DAR celebrates with Christmas luncheon
Daughters of the American Revolution(DAR) celebrated their Christmas Luncheon hosted at the home of Joy Bailey with a blessing and...
Court Report
White County Court Records Week of Dec. 12 - 19, 2025 Editor’s Note: A lawsuit filed or an arrest made...
White County Arrests
White County Sheriff’s Arrest Log Dec. 10 - 17 Wednesday, Dec. 10 Alexis Hinojosa, 32, of Indianapolis, was arrested on...
Allen’s attorneys cite grounds for appeal
Richard Allen’s appeal is based on three key areas. Attorneys filed Allen’s appellate brief late Wednesday evening. A year ago,...
Medical treatments don’t take a holiday; give blood or platelets now with Red Cross
Donors urged to support lifesaving care over the busy holiday seasonINDIANA — The American Red Cross urges donors to make an appointment to give blood or platelets now to keep...
NW Vikings compete at Twin Lakes Invite
North White Vikings competed in the Twin Lakes Invite on Saturday. Coming in with the smallest team, they had a few highlights on the day. The team has consistently produced champs at the tournament and this year proved the same. Alex Van Doren dominated his...
Ladybug Home Club meets
Seventeen members of the Ladybug Home Club gathered for their monthly meeting, combining fellowship with community service. During the meeting, members collected a total of $520 to donate to the White County Food Pantry. The donation will help the pantry...
What’s Happening White County
Programs for Monticello Parks Department January 2026 First Day Hike: Thursday, Jan. 1, at 9 a.m., meet at Altherr Nature Park and enjoy the outdoors as we hike a trail. Katie will help us identify any winter birds we see...
News from Remington Library
December has been busy this year at the Remington Library with some special programs. The first was Frosty Fiesta on December 5th. The children listened to some Christmas stories and then enjoyed looking for treasures in the darkened library. Cookies...
Wolcott Community Public Library
Tuesday, Dec. 30 All day DSF LEGO Club – We’ll be creating with LEGO ALL Day! Come and go and you please. LEGO will be set up in the program room from 9am-5pm! Saturday, Jan. 3 2 p.m. Snow Sisters...
REMC Grant supports White County Homemakers’ care program for local schools
The White County Extension Homemakers recently received a generous grant of more than $2,000 from REMC, allowing their Homemakers’ Care Program to continue providing essential hygiene items to students in need at Tri-County, North White, and Frontier schools. The program...
BUZZZZIN’ WITH Mrs. B
Doing the ‘Shooting Gallery Shuffle’My life is often like a shooting gallery; start one thing (ding!), get interrupted to something else (ding!), start to work on that (ding!) next interruption (ding!), and so on, and so on.... ‘Tis the week before Christmas and all through our house, comes anticipation...
Unfocused: Not in focus; indistinct. Without a specific aim or direction
Been there, done that, perhaps doing it as we speak. And because of that, there have been bad choices, after bad decisions. Anger on top of anger. Regret on top of guilt, divorce on top of divorce, hurt on top of hurt, and death on...
BUZZZZIN’ WITH Mrs. B
Joy to the World!“Joy to the World, the Lord has come.”
I think I had forgotten what true joy felt like, but today it was brought back to me in the most unexpected way. While the Lord did not come that day as the song implies, it was still good to feel a moment of joy...
So I don’t look back
It’s been 63 years and 228 days since I began my journey on this earth. If we were to add those up, they would combine to a total of 23,223 days that have created the history of me. It was 3,753 days since I first...
How to get a new microwave without really trying
I was upstairs dressing for the day when the smell of blueberries wafted up the stairway. My mouth was literally watering as I pictured myself digging into the blueberry pancake, sausage and egg sandwich that was cooking in the microwave even as I thought about...
Fred N. Shidler
Fred N. Shidler, 72, of Monticello, Indiana, passed away on Thursday, December 4, 2025, at 3:18 p.m. at the Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana where he remained until Saturday, December 6, 2025, as they prepared his final gift to the world with...
James Thomas “Tom” Mohler
James Thomas “Tom” Mohler, 86, of Monticello, Indiana, died peacefully at 9:50 a.m. surrounded by his family on Wednesday, December 10, 2025, at his daughter’s house in Otterbein, Indiana. Tom was born on July 5, 1939, in Warsaw, Indiana to Frederick and Flora Wuanita “Nita”...
DEATH NOTICES
Chester Glen Smith Sr. Chester Glen Smith Sr. passed from this life on Friday, December 5, 2025, in Rensselaer at the age of 91. He was born on August 20, 1934, in Newton County. Franklin Orville “Frank” Shidler Franklin Orville “Frank” Shidler, 70, of Star...
Raymond “Dale” Burnett
Raymond “Dale” Burnett, 93, of Monticello passed away on Monday, November 24, 2025 at Milner Healthcare Center in Rossville. He was born on August 22, 1932 at the family farm in Harrison County to the late Curtis and Cora (Montgomery) Burnett. On October 26, 1952,...
Adaline Sue “Addy” Biczo
Adaline Sue “Addy” Biczo, was born to the angels at 3:55 a.m., on Monday, December 1, 2025, at the IU Health Arnett Hospital of Lafayette.