighted last week, the FY 2023 President’s Budget makes critical investments across environmental priorities. Highlights include:
- Upgrading Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Nationwide. The Budget provides approximately $4 billion to advance efforts to upgrade drinking water and wastewater infrastructure nationwide, with a focus on underserved communities. This includes approximately $1 billion to fully fund water grant programs authorized in the Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act (DWWIA). The Budget also supports water infrastructure with an increase of $160 million in grants to reduce lead in drinking water and an increase of $240 million for the Sewer Overflow and Stormwater Reuse grant program. The Budget proposes a new $25 million water sector cybersecurity grant program. The Budget also maintains funding for the State Revolving Funds, which will complement the $23.4 billion provided for the traditional SRF programs over five years in the recently enacted Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
- Ensuring Clean and Healthy Air for All Communities. The Budget allocates $1.1 billion to improve air quality and reduce localized pollution, reduce exposure to radiation, and improve indoor air for communities across the country. This includes $152 million to support the development and implementation of national emission standards to reduce air pollution from vehicles, engines and fuels. The Budget also supports $299 million to assist air pollution control agencies in the development, implementation, and evaluation of programs for the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) and to establish standards for reducing air toxins.
- Tackling the Climate Crisis. The Budget prioritizes funding for tackling the climate crisis and invests an additional $100 million in grants to Tribes and states that will support on-the-ground efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase resiliency in the Nation’s infrastructure. The Budget proposes an additional $35 million to implement the American Innovation in Manufacturing Act to continue phasing out potent greenhouse gases known as hydrofluorocarbons and invests an additional $13 million in wildfire prevention and readiness.
- Advancing Environmental Justice. The Administration is committed to increasing efforts to deliver environmental justice in communities across the Nation. The Budget supports the President’s Justice40 commitment to ensure at least 40 percent of the benefits of federal investments in climate and clean energy reach historically overburdened and underserved communities. The Budget invests more than $1.45 billion across the Agency’s programs that will help create good-paying jobs, clean up pollution, advance racial equity, and secure environmental justice for all communities. To elevate environmental justice as a top Agency priority, EPA has proposed a new national environmental justice program office to coordinate and maximize the benefits of the Agency’s programs and activities for underserved communities.
- Protecting Communities from Hazardous Waste and Environmental Damage. Preventing and cleaning up environmental damage that harms communities and poses a risk to public health and safety continues to be a top priority for the Administration. The Budget provides $1.15 billion for EPA’s Superfund programs to continue cleaning up some of the Nation’s most contaminated land and respond to environmental emergencies. The Budget also includes $215 million for EPA’s Brownfields programs to provide technical assistance and grants to communities, including overburdened and underserved communities, so they can safely clean up and reuse once contaminated properties. The Budget supports additional Community Development Specialists to manage land revitalization projects and works with Tribal, rural, and overburdened and underserved communities to address brownfields.
- Strengthening Our Commitment and Ability to Successfully Implement the Toxic Substances and Control Act (TSCA). The Budget provides $124 million and 449 FTE for TSCA’s efforts to deliver on the promises made to the American people by the bipartisan Lautenberg Act. These resources will support EPA-initiated chemical risk evaluations and protective regulations in accordance with statutory timelines.
- Tackling Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Pollution. PFAS are a group of man-made chemicals that threaten the health and safety of communities across the Nation. As part of the President’s commitment to tackling PFAS pollution, the Budget provides approximately $126 million in FY 2023 for EPA to increase its understanding of human health and ecological effects of PFAS, restrict uses to prevent PFAS from entering the air, land, and water, and remediate PFAS that have been released into the environment. EPA will continue to act on the Agency’s PFAS Strategic Roadmap to safeguard communities from PFAS contamination.
- Enforcing and Assuring Compliance with the Nation’s Environmental Laws. The Budget provides $213 million for civil enforcement efforts, which includes increasing enforcement efforts in communities with high pollution exposure and to prevent the illegal importations and use of hydrofluorocarbons in the U. S. The Budget also includes $7 million to operate a coal combustion residuals compliance program, $148 million for compliance monitoring efforts, and $69 million for criminal enforcement efforts, including the development of a specialized criminal enforcement task force to address environmental justice issues in partnership with the Department of Justice.
- Restoring Critical Capacity to Carry Out EPA’s Core Mission. The Budget includes more than 1,900 new Full Time Equivalents (FTEs) relative to current levels, for a total of more than 16,200 FTEs, to help rebuild the Agency’s capacity. Restoring staffing capacity across the Agency will facilitate and expedite EPA’s work to reduce air, water, and climate pollution and advance environmental justice. The Budget continues to strengthen the Agency’s ability to recruit, hire, develop, promote, and retain top talent and remove barriers to equal opportunity at the management and staff levels in order to strengthen and advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.
The Budget makes these smart investments while also reducing deficits and improving our country’s long-term fiscal outlook.
