Seymour News

"This is the third year of this exciting program that brings 26 part-time AmeriCorps members to service in 10 Jackson County host sites," Director Nancy Fleming of Jackson County United Way AmeriCorps Program said.

Submitted photos / Susan Garrett has been playing piano since she was a child, and also learned to play the organ.

The summer program for Boys & Girls Club of Seymour began Tuesday morning and will continue from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.

Tribune file photo / Joyce Begley, left, Seymour, shows Pat Nichter, Seymour, some of her goods for sale at Seymour Main Street%u2019s Fourth Saturday last summer at Seymour Farmers Market.

Seymour soon will have a city tree board in its effort to be recognized as an official Tree City U.S.A. community by the national Arbor Day Foundation.

A 63-year-old man who accused police of racial prejudice and brutality during his arrest in November of 2011 in Seymour faces new criminal charges, police report.

Report of a suspicious vehicle in a field on North County Road 850 East, Seymour, 5:35 a.m. Tuesday.

This spring, Josh Atkins was a member of the Seymour track and field team for the first time in his high school career.

Tribune photo by Aaron Piper / Jason Bukowski of Seymour delivers a portion of his group%u2019s Leadership Jackson County project May 22.

Rock 'n' Brews 'n' BBQ will take place from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. June 8 at One Chamber Square, and will feature tantalizing slow-cooked barbecue from The Pines in Seymour and Bubba Blues BBQ in Columbus.

Criminal charges of neglect, Medicaid fraud and forgery have been filed against a licensed practical nurse accused of failing to provide adequate care to a disabled child in her care and then submitting false records afterward.

Local residents paid respects and remembered the sacrifices made by fallen veterans Monday at American Legion Post 89's annual Memorial Day ceremony at Seymour's Riverview Cemetery.

Caller reporting a property damage wreck involving a vehicle that hit a stop sign and then ran into someone's yard, Bethany Road and Main Street, Caller reporting an attempted burglary, 5500 block South Indiana 135.

Gymnastics Lane in Seymour closed out its 2011-12 competitive gymnastics season on May 5 by celebrating with a party at Incredible Pizza in Greenwood.

Two people are in the hospital after their SUV crashed while trying to avoid an animal crossing the highway Thursday in Jackson County.

Jackson County officers Adam Nicholson and Rick Meyer investigated a report of a vehicle that had been pulled over on Perry Street around 2 a.m. in by a suspicious male, driving a white Ford Escape with red and blue police lights in the dash and a California license plate.

Tribune photo by Aaron Piper / Matt Baker, Seymour, connects rope and buoys to the sides of the Shields Park Pool in Seymour on Thursday.

A 28-year-old Seymour woman was hospitalized at an Indianapolis hospital after a single-vehicle wreck reported Thursday night on Indiana 11 just south of Seymour.

Image Productions Inc. and others involved in staging, taping and producing the lip dub video that promotes the school.

Scott Lee Shepherdson, 26, also faces counts of battery and strangulation for a reported attack on his mother-in-law. The new counts of molestation, strangulation and battery stem from two separate investigations by the Warrick County Sheriff's Department.