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For the 25th year the Indiana State Fairgrounds & Event Center, along with several community partners, are coming together to host Safe Night Halloween from 5-7 p.m., Sunday, October 31 on the northside of the Fairgrounds at Celebration Park (outdoors,…
Read MoreJuly 24, 1923-Sept. 28, 2021 Velma Marie Dittmer, 98, passed away Sept. 28, 2021. Mrs. Dittmer was born July 23, 1923 to the late Andrew and Alice Salisbury in Peoria, Ill. Mrs. Dittmer was a member of the Sunshine Group, which sang…
Read MoreAug. 4, 1944 – Sept. 29, 2021 Terry L. Wall, 77, Crawfordsville, passed away Sept. 29, 2021 at home. Mr. Wall was born on Aug. 4, 1944 in Gardena, Calif. to Louis Cacia and Grace Haagbloom Cacia. He had been…
Read MoreOct. 15, 1957 – Oct. 2, 2021 Anna Marie Meece, rural Crawfordsville, passed away peacefully the morning of Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021 at home with family by her side. She was 63. Born Oct. 15, 1957 in Elwood, Ind., she…
Read MoreAug. 4, 1960 – Sept. 20, 2021 Donnie Ray Hutson, 61, Veedersburg, passed away on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021, doing what he loved, setting up his deer stand. He was born in Clinton, Ind. on Aug. 4, 1960 to the…
Read MoreDid your mother stay up late and wait for you to come home when you spent a night out with friends? Yes, that’s what I thought . . . you see, moms are “worriers.” Your mom may have worked all…
Read MoreMy school started a hot lunch program just after WWII, and when I entered first grade in the fall of 1954, the school kitchen was located in a small room in the basement. A lunch cost 25 cents, and milk,…
Read MoreAlthough this fellow was born in Montgomery County, it wasn’t ours (Maryland) but he sure fell in love with our area and stayed here almost his whole life. Born April 27, 1808, by four years old the family of George…
Read MoreWell, this was different – I began researching a fellow I thought was interesting (George W. Cook) but while checking him out, I happened upon today’s subject, William T. (family trees on Ancestry say Thomas but I never found any…
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