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Volume 137 Edition 52
Tuesday, December 26, 2017
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Council reflecting on three big items
license, she will not be paid at full pay as a teacher, as past practice, when they do not have a license, we pay them 80 percent of the teacher pay.” Board member Vince Oakley had some discussion to add before the vote, “It’s not the job of the school board to micromanage the teacher hiring requests from the building administrators, and on this particu-
By Lois Mittino Gray Members of the New Harmony Town Council plan to do their homework over the holiday season. They decided to table three major decisions until their next meeting on January 16, so they could investigate issues and research more facts. The decision to table was not always unanimous each time, with rancor among them evident. Town Council President Alvin Blaylock initiated the discussion on money for the former New Harmony School property by asking Working Men’s Institute President Fred Frayser if the group wants to take over the school property themselves or partner with the town on it. Frayser replied that the plan has always been to take it over after the town deeded it to WMI and develop it into a community learning center. “I hate to say this, but we just found out yesterday afternoon from our lawyer that if we use dollars out of the town’s General Fund, the State Board of Accounts requires that we must be the owners of the building. This could be two or three years, until we get the $150,000 paid in installments that you requested. If we take the money from water, gas or sewage funds, it is even more complicated. We cannot pay any town funds directly to the WMI or Dr. George Rapp,” Blaylock explained. At the council meeting in November, Dr.
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Celebrating the presentation of the Posey County Community Foundation’s Annual Lilly Scholarship Award this week at North Posey High School are Karen Blankenberger, Reagan Koester, Lisa Koester, Lilly Scholar recipient Lindsey Koester, Dale Koester, Erin Koester, and Lynn Ogle. Photo submitted
School board hires student teacher asked the Board to approve the transfer of Rochelle Belt from her instructional assistant position to temporarily fill the vacated Kindergarten opening left by Mrs. Brianna Weatherford. This would also fulfill Belt’s student teaching assignment needed to complete her teaching degree. Asst. School Supt. Dr. Angela Wannemuehler read a letter provided by Principal Shannon MacMunn, recommending Belt. Camp explained, “until she (Belt) gets the
By Heather Morlan A meeting of the Board of Education of the MSD of North Posey County, was held on December 11, 2017. The Board convened the Executive Session at 5:30 p.m. for the purpose of IC 5-14- 1.5-6.1 (9) to discuss job performance and evaluation of individual employees. The regular meeting began at 6:36 p.m. During the personnel hiring section of the meeting, School Supt. Dr. Todd Camp
Nix Metals acquires Superior Fabrication
Town Council wrapping up end of year By Heather Morlan Several year-end items were up for discussion at the December 9, 2017, meeting of the Poseyville Town Council. Clerk-Treasurer Julie Mayo reported for the town utility that a new gas tracker needs to be added to the utility bills. The tracker has a negative value of .01591 which represents a 5 percent decrease over the previous year. The new gas tracker was voted on and approved. The Poseyville Town Marshal, Charles Carter gave the police department report. He reported that there had been two non-related theft incidents within the recent week. Because of the season, people are acting out of desperation. Once instance is where someone left their keys in their vehicle and the other was a busi-
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Briefly School benefit: St. Philip School January 27, 6-11 p.m. Mount Vernon Gun Raffle: American Legion, NH December 30, 3 p.m. See Page A5 for more details Harlem Wizards: MV Band Benefit January 8, 6:30 p.m. MVHS Retirement Open House: Community State Bank December 27, 2-4 p.m. St. Philip Branch
More information on these and other events inside today’s Posey County News
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Ellen Menger, from Ms. Jessica’s Juggling Clowns Room, meets with the big man himself at the Children’s Learning Center in Mount Vernon when Santa came to visit on December 14. Photo by Michelle Gibson
Special to The News Today, Nix Metals, a subsidiary of Nix Companies Inc., announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Superior Fabrication Inc., a Rockport, Ind., based company with more than twenty years of service, providing structural steel fabrication to the commercial construction and heavy industrial markets. Superior Fabrication will become an independent division of Nix Metals and continue to serve its growing customer base from its Rockport, Ind., facility. Nix Companies is a group of small businesses combined to form a synergistic portfolio company, specialized in industrial product sales, manufacturing, and maintenance contracting. Nix Companies was founded in Poseyville, Ind., in 1902 by Charles Nix, the great-great-grandfather of current fifth generation principal owners Matthew and Adam Nix.
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Building a winning team Cody Moll breaths new life, new attitude to North Posey wrestling By Jeremy Hines Four years ago North Posey wrestling was on life support and the school was considering pulling the plug. Now, with a new coach and a new attitude, the Vikings are about to compete for a team state title. North Posey had just four wrestlers five years ago. The community had grown accustomed to North Posey being a losing team, and the school was starting to question whether it was even worthwhile to keep the program alive. Then a former Mater Dei wrestler named Cody Moll stepped in and brought new life to the program. Now, in his fourth season at the helm of the Vikings, Moll has North Posey wrestling on the upswing. “The year before I got there, there were four wrestlers at the school,” Moll said. “During my interview they said that if I wasn’t hired, they were going to shut down the program.” Moll was asked what his goal for the team
was. “I said I wanted to be better than we were the last year,” Moll said. In his first year Moll finished the year with 10 wrestlers, and 10 total victories. It wasn’t a good year, but it was a much improved season. One of the freshmen that year was Levi Miller, who qualified for the state tournament. “Levi came in and everyone knew he was supposed to be good,” Moll said. “But people saying you are good only gets you so far. He came in and proved it. We made him our captain as a freshman. We saw the drive he had and how hard he works.” One of the most difficult moments that first year, for Moll, was losing to Evansville Memorial 81-0. He had never experienced
that side of a dominating performance before. “That was tough,” Moll said. “That was the first time I had ever been shut out on any team I was ever at. We won a lot at Mater Dei. I didn’t know what losing was like. But, this year we beat Memorial 46-21. It’s pretty amazing what we’ve been doing.” The Vikings won 21 matches in Moll’s second season, with 15 wrestlers. Last year the team won 23 matches and had 18 wrestlers. This year there are 25 kids on the wrestling team at the school of just under 500 students. “We talked about how we wanted to approach the team,” Moll said. “We knew we
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