Local Features

The community came together to watch fireworks light up the sky in Nashville this past weekend.

The collection of written works by local author Deborah Bowden has grown over the years as she brings new characters, series and topics into the literary world she has curated.

Bright paintings of faces and rainbows, detailed drawings of wildlife, a chicken made out of alpaca and goat fur and a People’s Choice award-winning drawing of a family of owls are just some of the pieces of art local young artists created for the Peaceful Valley Heritage art contest this spring.

Greenville University dean’s list

GNAW BONE — Canyon Zody will post a video on TikTok once or twice a day.

Indiana’s Best

For 27 years, Wilma Allender treated each child that came into the nurse’s office at Helmsburg Elementary School the same way that she would treat her own children as she cared for them in their times of need.

A few days after school let out for the summer, Brian Garman sits in his nearly empty office at Brown County Middle School. For the last nine years, he has been the middle school principal, but after more than three decades of working for Brown County Schools he is leaving to pursue a new challenge.

University of Southern Indiana graduate

This year marked 30 years of working in education for second grade teacher Amy Gordon.