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Local news, Vigo County government, schools and community commentary.
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Terre Haute Home Values Continue to Surge Higher…Up 3.9% over Last Year
Terre Haute’s housing market is hot, very hot according to Zillow.com. 2019 home values increased 3.9% over the previous year and are continuing to climb. Rents are up a more…
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Vigo County School Corporation Gives an Extra $1.1 Million Dollar Raise to Teachers.
VCSC Teachers will get another pay bump. Teachers received a 5% pay increase on Jan. 1st, 2020. Now, the school corporation is going to retroactive that pay increase to the…
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Terre Haute’s $50 Million Dollar Convention Center Is DEAD. Waiting on Resuscitation Help to Arrive.
Six years of planning may not have been enough to get a Convention Center built in Downtown Terre Haute. The Vigo County Council raised the Innkeepers tax to 8% in…
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Terre Haute Mayor Disappointed in Local NAACP, Does not intend to Stop LIVE PD
On Friday, The Greater Terre Haute Branch of the NAACP sent a letter to Mayor Duke Bennett asking him to end the contract with A&E Network’s LIVE PD and Big…
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Terre Haute Convention Center Must Bulldoze the School Corp. Building or Project Is Dead!
The Vigo County School Corporation just INHERITED a windfall. Mayor Duke Bennett, Judith Anderson County Commissioner, John Marvel Chairman of Capital Improvement Board, Steve Witt Executive Director of Redevelopment Department,…
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Convention Center on the BRINK of Disaster, Executive Director Says if you want an ugly building instead then we just won’t build it!!
Terre Haute Convention Center reveals how close to disaster the project really is. City Executive says we just won’t build the convention center
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Off Duty Federal Officer Helps ID Wanted Bank Robber
John Bartlett was arrested in connection with the July 2nd 2019 robbery of the Fifth Third bank on South US 41 in Terre Haute. He is set for Trial on…
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Terre Haute CASINO wants the Cards to be RE-DEALT on CASINO LEGISLATION. 2 INDIANA House members AGREE.
Indiana House of Representatives Tonya Pfaff (district 43) and Alan Morrison (district 42) would like a new deal on casino for Terre Haute. They do not believe the agreed upon…
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Vigo County School Board Still Spending…”It’s Emotional”
Even as Vigo County Property owners have gotten over the emotional impact of rising property tax bills, the Vigo County School Board hasn’t come to terms with trimming back the…
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Who Killed Gloria Hedden? July 1980 Murder of Terre Haute woman still a mystery.
Gloria Hedden was born Gloria Ann Felix on Sept. 8th 1950 to her parents Martin and Elizabeth (Tyson). She lived in Chicago, IL and came to Terre Haute in 1968…