Tim Jagielo

Horseshoe Bend Carriage Company co-owner Sheila O'Risky drives one of five carriages the evening of Saturday, Dec. 7. Each carriage ride includes the registration fee for the Fantasy of Lights to benefit Easterseals. The company also makes a donation at the end of the season.

‘Among the lights’ and the horses, at Garvin Park

Tim Jagielo

For 31 years the Ritzy’s Fantasy of Lights has been a major fundraiser for the Easterseals Rehabilitation Center in Evansville — adding to the magic of the lights is the Horseshoe Bend Carriage Company

Vehicles pass beneath the new footbridge over US-41 at Washington Avenue Monday, Dec. 16. The overall intersection improvement project won't be completed until spring 2025, but the footbridge will be available for use starting this week.

Long-awaited footbridge over U-S 41 in Evansville expected to open Friday

Tim Jagielo

The Indiana Department of Transportation projects ‘partial’ Friday opening, but finishing touches and intersection improvements will continue until Spring

METS Micro, the pilot program rideshare service, will begin expanding to cover the entire city Spring of 2025, thanks to a federal grant. Here, a route is completed in early December.

City awarded ‘transformative’ $20 million grant

Tim Jagielo

Evansville will use the funds to fight air pollution in a variety of ways — this includes making transportation easier for residents with expanded METS Micro and bikeshare services, more EV charging stations.

The Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Evansville was in recent history open for some events, but has been closed for most of the year for site work. A plan is being drafted by Hafer Associates to bring the building up to code.

ADA, code compliance plans in works for shuttered Memorial Coliseum

Tim Jagielo

The Vanderburgh County Board of Commissioners have accepted a design proposal to upgrade parts of the Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum; the design phase alone will cost $120,700

Sen. Sue Glick (R-Dist. 13) talks to Hoosier students on the senate floor in a prvis

Indiana State Page Program: students see laws pass, challenge their legislators on votes

Tim Jagielo

Every year, the Indiana General Assembly invites more 1,700 sixth-through 12th grade students to participate in their Page Program. This gets them closer to their legislators — and to the process of making laws — they’d like to see more students outside of central Indiana apply.

Charles Francis (left) and Brian Fuchs with contractor Deig Brothers Construction place road barrels at the intersection of Vine and Alvasia Streets Monday, Dec. 9.

Henderson Water Utility begins $4.2 million upgrade in oldest section of system in city

Tim Jagielo

Washington-Vine water-sewer project on Henderson’s East Side should take up to eight months, enhance reliability of section, replacing lines from 1890s

Cedar Trace Apartments on Evansville's north side are affordable housing units owned by Gratus Development. The company is spending $14 million in updates using a $1.3 million state tax credit.

State tax credit helps make affordable housing sustainable amid shortage of stock

Tim Jagielo

The Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority or (IHCDA) recently announced 21 properties that will receive a tax credit, which can be used to defray costs of building or rehabbing an affordable housing facility

Intersections like the one at West Franklin Street and North First Avenue in Evansville are part of a citywide street safety project funded by a state grant.

For safer streets, Evansville aims to raise driver awareness with $2.25 million grant

Tim Jagielo

Total of five projects include new lane markings and signs, radar feedback signs and improved traffic light visibility; work to begin summer 2025

WEVV Meteorologist Jonathan Weaver of Evansville gives an afternoon forecast in late October. Weaver said he prefers not to discuss climate change, or discuss it on-air because he feels he's not educated enough on the topic. Whether a forecaster is interested in talking climate change on-air is mixed.

Weather forecasters discussing climate change on-air is now ‘vitally important’

Tim Jagielo

Another Trump Presidency bodes poorly for federal climate-friendly policies — many Americans are concerned about climate change, but forecasters are split on discussing it on air

ISP: it’s dangerous to be fatigued and get behind the wheel this holiday season

Tim Jagielo

This Thanksgiving, the Indiana State Police are suggesting motorists start their travel early to beat the traffic — but not too early — fatigue may contribute to more crashes than drunk driving