Due to the severe weather conditions, the EVSC will be closed tomorrow, Wednesday, Feb. 5. When the EVSC is closed, all activities and events associated with the EVSC are cancelled.
EVSC Schools Dismissing Two Hours Early
Due to the impending weather, schools in the EVSC will be dismissing two hours earlier than normal dismissal times.
In an early dismissal:
-Title 1 PreK classes at Daniel Wertz, Caze, Evans, Cedar Hall, and the Culver Family Learning Center will dismiss one hour earlier than their school location.
-PreK classes at Little Husky World, Little Panther World and Dexter, as well as the Bosse TLC program, will close one hour after their school location.
-Afternoon classes at the Southern Indiana Career and Technical Center; Early College High School at Ivy Tech; Medical Professions Academy at Central High School; Randall Shepard Academy for Law and Social Justice, and the JROTC Â Â Â Program at Harrison High School will be cancelled.
-The high school International Newcomer’s Academy at Bosse will be cancelled.
-Classes will be cancelled for students on the P.M. alternate schedule at the Academy for Innovative Studies-Diamond campus.
-After school extracurricular activities will be cancelled.
-The Extended Daycare program will remain open until all children have been picked up.
Winter weather road conditionsâ€
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Indiana’s next blast of winter weather is upon us. Warnings about hazardous driving conditions will be issued by city, county and state law enforcement as well as by local and national media. Many will heed the warnings. Many more will ignore the warnings. With another major storm approaching, the Evansville Police Department, again, remind motorists to limit travel when possible. If travel is not necessary, then stay home. Most calls for service received by the EPD and other police agencies during winter storms are for crashes and motorists that slide off state roads and interstates. It is important to remember that snow and ice covered roads do not cause crashes. The crashes are caused by unsafe driving on the snow and ice covered roadway. If you choose to drive during poor or hazardous driving conditions you must: 1. Leave sooner and expect your travel time to be twice as long as normal 2. Drive slower 3. Increase the following distance between you and the vehicle in front of you by at least five times greater than normal 4. Approach intersections with great care; other drivers not paying attention will slide through red lights 5. Signal all lane changes and turning movements The posted speed limit may be more than twice as fast as the reduced speed drivers should travel to reduce the possibility of a collision or loss of control that puts a vehicle into a retaining wall, ditch or another motorist. Indiana code 9-21-5-1 specifies “Speed shall be restricted as necessary to avoid colliding with a person, vehicle, or other conveyance on, near or entering a highway.†Motorists losing control of their vehicle or who are involved in a crash resulting in a police report should expect to be cited for this offense, which carries a maximum fine of $500. If you are involved in a crash, are uninjured and all vehicles are drivable, involved drivers should move to a safe place completely off the road, be it the next exit or to the parking lot of a business to await law enforcement response for a police report. It is important to remember crashes involving injury or lane blockage receive priority attention ahead of property damage crashes. So, keep in mind, it may be an extended period of time before law enforcement arrives. The reason and purpose for moving drivable vehicles off the road is to avoid secondary crashes of other inattentive motorists crashing into your scene or sideswiping you if you’ve only moved to the side of the road. Something else to keep in mind, crash scenes with vehicles disabled in the roadway and state police presence may have the state police vehicle facing the wrong way with emergency lights and headlights on. This is to warn approaching motorists of impending danger. Remember, Indiana’s Move Over Law states motorists MUST change lanes away from the emergency or utility vehicle if they can do it SAFELY. If not possible to move away from the emergency vehicle, motorists must SLOW DOWN and proceed with caution. Please give us room to work. We are asking motorists to SLOW DOWN and/or MOVE OVER WHEN SAFE TO DO SO.
Vehicles included in the Move Over law are: • Police vehicles • Ambulances • Fire trucks and rescue equipment • Highway incident-response vehicles • Highway work vehicles-including snow plows • Vehicle recovery equipment (tow trucks) The point of not calling police agencies for road information during snow emergencies cannot be overstressed. Calling police departments about road conditions may delay action on critical life emergency 911 calls. Road conditions are likely the same for the area you want to know about as it is looking out your front window. If you call for road conditions call the Indiana Department of Transportation’s Road and Weather automated system at 800-262-7623 or visit the INDOT traffic map at http://indot.carsprogram.org/main.jsf. The 800 phone service is voice activated and updated with timely road conditions across Indiana. The INDOT web link allows users to check on specific locations for current closures and other road information. For Indiana County Travel Status Reports, visit this link: http://www.in.gov/dhs/traveladvisory.
VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES
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Below is a list of felony cases that were filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office on Monday, February 03, 2014
Joy Egan Burglary-Class C Felony
Theft-Class D Felony
Tereasa Flener Battery Resulting in Bodily Injury-Class D Felony
Resisting Law Enforcement-Class D Felony
Criminal Recklessness-Class B Misdemeanor
Public Intoxication-Class B Misdemeanor
Jason Warfield Domestic Battery-Class D Felony
Battery Resulting in Bodily Injury-Class A Misdemeanors (Two Counts)
(Habitual Offender Enhancement)
Peter Williams Operating a Vehicle While Intoxicated-Class C Misdemeanor
(Enhanced to D Felony Due to Prior Convictions)
Unlawful Possession of Use of a Legend Drug-Class D Felony
Theodore Steen Jr Theft-Class D Felony
Battery-Class B Misdemeanor
For further information on the cases listed above, or any pending case, please contact Kyle Phernetton at 812.435.5688 or via e-mail at KPhernetton@vanderburghgov.org
Under Indiana law, all criminal defendants are considered to be innocent until proven guilty by a court of
EPD investigating BB gun vandalism spree
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Evansville Police are looking for the person, or persons, responsible for using a BB gun to shoot out car windows in several north side neighborhoods. Officers had 7 reported incidents. The incidents happened Sunday night into Monday morning. All of the cars had at least one window broken out.
The crimes happened at the following addresses:
1214 N. 1st Ave
1204 N. 1st Ave
212 Wedeking
204 E Eichel
100 E. Florida
17 W. Oregon
1301 N. Elliott
Anyone who may have seen anyone acting suspicious in these areas or who has information about the suspect(s) is asked to call the EPD at 436-7979 or the WeTip Hotline at 1-877-CRIME.
CBO: ObamaCare to Cost America 2.5 Million Jobs, increase deficit by $1 Trillion
The new healthcare law will slow economic growth over the next decade, costing the nation about 2.5 million jobs and contributing to a $1 trillion increase in projected deficits, the Congressional Budget Office said in a report released Tuesday.
The non-partisan group’s report found that the healthcare law’s negative effects on the economy will be “substantially larger†than what it had previously anticipated.
The CBO is now estimating that the law will reduce labor force compensation by 1 percent from 2017 to 2024, twice the reduction it previously had projected.
This will decrease the number of full-time equivalent jobs in 2021 by 2.3 million, it said. It had previously estimated the decrease would be 800,000.
It said this decrease would be caused partly be people leaving the workforce in response to lower jobs offered by employers, and increased insurance coverage through the healthcare law.
It also said employer penalties in the law will decrease wages, and that part-year workers will be slower to return to the work force because they will seek to retain ObamaCare insurance subsidies.
The healthcare law isn’t the only reason the CBO is projecting slower economic growth between 2014 and 2023, however. It also cited inflation and lower productivity as reasons why it was lowering its projections.
The slower growth will mean less tax revenue, which will add to the deficit. Instead of adding $6.3 trillion in deficits from 2014 to 2023, the government will add $7.3 trillion, CBO now projects.
By 2023, the gross debt of the United States will be $26 trillion, up from a projected $25 trillion. A year later the debt will rise to $27 trillion as the $1.074 trillion deficit for fiscal 2024 is added in.
“Most of the increase in projected deficits results from lower projections for the growth of real GDP and for inflation, which have resulted in projected revenues between 2014 and 2023 by $1.4 trillion,†CBO explained.
CBO now thinks the economy will grow at 3.1 percent in this fiscal year, which ends in October, rather than the 3.4 percent growth it predicted last year.
The unemployment rate is projected to fall to 6.7 percent by the end of the year, much lower than the 7.6 percent CBO saw for 2014 previously. The budget office does not see unemployment falling below 6 percent for the rest of President Obama’s term, however.
In the near term, the CBO is projecting smaller deficits.
The budget office says that legislation enacted since last May has reduced deficits by $400 billion.
For 2014, the deficit is slated to be $514 billion, an improvement of $46 billion from last year’s projection.
In 2015, the deficit falls to $478 billion. That is still higher than the last full year of the Bush administration when the deficit was $458 billion, but it is a steep drop from the $1 trillion deficits of most of the Obama years.
Source: The Hill
EPD Activity Report: February 3, 2014
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IS IT TRUE February 4, 2014
IS IT TRUE February 4, 2014
IS IT TRUE we hear that 6th Ward City Councilman Al Lindsey is considering filing a civil law suit against the Evansville Courier and Press and WEHT Channel 25 for displaying his social security number that was part of a rental contract they publicly posted in stories about his legal place resident?…that City Councilman Lindsey shall allege in his law suit that both media outlets violated federal law when they posted his private social security number to the masses?…that Mr. Lindsey’s attorney Scott Danks contacted Channel 25 TV and the Courier and Press last evening about them posting Mr. Lindsey’s social security to the masses and as of yesterday evening both media outlets have taken down Councilman Lindsey’s social security number?
