Lauren Schwentker joined WRTV as a Multimedia Journalist in July of 2024 after spending three years in Springfield, Missouri at the local NBC and ABC affiliate, KY3.
BROWN COUNTY — Brown County commissioners are reversing course after recently changing Juneteenth to Brown County Employee Appreciation Day.A record of the Brown County commissioner's meeting shows that while making the 2025 holiday schedule, one commissioner suggested calling Juneteenth “Old Settlersteenth Day.”Juneteenth or June 19, 1865, marked official freedom for all enslaved African Americans more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
The county says it’s the first in Indiana to do so.“We are going to back up and correct that,” Jerry Pittman, Brown County Commissioner, said. “I have absolutely the greatest respect for people of different races and national origins.”Many Brown County residents expressed their frustrations on social media and gathered at Wednesday’s meeting with strong emotions.They say they are relieved the commissioners reversed course but say it never should’ve happened in the first place.
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