Evansville Then and Now” — A Look at the City Through Time | May 20
Event Details:
Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Time: 6:30 PM
Location: Browning Gallery (lower level)
Join the Southwestern Indiana Historical Society for a special evening as Tom Lonnberg and Savannah Summerfield present Evansville Then and Now on Tuesday, May 20 at 6:30 PM in the Browning Gallery at Willard Library.
This engaging program takes a closer look at the evolution of our city—how it’s changed, what’s endured, and what stories the past still tells.
No RSVP required—just bring your curiosity!
For more info, contact SWIHS at swihs1920@gmail.com
EPD DAILY ACTIVITY REPORT
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CenterPoint Energy is monitoring forecasted severe weather and preparing for potential system impacts in southwestern Indiana
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – May 16, 2025 – CenterPoint Energy is actively monitoring severe weather forecasts and preparing for any potential impacts of strong storms expected to move through southwestern Indiana today. The company is coordinating with emergency and agency partners and mobilizing resources across its service area to be prepared to respond to impacts and outages.
“We are closely monitoring the forecast and have taken steps to position crews, equipment and support teams across our service territory. We have a plan and we are executing our plan,” said Shane Bradford, CenterPoint’s Vice President, Indiana Electric. “Our teams are prepared to respond, if needed, and will work safely and efficiently to restore service once conditions allow.”
Actions CenterPoint is Taking to Prepare
The actions CenterPoint is taking to prepare and respond include:
· Pre-staging crews and equipment: CenterPoint crews and equipment are positioned across our service area to quickly respond to potential storm impacts once conditions have cleared.
· Coordinating with government officials: Providing regular updates to state, county and city officials about our pre-storm activities and readiness posture.
· Sharing information and updates: Providing safety and preparedness information directly with customers via email, phone or text, across social media platforms and other channels to keep customers informed and prepared.
· Organizing additional call center staffing: Securing additional call center staff to handle a higher volume of calls during the storm and limit wait times.
Responding to Potential Impacts Across Service Territory
Across its Indiana Electric service area, CenterPoint is carefully monitoring severe weather and preparing to deploy frontline crews to efficiently clear storm debris, repair the grid and restore service to impacted customers as quickly and safely as possible.
Important Information for Electric Customers
CenterPoint electric customers are encouraged to enroll in the company’s Power Alert Service® to receive outage details, estimated restoration times and customer-specific restoration updates via phone call, text or email. Customers can also stay up-to-date on outages with CenterPoint’s new and improved, cloud-based Outage Tracker, now available in English and Spanish, which allows customers to see outages by county and zip code. The new tracker is capable of handling increased traffic during storms and is ADA- and mobile-friendly.
CenterPoint Encourages All Customers to Have a Plan to Stay Safe
Following infant’s tragic death, Attorney General Todd Rokita and team make sure woman’s conviction stands
Defendant with history of drug abuse violated court order barring her from being alone with newborn
A 29-year-old Evansville woman with a drug-abuse history who rolled over in bed atop her infant son, asphyxiating him to death, will remain behind bars following successful arguments by Attorney General Todd Rokita’s appeals team to uphold her conviction on neglect charges.
At the time of the tragic incident on June 8, 2022, Taylor Smith was in violation of a court order forbidding her to be alone with the 12-day-old child. She also rejected the advice of child welfare officials that she refrain from co-sleeping with the child, especially when under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
Smith is serving a 30-year prison sentence on the neglect and drugs charges.
“Because of this woman’s fateful decisions, a precious newborn child lost his life,” Attorney General Rokita said. “I’m proud of our team for ensuring she is held to account for her actions, and we can only hope that stories like this one will deter other parents and would-be parents from similar missteps.”
The child’s father also pleaded guilty to neglect charges.
Attorney General Rokita thanked Deputy Attorney General Tyler Banks for his work on this case. He also thanked Appeals Division Chief Counsel Angela Sanchez and Criminal Appeals Section Chief Andrew Kobe.
Otters score 18 in series clinching win
Evansville got an electric start from Parker Brahms, going six innings, giving up three runs and striking out eight without conceding a single walk.
On the offensive side, the Otters jumped out right away. RBIs from four separate Otters gave them a 4-1 lead after one, then a two-run bomb from David Mendham in the second gave the Otters a seven run lead.
A Keenan Taylor two-run home run extended the lead to 9-1 and Evansville wouldn’t look back.
The Otters added two more on Cohen Wilbanks and Alain Camou RBI singles in the 5th. Runs in each of the sixth and seventh brought the score to 13-7.
Evansville entered the bottom of the 8th with a 13-10 cushion and added even more insurance. Ray Gil blasted a two-run home run of his own before Graham Brown would follow suit with a three-run home run to help the Otters enter the ninth with an eight-run lead.
Zach Voelker, who was activated from the injured list today, made his season debut and closed out the ninth, with the Otters victorious, 18-13.
Evansville hit four home runs on the night and all nine Otters registered hits – eight of them also grabbing at least one RBI.
UE baseball drops first game to Bradley
Eagles drop the opening game to Lions, 9-4
ST. CHARLES, Mo. – University of Southern Indiana Baseball lost the opener at Lindenwood University, 9-4, Thursday evening in St. Charles, Missouri. USI is 25-28 overall and 13-12 in the OVC, while Lindenwood goes to 27-26, 14-10 OVC.
With the loss, USI falls to sixth in the OVC standings. The Screaming Eagles move to a game behind the Lions, who are fourth, and a half game behind Southeast Missouri State University, which was leading the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 11-0, at press time.
The Screaming Eagles spotted the Lions a 5-0 lead through the first two innings. Lindenwood got a tally in the first and four in the second for the 5-0 lead, scoring all of its runs off USI starting left-hander Jake Porter.
USI started cutting the deficit in the fourth inning on an RBI-single by junior leftfielder Hunter Miller, scoring sophomore rightfielder Cameron Boyd. Boyd had singled to start the inning and extended his hitting streak to a team-best 18 games.
Miller would come across the plate with USI’s second run of the game on an RBI ground out by sophomore second baseman Anthony Umbach to make the score 5-2.
The Eagles closed the gap to one, 5-4, with another pair of runs in the top of the sixth. Miller scored for the second time in the game, crossing the plate on a sac fly by Umbach, while junior catcher Micajah Wall marked USI’s fourth tally on a single by junior shortstop Clayton Slack.
The Lions re-extended the margin to three runs, 7-4, with a two-run blast in the bottom of the seventh. Lindenwood would add two more runs in the eighth for the 9-4 final.
Offensively, USI was led by Slack and Holiday with three hits each, while Miller scored twice and Umbach had a pair of RBIs.
Porter (4-5) started and took the loss for the Eagles on the mound. The junior left-hander allowed five runs on seven hits and two walks, while striking out two in three frames of work.
USI got a strong outing from freshman right-hander Colin Wolfe out of the bullpen. Wolfe blanked the Lions for three innings on two hits, striking out three.
