-
1 week ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | Todd Lancaster |Washington Times-Herald
LOOGOOTEE —The Barr-Reeve Vikings softball team dropped the opening game of the Loogootee sectional against Orleans on Monday, 6-5. Although B-R posted 12 hits and made a valiant comeback in the bottom of the seventh, they were hurt by four errors and six unearned runs make what turned out for B-R that ended the year at 18-8. “Our kids know how to compete. They know how to compete in big moments and big times.
-
1 week ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | Mike Myers |Washington Times-Herald
North Daviess will enter sectional play on a high note after defeating county rival Washington 8-4 at Washington on Memorial Day. Washington (10-13) opened the scoring with a pair of first inning runs against ND starter Caleb Miller. John Chapman drove in Trey James with a one-out double to left, and Brody Clark, who had singled and then moved to third on Chapman’s double, scored when Ben Merold grounded out.
-
2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Mike Grant |Washington Times-Herald
It’s National Small Business Month, and the Daviess County Chamber of Commerce is inviting people to step up and support local businesses. “We are doing a $20 pledge where we encourage people to go out and spend $20 at a local small business that they have never shopped with before,” said Executive Director for the Daviess County Chamber of Commerce Joe Morris. “It can something a simple as buying a gift card.
-
2 weeks ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | Todd Lancaster |Washington Times-Herald
The Washington Hatchets opened the 31st Tom Miles Invitational with a solid Sullivan team on Saturday under perfect weather conditions at the Sports Complex. WHS downed Sullivan in the first game 15-5 and lost to Silver Creek, 21-2 in the afternoon game. Although the game had early shifts in momentum, and WHS was down 4-1 at one point, WHS outscored Sullivan 14-1 the rest of the way for a 15-5 game in 4 1/12 innings.
-
3 weeks ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | Todd Lancaster |Washington Times-Herald
There are a few columns that tend to get recycled over the course of several years and always seem to make an appearance when things get a little slow. Class basketball conflict has drifted away, as the last people who participated in non-class basketball are nearly 45 and unless you spend time arguing with clouds on your porch, most people think it worked out pretty well. The NIL transfer portal debate may still have a little life in it for a few more years.
-
3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Mike Grant |Washington Times-Herald
Daviess County employees will apparently get a 3% pay raise next year. The Daviess County Council gave tentative approval to the increase following a recommendation from the county wage committee. President of the county council and wage committee member Marilyn McCullough says the decision came after discussions with department heads and elected officials. “We invited the department heads to come talk with the committee. There we get insight into each department.
-
1 month ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | Todd Lancaster |Washington Times-Herald
MONTGOMERY – The Barr-Reeve Viking golf team posted an impressive win in the 9-hole Blue Chip Preview on Thursday at Country Oaks. The match featured the teams that will also play an 18-hole match on Saturday for the conference and all-conference titles. B-R shot a 151, with everyone on the team shooting 40 or below. The match was won by Viking freshman Lincoln Miller with a -1, 35.
-
1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Mike Grant |Washington Times-Herald
This week the Catholic Church selected a new leader. After the white smoke appeared Cardinal Robert Prevost appeared on Vatican balcony as Pope Leo XIV. The selection of the first American born pope was well received by local Catholics. “I was excited. I happened to be home at lunch so I got to see him come out on TV. It was exciting. It was fun to see,” said Chris Jarrett. “I was surprised for it to be an American because the analysts kept saying they would not choose an American.
-
1 month ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | Todd Lancaster |Washington Times-Herald
For Washington Hatchet Colton Stowers, his decision on playing college basketball might have a familiar feel – or should we say family feel to it. Stowers officially signed his letter of intent to play basketball at Wabash College in the Hatchet House on Friday. Wabash is also a place where his former high school coach and grandfather Gene Miiller played in the 1970s and was recently inducted into the Wabash Hall of Fame.
-
1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Mike Grant |Washington Times-Herald
A gas leak at a local factory sent four people to the hospital and shut down half of a building Tuesday evening. Emergency crews were called to the Perdue Farms Processing plant around 10:55 p.m.on a report of two women, one of them pregnant, being unconscious. Washington Police and Fire departments along with EMS responded to the call on Washington’s west side. “We were called for two unresponsive females,” said Washington Fire Chief Steve Walden.
