The Posey County News

By Lois Mittino Gray Austin Colson appeared before the February 5, Mount Vernon Board of Works meeting to request permission to offer a tribute to his friend, Zack Allyn, for the fourth time. The Fourth Annual Zach Allyn Memorial Car Show is slated for June 6 downtown from noon to 4 p.m. All proceeds will go towards a fund for Zach’s twins set up at Heritage Bank after their father was killed in an auto accident in November, 2022. Colson explained the location will remain the

Posey County Historian Jerry King Note: News in this issue includes: Utley Variety Store burns, L & N R. R. Fireman disappears from train, Caborn Store bandit arrested, Children’s Christian Endeavor to start, valuable mule suffocates beneath straw stack, two short news briefs, sports and school news, and many news briefs and personals. Utley Variety Store Gutted By Flames - A blaze, which for a time threatened the downtown business district Tuesday night, completely gutted th

By Lois Mittino Gray A North Elementary School sixth grader, Sawyer Woods, knows how good it feels to look at a picture of himself in color on the front of a national magazine. The twelve-year old from Wadesville was featured on the cover of the October, 2025 Youth Issue of Toy Farmer Magazine. He is shown leaning against a tractor tire holding one of his handmade toy tractors, a FarmAll A/C Christmas tree tractor with an off set mower arm made with a 3-D printer for his toy

By Dave Pearce A Black Township fireman was treated and released this week after the fire truck upon which he was working was struck by an SUV. According to information provided by the Black Township Fire and Rescue, former Chief Kevin Brown was actively engaged in suppressing a fire atop the truck when it was struck and he fell to the pavement. On Thursday at approximately 11:36 a.m., the BTFD was dispatched to a grass fire along State Road 62 west of the State Road 69 bypas

Curtis Prater has big ideas on how to use liquid sewage waste as a moneymaker for the City of Mount Vernon. Prater, the Mount Vernon Sewage Treatment Plant Operator, told Common Council members that he has plans in place to put a large tank in front of the plant to accept waste hauled in by trucks at a much cheaper rate than Evansville charges. This could include large hauls as well as personal dumping by citizens of their camper and other stored waste. “We would be the only