Ferdinand News

FERDINAND, Ind. - When Pat Fromme shipped out last year for a six-month tour in Iraq with the Indiana National Guard, the citizen soldier left behind a farm, a wife, three kids and 27,000 turkeys.

Six months turned into a year, then 15 months. He returned home in March, and was promoted to another Guard unit. That unit has recently been called up for duty in Afghanistan. He knows he will have to join it; he just doesn't know when.

His wife and family will struggle to do their best and wait for him. The turkeys, however, may be gone by the time he gets back.

This is the third in a series on this year's HSE retirees. Other profiles will run in the Fishers Star during the next few weeks.

Monastery Immaculate Conception, 802 E. 10th St., Ferdinand, will hold a Benedictine Life Weekend for single, Catholic women ages 19 to 40 interested in the monastic, religious life June 27-July 3. Information: ...

Source: USI News and Information Office Originally published 09:19 a.m., June 6, 2008 Updated 09:19 a.m., June 6, 2008 Buddhist monk Bhante Henepola Gunaratana will offer a free public presentation on Sunday at ...

Tell Street developer hits another red light City council declines Ferdinand company's petition to rezone land for storage, office buildings TELL CITY - A Ferdinand company's plans to construct self-storage ...

Planting time Brad Shearn, who grows tobacco on both sides of the Ohio River, was able to set more than 50 acres of young plants along Indiana 66 near Rocky Point over the Memorial Day weekend.

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What do Bush Stadium, Indianapolis Public School 97, the Syracuse Depot, Wollenmann House in Ferdinand and the Colgate-Palmolive plant and clock in Clarksville have in common? In case you haven't guessed, they ...

Artlink, 437 E. Berry St., is scheduled to open Digital Visions: Computer Art Exhibition in the Main Gallery with a reception from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. May 30.

“It's a horrible combination of error and accident”

Boy dies of injuries from car wreck A second person injured in a Monday afternoon collision between a car and a truck at the intersection of Outer Lincoln Avenue and Indiana 66 has died. via Evansville Courier & Press

By Rich Davis Friday, May 2, 2008 Evansville's Washington Avenue Historic District, the Wollenmann House in Ferdinand and the giant Colgate-Palmolive clock and plant in Clarksville are among 10 Indiana ... via Evansville Courier & Press

“I was proud to go to congress but it was the community that made it happen.”

A Dubois county war hero got the ultimate honor from his hometown. The Ferdinand Post Office was renamed in his honor. via TristateHomepage.com

“That alone tells you how big an impact it had on Ferdinand”

The post office at Ferdinand will be renamed Monday in honor of the Dubois County community's only resident killed in the Vietnam War. via Evansville Courier & Press

More Headlines To read it or any of our other special sections, simply click on the words "Special Sections" near the top of this page, then click on the title of the section you'd like to see. via Perry County News

“It's not a question of whether the site gets developed, but how it's developed”

Tell Street project fails to win support Company proposes storage units, office buildings TELL CITY - A pair of unfavorable recommendations by the Tell City Advisory Plan Commission further reduce chances a ... via Perry County News

“We can't just sit here. We have to push forward.”

The challenge facing Ferdinand was plain to see for the nearly 200 people attending its recent Indiana Home Town Competitiveness program kick-off. About 60 high school students were asked to pretend the ... via Evansville Courier & Press

“If you cannot successfully pretty yourself, dirty the other guy. Hence the relentless attacks designed to redefine Obama and take him down to the level of ordinary mortals, i.e. Clinton's.”

But now she and her husband seem to be orchestrating a left-wing conspiracy against her current rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. via Perry County News

“They review it and can suggest things but they won't have the ability to change it.”

No library merger for now Board doesn't want self-storage units as neighbors TELL CITY - Perry County's two libraries won't be merging, at least not anytime soon, Tell City-Perry County Public Library Director ... via Perry County News

“In an inland state like Indiana, it gets hot in the summer”

Dubois County Court House custodian Bill Loveall, 63, of Ferdinand, Ind., stands in the clock tower of the court house in Jasper, Ind., in this 2007 photo. via Alaska Journal of Commerce

Three men are arrested in Dubois County after a stabbing at a birthday party Saturday night. via WFIE-TV Evansville