The Vincennes City Compost Site is temporarily closed due to construction. The site on Old Terre Haute Road is scheduled to re-open at 7:30 Monday morning.

Vincennes Lincoln Volleyball player D-J Fredrick has signed accepted a scholarship offer from Vincennes University. The Lincoln senior played three years on the Varsity for the Alices earning All-Big Eight Conference honors this season and Co-MVP honors in leading the team to a 22-and-10 record. Fredrick finished third on the school’s all-time assists list and [...]

The 3rd annual Knox County Heroes Banquet is tonight. The event hosted by the Old Northwest Territory Chapter of the American Red Cross honors every day area heroes and also raises money Red Cross Director Sheryl-Ring-Laakman says the 2013 heroes are..Frank Roles who will receive the Armed Forces Award. The Educator Awards go to Bill [...]

Indiana law enforcement agencies have begun a two-week effort to enforce seat belt use on the state’s highways. The Indiana Criminal Justice Institute says more than 250 law enforcement agencies in this state began conducting special patrols around the clock Friday to identify and ticket unrestrained motorists. The effort concludes June 2. The institute says [...]

The Vincennes Civitan Club saluted the community’s school crossing guards Thursday during their monthly luncheon. Civitan Member Carroll Hamner says the crossing guards are “unsung heroes” for their work in protecting children. Among those being recognized at the luncheon were Lynn Overbey, William Wilkens, Lorraine Harris, Phyllis Johnson, Jimmie Hook and Jim Woodsmall. Wilkens and [...]

 More than five of every six Indiana third-graders have passed the mandatory state reading test before promotion to the fourth grade. It was reported Thursday that the Indiana Department of Education says about 86 percent of third-graders passed the Indiana Reading Evaluation And Determination exam, or IREAD-3. That’s up from 85 percent last year. Two-thirds [...]

A member of the public demanded that the financial advisor to the Vincennes Redevelopment Commission should resign his position. David Shelton claims that Wayne Thomann has a potential conflict of interest. He says Thomann’s wife Judy is employed by Bernardin Lochmuller Associates which is working on several projects for the city including the 2nd street [...]

A new national survey out says Indiana is among the least courteous states in the nation. The Marchex Institute survey ranked all 50 states based on use of the words “please” and “thank you.” The survey ranks Indiana third among the least courteous states right behind Wisconsin and Massachusetts. Tennessee ranked fourth and Ohio ranked [...]

The Daviess County Sheriff’s Department served a search warrant at the residence at 912 Brett Cabel Road in Washington at just after midnight and made several arrests. A K-9 unit from the Washington Police Department also assisted in the investigation. Arrested were 49 year old Michael W. Garland. He was charged with Maintaining a Common [...]

Construction on the Farbest Turkey Plant at the Knox County Industrial Park is ahead of schedule. President of the Knox County Development Corporation Gary Gentry informed the KCDC board that he met with officials who told him that according to the computers, the plant construction is one day ahead of schedule. Gentry also says that [...]