Stories
The Long way home
One family’s journey from homeless shelters to a home they can call their own
Words Wyatt Stayner | Photos Elora Overbey
20 Going on 80
Alex and Zoe Appel of Mariah Hill are the only people in the world with both Cockayne Syndrome and Trichothiodystrophy. Their Bodies are aging rapidly. They're both teenagers. Neither girl is expected to live past her 20s.
Words Wyatt Stayner | Photos Alisha Jucevic
Home is Where Famed Heart Belongs
Margaret Schroeder kept her husband’s heart in a box for nearly 30 years, but now she’s decided to let it out.
Words Wyatt Stayner | Photos Alisha Jucevic
Miss You, Mike
Hours before Mike Boeglin was murdered in Detroit, he talked to his wife, Ashley, about their unborn child.
Words Wyatt Stayner | Photos Rachel Mummey
Wins, and penguins, steer Jeeps’ repeat run
If you want to understand the secret behind Northeast Dubois baseball’s recent hot streak, consider the penguin who served in Vietnam.
Words Wyatt Stayner | Photos Tegan Johnston
Curve’s nuances contain a few twists
Grant Ahlbrand had always wanted to pitch like a major leaguer, so at age 12 he learned to throw a curveball.
Words Wyatt Stayner | Photos Ariana van den Akker
Name Game: Think small for Large Goals
Will Smith goes to Jasper High School.
No, the award-winning actor isn’t incognito as a teenager in Dubois County (although that sounds like a fun movie). Will Smith is actually just one of the Wildcat distance runners on the boys track team.
Words Wyatt Stayner | Photos Tegan Johnston
Family ties full of both treats and tough times
You don’t ordinarily see winners and losers breaking bread together, but the postgame feast has been a staple after nearly every Ranger-Jeep girls tennis match since 22 years ago when Tara Uebelhor started coaching at Forest Park, which matched her against her sister Tina Terwiske, who took over the Jeeps about five years prior.
Words Wyatt Stayner | Photos Sarah Ann Jump
Major golf event sure to bring in the green
Southern Indiana is getting a whole lot richer this week.
With the kickoff of the Senior PGA Championship golf event in French Lick on Tuesday, the region is estimated to feel close to $20 million in economic impact, according to the PGA.
Words Wyatt Stayner | Photos Rachel Mummey
Raider rise to varsity opens with ‘W’
After the fundraisers and the school board vote and the waiting, all there was left to do was play soccer.
It took almost eight months to the day from the time the Southwest Dubois School Board unanimously voted for the addition of a varsity soccer program to Thursday night, the first time a Southridge High School soccer team took Raider Soccer Field with varsity status.
Words Wyatt Stayner | Photos Sarah Ann Jump
County looking for ways to cut $1.6M from budget
Complex math, broken air conditioning and another budget shortfall made for a long Monday at the County Courthouse Annex, as the Dubois County Council held its daylong budget hearings for the upcoming fiscal year.
Sheriff tells council ‘go ahead and kiss my ...’
Last time Dubois County Sheriff Donny Lampert became irritated with the Dubois County Council, he had to excuse himself before he cussed.
This time, he didn’t excuse himself, letting out a three-letter expletive not long before Council President Greg Kendall banged his gavel, a rarely used tactic, in a bid to restore order.
Move to sports brings transformation full circle
In the spring of my freshman year, writing saved me.
Dubois County farewell a difficult one to spit out
I’ve never been good at telling people how much I love them, so this is going to be hard.