IS IT TRUE that we hear from extremely reliable sources within in the Vanderburgh County Democratic party that Democratic 2nd ward leader and present Superintendent of City of Evansville Cemeteries Chris Cooke shall no longer be allowed to participate in any future political activities sponsored by them?…Mr. Cooke’s act of publicly insulting a Democrat elected official in a recent Facebook posting will force the party leadership to make this ruling concerning his future in the Democratic party of Vanderburgh County?…it looks like Mr. Cooke shall now be forced to become a bone fide member of the Vanderburgh County GOP?…it will be most interesting to see if the local GOP will welcome Mr. Cooke with open arms or keep their distance after this recent dust-up and some other aggressive statements made in the past?
IS IT TRUE the CCO would like to pose this question to any CEOs or Senior Managers among our readership regarding the Facebook post that City of Evansville Cemetery Director Chris Cooke put up about City Councilman John Friend?…given that the Mayor is the CEO of the City and the City Council is the Board of Directors we ask the following question, “what would a real world CEO do if a department head made such a statement about a board member?”
IS IT TRUE today should have been the two week anniversary of the GOLDEN SHOVEL and PLATINUM HARDHAT CEREMONY to officially break ground on the new downtown convention hotel?…if was only 4 weeks ago that City of Evansville officials including Mayor Winnecke postponed the GOLDEN SHOVEL CEREMONY over some “small issue with pilings that should be rectified within two weeks?â€â€¦if that two week thing were true we would be downtown for the GOLDEN SHOVEL CEREMONY today?…not a peep has come from the Office of the Mayor about the “pilings†since that fateful decision to postpone a photo op with the GOLDEN SHOVELS?…we guess the light bulb may have gone off about just how hard the ground is in February in Southern Indiana and the GOLDEN SHOVEL BRIGADE does not want to scratch their wingtips trying to dig a shovel full of dirt?…that problem is easily solved by bringing in a scoop of fresh sand so the GOLDEN SHOVEL BRIGADE can easily smile while scooping a pound of sand?…the City County Observer would like to offer to provide that scoop of sand if the City of Evansville can show loan approval for HCW and a sufficient amount of funding in escrow to guarantee this project will have the funding to move forward?
IS IT TRUE that the Dow Jones Industrial Average is now down by about 7.5% just since New Year’s Day?…it will now take an 8.1% rise to get back to where it was just 35 days ago?…there was no fundamental reason for the market to have increased by 26% last year and there is no fundamental reason for this year’s losses?…this is for the most part all about the federal reserve’s efforts to prop up the market for a number of years by printing money to buy bonds that increased the money supply for professional money managers to scoop that printed money into their own accounts?…when the money party was slowed down the stocks pulled back?…most of the market makers expect a full correction of over 10% before things stabilize and we are only about 350 points from that?…there are going to be a lot of shocked faces come early April when those 401k statements go out and remind people that last year’s money party has ended?
TSGS (Tri-State Genealogical Society) Meeting Notice
When: Tuesday February  11 2014 at 6:30 PM
Where: Willard Library – Bayard Room on the Second Floor
What: Monthly Meeting
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The Tri-State Genealogical Society will have a brief business meeting followed by our program:
TSGS Program Chair Person Barbara Manzi has announced that the program will feature  Rob Wick – reference librarian at Barnes & Noble.  We all have read the stories of Abraham Lincoln and his Indiana roots.  We look forward to learning something new about our 16th President.  This promises to be a very interesting and informative program.  For more information contact: tsgs.membership@yahoo.com or phone 812-499-5542.
This is a program you will not want to miss.   You do not have to be a member to come and participate at the society’s monthly meetings (except, no meetings in July and August).
Oak Hill School to Host 3rd annual World Culture Bazaar
Families in the Tri-State area will have the opportunity Saturday to learn a little more about world cultures and contribute to local and international philanthropies, thanks to an event hosted by Oak Hill School. On Saturday, Feb. 8, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. the school will host the Third Annual Oak Hill World Culture Bazaar, a day that will include food, crafts, games, world culture goods and multi-cultural music performances.
Vendors at the event will include: Alli Hope, Bead for Life, Bridges of Hope, Fair Trade Market of Old North United Methodist Church, Solid Grounds Coffee Shoppe, Uncharted International, Women at Risk, and Wildcats Building Bridges Art Club.
Admission is $10 for families or $5 for adults and $2 per child. Food tickets for five samples of international foods are $5 per person or a bowl of spaghetti and a breadstick for $3.50 per person.
Proceeds from the event will go to benefit the local food banks, Ozanam Family Shelter, Rakai Children’s Village, and Oak Hill’s Outdoor Constitution Classroom.
Tickets can be purchased online at www.wildcatsbuildingbridges.org or at the door the day of the event. Donations can also be made online.