“Unlisted Owner,” a mystery horror movie, written and produced by Sumner native Jed Brian, was filmed, in part, at the Publisher’s “mansion” (501 S. Christy, Sumner). Christy Fire Protection District personnel and Blue Star Ambulance employees added realism to the fictional story.

Sumner filmmaker unveils first movie

  By Barbara E. Allender
   “I’m not responsible for nightmares,” local filmmaker Jed Brian warns the exclusive sold-out audience getting set to view his horror film, “Unlisted Owner,” this weekend at the Vincennes Fortnightly Clubhouse. If those attendees do have nightmares, he said, “it means I’ve done my job.”
   If the movie gets the reviews and following that the Sumner native would like to see, it means that he is well on his way to seeing dreams come true. For now, the public unveiling of this work which has been Brian’s brainchild for over two years is a dream come true.
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Texas-based workers drilled through Sumner this week to install fiber optic lines for Verizon. The fiber optic lines which carry digital information over long distances are expected to improve telephone and Internet transmissions. Only relatively small surface areas, drilled at intervals, affected properties. (Photos by Barbara E. Allender)
  

Water, electric costs negotiated for Sumner residents

  By Barbara E. Allender
   The future cost of living for the residents of Sumner will be reduced in one area and increased in another.
   During the monthly meeting of the Sumner City Council on Tuesday, the Council listened to a presentation by Gary Niebrugge of Affordable Gas and Electric, Mt. Vernon, Ill. Niebrugge explained the process by which the AGE consultant firm may be able to save the average household as much as $150 per year on electric bills.
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Medicaid expansion is both good, bad

  By Barbara E. Allender
   The government may be adding insult to injury with the expansion of the Medicaid program. Lawrence County Memorial Hospital is among those likely to be affected by the change. While the numbers of eligible patients may increase, LCMH may still find itself adjusting its budget to overcome belated Medicaid payments from the State. Currently, the payments are 130 days off schedule.
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Price Reduced for Great Home in Sumner From $100,000 to $75,000    (Click on property for more information)       50l S. Christy, Sumner -- $75,000       Lawrence County is 240 miles straight south of Chicago's Navy Pier, l35 miles east of St. Louis' Arch. Moderate climate, rare zero degrees in winter, equally rare summer days above 95 degrees. Ringed by community colleges in historic Vincennes (l0 miles from Lawrenceville), Robinson, Olney and Mt. Carmel, each 20 miles. Stable employment--Automobile Technologies (seat supplier for Toyota largest American factory, Princeton, IN., 40 miles) and Lawrence Correctional Center, Sumner, l0 miles from Lawrenceville, 2500 inmate capacity. Excellent medical facilities, largest number of skilled care beds per population in state. Low real estate taxes. Minimal crime. Red Hill State Park. Prize winning modern schools. Recreational boating on Embarras & Wabash rivers.

EDITORIAL

  If the Judges and State’s Attorneys of this area, Lawrence County in particular, saw each day as many desperate to finance a roof over their head, as do we, they would be more receptive to alternative punishment to suspending driver’s license of DUI’S unemployable without such license.
   It is a cop out to con science to say, “law requires” or “Secretary of State can handle hardship cases.”
   Theoretically the needed mercy can come from jurors, but most defendants can’t afford to take their case to trial. Often jurors are intimidated by the court, and mis take their role for rubber stamps.
   Nor will we plead guilty to being soft on drunken driving. We would make 2-3 nights in jail mandatory, but we would keep workers working!. Present system doesn’t.
   Blessed be the merciful, and public officials concerned with the citizenry in this Appalachia.