Submitted by the Dearborn County Retired Teachers Association, an affiliate of the Indiana Retired Teachers Association It started with a single pillowcase dress. In 2010, Jeraldine "Gerry" Barber read about sundresses sewn from pillowcases in a United Methodist Women newsletter. She found a pattern online, made one to show the Thursday morning retired teachers' coffee group at the Lawrenceburg Public Library, and asked whether the group could sew a dozen for a mission team h

Somewhere around 2008, Patriot resident Joey Rider sat down and wrote himself a note. He titled it "Operation Freedom." It was, in his words, a guide, a map toward the one thing he had wanted since high school: to work for himself. He had no way of knowing then that the same drive would one day turn toward saving the town he grew up in. A lifelong Patriot resident, Joey opened Rider Realty in 2020, and its success has quietly funded the community projects that followed. For a

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