Vanderburgh County Marriage Licenses Issued
Indiana Grown announces event to encourage restaurants, schools, hospitals and more to purchase local
INDIANAPOLIS (April 9, 2024) – Indiana Grown, the state’s branding initiative for promoting locally grown, raised, produced and processed agricultural products, is hosting a one-day showcase of members and their products to food buyers, restaurants, chef’s, hospitals, school purchasers and more
The goal of this showcase is to highlight Indiana Grown businesses and their vast array of products that are retail and wholesale ready for these unique markets.
WHAT: A one-day showcase of Indiana Grown products that are retail and wholesale ready. Vendors are all Indiana only businesses and will be sampling products.
WHO: More than 60 Indiana Grown businesses
WHEN: Tuesday, April 23, 2024. Noon – 4 p.m. ET
WHERE: Monroe County Convention Center (302 S. College Ave., Bloomington, IN 47403)
Raffle drawings begin April 14th! for Democrats
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BUY YOUR TICKET BY APRIL 13TH! We continue to sell our 2024 Red White & Blue Raffle tickets! The success of the raffle determines the level of support for our 2024 candidates. We will use the funds for mailers, texting, phone banks and advertising. We will have tickets available at our breakfast on April 13 and the first winning ticket will be drawn on April 14. Visit our website for information on purchasing tickets through Venmo, or contact Cheryl Schultz (812-459-7645) to use cash or check. Support of the Raffle is greatly appreciated! |
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Come and meet our statewide 2024 candiates! LiUNA Local 561 is hosting and providing breakfast for everyone. We will hear from our statewide candidates – Marc Carmichael & Valerie McCray – US Senate, Jennifer McCormick – Governor, Beth White & Destiny Wells – Attorney General. Local candidates Karese Johnson & Dustin Stephens will also be speaking. |
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Early voting begins TODAY at Central Library from 9AM – 5PM. Click below to get the full list of dates, times, and locations for early voting. |
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Ed Sein Birthday Bash — April 14th |
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Left Wing Night — April 19th |
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Special thanks to our In to Win monthly donors! Blue — Dona Hall, Glenn Boberg Bronze — Ann Wallis, Edie Hardcastle, Connie Parker, Jane Duesterberg, Valerie Ewers, Kristi Roll, Genny Tenbarge, Nancy Higgs, Melissa Moore |
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Romashkin picks up to ten at Big Blue Intercollegiate
Men tie for 6th in team standings
HERMITAGE, Tenn. – Playing as an individual, Daniil Romashkin led the University of Evansville men’s golf team at the Tennessee State University Big Blue Intercollegiate at Hermitage Golf Course.
Romashkin tied for 10th place with a 3-round score of 212. He posted a 1-over 72 in the final round to lead the Purple Aces. His top effort was a 3-under 68 in Monday’s second round of play. Andres Rodriguez and Nicholas Gushrowski recorded final tallies of 215 to tie for 18th place. Gushrowski had Evansville’s low round on Tuesday, carding an even 71. Rodriguez finished at 2-over on Tuesday with his low round being a 69 in round two.
Caleb Wassmer tied for the 26th spot with a 217. Wassmer posted a 76 on Monday following scores of 71 and 70 to open the tournament. Michael Ikejiani matched Wassmer’s final round score with a 76. His 220 was good for a 33rd-place tie.
Carson Parker and Isaac Rohleder also registered totals of 76 in the final round. Parker completed the tournament with a 224, tying him for 45th while Rohleder was 61st with a 228.
UE tied for 6th in the final team standings with a score of 876. The Aces matched Florida A&M’s 3-round total. Samford and Belmont finished tied atop the leaderboard with scores of 846. Michael Senn of Belmont finished with a 6-stroke victory in the individual standings. His 13-under 200 bested Alex Eickhoff of SIUE by six strokes.
The season comes to a close with the Missouri Valley Conference Championship, which will be played April 21-23 in Sun Beach, Mo.
Bannister earns OVC March Player of the Month for second year in a row
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – University of Southern Indiana Men’s Golf junior Jason Bannister (Laguna Niguel, California) was announced as the Ohio Valley Conference Golfer of the Month for March. This marks the second year in row Bannister claimed the award in the month of March.
The month consisted of a 15-team intercollegiate at Tennessee Tech University among multiple OVC squads and a match-play competition against cross-town rival University of Evansville.
Bannister led the Screaming Eagles to a third-place finish at the Bobby Nichols Intercollegiate, topping fellow OVC squads such as Tennessee Tech, Tennessee State University, and Morehead State University. He led the way finishing tied for fourth place at five over par (75, 69, 74) in the three-round intercollegiate.
Consistency is the name of Bannister’s game as he helped the Eagles earn a 6.5-4.5 win over Evansville in a match play competition. He took on one of UE’s best golfers, winning in 15 holes in comeback fashion. Bannister dropped the first three holes to open the matchup, but dominated the rest of the match winning eight, tying three, and losing only one of the next 12 holes to earn the victory in 15 holes. His monstrous 12-hole stretch included seven birdies.
Bannister and USI look to finish the regular season strong at the Wright State Invitational on Saturday-Monday in Springboro, Ohio. The season concludes in Muscle Shoals, Alabama for the Ohio Valley Conference Championship on April 21-24.