Click here for more information on the President’s FY 2023 Budget request.
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Suspect in “Days Inn†Cold Case Murders, Assault Identified
Indianapolis – More than 30 years after three young women were murdered, and another brutally assaulted, the man responsible has been identified using investigative genealogy. This is a unique method that can generate new leads for unsolved homicides, as well as help identify unknown victims.
Harry Edward Greenwell was identified through this method as the person responsible for the four attacks. Greenwell died in 2013 at the age of 68 in New Albin, Iowa. Greenwell had an extensive criminal history ranging from 1963 to 1998.
Dubbed the I-65, or Days Inns murders, Greenwell robbed and murdered three young women, and left a fourth for dead, in a series of attacks at hotels in Kentucky and Indiana.
The cases Greenwell has been connected to include:
- February 21, 1987 – Vicki Heath was murdered at the Super 8 Motel in Elizabethtown, KY
- March 3, 1989 – Margaret “Peggy†Gill was murdered at the Days Inn in Merrillville, IN
- March 3, 1989 – Jeanne Gilbert was murdered at the Days Inn in Remington, IN
- January 2, 1990 – Jane Doe was sexually assaulted at the Days Inn in Columbus, IN
Following the murders, the Indiana State Police lab matched ballistic evidence linking the Gill and Gilbert murders. The ISP Lab further connected the Heath and Gilbert murders, and the sexual assault of the Columbus victim, through DNA analysis.
In 2019, the Indiana State Police requested the assistance of the FBI’s Gang Response Investigative Team (GRIT). Since these crimes were committed, many investigative and scientific techniques have either improved or been created through new advances in technology. One of these methods is Investigative Genealogy and combines the use of DNA analysis with traditional genealogy research and historical records to generate investigative leads for unsolved violent crimes.
This technique involves uploading a crime scene DNA profile to one or more genetic genealogy databases in an attempt to identify a criminal offender’s genetic relatives and locate the offender within their family tree. Utilizing this process, a match was made to Greenwell with a close family member. Through this match it was determined that the probability of Greenwell being the person responsible for the attacks was more than 99 percent. Â
Agents in the Houston FBI Field Office provided invaluable assistance in solving the case.
“Our family is extremely grateful to all of the agencies, along with agency partnerships, who have committed to keeping these unsolved cases at the forefront for more than 33 years, and who have worked tirelessly to bring these cases to resolution for all who have suffered from these crimes,†said Kimberly (Gilbert) Wright, daughter of Jeanne Gilbert.
“Indiana State Police investigators work diligently every day, in close collaboration with our state and federal law enforcement partners all across Indiana and beyond our state lines, to help solve senseless crimes like this one, no matter how many days, months or even years have passed since the crime occurredâ€, said Indiana State Police Superintendent Douglas G. Carter.
“These cases did not go unsolved all these years because of a lack of investigative inactivity – investigators continuously tracked leads across the country and did everything they could to identify the person responsible for these crimes,†said FBI Indianapolis Special Agent in Charge Herbert J. Stapleton. “Now, through technological advances and strong, collaborative partnerships we were able to identify this person and, hopefully, start to bring closure and healing to the families of Vicki, Peggy and Jeanne; as well as the surviving victim.â€
“This case represents the generational dedication of the Elizabethtown Police Department and the forward thinking of our detectives when science and law enforcement was in its infancy. Our detectives take each case personal, and they work diligently, never giving up that one day their case will see closure,†said Elizabeth Deputy Chief of Operations David Fegett. “We hope and pray this multi-agency collaboration will help bring long overdue closure to the families and friends of Mrs. Heath and the other victims.”
Aces host Hoosiers for Tuesday night showdown
EVANSVILLE, Ind. –Â On a four-game win streak, the University of Evansville baseball team gets set for a Tuesday night showdown with Indiana at 6 PM at German American Bank Field at Charles H. Braun Stadium in Evansville.
| Evansville vs. Indiana | Tues., April 5 | 6 PM | |
| Site | Location | GAB Field | Evansville, Ind. |
| Links | Tuesday, 6 PM | Live Stats | ESPN+ |
| Follow the Aces | Baseball Site | Twitter | |
Previewing the Matchup: Indiana
- The Aces and Hoosiers are meeting for the 51st time in series history on Tuesday night with Indiana owning a 31-19 lead in the all-time series.
- Evansville and Indiana have become familiar with each other over the last two weeks, meeting for a three-game set in Bloomington on March 25 and 27. The Ace captured game one of the series, 17-14, before narrowly falling to Indiana in games two and three by 6-5 scores.
- Indiana enters the weekend after dropping a three-game series at home to Northwestern.
- The meeting will mark the first contest between UE and IU at The Braun since a 5-4 Evansville win on March 10, 2020 in the first game at the newly renovated German American Bank Field.
