Evansville Living

Since its inception in 1999, Evansville Living has built a reputation for editorial quality, serving over 60,000 readers for 16 years. The talented team of writers and designers at Evansville Living showcase the diverse aspects of our city through engaging storytelling and vibrant human interest articles. Their award-winning work features in-depth reporting and eye-catching full-color layouts. The publication addresses topics that resonate with the Tri-State community, igniting discussions around culture, politics, sports, business, lifestyle, entertainment, dining, and the distinctive figures that define our River City.

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Lawless Litter

6 days ago | evansvilleliving.com | Jodi Keen

Read more about local beautification efforts in the June/July 2025 feature story. Local law enforcement does not routinely patrol for litterbugs, but it does stay busy upholding laws aimed at keeping their jurisdiction beautiful and environmentally safe. Data provided by Evansville Police Department show that officers wrote 10 citations for littering in 2024. EPD Sgt.
‘Every Neighborhood Matters’

6 days ago | evansvilleliving.com | Jodi Keen

Read more about local beautification efforts in the June/July 2025 feature story. Thanks to two initiatives created by Mayor Stephanie Terry’s administration, neighborhoods that have faced neglect for decades are receiving much-needed attention. One of those initiatives, the Block-by-Block Neighborhood Cleanup program, brings city employees and community volunteers together to pick up trash, mow lawns, pull weeds, trim trees, and perform other tasks while allowing neighbors a chance to connect.
Cleanliness in Carmel, Indiana

6 days ago | evansvilleliving.com | Jodi Keen

Read more about local beautification efforts in the June/July 2025 feature story. With a population just north of 103,000, Carmel, Indiana’s profile is on the rise. Enhancing that is its visibly clean, colorful aesthetic. “We set the expectation level of how clean we keep the city, not only for constituents but also visitors,” says Jeremy Kashman, Chief Infrastructure Officer for the City of Carmel.
King of the Street Sweep

6 days ago | evansvilleliving.com | Jodi Keen

Read more about local beautification efforts in the June/July 2025 feature story. David Goldblatt heads out early most Sunday mornings, with two trash cans and several plastic bags loaded into his Dodge Dakota, and wages his one-man war against litter in Evansville. Goldblatt preselects a certain section of roadway, usually a well-traveled one, and picks up litter by hand until his trash cans and plastic bags are filled; that usually takes an hour and a half to two hours. Why does he do it?
‘Don’t Be Afraid To Do It’

6 days ago | evansvilleliving.com | Jodi Keen

Read more about local beautification efforts in the June/July 2025 feature story. When Carol McClintock began walking with friends for exercise around 2000, they were shocked at the litter scattered along their East Side routes: cigarette butts and empty packs, bottles drained of their alcohol, aluminum beer cans, and large Styrofoam soft drink cups with straws and plastic tops affixed. “There was so much of it at the time, it was terrible,” she recounts.
Increasing Vibrancy

6 days ago | evansvilleliving.com | Jodi Keen

Read more about local beautification efforts in the June/July 2025 feature story. It appears Keep Evansville Beautiful found the right person to continue its passion for tree conservation when it named Nick Iaccarino its new executive director in February. “I’m a tree hugger at heart,” he says. Although picking up litter remains a large part of KEB’s mission, planting new trees and caring for existing ones is an important focus of the nonprofit.
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.
Overhead Protectors

1 week ago | evansvilleliving.com | Jodi Keen

Read more about local beautification efforts in the June/July 2025 feature story. Trees play a critical role in improving an area’s environment and quality of life, and Evansville understands this — the city was designated a Tree City USA by the Arbor Day Foundation in 2001. To promote urban treescapes, officials created the Evansville Forest Alliance in 2024 to enhance urban environment by planting trees in underserved and low-income areas.
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.