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Dealing with the meth problem
(Local News ~ 04/17/03)
SWITZ CITY ---- Indiana State Police trooper Mark Parker says he and his colleagues serving on a special four-man Meth Task Force are not winning the war against methamphetamine in a five-county region area, including Greene. The number of arrests and meth lab busts are steadily increasing at an alarming rate...
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Jill Suzanne Brown
(Local News ~ 04/17/03)
BLOOMINGTON ---- Jill Suzanne (Frumpe) Brown, 58, of Bloomington, passed away Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at her residence. Born Jan. 5, 1945, in Terre Haute, she was the daughter of Miles and Flora (Acklemeier) Frumpe. She was a self-employed insurance salesperson, and also worked with Prudential Insurance Co. and Ragsdale Financial Services in Bloomington...
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Janice Sue Tedrow
(Local News ~ 04/17/03)
PAOLI ---- Janice Sue Tedrow, 59, of Paoli, passed away at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at the Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis. Born Feb. 5, 1944, in Linton, she was the daughter of Millard Lee and Virginia D. (Baize) Allen. She was a homemaker and a member of Psi Iota Xi Sorority in Paoli...
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Eastern basketball player to continue career
(Local News ~ 04/17/03)
EASTERN HEIGHTS-Ashley Cooksey entered high school four years ago as a little red-headed spitfire of a basketball player. She's leaving high school with a college basketball scholarship in tow, still every bit the spitfire on the court that she was when she started...
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Northview handles Linton's tennis team
(Local News ~ 04/17/03)
Linton-Stockton's girls tennis coach Brad McKinney continues to be perplexed. Facing a Northview team that did not play its complete varsity lineup, the Lady Miners dropped a 4-1 decision to the host Lady Knights Wednesday night. "Considering they were playing a lot of JV kids and did not play their normal varsity kids against us, I am extremely disappointed," said McKinney, whose Lady Miners dropped to 0-6...
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Pacers have been up and down this season
(Local News ~ 04/17/03)
Unlike the last couple of years, when the Indiana Pacers had to go to the 82nd and final game of the regular season to qualify for the playoffs, the Pacers knew they would be in the NBA postseason but did not know what position or who would be their first-round opponent...
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Shakamak comes up short against Northview
(Local News ~ 04/17/03)
Shakamak allowed two earned runs in the third inning, which proved costly in a 4-2 loss at Northview Wednesday night. "The third inning just killed us," said Shakamak baseball coach Chip Sweet, whose Lakers slipped to 3-3. "We just flat gave them two unearned runs...
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Lady Bulldogs still undefeated
(Local News ~ 04/17/03)
Union (Dugger) scored five runs in the first two innings and never looked back as the Lady Bulldog softball team remained undefeated after a 9-1 victory at Eminence Wednesday night. UHS pounded out 12 hits as they won for the fourth time in as many games. The Lady Bulldogs are 2-0 in the Tri-River Conference...
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T-Birds snap Miners' winning streak
(Local News ~ 04/17/03)
FARMERSBURG ---- Unfortunately for Linton-Stockton, North Central got a wake-up call with a 20-10 loss to Clay City on Tuesday night. The host Thunderbirds plated two runs in the bottom of the fifth inning and rode the five-hit pitching of Dustin Russell as they held off the Miners for a 3-2 Tri-River Conference victory here Wednesday...
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Man admits his guilt in child-molesting cases
(Local News ~ 04/17/03)
A Newberry man has plead guilty to three counts of child molesting involving children between the ages of 9 and 10. John F. Dillard, 38, was charged after three girls told investigators that he had touched them in an inappropriate manner. On Friday, Greene Superior Court Judge David Holt accepted a negotiated plea agreement in the case...
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Teenager takes about his meth addiction
(Local News ~ 04/17/03)
SWITZ CITY ---- Ian, at age 17, is a recovering methamphetamine addict. To his credit, he's been "clean" for more than 16 months, since November 2001. He came from a "normal," loving, Christian home with parents who cared for him, as well as an older brother and sister. The family went to church every Sunday. He was taught right from wrong...
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Commissioners considering moving courtroom
(Local News ~ 04/17/03)
BLOOMFIELD ---- Greene County Commissioners are considering moving the Greene Superior courtroom from the third floor of the courthouse to a room in a lower level. "We're talking about moving it from the third floor so we don't have to run a (temporary emergency exit) stairway to the top," said commissioners president Tom Britton on Tuesday. "Or we're going to move it into another building."...
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Linton school, teachers come to tentative agreement
(Local News ~ 04/17/03)
A tentative agreement has been reached between the Linton Stockton Teachers Association and the Linton-Stockton School Corporation. Linton teachers have been working without a contract for nearly two years. The tentative contract covers last school year and this one, and affects 120 teachers...
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Danny Prewitt
(Local News ~ 04/17/03)
LYONS ---- Danny Prewitt, 56, of Lyons, passed away at 9:55 p.m. Tuesday, April 15, 2003 at Greene County General Hospital. Born Aug. 13, 1946, in Lawrence County, he was the son of George and Zella Prewitt. Survivors include his wife, Debbie (Johnson) Prewitt of Lyons; two sons, Michael and wife, Theresa Prewitt of Spencer and Sean Prewitt of Needmore; two daughters, Staci Prewitt of Paoli and Kim and her husband, Randy Johnson; one step-daughter, Jennifer and her husband, Bill McKinney; two sisters, L. ...
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