Opinion

It is with unavoidable disappointment the Greene County Daily World announces the cancellation of our Bright Futures/Shining Star banquet for 2021. The event was canceled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and, once again, we have made the tough decision to cancel this year, due to the tenacity of the pandemic and the risk to all who would be potentially involved...

In two weeks, Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb intends to relax the statewide precautions currently in place which are meant to stem coronavirus spread, even though the state’s top health official cautioned Hoosiers on Wednesday that it’s still too early to return to “normal” life. ...

Just as America was looking forward to the light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel, the ugly faces of racism and hatred seem to have shown up again. There has been an alarming rise in our country in discrimination, harassment and even attacks on Asian-Americans...

On Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, with his wife at his side, Ryan Daniel Wilcoxen, 31, passed away at Community South Hospital in Greenwood. A 2008 graduate of Eastern Greene High School in Greene County, Wilcoxen led the Eastern Greene Thunderbirds baseball team to their only semi-state appearance in school history and went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in physical education and health and was pursuing a master’s degree in special education...