Some American White Pelicans have stopped in the Tri-State for a spell while migrating from the Gulf of Mexico.

Thanks to Sheri Sullivan for this photo which she says was taken at the Patoka River Fish and Wildlife Refuge north of Oakland City.  

"There were about 25 of these birds on Sunday," she told us. 

The birds will continue northward soon and spend the summer months in the northern U.S. and Canada before heading south again in the fall.

There was a groundbreaking this week for a new library in Haubstadt.

The $567,000 project is expected to be completed early in 2014.

The town council, library board members and others turned out for some ceremonial remarks at the site, which is across from the town hall.

Even though spring is officially underway, Vectren says our April natural gas bill, which reflects March energy consumption, will likely be higher than normal due to March weather that was 32 percent colder than normal and 260 percent colder than March 2012 based on heating degree day data.

“This heating season certainly hung on longer than expected, especially compared to last winter’s very mild temperatures, and as such, furnaces were still running all the way through March,” said Doug Petitt, vice president of marketing and conservation. “While continued lower natural gas costs have made bills more manageable, the April bill will still be higher than expected because the cold weather drove an increase in usage.”