This article ran previously on March 13, 2013.
While reading the book âHistory of the Lower Scioto Valley.â I came across the topic âItâs Forests.â Here is an excerpt from that section. The book was published in 1884 and covers Jackson, Pike and Scioto counties.
No one passing for the first time (1883) through the various sections of the Scioto Valley, noting its carefully cultivated fields; its railways, villages, towns and cities; its coal, salt and iron establishments, can form any fair picture of the valley and its tributaries one century since.
All its bottom lands were then shaded by a very dense, high and heavy growth of green, healthy trees, composed of immense sycamore, poplar, white and black walnut, black and white ash, buckeye, beech, soft and rock maple, white, black, red and yellow oak, standing so dense when clothed with foliage as not to allow the sunâs rays to penetrate to the earth, turning bright noon-day into twilight.
Indiana COVID-19 (Source: WFIE) By Jill Lyman | May 19, 2021 at 10:58 AM CDT - Updated May 19 at 10:58 AM
INDIANA (WFIE) - Tuesday, the Indiana State Department of Health reported 819 new coronavirus cases and 12 more deaths.
None of the new deaths were in our area.
The Hoosier state has now had a total of 737,282 confirmed cases and 13,101 deaths.
According to the state map, there are 11 new cases in Vanderburgh County, four new cases in Dubois County, four new cases in Warrick County, zero new cases in Perry County, one new case in Posey County, 14 new cases in Gibson County, two new case in Spencer County, and one new cases in Pike County.
Ind. ending pandemic unemployment programs June 19
Zero new COVID cases reported in Vanderburgh Co. Indiana COVID-19 (Source: WFIE) By Jill Lyman | May 17, 2021 at 10:00 AM CDT - Updated May 17 at 12:18 PM
INDIANA (WFIE) - Governor Holcomb says Indiana will end its participation in all federally funded pandemic unemployment insurance programs effective June 19, 2021.
The programs that will end are:
Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), which provides a $300 weekly add-on to recipients of unemployment insurance
Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), which provides recipients extended benefits after their traditional 26 weeks of unemployment insurance benefits have been exhausted
Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), which provides benefits to individuals who do not normally qualify for unemployment benefits, such as self-employed, gig workers, and independent contractors