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Falls of the Ohio State Park will host its annual Digging the Past event on Saturday, August 24, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Guests can explore fossils, minerals, and archaeology with a variety of free programs and games behind the park’s Interpretive Center. Admission to the museum gallery is $7 for all during this event.
These programs are offered at specific times during the day:
- Explore the outer fossil bed on a guided hike from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. This hike is for guests ages 12 and older.
- Trek the park’s other fossil beds with a guide. Hikes will leave on the hour from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
- Make a free fossil collection from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
- See what you can knock down at geode bowling from noon to 1 p.m. and 3 to 4 p.m. Prizes will be offered.
- Discover interesting facts about geodes and crystals during a program and giveaway from 1 to 2 p.m.
- Learn about dinosaurs during the Dinosaurs with Dale program from 2 to 3 p.m.
Programs offered all day include:
- Visit refreshed Silurian fossil piles, courtesy of Irving Materials, Inc. (IMI) and Sellersburg Stone Quarry.
- Create an egg carton collection with fossils and minerals for a $1 donation.
- Create crafts like weather rocks, pet rocks, and bead stringing.
- See displays and information from the Falls of the Ohio Archaeological Society.
- Take part in hands-on archaeology activities from the Indiana State Museum.
- Create a make-and-take concrete fossil, courtesy of IMI.
- Browse fossil displays and get your fossil identified, courtesy of the Kentucky Paleontological Society.
- Learn about Orodovician fossil collecting from the Spencer County (Kentucky) Tourism bureau.
- Watch demonstrations of lapidary work (including rock polishing).
- Get your unknown artifacts, rocks and fossils identified.
- Dig “artifacts” in an archaeological mini-mock dig station.
Falls of the Ohio State Park (on.IN.gov/fallsoftheohio) is at 201 W. Riverside Dr. in Clarksville, 47129.
By Jerry Curry, Staff Writer
On August 09, 2024, at approximately 7:54 a.m., deputies along with emergency services personnel responded to a three vehicle crash, on Eastern School Road, in front of the East Washington School Corporation.
Investigators at the scene determined that Garrett Drury, age 17 of Borden, Indiana was traveling north on Eastern School Road, in a 1996 Ford F-150, when he drove into the back of a stopped vehicle on Eastern School Road.
Drury’s vehicle collided with a 2016 Ford Escape, which was being operated by Rosemary Russell, age 80, of Pekin, Indiana. Russell’s vehicle was pushed into the back of a 2004 Ford Explore, which was also stopped on Eastern School Road and being operated by Sheri Coy, age 37, of Clarksville, Indiana.
Drury stated he was traveling northbound on Eastern School Road, when a passenger in his vehicle told him to look at something on the edge of the roadway. Drury said he quickly looked away and when he looked back at the roadway, the vehicle in front of him had abruptly stopped and he was not able to slow down fast enough to avoid a collision with Russell's vehicle.
Russell was the only person injured in the accident and she was transported to Baptist Floyd Hospital by the Washington County Ambulance Service for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.
The crash is being investigated by Deputy Paul Reyling, who was assisted by New Pekin Town Marshal Jeff Thomas and the East Washington School Resource Officers Gary Pennington and Dan Knable.
Everyone is invited to attend a free viewing of Disney and Pixar's film "Elemental" on Friday, August 16, at 8 p.m. at Field 4 of the Salem Community Park. The park is located at 1104 E. Hackberry St., Salem.
The event will include free admission, free popcorn, a bounce
house, concessions provided by Salem Parks and Recreation, and much more.
The film is set in Element City, where residents who are elements of nature, Fire, Water, Land and Air, live together.
This Substance Free Alternative Event is sponsored by the Washington County Family YMCA and Salem Parks and Recreation Department.
Indiana Department of Transportation contractor Dave O'Mara Contractors is scheduled to close State Road 250 approximately one mile east of State Road 11 on or after Monday, August 12, to complete a small structure replacement project in Jackson County.
The closure will take place just east of Dudleytown between S.R. 11 and South County Road 825 East and is expected to be complete by mid-September, weather permitting. Crews will begin to place signage in the area prior to the start of construction. During the closure, motorists should use the official detour route which follows S.R 11 to U.S. 50 to I-65.
This project is part of a contract awarded to Dave O'Mara in January 2023. INDOT reminds drivers to slow down, use extra caution and avoid distractions when traveling in and near work zones. All work is weather-dependent and schedules are subject to change.
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