American Sewing Guild Meeting
Indiana State Police Museum Opens Today
Looking for something to do this weekend? Stop by the Indiana State Police Museum this Saturday, May 20th. The museum will be open to visitors from 12pm to 4pm. Come learn about John Dillinger and the early Indiana State Police, the history of our laboratory and crime scene investigation, and our different specialty teams. We also have several police cars for different decades on display as well as a two headed police car! We’re located on the East side of Indianapolis near the intersection of Post Road and 21st Street. Need more information? Check out our website - Indiana State Police Museum or our Facebook page - Indiana State Police Museum Facebook Page
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Breaking News: Vectren, Utility Consumer Counselor Reach Agreement On Energy Grid Modernization Plan
 Vectren, Utility Consumer Counselor Reach Agreement On Energy Grid Modernization Plan
 Evansville, Ind. – Vectren Energy Delivery of Indiana – South (Vectren), Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Counselor (OUCC) and a coalition of industrial customers have reached a settlement agreement regarding Vectren’s seven-year improvement plan to enhance reliability and modernize its electric infrastructure, which was filed in February of 2017. The settlement agreement was filed yesterday with the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) and completes a collaborative effort among Vectren, the industrial group and the OUCC. The IURC is expected to rule on the settlement no later than September.
The electric system improvement plan includes upgrades to portions of Vectren’s network of substations, transmission and distribution networks that serve seven counties in southwestern Indiana. The original plan featured more than 800 projects and was estimated to cost $514 million over the plan’s seven-year period.
The settlement agreement reduces the plan spend to $446 million. The majority of the $68 million reduction relates to the removal of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI or digital meters) from this plan. However, deferral of the costs for AMI was agreed upon in the settlement whereby the company can move forward with deployment in the near-term. In removing it from the plan, the request for cost recovery for the project will not occur until the next base rate review proceeding, which will begin in 2023.
“This settlement is an important step in our efforts to ensure our energy grid is resilient and more capable of meeting the energy demands of our customers for years to come, including maintaining the reliability our customers have come to expect,†said Carl Chapman, Vectren chairman, president and CEO. “Although we agreed to remove some projects from the final plan, we will phase in advanced digital meters, likely beginning next year, as this technology provides many benefits to our customers, including the elimination of estimated meter reads and detailed insight into daily energy usage. This will help customers manage their energy consumption and help Vectren manage the energy grid.â€
If the settlement is approved as filed, electric bills will be gradually adjusted likely beginning in early 2018, and adjustments will continue with modest increases in subsequent years as the improvement projects are completed. In 2018, the typical residential electric customer would pay $1 to $2 more per month. The bill impact at the end of the seven-year period will now be $16 to $17 per month compared to $18 to $20 per month in the original filing.
Under the settlement terms, the company has also agreed that as bills increase during the seven years to recover the cost of the plan, fixed monthly charges related to the plan for residential and other small customers will not exceed $7 per month by the end of the period – about half of the fixed charge it had proposed in February. That means that by year seven, up to only $7 of the expected $16 to $17 monthly increase will be recovered in a fixed monthly service charge while the remaining portion will be recovered volumetrically (based on usage).
Customers can learn more about Vectren’s grid modernization plan and its customer benefits atwww.vectren.com/SmartEnergyFuture.
Vectren Energy Delivery of Indiana – South delivers electricity to approximately 145,000 customers in all or portions of Gibson, Dubois, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh and Warrick counties.
 About Vectren
Vectren Corporation (NYSE: VVC) is an energy holding company headquartered in Evansville, Ind. Vectren’s energy delivery subsidiaries provide gas and/or electricity to more than 1 million customers in adjoining service territories that cover nearly two-thirds of Indiana and about 20 percent of Ohio, primarily in the west central area. Vectren’s nonutility subsidiaries and affiliates currently offer energy-related products and services to customers throughout the U.S. These include infrastructure services and energy services. To learn more about Vectren, visit www.vectren.com.
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Eagles lose heartbreaker to start regional
The 19th-ranked University of Southern Indiana baseball team lost a heartbreaker in the ninth inning versus Saint Joseph’s College, 5-4, during the first day of the 2017 NCAA Division II Midwest Regional Thursday evening in Midland, Michigan. USI, the second seed in the regional, watched its record go to 32-20 overall, while Saint Joseph’s, the seven-seed, goes to 35-20.
The Screaming Eagles continue NCAA II Midwest Regional action Friday at 12:30 p.m. (CDT) when they play an elimination game versus the loser of Quincy University (32-20), the third seed, and Wayne State University (31-19), the sixth-seed.
For live coverage and information about USI in the 2017 NCAA post-season, visit GoUSIEagles.com.
After the Pumas struck first with a tally in the top of the third, the Eagles rallied to tie the game, 1-1, in the bottom of the fifth. USI junior third baseman Angel Torres (Puerto Rico) drove in the tying run with an RBI single, scoring junior first baseman Nathan Kuester (Rockport, Indiana).
Saint Joseph’s regained the lead in the top of the sixth, 3-1, with a pair of tallies with two outs. USI cut the two-run deficit in half, 3-2, during the bottom half of the frame when Kuester drove in junior rightfielder Nick Gobert (Jasper, Indiana) with a sacrifice fly after the Eagles had loaded the bases with no one out.
