Maggie Valenti

Connecticut, New York

Staff Writer at Evansville Living

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Articles

What is Good Littering?

6 days ago | evansvilleliving.com | Maggie Valenti

Read more about local beautification efforts in the June/July 2025 feature story. “Good littering” is a term borne from a movement toward community beautification by “littering” a city with more green spaces — such as planting trees and installing garden boxes — along with public art installations like murals and sculptures. While Evansville and its surrounding areas have been embracing that ideology for some time, the term takes on an added meaning for Mayor Stephanie Terry.
Art For the People

1 week ago | evansvilleliving.com | Maggie Valenti

Read more about local beautification efforts in the June/July 2025 feature story. One of the more subtle yet impactful means of heightening a city’s image is through public artwork, and Evansville is ramping up its attention to the concept. This increased focus on public art is part of Mayor Stephanie Terry’s core initiative of neighborhood revitalization. Created in 2005, the Evansville Public Art Commission has been idle for several years and was relaunched by Terry this spring.
Reporting For Duty

1 week ago | evansvilleliving.com | Maggie Valenti

Read more about local beautification efforts in the June/July 2025 feature story. If you see a blue, three-wheeled cart pedaling through the streets of Downtown Evansville, hold onto your cash — the operator isn’t selling hot dogs or ice cream sandwiches. The Mobile Street Cleaning Trike was rolled out in March by the Downtown Evansville Economic Improvement District as a new avenue for its Clean and Safe Team to more easily use pressure washing equipment in confined, hard-to-reach areas.
Meet Brodie Curtsinger

1 week ago | evansvilleliving.com | Maggie Valenti

Meet Brodie Curtsinger, a rising senior at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and a summer photography fellow at Tucker Publishing Group, Inc. The Mount Washington, Kentucky, native is studying photojournalism at WKU and is on track to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in May 2026. During the 2024-25 academic year, Brodie served the Campus Walk event chair for WKU’s chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
In the News

1 week ago | evansvilleliving.com | Maggie Valenti

NEW HIRES/PROMOTIONSSteven Bridges has been selected to serve as the fifth president of the University of Southern Indiana. Bridges, a two-time USI graduate and accounting professor, was named interim president prior to the 2024-25 academic year upon the departure of Ron Rochon. Bridges is the first USI alumnus to serve as the university’s president.
Ope! There’s a New Pope

3 weeks ago | evansvilleliving.com | Maggie Valenti

“The Cardinals evoke the Holy Spirit in their deliberation,” when determining who will be the next pope, says Trent Engbers, a University of Southern Indiana political science professor and member of Holy Rosary Catholic Church. “The Holy Spirit is active in guiding the discernment of the cardinals in the selection of the pope.”The Holy Spirit worked quickly this time.
Living in Color

3 weeks ago | evansvilleliving.com | Maggie Valenti

Carmen Mazick has never been to Tuscany, Italy’s central region famous for wine, olives, and sandstone architecture. Still, it inspired the color scheme inside her North Side home tucked into a cul-de-sac behind Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library’s Oaklyn Branch. She relied on the talents of Kathy Small, a self-taught painter, to bring that vision to life. “I’m not a neutral-white-beige person. … I wear color, I drive color, I live in color,” Mazick says.
A Life of Heart

3 weeks ago | evansvilleliving.com | Maggie Valenti

“People don’t plan to be 99,” Bob Hartman says. “It crept up on me.”The nonagenarian will turn 100 on Sept. 11, 2025. He was 11 during the 1937 Ohio River flood, served in Germany with the U.S. Army during World War II, and invented the crushed ice dispenser found in today’s refrigerators as an engineer at Whirlpool. An artist at heart, Bob has published a children’s book and his drawings of Evansville landmarks were featured in Evansville Living in 2018.
The Story Behind The Tale

3 weeks ago | evansvilleliving.com | Maggie Valenti

Evansville made such an impact on Luisella Traversi Guerra, the Italian native’s first English-language novel spans almost a century of time in the River City. Guerra, whose artwork was featured in the January/February 2001 issue of Evansville Living, called the River City home while her husband ran Robur Corporation, which builds gas heat pumps. A former resident of dense cities, Guerra adored and absorbed slices of the area’s culture and rural spaces.
Feel the Flavor

1 month ago | evansvilleliving.com | Maggie Valenti

Tucked along Indiana 66 in Newburgh, Sazón y Fuego is setting tastebuds ablaze with its bold celebration of Latin American cuisine. Launched in October 2024 by Evansville restaurant innovator Randy Hobson, this sizzling new spot is anything but ordinary. From ceviche to chimichurri, Sazón y Fuego offers a culinary passport through Latin America—without leaving Southern Indiana.

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