Q: “I’m putting a team together for a trivia night this week. Wanna go?” A: “Oh, I’m not a trivia person.” Christopher Short has found folks’ underestimation of knowledge they tote in their brains to be, as they say in trivia circles, the MCWA … or Most Common Wrong Answer. “There will always be something… Continue reading.

  Operation Round Up In July, three Operation Round Up applications were approved for a total of $6,905.60. The following grants were awarded: Purdue Extension Office, Montgomery County, was awarded $1,185.60 to purchase backpacks for the nutrition education program’s “Back to School Event”. “The Operation Round Up Grant allowed us to purchase 185 backpacks for… Continue reading.

Tipmont REMC has partnered with Osmose Utilities to conduct pole testing beginning in September. The testing will occur around the Layton substation, which is located in western Fountain County in the area of Veedersburg. Contractors will drive trucks, ATVs and other vehicles around our rights-of-way to inspect poles. Tipmont tests poles every 10 to 15… Continue reading.

Who has time to save energy? You’re a busy person, we get that. If you spent your life thinking about energy efficiency, well, you’d probably be working for us. But even though you might not have 40 hours a week to spend noodling over ways to save energy, there’s still lots you can do in… Continue reading.

Substations and power lines carry extremely high voltages, and if contact is accidentally made, the results can be dangerous — or even deadly. Please be extra careful this summer if you are near electrical equipment maintained by the co-op. First and foremost, never climb trees near power lines. If you make contact with a tree… Continue reading.

With the game on the line, Evan Warden pitched his own way out of a top-ninth, bases-loaded jam. But the fired-up crowd of about 1,500 cheering Warden on surely offered him a competitive advantage. Considering their volume and vigor, you’d have thought they’d been rallying behind Warden and the Lafayette Aviators for years. But it… Continue reading.

Cooperatives around the world operate according to a core set of principles. The seventh and final principle is “concern for community.” Cooperatives work for the sustainable development of the communities we serve. Tipmont’s second annual Community Day was held on Friday, May 20, at Twin Lakes Camp and Conference Center outside Hillsboro, Indiana. Since 1950,… Continue reading.

If you want to celebrate Earth Day on April 22, start by making your home more energy efficient. Below are three efficiency tips from energy expert Brian Sloboda of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. Look around your home for no-cost ways to be efficient. Close the curtains in the summer and open them in… Continue reading.

Last month, we examined Tipmont’s reliability and found that 2015 was one of Tipmont’s most reliable years to date, reducing our outages by 41 percent from 2014. A big part of that success stems from significant investment in infrastructure upgrades and our tree-trimming program, which we moved from a six-year to a three-year cycle. We… Continue reading.