The sweltering summer heat can mean diving into your swimming pool — and high diving deep into energy costs. With temperatures starting to rise, you may be eyeing the swimming pool to help cool you off this summer. If you have a pool at your home, you likely are not yearning as much for those… Continue reading.

Hoosier Energy is a generation and transmission (G&T) electric cooperative that provides wholesale power and services to 18 member electric cooperatives in central and southern Indiana and southeastern Illinois. We deliver power through a nearly 1,700 mile transmission network. Our mission is to provide members with assured, reliable and competitively priced energy and services in… Continue reading.

When you recycle or donate your used electronics, like computers, cell phones and flat screens, you do the environment a big favor.  Recycling 1 million laptops saves roughly the amount of energy it takes to power more than 3,500 homes in a year. Even if the device isn’t usable, it still contains metals, plastics and… Continue reading.

Recycling benefits the environment by diverting hundreds of millions of pounds of valuable materials from landfills and avoiding millions of metric tons of greenhouse emissions annually, creating healthier air and cleaner waterways. Recycling also reduces the need for sourcing new raw materials through mining and logging, which can create water pollution and emit greenhouse gases…. Continue reading.

Earth Day organizers encourage everyone to plant trees wherever they can: in parks, in their neighborhoods or in their own yards. If you plant a tree in your yard, choose a strategic location that will allow the tree to shade your home from the hot summer sun. As it grows, the tree will help reduce… Continue reading.

April 22 marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. It is a good time to save some energy around your home. You can start by: Caulking around windows and doors to seal air leaks, and adding insulation to your attic. Both will prevent air-conditioned air from getting out of your house through the roof this… Continue reading.

Registration — 6:30 p.m.  Call to Order — 7 p.m.Chairman of the Board, Robert Broeker Invocation Proof of Notice of Meeting to MembersJon Rettinger, Secretary/Treasurer Nominating Committee Report Balloting by Members for Directors Prize Drawing20 $50 REMC bill credits Recognition of Eldest Man and Woman in Attendance Executive ReportsJon Rettinger, Secretary/Treasurer Mark Batman, President and… Continue reading.

Dear Member: The annual meeting of the members of Marshall County Rural Electric Membership Corporation will be held at the Plymouth Wesleyan Church, 11203 Michigan Road, Plymouth. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 7.  Three directors will be elected. The candidates selected by the nominating committee are listed on the back inside… Continue reading.