“Old Ironsides” might be the nickname the USS Constitution was dubbed 200 years ago during the War of 1812. And though British cannonballs bounced off the ship’s hull, it’s no secret that its sides were never made of iron. Old Ironsides had — still has — oaken sides. The ship is built with massive white… Continue reading.

Dubois Rural Electric Cooperative General Manager Don Book need drive only minutes in any direction from his office to see what he calls the “could’ve beens” and “should’ve beens” for the 11,000-member co-op. A Walmart, a Home Depot, fast-food franchises, retail centers and condominiums line U.S. 231 to the north of Jasper; Jasper High School,… Continue reading.

With great pleasure Electric Consumer announces the winners of the 2014 Youth Power and Hope Awards. They are: Summer Allen, New Salisbury Summer Allen, an eighth grader at North Harrison Middle School, has been instrumental in growing the Random Acts of Kindness Program at her school. The program teaches kindness through role modeling and rewarding… Continue reading.

A lot of Hoosiers vote every election day, yet go their entire lives without ever really watching lawmakers perform the job they’ve elected them to, or even stepping foot into the beautiful and historic Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis. Indiana Electric Cooperatives offer students aged 13-18 an educational and exciting look into the General Assembly with… Continue reading.

No Unwieldy extension cord flails from the rear of Mary Gibbs’ Chevrolet Volt as it silently slips through the rolling Harrison County countryside on her workday commute. Nor does the car shudder to a halt when that mythic cord stretches to its limit and rips itself from the outlet in her garage. But from the… Continue reading.

Luke, Tyler and Cody Zeller have a little hardwood history among them: three Indiana Mr. Basketball awards; four state titles; three McDonald’s All-American honors; an NCAA championship and more. Here’s a little about them, and what they’ve been up to lately …

“Basketball is something that is definitely a segue to life,” says Indiana basketball standout Luke Zeller in the introductory video to the basketball training program — DistinXion — that he created and operates with his family.What makes this training and youth camp program distinct among sports camps is that DistinXion — which also includes Luke’s… Continue reading.

Indiana’s bailiwick is basketball. The state’s love of the game is renown and real. And while a handful of Hoosiers can lay claim to a vein of hardwood lineage running in their family tree, Hysteria historians would be pressed to find any stronger or deeper than what Steve and Lorri Zeller transplanted in the fertile… Continue reading.

by Diane Willis, Special Correspondent Bringing power and light to people who’ve never had it before may not be a miracle, but it is a mission. And it was a historic mission that 28 rural electric cooperative linemen and four field supervisors from across Indiana accomplished this summer. They brought power to the people in… Continue reading.

Rowena Richardson remembers long summer days as a kid in Monument City. She and playmates “lived” in the cool shade of the grassy playground behind the big red brick school building. They’d play on the wooden-seated swings, and sometimes get really adventurous. “The school had one of those big old round fire escapes that went… Continue reading.

Readers of Electric Consumer had plenty of tales to tell about favorite vacations. Some told of bygone days when gas cost two bits a gallon and the two lane was the only way to see the USA. Others noted GPS-technology and state-of-the-art hotels of glass and steel. Some tales told of personal journeys of discovery… Continue reading.

When December 2013 rolls around and calendar pages are turned, Amanda Whaling’s senior send-off to the Cooperative Calendar of Student Art will be revealed at last. She’ll be a sophomore in college then, but her valedictory work — horses pulling a wagon at a snowy Christmas tree farm — will still be wowing those who appreciate… Continue reading.