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February 8, 2022


In the Tuesday, February 8, 2022 issue

Grace finds her forever home with other pets

February 1 was a wonderful day at the Ripley County Humane Society for the staff, but especially for Grace, a six-month old puppy that was adopted into a “Forever Home”.From a previous article, readers may recall that Grace was rescued from being hit o …

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Bulldogs send three to
semi-state

Batesville wrestling took to the mat at the IHSAA Wrestling Regional on Saturday morning in Richmond and made sure its season continued as three grapplers punched their ticket to this week’s semi-state round. Five wrestlers total represented Batesville …

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In the print edition:

Weather closes county

Ripley County Emergency Management Director Randy Miller began preparing the public early for the ice and snow that came on Thursday and Friday last week.


Osgood moves forward with projects to improve the town

At the January meeting of the Osgood Town Council, new president Chris Kuhn opened the meeting. On the agenda was an update from Commonwealth Engineers. Dale Gick said the 2021 Community Crossing Project is complete. Dave O’Mara has been invoiced for the inspection overruns. Commonwealth Engineers will receive payment once the Town receives the payment from O’Mara. Commonwealth Engineers also submitted a letter to the Town showing a revised breakdown of the percentages to be paid by INDOT and the Town.


Frye authors bill to make the mastodon the official state fossil

State Rep. Randy Frye (R-Greensburg) recently authored legislation to designate the mastodon as the official state fossil of Indiana.