Charlestown News

First Savings Financial Group, Inc. today announced that its annual meeting of stockholders will be held on Wednesday, February 24, 2010.

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While most citizens are preparing their menus for the upcoming Thanksgiving day meal and looking forward to the time spent with family and friends, some have already started planning for the Christmas season.

One Greater Clark County Schools board member is speaking out, hoping for micromanaging to stop before more administrators walk out after the district's chief financial officer announced his resignation, effective Jan.

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A* CHARLESTOWN Light Up event coming Nov. 27 Light Up Charlestown will begin at 5 p.m. Nov.

A* Clarksville Huber wine tasting at Keg Liquors Join Keg Liquors, 617 E. Lewis and Clark Parkway, for a free wine tasting from 5 to 8 p.m. Nov.

Pirate Pride Night will be held when the Lady Pirates are pitted against Corydon Central and will be sponsored by the Charlestown Pirate Pride Booster Club at Charlestown High School.

Accusations flew that school board members are accepting donations for their campaigns in favor of voting a certain way after the Greater Clark County Schools board voted down a contract with an architectural firm to build the auto-tech building for Charlestown High School.

A public-comment period has opened up for a State Revolving Loan project to build new infrastructure for drinking-water improvements at the former Indiana Army Ammunition Plant.

CHARLESTOWN, IN Often, technology advances faster than education, but one southern Indiana high school is trying to buck the trend.

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A* Clarksville Providence to host event for veterans Our Lady of Providence Jr.-Sr. High School will recognize its alumni veterans during a special U.S. Veterans Appreciation program from 9:15 to 10:15 a.m. Nov.

After teaching for 17 years, Dee Kramer's job is completely changing in a way that's new to her.

Charlestown city leaders and Greater Clark school officials celebrated with students Tuesday as a much anticipated technology initiative powered by 800 laptop computers was launched at Charlestown High School.

CHEERS ... to Jeffersonville Mayor Tom Galligan and New Albany Mayor Doug England for again being good sports and joking it up to kick off a United Way fundraising campaign for employees of the two cities.

Gov. Mitch Daniels recently announced his intention to continue the Young Hoosiers Conservation Corps, a program that has used federal stimulus dollars to employ nearly 1,900 young adults to improve Indiana's parks, trails and natural habitats, in 2010.

Greater Clark County Schools will start vaccinating children against the H1N1, or swine flu, at two schools Thursday.

CHEERS ... to members of The Evening News staff. The newspaper was notified this week of its Hoosier State Press Association 2009 Better Newspaper Contest award winners.

I took a trip by time traveling last week and thought I would share some of my local Clark County travel photos from 20 years in the future.