Stephanie Strothmann News Today

SEYMOUR - The Jackson County Chamber of Commerce and Spark Jackson County will host their first Spark Tank pitch contest on February 1. The chamber is announcing the six finalists who will take part in the chance to win $15,000 in awards in the live pitch competition. The finalists will be polis ...

SEYMOUR, Ind. - The Jackson County Chamber recently announced the finalists for its first-ever SPARK Tank entrepreneur pitch competition. The SPARK Ta...

SEYMOUR, Ind. - The Jackson County Public Library invites any adults interested in raising chickens to attend "Best of Cluck" at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, ...

SEYMOUR, Ind. - The Jackson County Public Library is offering programs for adults in July: Interested gardeners are invited to Midsummer Garden Care a...

Courtesy-JCUW FB page SEYMOUR, Ind. – The 25th Annual Jackson County United Way (JCUW) Day of Caring is on Tuesday, May 11. While requests for projects are no longer being accepted, United Way Community Impact Director Stephanie Strothmann said JCUW is still looking for more volunteers. “We have around 50 projects with only 75 volunteers at this time. We would love to be able to double that number and have at least 150-200 helpers. Even though numbers are low, we are still hoping to make th...

Courtesy-JCUW FB page JACKSON COUNTY, Ind. – Jackson County United Way (JCUW) is again gearing up for its annual day of caring, and this year will mark the 25th anniversary. Stephanie Strothmann, United Way Community Impact Director, is leading the staff to find projects and support volunteers for the event on May 11. Leaders on this year’s committee include Justin Amos and Chad Keithley. JCUW said, “We know that Day of Caring is an important event to our community, and last year, due to ...

Growing hope in 2021 So it’s finally here: 2021. I think we’ve all been hoping for this date since back in March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic closed everything down, people were uncertain of their futures and all we wanted to do was get on with our “normal” lives. We held onto the hope that soon, all of this would be over and we could start with a new perspective. A new year can definitely bring that hope that things can be better. On the farm, it feels a bit like that at the start o...

Column: A cure for chilly chicken toes It finally happened: The first snowfall of the season. Thankfully, the stress of concern of frozen water pipes, waterers, etc. has long been taken care of around the barns, and as the flurries fell a few days ago, the picturesque view of fluffy flakes settling on tin roofs and coating everything in a clean white was actually a welcomed view. That is unless you’re a chicken. Past experience with chickens in the snow has been that they really don’t like ...