Editorial

The Ellettsville Police Department recently announced that Pastor Randy McCollum joined the department. He will join the force as a volunteer chaplain and be on call for the officers 24 hours a day, seven days a week. McCollum, who has lived in Ellettsville since 2002, was brought in to help police officers cope with the … Read more

Editor’s Note: This article is the third part of a three-part series profiling the torchbearers in Ellettsville’s part of the relay. Parts one and two appeared in the Aug. 17 and Aug. 24 issues of The Journal. Of the more than 2,000 participants in the Indiana Bicentennial Torch Relay, three will make their way through … Read more

When Jimmy Anderson was in sixth grade, he literally gave a classmate the shoes off of his feet. That was the kind of guy his sister, Mary Walls, said he always was. He passed away at 62 on Aug. 26 after a bout with an aggressive form of rectal cancer. A benefit to raise money … Read more

Editor’s Note: This article is the second part of a three-part series profiling the torchbearers in Ellettsville’s part of the relay. Part one appeared in the Aug. 17 issue of The Journal. Part three will run Aug. 31. Of the more than 2,000 participants in the Indiana Bicentennial Torch Relay, three will make their way … Read more

The Indiana Department of Local Government Finance and the Indiana Department of Revenue have ruled that a local option income tax passed earlier this year that was intended to help fund public safety operations in Monroe County was not valid. “Monroe County’s public safety income tax rate was not adopted until June 2016,” the two … Read more

Town Councilor Dianna Bastin nearly broke into tears as she made comments on an ordinance for second reading at the Ellettsville Town Council’s Aug. 21 meeting that bans people from keeping certain animals within the town limits. All council members were present, except for Council President Scott Oldham. Animals banned under the ordinance include: exotic … Read more

Bert Englert took over the Ellettsville True Value on Aug. 6, 2015, with no prior retail or hardware experience. “There was no particular attraction to the hardware business or retail,” he said. But other factors were a major draw. The True Value was a family-owned and operated business in a small town relatively close to … Read more

Quality Realty & Development, the owner of a property zoned commercial on the outskirts of the Litten Estates subdivision, filed a lawsuit against the Ellettsville Plan Commission on Aug. 5. The lawsuit comes after the commission denied the company the right to build Litten Estates Apartments, a 68-unit apartment complex, at its July 7 meeting. … Read more

With the help of her family, Kai Bookwalter has achieved her dream of opening a catering business of her own after spending more than 15 years in the industry. Board + Blade has been in the works since June 2015, when Kai and her husband, George, bought the house at 120 W. Temperance St. “We … Read more

A solar array, or solar farm, developing west of Ellettsville on the corner of State Road 46 and Flatwoods Road is projected to be completed in October. The project is part of a Hoosier Energy initiative to build 10 large-scale solar arrays in southern Indiana and southeastern Illinois. This one will provide energy for SCI … Read more