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Own a piece of Greene County history you can use every day
This year’s Old Clifty Day celebration on August 11 will offer guests a chance to take home their own hand-crafted piece of Old Clifty history in the form of cutting boards made from decades-old fallen walnut and maple trees on the historic site of the Old Clifty Church in Bloomfield.
National Night Out scheduled for August 6 at Humphreys Park
National Night Out (NNO), the annual gathering of police, fire, other first responders and law enforcement personnel and area residents, will take place in Linton on Tuesday, August 6 from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Humphreys Park. Millions of neighbors take part in National Night Out across thousands of communities from all fifty states, U.S. territories and military bases worldwide.
Paxton Media Group acquires 3 additional Indiana newspapers
Paxton Media Group, parent company of The Press-Dispatch, acquired community newspapers in Brazil, Greencastle, and Greene County, Indiana and in Dyersburg, Tennessee effective Monday, from Cape Girardeau, Missouri-based Rust Communications. Dirks, Van Essen & April, a media merger and acquisition firm based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, represented Rust Communications...
Indiana becoming home to duck with 'harlot-like face' and 'lipstick-colored bill'
In 2017, the first black-bellied whistling ducks were reported in Vanderburgh County, Indiana. The following year, on July 28, two adults and 14 downy chicks were photographed in Posey County, confirming Indiana’s first breeding record. Now, only seven years since that first sighting, black-bellied whistling ducks in Southwestern Indiana...
Donate your produce to the Linton Mobile Food Pantry
In partnership with the IU Center for Rural Engagement and Greene County Health, we are organizing a produce drive for the Linton mobile food pantry occurring on July 15, 2024. If you have garden extras that you are willing to donate to the mobile food pantry please contact Cally Drake at cnbuker@iu.edu for details and pickup options. Thank you!
What a year it’s been
This isn’t exactly how I wanted this to go, but I guess the timing is rarely perfect. I was looking forward to spending at least another year in Greene County, but some circumstances have changed. My last day with the Daily World will be Friday, July 12. This has...
PMG acquires 3 additional Indiana newspapers
Paxton Media Group, parent company of The Star-Times, acquired community newspapers in Brazil, Greencastle, and Greene County, Indiana and in Dyersburg, Tennessee effective Monday, from Cape Girardeau, Missouri-based Rust Communications. Dirks, Van Essen & April, a media merger and acquisition firm based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, represented Rust Communications...
🥵 It's going to be hot Wednesday. Feels like 100 degrees hot.
Increased temperatures and elevated humidity will make for a muggy Wednesday. Heat indices of over 100 degrees are expected in some counties in Central Indiana, according to local meteorologists with the National Weather Service. These heat indices combine temperature and humidity to represent the "real feel" of the weather. On...
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