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Fourteen years ago, Michael Rust made a decision that would put him out of work for about two years and almost cut his salary in half.

The residents of the small, Warrick county town with a population of roughly 3,000 is looking towards expansion and showcased that search with a town gathering on Sunday on the site of a former abandoned business that is now up for sale.

The Evansville Water and Sewer Utility lifted boil advisories that affected several residents in Central and Northern Vanderburgh County Sunday.

Chandler has quite an election shaping up. And Tuesday’s party conventions will further define the races.

The training is intense and the responsibility can be a heavy one, but for those who volunteer with Guardianship Services, the experience is often its own reward.

Single tickets are going on sale Monday for the opening performance of the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra season, featuring world renowned violinist Joshua Bell.

Auditions for the Evansville Philharmonic Chorus will be helped on August 24 by appointment at Trinity United Methodist Church. The chorus, lead by Director Andrea Drury, is a volunteer chorus of about 130 singers and performs alongside the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra periodically throughout its season. The chorus will join the orchestra for the Peppermint Pops in December, Mendelssohn's "Elijah" and will perform in its own spring concert in April.

Conversations about puberty aren't typically an easy one for parents, or their preteen sons or daughters, to talk about. Two upcoming programs though will help make those conversations easier, organizers hope. It's not about telling them what to say, instead the upcoming Girl Talk and Guy Talk programs will provide parents with the tools to have the conversation. The two programs — Girl Talk on Thursday and Guy Talk on Aug. 27 — are for preteen boys and girls respectively and the adults in their

Event lets folks get hands on with tiny residents of the great outdoors.

Facing a week of hearings that will determine whether Evansville commences a long-term war on housing blight, some city officials are grappling with short-term concerns about how to pay for it.