The growing immigrant population in Daviess County will be able to move toward citizenship because of a new offering by the Daviess County Health Department.
At least three times this summer the skies in and around Daviess County have been filled with an unhealthy haze. Smoke from Canadian forest fires has been driven south by
December has been a challenging month at the Daviess County Security Center. The sheriff and jail officers have been trying to combat COVID in the jail.
âWe are better now than we were one month ago,â said Daviess County Sheriff Gary Allison. âWe have no inmates with COVID and none of the staff are off because of it.â
County officials had fought to keep COVID out of the facility since the first cases began showing up last March. But eventually the disease got into the jail and began impacting prisoners and staff alike.
âIt was a real challenge,â said Assistant Jail Commander Russ Conrad. âWe really didnât know how serious it was and it left a lot of people scared. People would be fine one day and sick the next.â