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The Santa Claus, Indiana, Post Office selected the special 2023 picture postmark for the upcoming holiday season.
Get your shirt to celebrate Spencer County being in the “zone of totality” during the upcoming solar eclipse on Monday, April 8, 2024! The eclipse will be a major event as it’s expected that totality will last twice as long as the previous North American eclipse in 2017.
Additional housing is emerging throughout Spencer County. Funding from Indiana's Regional Economic Acceleration and Development Initiative (READI) has driven and aided local housing projects.
Several businesses are getting ready for the peak summer tourism season in Spencer County with additions and enhancements totaling more than $14.2 million.
The Spencer County Visitors Bureau plans to award up to $100,000 to help enhance Spencer County tourism in 2023. The Tourism Enhancement Grant application is now available.
The Lincoln Amphitheatre will head into its 36th summer with a diverse and eclectic lineup of live events and performances. Anchored by KISS’ original guitarist Ace Frehley, Eddie Montgomery of Montgomery Gentry, Grammy nominee Southern Avenue, as well as Peter Beckett of the band Player, the 2023 season will also feature a number of tribute performances to some of the all-time great rock and roll and country artists.
Southern Indiana Power sponsors local 6th-grade students to attend Camp Kilowatt at YMCA’s Camp Tecumseh in Brookston, Indiana. This event included three fun-filled days of traditional sleep-away summer camp activities like zip-lining, horseback riding, rock climbing, archery, swimming, and campfires.
The Spencer County Visitors Bureau plans to award up to $100,000 to help enhance Spencer County tourism in 2023.
The Spencer County Tourism Enhancement Grant is designed to assist organizations, businesses, events, and tourism-related entities with special projects, events, activities, marketing, and other initiatives that will encourage visitation and tourism in Spencer County. In 2022, the Visitors Bureau awarded $50,000 to 10 local businesses and organizations.
Six counties in Southern Indiana are working together to better understand the supply and demand of childcare within the region. The Southern Indiana Gateway (SIG) region, comprised of Crawford, Dubois, Orange, Perry, Pike, and Spencer counties, earned its official designation as a 21st Century Talent Region in June 2021. A state initiative, the 21st Century Talent Regions program encourages self-defined geographic regions to build and implement a plan to increase educational attainment, raise household income, and grow population.
Southern Indiana (August 11, 2022) – Nearly 400 new homes are being planned across southwest Indiana, to address the gap in quality workforce housing. The Indiana First region, recognizing a critical need for additional housing in all counties throughout the area, will focus much of its READI grant award on the “Talent’s Hometown” program. This initiative will support multiple public infrastructure projects in each county, opening additional development opportunities for residential builders.
The Spencer County Chamber of Commerce has announced that during its April Morning Brew on April 28, at 7:30, Senator Messmer and Representative Stephen Bartels will offer a 2022 review of Legislative House activities.
The town of Chrisney is welcoming its second Habitat for Humanity house in as many years as Mickey Hoggard and her children helped break ground Monday, May 16, at the site of their future home.
The Spencer County Visitors Bureau Inc. will distribute grants to six local businesses through the new tourism enhancement grant.