B1G Sweep
- Evansville’s three-game series sweep over Michigan State notched a couple of first for the Aces.
- The sweep marks the first time Evansville has swept a three-game series from a Big Ten opponent in program history.
- It also marks the first sweep of a series from a power five opponent in program history.
Shallenberger named MVC Player of the Week
- For the first time in his career, University of Evansville baseball outfielder/designated hitter Mark Shallenberger has been named Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Week, it was announced in a release from the Conference office.
- In an incredible start to the season, junior Mark Shallenberger has rarely missed a beat in 2022 and continued his hot season last week.
- Helping Evansville go a perfect 4-0 on the week with a midweek win over Austin Peay and a three-game series sweep of Michigan State, Shallenberger hit .438 with three doubles, a home run, seven RBI and slugged .813 on the week.
- Against Austin Peay, Shallenberger went three-for-three at the plate, including a third inning grand slam to right center field, breaking the game open in a 10-5 Evansville win.
- Helping to close the series sweep of Michigan State on Sunday, Shallenberger ripped a double up the middle in the eighth, scoring two runs and tying the game at four to help force extras.
- Then in the bottom of the 10th, Shallenberger stood in and wore a 94 mph fastball with the bases loaded to walk in the winning run and secure a 5-4 win for UE.
- On the season, Shallenberger is hitting .392, fourth-best in The Valley with a .496 on-base percentage, tied for tops in the MVC.
- Shallenberger is the fourth Ace to be named either MVC player or pitcher of the week, joining Tanner Craig, Shane Gray, and Nick Smith.
Women’s golf takes second in Terre Haute
Aces lead four MVC schools in the event
 TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Allison Enchelmayer posted the low score of the day for the University of Evansville women’s golf team in Monday’s final round of the Indiana State Invitational at the Country Club of Terre Haute.
An impressive tournament across the board for the Purple Aces saw them take second in the final standings, but even more impressive – UE was the top performer out of a total of four Missouri Valley Conference programs om the tournament.
Earning the highest finish for the Aces was Magdalena Borisova. Scoring her first top five finish, the freshman carded a 78 in the final 18 holes to complete the tournament with a 152. Her score was tied for fourth, just two strokes off the winning score. One behind her was Allison Enchelmayer. She registered Evansville’s low round of the day, totaling 75 strokes. Her 3-over round lowered her final score to a 153, putting her 8th in the final standings.
Tying for 14th was Alyssa McMinn. After shooting a 79 in Sunday’s round, McMinn completed the final 18 holes with a 78 to finish with a 157. Mallory Russell and Caitlin O’Donnell tied for the 17th position. Russell tallied a 79 in each round while O’Donnell’s scores finished at 77 and 81. Carly Frazier was second among the ten individuals. Rounds of 81 and 80 saw her tie for 27th with a 161.
Green Bay took top honors in the team and individual standings. The Phoenix scored a 307 on Monday to finish with a 608. They came in 10 strokes ahead of the Purple Aces. UE scored a 618, finishing five ahead of Indiana State for the runner-up finish. Isabella Maleki of Green Bay was the tournament medalist. After recording a 79 on Sunday, she carded the low round of the entire tournament on Monday, finishing with a 1-under 71. Her final tally of 150 was one stroke ahead of a second-place tie.
Up next for UE is a trip to Murray Ky. on Friday and Saturday for the Jan Weaver Invitational.
Walk-off home run gives Loyola 4-3 win over UE softball
UE home on Wednesday to face Bellarmine
CHICAGO – Alex Barnaby hit a game-tying double in the top of the seventh for the Purple Aces, but it was Loyola’s Madison Ebeling who countered with a walk-off home run to give the Ramblers a 4-3 win on Monday afternoon.
Neither team would lead by more than a run in the contest with the University of Evansville opening the scoring with a run in the top half of the second. Haley Woolf led off with a single before scoring on a double by Hannah Hood. The lead was short-lived as Amelia Thomas led the bottom of the frame off with a triple and would tie the game on a sacrifice fly.
Evansville retook the lead in the fourth inning with Woolf crossing the plate on a Rambler error. Just as they had in the second, Loyola came right back to tie the game on a double steal. In the sixth, the Ramblers took their first lead of the game when Hannah Nalley recorded an RBI single.
Down to their final three outs, the Aces fought back just as they had on Sunday. Alexa Davis doubled to lead off, but remained on second with two outs. Freshman Alex Barnaby pinch hit and delivered a game-tying double to make it a 3-3 game. Izzy Vetter came back into the circle in the bottom of the seventh and recorded two quick outs, but Madison Ebeling delivered the walk-off home run to clinch the 4-3 win.
UE finished the game with eight hits with Haley Woolf going a perfect 3-3 with a pair of runs scored. Vetter tossed the entire 6 2/3 innings and struck out six batters.
The Aces return home on Wednesday for a doubleheader against Bellarmine. Game one begins at 2 p.m.
