During the non-daylight hours it's about the beer and bands. Loud bands that can easily be heard at any edge of Evill (Southside, Westside or Eastside).

As long as the $$$$$ are flowing in, this will be the norm for the July 4th weekend.

iamqueenb-You certainatly are one to talk about someone being "biased".Do you have anything positive to say about evansville?

they were posting during the middle of the day, city time. They then take their 500.00 cover charge go back to the station and watch their 52 inch plasma t.v... This is the station the E.M.S. should have gotten. Not the F.D. the E.M.S. unfortunately is much busier.

I.Q.B......Who cares if city employess post here?? As long as it's on THEIR time and on thier home PC its ok with me..

As for the F.D. run beer tent....I can't believe they don't have a $500 non-negotiable (unless you are a true towner) cover charge. IF they came to your party, that's the fee they have....

in case no one knew when they say 'other entertainment' they mean beer tent. thats it folks.. pretty damn dull. City employees really should not be posting on here, just a tad bit biased.

they don't think outside the box either for their fourth celebration.

pat...Evansville does a GREAT job with their parade...Seeing most of the floats are done by 4-H clubs...In other words KIDS !!!

And it's NOT a lake, it's a POND. No one would ever think slightly outside the box in town; either dredge it and make it a pond again, OR it will be some weed-infested pit with a creek. NO ONE ever thought to turn it back into just a nice area (knock down the berms), grass it, plant shade trees, nice creek. Could have been really nice in a natural state, but NOPE, Prentice said dredge it because it looked so bad for the community oh and wasn't good for his property value.

HEY I PAID for that mud!!!!

evansville has a poor crappy 4th celebration.beer tent, and softball , sucks big time.. the lake is a frickin joke. a celebration concerning the mud hole is stupid. Our family will spend our time and money at a town 1500 people smaller, that has a 4th celebration aimed at families , where there is more concern for the entire family than a beer tent, and a mud hole.

There's somewhere around 5000 people in Evansville. Of course they're going to have smaller parades, and filling up a pond is going to be a big deal. Wouldn't it sound strange if someone from Madison knocked Janesville's puny parade, and rocky brown river (as an example). As for living under a rock, I prefer that to sitting on top, and burning up in this heat!

hmmmmm

actually worktowin the 4th parade is the only parade of the summer if you are speaking of Evansville. It does not take much to upstage Evansville's .

You people are livin under a rock if you think Evansville's parade is great. Have you ever seen a real parade before?

It's great to see water back in the old lake. Kids are there everyday fishing. Also, the Evansville 4th of July parade is one of the best parades of the summer.

I guess we can all agree, then, that everyone loves the Fourth of July in Evansville, made even more special this year with the grand reopening of Lake Leota.

We intentionally made plans to go up north for that weekend. Evansville should be ashamed of it self. Its half xxxx attempt at a Fourth of July celebration is always crappy, unless you like the beer tent.. Does not seem odd that the beer tent is sponsored i believe by the fire dept? That just sends the wrong message and their 'celebration' lacks any serious family activities. This 'hole' in the ground does not deserve to be celebrated on any level. I am assuming sole will be fund raising this weekend,, as they promised. They are so damn lame. If you want serious fun , look else where not Evansville.