June/July 2025

Read more about local beautification efforts in the June/July 2025 feature story. “Good littering” is a term borne from a movement toward community beautification by “littering” a city with more green spaces — such as planting trees and installing garden

Read more about local beautification efforts in the June/July 2025 feature story. It appears Keep Evansville Beautiful found the right person to continue its passion for tree conservation when it named Nick Iaccarino its new executive director in February. “I’m

Read more about local beautification efforts in the June/July 2025 feature story. When Carol McClintock began walking with friends for exercise around 2000, they were shocked at the litter scattered along their East Side routes: cigarette butts and empty packs,

Read more about local beautification efforts in the June/July 2025 feature story. David Goldblatt heads out early most Sunday mornings, with two trash cans and several plastic bags loaded into his Dodge Dakota, and wages his one-man war against litter

Read more about local beautification efforts in the June/July 2025 feature story. With a population just north of 103,000, Carmel, Indiana’s profile is on the rise. Enhancing that is its visibly clean, colorful aesthetic. “We set the expectation level of

Read more about local beautification efforts in the June/July 2025 feature story. Local law enforcement does not routinely patrol for litterbugs, but it does stay busy upholding laws aimed at keeping their jurisdiction beautiful and environmentally safe. Data provided by

Editor's note: The City of Evansville on Oct. 1 announced that it had demolished 50 blighted properties in 2025 as part of the Fight Blight program. This feature story published in June/July 2025 Evansville Business delves into that initiative. Thanks

Read more about local beautification efforts in the June/July 2025 feature story. Trees play a critical role in improving an area’s environment and quality of life, and Evansville understands this — the city was designated a Tree City USA by

Read more about local beautification efforts in the June/July 2025 feature story. One of the more subtle yet impactful means of heightening a city’s image is through public artwork, and Evansville is ramping up its attention to the concept. This

Read more about local beautification efforts in the June/July 2025 feature story. If you see a blue, three-wheeled cart pedaling through the streets of Downtown Evansville, hold onto your cash — the operator isn’t selling hot dogs or ice cream

The Evansville Regional Economic Partnership exceeded its 2024 goal for attracting new households and is using that momentum to grow its aims for 2025. E-REP in 2024 participated in two recruitment efforts: MakeMyMove provided financial incentives for remote workers like Scott

In a recent text message exchange with a borderline “friend,” we traded some obscure references from our long-ago past (think 50-plus years). Finally, I had a mic-drop moment, and we both knew it. I asked, “How can I remember that

 BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT  Heidorn Construction has been named the Remodeler of the Year for 2024 by the Indiana Builders Association. Hoosier builders send nominations to the IBA, which reviews each nominee’s projects to select that year’s recipient. D. G. Asay assumed

What is Good Littering? How acts of kindness grow something positive Increasing Vibrancy Keep Evansville Beautiful executive director reaffirms the nonprofit’s focus on green causes King of the Street Sweep David Goldblatt calls picking up litter 'good for your soul’

Now more than 13 years old, the Ford Center is an established regional venue for sports and entertainment. Along the way, it’s also gained a reputation as a prime spot for prominent musical acts to rehearse before launching national concert

 EDUCATION  Mater Dei High School; Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana (1966)  HOMETOWN  Evansville  RESUME  Industrial Contractors/ICI Skanska (1961-2013), president and CEO (1983-2011)  FAMILY  Wife Sharon; daughter Molly Russell and son Matthew (died

David Smith repeats the data so often, he has it committed to memory: Evansville’s public school system educates about 22,000 children and employs around 3,450 people. It operates on 935 acres, in properties valued at $1.4 billion. Its cafeterias serve

Is a new baseball park once again on Evansville’s wish list, 22 years after a previous effort was tagged out? It appears so. In addition to hosting the Frontier League’s Otters baseball team since 1995, Evansville is positioning itself as

Photography hooked Terri Adams on the magic of weddings and inspired her to open her own venue. “I decided I could figure it out on the fly,” says Adams, who had no event planning experience prior to launching Warehouse 410

In 1980, as a young, single mother on a part-time income, Janice Miller took a friend’s advice and tried selling real estate. The national economic climate was miserable, and mortgage rates were astronomical. Miller sold one house all year and

The name of Jasper, Indiana’s largest medical facility has changed, but its commitment to quality, faith-centered health care remains steadfast under its new affiliation with Evansville-based Deaconess Health System, officials said Aug. 1 during a ribbon cutting ceremony in Dubois

After welcoming Ohio River cruise ships back to Evansville in 2023 for the first time in decades, the city’s tourism agency decided this year to cancel three previously scheduled stops. Those cruises — often aboard American Cruise Lines’ iconic red

Editor's note: This story was first published on June 23, 2025, on evansvilleliving.com, and later appeared in October/November 2025 Evansville Business. Tucked into the rolling hills of Southern Indiana, Fischer Farms is a fifth-generation family operation doing something rare in

On June 6, the Evansville Trails Coalition released its Regional Trails Master Plan, which outlines a goal for more connected trail systems throughout Evansville and the Southwestern Indiana region. One part involves the Northfolk Southern Line behind Wesselman Park, which

The property long known as the Wesselman Par 3 golf course has a new name — Wesselman Woods West Meadow — and a strategy in place to reforest its 23 acres, a multi-phase process that will take an untold number

Meet Brodie Curtsinger, a rising senior at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and a summer photography fellow at Tucker Publishing Group, Inc. The Mount Washington, Kentucky, native is studying photojournalism at WKU and is on track to graduate

New Explore Evansville President and CEO Tom White is approaching the agency’s top job with one keyword — growth — in mind for strengthening the city’s portfolio of tourism-related event offerings. White’s most recent career stop was with Visit Mobile,