Trailblazers drop final two of MWAC series at No. 10 Heartland
NORMAL, Ill. – The Vincennes University baseball team closed out their Mid-West Athletic Conference (MWAC) series Tuesday afternoon against the defending National Champion Heartland Community College in Normal, Ill.
The Blazers unfortunately came up short in the final two games of this four-game series, falling 7-0 and 12-4 in Tuesday’s doubleheader.
Vincennes fell behind early in game one of the day to the highly rated Hawks, surrendering a run in each of the first three innings to trail 3-0.
Heartland would continue to add on to their lead with three more runs in the fifth and another run in the sixth.
The VU offense was held at bay all game with a second inning single by freshman Nate Montgomery (Lexington, Ind.) and a single by sophomore Jace Parnin (Fort Wayne, Ind.) were the only hits for the Blazers in game one of the day.
Sophomore Bryton Griffy (Louisville, Ill.) would later reach base after being hit by pitch in the sixth giving VU their third baserunner of the morning.
The Hawks pitcher found a way to keep the Blazers off the scoreboard in game one, finishing off the seven-inning shutout and giving Heartland the 7-0 victory.
Freshman Alex Wandersee (Centerville, Ind.) got the start in game one of the day for Vincennes, throwing five innings, allowing seven runs, six earned on nine hits and striking out one.
Sophomore Christian Pinson (Elizabethtown, Ky.) came in to pitch the sixth inning and was able to retire the side without allowing a hit.
The Trailblazers looked to bounce back and close out the series on a positive note in game two of the day and VU wasted little time putting game one behind them.
Sophomore Carter Whitehead (Huntingburg, Ind.) led off the series finale with a double and later came around to score on an RBI single by sophomore Blake Heyerly (Monroe, Ind.).
Heyerly would also come around to score in the inning on an RBI double by Jace Parnin, giving VU an early 2-0 lead.
Heartland immediately answered in the bottom half of the first inning, getting those two runs back to even the game and taking the lead in the second with a big five-run inning to lead 7-2.
The Hawks added to this lead with runs in the fourth and fifth to lead the Blazers 9-2.
Vincennes would not go away quietly however as VU led off the seventh inning with sophomore Bryan Kohlmeyer (Paris, Ill.) drawing a walk and freshman Damon Kay (Spencer, Ind.) being hit by pitch.
Freshman Reed Drabant (Columbia, Ill.) came in to pinch run for Kay and move up 90 feet on a successful sacrifice bunt by freshman Bryce Gross (Bridgeport, Ill.) to put runners on second and third with only one out.
Freshman Corbin Napier (Indianapolis, Ind.) came through at the dish for the Blazers later in the seventh, picking up a big two-out two-run single to cut the Heartland lead to 9-4.
After a scoreless bottom of the seventh, the Blazers looked to do more damage and continue the late comeback in the eighth, loading the bases after back-to-back singles by sophomore Trevor Newman (Fort Wayne, Ind.) and freshman Bradyn Douglas (Frankton, Ind.) and Reed Drabant being hit by pitch.
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Stephanie Terry exploring changes to city’s opioid settlement fund policies
Former Evansville Mayor Lloyd Winnecke previously opted not to publicly solicit proposals for how best to put opioid settlement dollars to use.
Houston HarwoodEvansville Courier & Press
On Wednesday, the Courier & Press published a report detailing former Evansville Mayor Lloyd Winnecke’s decision to direct the city’s first round of opioid settlement funds to just two local organizations through a mostly private process, in part to avoid what Winnecke described as a potential wave of community organizations that lacked credible proposals claiming they “just need money.”
Terry’s communications director, Joe Atkinson, confirmed Thursday that the mayor’s office was in the early stages of conducting research to inform the revamped process. To date, the City of Evansville has not published a request for funding proposals or established a working group tasked with evaluating how best to spend opioid settlement funding, which the city will receive in annual batches for more than a decade.
Atkinson said he anticipates that additional information about the mayor’s plans could be released in the next few weeks. News of the policy change comes after Terry’s office told a local advocacy group this week that it would solicit proposals based on yet-to-be-determined criteria at a later date.
The former mayor, Winnecke, went so far as to ask both organizations, YouthFirst and Forefront Therapy, to keep quiet about the new settlement-funded partnership until he could unveil it during his 2023 State of the City address, according to a Courier & Press review of public e-mails.
Evansville’s city council approved allocating more than $640,000 to fund the partnership between YouthFirst and Forefront Therapy. The money will pay for a range of preventative and intervention-based services aimed at preventing adolescents and adults from developing substance use disorders, according to city contracts.
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The source of the funding stems from lawsuits states and local governments brought against the nation’s largest opioid distributors and manufacturers: McKesson, Cardinal Health, AmerisourceBergen, Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Johnson & Johnson.
In 2021, the defendant companies agreed to pay billions of dollars over 18 years to settle claims that they worsened the nation’s ongoing opioid crisis.
Since then, other companies − including Walmart, CVS, Walgreens and pharmaceutical giant Teva − agreed to pay billions to settle similar claims that their practices contributed to thousands of opioid-related deaths, among other allegations.
At issue for Terry’s administration, according to Atkinson, is the need to create a research-informed application process whereby the city can solicit and evaluate potential funding proposals to distribute dollars most effectively. He said any future plans would be guided by principles and best practices identified by leading healthcare organizations, such as John Hopkins University.
