Newburgh, Indiana – Treat yourself to something sweet while giving back to animals in need! On Sunday, August 10, TF Ice Cream is donating 10% of all sales to Warrick Humane Society to help homeless pets get the care they need.
From breakfast to dinner (and dessert, of course!), every bite you enjoy makes a difference. No flyer or mention of WHS is needed—just stop by, order your favorite treats, and support a great cause.
Whether you’re craving a scoop (or three) of ice cream, a hearty sandwich, or something savory, it all goes toward helping local shelter animals find loving homes.
Details: – TF Ice Cream – Sunday, August 10 – All day long
Join WHS and TF Ice Cream in making a sweet impact on the lives of animals in need.
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We’re gearing up for the next episode of CANdid Conversations, airing Saturday, August 2 at 8:00 AM on WEOA 98.5, and we want to hear from YOU!
🎙️ This episode’s topic: Community Connectedness What makes you feel connected—or disconnected—from your community? What would strengthen the ties where you live?
Your input helps guide our conversation and lift up real voices from the community, just like yours.
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OTTAWA, ON, Can. – The Evansville Otters (24-40) dropped the middle game of the series against the Ottawa Titans (32-33) on Saturday night, 7-4.
The Otters started from behind early. Parker Brahms made the start and after a scoreless first inning, he came back in the second and allowed five runs.
Evansville responded in the top of the third as Dennis Pierce’s 10th hit of the week found the gap to score two for the Otters, cutting the lead to 5-2.
After the second inning, Brahms settled in, pitching through the sixth, allowing just three baserunners and no more runs.
Justin Felix doubled to put runners at second and third with one away in the fifth. Pierce grounded out to second to get Evansville to within two runs. After two quick outs in the sixth, Keenan Taylor walked, followed by a Logan Brown double to make the score 5-4.
Brahms began the seventh of the mound, but left with the bases loaded and two away. Jackson Malouf followed and allowed a soft single into right that added two to the Titans lead. Brahms finished the night with 6.2 innings pitched, allowing seven runs.
After finishing the seventh, Malouf worked a clean eighth to send the Otters to the ninth needing three runs. Unfortunately, Evansville couldn’t push any runs across and lost 7-4.
Evansville is back in action tomorrow at 12:00 p.m. CT for the rubber match of the final series of the long road trip. The Otters then travel back to Bosse Field to host the Lake Erie Crushers to end the month.
FOOTNOTE: EPD DAILY ACTIVITY REPORT information was provided by the EPD and posted by the City-County-County Observer without opinion, bias, or editing.
Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith’s office, located inside the statehouse, appeared closed and vacant on July 11, 2025. (Niki Kelly/Indiana Capital Chronicle)
The Indiana Capital Chronicle visited the lieutenant governor’s office six times between late June and mid-July and found it dark or locked on four occasions. Three of the closures — June 20, June 27 and July 11 — fell on Fridays.
Internal office communications obtained by the Capital Chronicle appeared to show staff were allowed to work remotely on some of those days.
One June 20 message, for example, indicated that, “Due to the LG travel schedule – the office will be closed and everyone may work from home. Please update your calendars accordingly.”
Jim Kehoe, a spokesperson for the lieutenant governor’s office, told the Capital Chronicle June 30 that the office “just happened to be closed on those days because of staffing.”
Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith’s office, located inside the statehouse, appeared closed and vacant on Friday, June 27, 2025. (Niki Kelly/Indiana Capital Chronicle)
“It was really just coincidence that it happened two Fridays in a row,” he said. “I do not anticipate that happening again, and if it does it will be the exception.”
But nearly two weeks later, on July 11, another Friday, the Capital Chronicle again found the office locked, with no lights on and no staff inside.
The office was open on July 18, with at least one staffer visibly present.
The lieutenant governor’s office was also closed on July 3, a Thursday, for what staff described as an “office field trip” to a farm in Noblesville. A sign posted that day read, “Sorry we missed you! Our team is currently unavailable due to an all-staff meeting. Please scan here if you would like to schedule an appointment.”
In a message to staff that week, office leadership advised that “if you aren’t joining us at the farm – work from home cuz the office will be closed.”
In a follow-up email to the Capital Chronicle, Kehoe said the office’s approach was consistent with the governor’s direction: “Our work from home policy complies with Governor Braun’s executive order.”
The state transparency portal shows the Lieutenant Governor’s office has 39 employees split between offices in the Statehouse and an adjacent office building.
Asked about the closures, Braun reaffirmed his push to get employees back to their offices.
“Unless there’s a good reason for that, where it may make no difference … to really get things done, you’ve got to collaborate,” Braun said Thursday. “And I saw so many instances and some actual recordings I heard of folks working from home that would have been confusing even to see which day they were answering the phone.”
He added that there are a few jobs where remote work makes sense but said “most of them, you need to be together to collaborate. You’re already paying the expenses — the leases and the buildings and the upkeep. Why not? Doesn’t make sense.”
Braun’s back-to-work executive order, issued Jan. 14, called for a sweeping end to hybrid work arrangements and emphasized a return to daily in-person staffing across all state agencies.
The policy, which took full effect July 1, specifically instructed agency heads to eliminate regular remote work on Fridays and to ensure the public has full access to services during standard business hours.
The order applies to all executive-branch employees, including staff in the lieutenant governor’s office, unless exempted for operational reasons.
