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Jasper City/Library, LLC is requesting qualification packets from qualified wood artists to create a commissioned public, interior Donor Wall. An electronic version of a document containing submission information is available on JasperCommunity Art’s website www.jasperarts.org under: Get Involved – Call for Artists. This project will involve a three step call process. STEP ONE: CALL for…

Food for Thought Seminar, part of the “Crossroads: Change in Rural America” Series  Join this free and open to the public seminar and stirring conversation sparked by the culinary arts.  Author/journalist, David Hoppe, will explore themes of how food creative entrepreneurs are using Indiana food and agricultural heritage to spark new life in smaller communities,…

The Friends of Lincoln State Park and Indiana Department of Natural Resources will once again co-host the 11th annual Mr. Lincoln’s Neighborhood 5K Run/Walk on Saturday, May 2 at 9:00 a.m. CDT in Lincoln State Park.  This year’s 5K run/walk route will start and end at the Lake Lincoln Beach parking lot.  The route will…

Have you turned down a chance to go out with family or friends because you were concerned about falling?  Have you cut down on a favorite activity because you might fall? If so, A Matter of Balance: Managing Concerns About Falls is a program for you. Fear of falling can be just as dangerous as…

Vincennes University and Vincennes University Jasper are inviting prospective students and their parents to experience college. PreVU Day is a special open house that allows students to take an interactive tour of the more than 200-acre Vincennes campus, Indiana’s most affordable residential college, or the 140-acre Jasper campus. Attendees will hear about exciting and varied…

The public is invited to join the Jasper Chamber for a new event, Coffee and Conversation with Mayor Dean Vonderheide. The Chamber will host the mayor at Shoney’s Restaurant from 8 to 9 a.m. on the following Tuesdays in 2020: Tuesday, March 31; Tuesday, September 29, and Tuesday, December 29. Coffee is on the Chamber…

To focus attention upon the rapidly approaching tornado and severe weather season, the week of March 15-21, 2020 is designated Severe Weather Preparedness Week throughout the State of Indiana. The purpose of this proclamation is to stress the importance of promoting the public’s awareness of what actions to take in case of tornadoes and other…

Logan Mathies, of Jasper, Indiana, has been named to the St. Louis College of Pharmacy dean’s list for the fall 2019 semester. To be eligible for the dean’s list, students must earn at least a 3.5 grade point average for the semester. St. Louis College of Pharmacy is one of the oldest and largest colleges…

The Dubois County Museum has a busy schedule of events for March. Visitors can check out the progress of the new exhibits going up for the Business Hall of Fame and Junior Achievement and the Athena Award for Women by the Jasper Rotary Club while trying to locate items in a special scavenger hunt throughout…