The Eagles rallied once again in the eighth, scoring twice to take a 4-3 advantage. Junior shortstop Sam Griggs (Evansville, Indiana) started the scoring with an RBI-double before Kuester gave the Eagles’ their only the lead with his second RBI sacrifice fly of the game.
The Pumas, however, were not about to surrender in the ninth. They regained the upper-hand with a game-winning two-run blast off the bat of second baseman Joe Kenney.
Senior right-hander Justin Watts (Bryan, Ohio) took the loss for the Eagles. Watts (5-3) worked 1.2 innings and allowed two runs on the ninth inning home run.
USI junior right-hander Kyle Griffin (Morganfield, Kentucky) started and picked up the no-decision. Griffin allowed a tally on five hits during the first four innings. Senior right-hander Lucas Barnett (Sellersburg, Indiana) followed Griffin to the mound, allowing two runs on five hits and striking out three in 3.1 innings of work.
IS IT TRUE MAY 19, 2017
IS IT TRUE we have been told re-branding never ever solves a physical problem and is sometimes is more associated with deception than betterment?…we must remind our readers that re-branding does not and never will repair a decrepit sewer system?…a catchy phrase never has and never will get the EPA off of Evansville’s back, nor will words keep raw sewage out of the streets and waterways?…that clever words will not fill the pot holes, repair the water distribution system, rebuild the sidewalks,  improve the poor performance of the public school system,  or stop the Mayor from spending our hard earned tax dollars on his expensive feel good projects, or never lowered our taxes or increase wages?
IS IT TRUE speaking of the EVSC, they have tried to re-brand their way out of poor performance by renaming failing schools as academies and other nonsensical concoctions of hollow words?…propaganda without substance is often where some educated people go to avoid the hard work of real improvement?
IS IT TRUE that perhaps it is time for the City of Evansville to find a way to hire some National Merit Finalists because apparently the City does not have the will or ability to read a utility bill or the willingness to be honest about who pays it?
IS IT TRUE we have been told that several local CPA”s shall be monitoring how the City Controller will be presenting the 2018 budget reports and requests to members of the Evansville City Council? Â …we hear that they will be paying special attention to the figures in the “YELLOW BOOK” that the City Controller gives to council members?
FOOTNOTE: todays “READERS POLL†question is:  Do you feel that long time City Council members Mosby, Weaver, McGinn, Adams and Robinson have been “Good Stewards Of The Public Trust”?
CHANNEL 44 NEWS: Ford Center Nominated For “Venue Of The Year” By ACM.
Ford Center Nominated For “Venue Of The Year” By ACM.
The Ford Center is getting a huge honor from the Academy of Country Music. It’s been nominated for “Venue of the Year” by the group. Over the past few years, it’s more a regular stop for some of the biggest names in Country Music including…
2017 NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS
Corporate-Sponsored Merit Scholarship Winners
(Evanston, Illinois) Today, National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) released the names of the fi rst group of winners in the 62nd annual National Merit Scholarship Program. More than 1,000 distinguished high school seniors have won corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship awards fi nanced by about 200 corporations, company foundations, and other business organizations.
Scholars were selected from students who advanced to the Finalist level in the National Merit Scholarship competition and met criteria of their scholarship sponsors. Corporate sponsors provide National Merit Scholarships for Finalists who are children of their employees, who are residents of communities the company serves, or who plan to pursue college majors or careers the sponsor wishes to encourage.
Most of these awards are renewable for up to four years of college undergraduate study and provide annual stipends that range from $500 to $10,000 per year. Some provide a single payment between $2,500 and $5,000. Recipients can use their awards at any regionally accredited U.S. college or university of their choice.
Funding for these National Merit Scholarships is provided by corporate organizations that represent nearly all sectors of American industry. Sponsors from the business community have underwritten awards offered in all 62 competitions, expending or committing more than $767 million to support the intellectual development of the nation’s scholastically talented youth.
2017 National Merit Scholarship Competition
Over 1.6 million juniors in more than 22,000 high schools entered the 2017 National Merit Scholarship Program when they took the 2015 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), which served as an initial screen of program entrants. In September 2016, some 16,000 Semifi nalists were designated on a state-representational basis in numbers proportional to each state’s percentage of the national total of graduating high school seniors. Semifinalists were the highest-scoring program entrants in each state and represented less than one percent of the nation’s seniors.
To be considered for a National Merit Scholarship, Semifinalists had to fulfill requirements to advance to Finalist standing. Each Semifi nalist was asked to complete a detailed scholarship application, which included writing an essay and providing information about extracurricular activities, awards, and leadership positions. Semifinalists also had to have an outstanding academic record, be endorsed and recommended by a high school official, and earn SAT® scores that confirmed their qualifying test performance. From the Semifi nalist group, some 15,000 met Finalist requirements
. By the conclusion of the 2017 competition, about 7,500 Finalists will have been selected to receive National Merit Scholarships totaling over $32 million. Winners are the Finalist candidates judged to have the strongest combination of academic skills and achievements, extracurricular accomplishments, and potential for success in rigorous college studies.
NMSC, a not-for-profi t organization that operates without government assistance, was established in 1955 to conduct the National Merit Scholarship Program. The majority of National Merit Scholarships offered each year are underwritten by some 420 independent corporate and college sponsors that support NMSC’s efforts to honor the nation’s scholastically talented youth and encourage academic excellence at all levels of education.