“When it comes to other state office holders, they’re independent,” Braun said. “I’ve been very clear: I want to get things done and focus on kitchen table issues.”
An executive session will be held prior to the open session.
The executive session is closed as provided by:
I.C. 5-14-1.5-6.1(b)(5): To receive information about and interview prospective employees.
I.C. 5-14-1.5-6.1(b)(6)(A): With respect to any individual over whom the governing body has jurisdiction to receive information concerning the individual’s alleged misconduct.
I.C. 5-14-1.5-6.1(b)(9): To discuss a job performance evaluation of individual employees.This subdivision does not apply to a discussion of the salary, compensation, or benefits of employees during a budget process.
OPEN SESSION:
CALL TO ORDER:
ACKNOWLEDGE GUESTS:
APPROVAL OF MINUTES:
June 23rd, 2025 (Sutton, Johnson-Kincaid, Thompson)
APPROVAL OF CLAIMS:
PROBATIONARY OFFICER UPDATE:
Final Merit Interview for Officer Levi Hoehn, Officer Raylynn Vires, Officer Joshua Rauscher, Officer Nathaniel Byers, and Officer Chase Hale
Probationary Period Extension for Officer Jordan Rundle
Update for Probationary Officers in Field Training and SWILEA.
APPLICANTS:
25-163
25-103
25-065
25-054
RETIREMENTS
Officer Joseph Dale Dickinson, Badge Number 1231, retiring effective July 28th, 2025, after serving twenty-five years, ten months, and sixteen days with the Evansville Police Department.
RESIGNATIONS
Officer Michael Dana Ray Bailey, Badge Number 1607, resigned effective July 1st, 2025, after serving eleven months and sixteen days with the Evansville Police Department.
Officer Lavarus Lakeith Giles, Badge Number 1423, resigned effective July 6th, 2025, after serving eight years, eleven months, and twenty-six days with the Evansville Police Department.
Officer John Bernard Porter, Jr, Badge Number 1403, resigned effective July 14th, 2025, after serving eleven years, five months, and seventeen days with the Evansville Police Department.
REMINDERS:
The next scheduled meeting is Monday, August 11th, 2025, at 4:15pm.
Just as my public-school education failed to lead one to analogies involving America’s Manifest Destiny and slavery or the genocide of indigenous peoples, it often concentrated on the perceived benefits bestowed on both Negroes and first Americans by their white governors.Black and Indian contributions to our shared history were generally omitted or diminished. My knowledge of these significant influences on America’s unrelenting march from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico came mostly by coincidence. Such was the case when Peg and I heard about the Civil War Battle of Honey Springs.
Our first exposure to this most important Civil War conflict in Indian Territory came from a brief mention of it on PBS just this past spring. We researched it, on the Internet of course, and discovered it occurred July 17, 1863 near Checotah, Oklahoma which is only about an hour and a half from our home in Osage County, Oklahoma. It was readily apparent why this “Gettysburg of the West” is barely a blip in our nation’s consciousness. Although the battle determined whether the Union or Confederate forces would control the vital Texas Road that protected supply lines from Mexico to Kansas right through the heart of Indian Territory (Oklahoma), the soldiers who fought the desperate fight consisted of white, Black and several tribes of Native Americans who supported both sides.
In fact, the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry was instrumental in the battle for the Union and several Black soldiers fought alongside Creek, Choctaw, Cherokee, Seminole and Chickasaw warriors who had divided loyalties for both the North and the South. The commander of the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry was the only white man for that brigade.
Honey Springs, the location of this battle involving several thousand soldiers for each side, was named for a gigantic beehive that was attached to a large oak tree near the running spring. As with much of military history the outcome of the battle hinged on the weather. The Southern forces were in that location because the commander of Southern Forces in the Indian Territory, Maj. Gen. William Steele, ordered the capture of fairly nearby Ft. Gibson. Steele dispatched troops under Brig. Gen. Douglas Cooper to meet up with other Confederate troops under the command of Gen. Cabell whose men were about 25 miles from Honey Springs. His soldiers did a forced march through rain, mud and swollen streams but arrived late to the battle between Cooper’s and Union Gen. James G. Blunt’s soldiers. The fight was already a Union victory and the Texas Road as well as Ft. Gibson remained in Union control throughout the remainder of the Civil War.
History may normally be written by the victors but America’s history has usually been written by white people east of the Mississippi River. Such is the case of Honey Springs. Some Civil War analysts posit this battle crippled any chance the Confederacy could recover from U.S. Grant’s victorious siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi that caused Southern Gen. John Pemberton to surrender to Grant on July 04, 1863, two weeks before the Union victory at Honey Springs.
Vicksburg secured Union control of the Mississippi River and the South’s loss at Honey Springs prevented the South from circumventing the Mississippi via the Texas Road. Gen. Cooper blamed the loss on inferior gunpowder that the South had to purchase from Mexico. Also, the rain made the inferior powder even more defective.
But what I suggest I and other Americans should have learned is the service of Black and First American conflicting loyalties and the reasons for them. Also, it should be noted that the “Gettysburg of the West” was and is deserving of a place in our country’s Volksgeist. If you are prone to Civil War reenactments, Gentle Reader, the Battle of Honey Springs reenactment will take place after the intense Oklahoma July heat is more kind to woolen uniforms on November 8, 2025. You can find more information about the battle and the reenactment weekend activities online at www.okhistory.org.
