Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center is sponsoring a “Friday Community Health Screening” on Friday,  October 29, 2021 from 7:00 – 9:00 a.m. at Memorial Health Employer Services located at 695 W 2nd St in Jasper.

On Wednesday, the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration updated SNAP households on changes they may see to their monthly benefits.

 The Consider Teachers Act, a bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate by Senator Mike Braun, Senator Kyrsten Sinema, Senator Tina Smith, Senator Raphael Warnock, and Senator John Cornyn, and in the House by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and Congresswoman Victoria Spartz aimed at fixing a broken system burdening teachers with unfair loans, passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday. 

In Tuesday's Common Council meeting, Council members received updates on the town signage projects, among others.

In Tuesday's update from the Indiana Department of Health, Dubois County recorded 48 new positive COVID-19 cases and an additional death.

Effective Oct. 1, 2021, two Indiana county income tax rates will increase, according to the Indiana Department of Revenue (DOR).