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Mildred Leone Strauser
(Local News ~ 05/06/03)
BLOOMINGTON ---- Mildred Leone Strauser, 93, of Bloomington and formerly of Bloomfield passed away at 11:31 a.m., Sunday, May 4, 2003 at Bloomington Hospital. Born Jan. 18, 1910 in Bloomfield, she was the daughter of Charles Everett and Elizabeth (Livingston) Stringfellow...
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Lakers fall on road
(Local News ~ 05/06/03)
Vincennes Lincoln, rated No. 8 in Class 3A, improved to 12-2 after a 7-0 victory over visiting Shakamak Monday. Cleve Upton had a grand slam home run for the Alices. Josh Morrison earned the win for Lincoln, pitching the first six innings. Shakamak (10-5) only managed two hits. Josh McDaniel and Jeremy Stevenson both had infield singles for the Lakers, who will play a JV-varsity doubleheader today at Sullivan...
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Union golfers third
(Local News ~ 05/06/03)
Union (Dugger) finished third out of three teams in a high school boys golf match Monday at the Turkey Run Golf Course. The host Warriors won with a 166, North Central shot 186 and the Bulldogs had a 242. Phil Woods and Adam Overpeck of Turkey Run both shot 41, tying for medalist honors...
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Mallory Sparks helped turn around Linton volleyball program
(Local News ~ 05/06/03)
It would be easy to say the turning point of the Linton-Stockton volleyball program came this season, when the Lady Miners won 23 games, setting a school record for victories and advanced to the finals of the Class 2A sectional before falling to Evansville Mater Dei...
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Linton wins invitational, Berns his 200th game
(Local News ~ 05/06/03)
Linton-Stockton put together one of its best performances of the season as the host Miners knocked off Class A No. 8 Orleans 5-2 in the championship game of its own invitational Saturday. After defeating White River Valley 7-6 in the opening game, the Miners (13-6) scored five runs in its first three at bats. After Orleans scored two in the first, senior David Allen tossed a shutout over the final six innings...
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Lakers win softball game against Union
(Local News ~ 05/06/03)
DUGGER - It was like watching the Shakamak softball teams of the past. The Lady Lakers played errorless softball, took advantage of two errors to score two runs without hitting the ball out of the infield and rode-the gutsy two-hit pitching of Nicole Fougerousse to come away with a 3-1 victory here on a chilly Friday evening...
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Lakers take Union
(Local News ~ 05/06/03)
Shakamak remained undefeated in their quest to repeat as Tri-River and South Western Indiana Athletic Conference baseball champions with an 11-1 victory over visiting Union (Dugger) Friday night. The five-inning win, the 10th in 14 games overall, was the fourth straight in TRC play while the Lakers improved to 3-0 in the SWIAC...
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Etta I. Goodman
(Local News ~ 05/06/03)
Etta I. Goodman, 87, of Linton, passed away at 2:35 a.m., today, May 5, 2003 at Walnut Creek at Linton. Born Oct. 24, 1915 in Carlisle, she was the daughter of Fredrick A. and Lydia Ann (Stifle) Gaines. She retired from General Electric in Linton after 24 years of work, and she was a member of White Rose Pentecostal Church of Linton...
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Terry Ray Sluder
(Local News ~ 05/06/03)
DUGGER ---- Terry Ray Sluder, 43, of Dugger passed away at 9:18 a.m., Saturday, May 3, 2003 at Sullivan County Community Hospital. Born March 16, 1960 in Sullivan County, he was the son of Otis and Alice Mae (Walters) Sluder. He was retired from Amax Coal Mine in Keensburg, Ill., and was the Cass Township Trustee. He was a member of Dugger Masonic Lodge 721; the Scottish Rite in Terre Haute; and the Sullivan, Greene County, and Terre Haute Shrine Clubs...
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Mary Louise Hays
(Local News ~ 05/06/03)
WORTHINGTON ---- Mary Louise Hays, 97, of Worthington, passed away Saturday, May 3, 2003 at her residence. Born Sept. 9, 1905 in Jackson, Tenn, she was the daughter of Joe and Pearl (Hall) Bond. She was a homemaker and formerly worked at Worthington State Bank. She was a member of the Folsom Memorial United Methodist Church; Tri Kappa Sorority in Worthington; and the 20th Century Club of Worthington...
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Katie Ann (Heaton) Beard
(Local News ~ 05/06/03)
BLOOMFIELD ---- Katie Ann (Heaton) Beard, 63, of Bloomfield, passed away at 4:15 a.m. today, May 6, 2003 at her residence. Funeral service is pending at Jenkins Funeral Home in Bloomfield.
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Otis D. Goines, Jr.
(Local News ~ 05/06/03)
JASONVILLE ---- Otis D. Goines, Jr. 74, of Jasonville, passed away at 4:54 a.m., today, May 5, 2003 at Greene County General Hospital in Linton. Born Jan. 7, 1929 in Jasonville, he was the son of Otis D. and Edna Viola (McDonald) Goines. He was a retired carpenter. He was a veteran who served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He was a member of Paradise Valley Church in Phoenix, Ariz...
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Bryonnah Nicole Head
(Local News ~ 05/06/03)
Bryonnah Nicole Head, 7 months, of Carbon, passed away unexpectedly, Saturday, May 3, 2003. Born Oct. 2, 2002, in Bloomington, she was the daughter of Melissa Head and Robert McClelland. Survivors include her parents, Melissa Head and Robert McClelland of Carbon; sister, Joni McClelland; grandparents, Rhonda Edwards, Gerald and Mary Head of Coalmont, Connie and Robert McClelland; one aunt, Alicia Bault and husband Paul; a nephew, Antonio Bault and other extended family...
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Pearl L. Reynolds
(Local News ~ 05/06/03)
OWENSBURG ---- Pearl L. Reynolds, 79, of Owensburg, passed away at 11:40 p.m. Sunday, May 4, 2003, at Dunn Memorial Hospital in Bedford. Born Nov. 1, 1923, in Columbus, she was the daughter of Diehl and Georgia Richardson. She was a homemaker and worked at Indiana Limestone during the war effort; she was secertary to the supervisor and hiring agent; she worked at the Citizens Bank of Bedford, Stone City Bank, Bloomington National Bank from where she retired as a bookkeeper and teller. ...
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Linton boys, girls win county track titles
(Local News ~ 05/06/03)
It was not a surprise that the Linton-Stockton girls track and field squad won its fifth consecutive Greene County Invitational Thursday night, but it was a pleasant surprise for Linton-Stockton boys coach Aaron Lynn that his Miners avenged two regular-season losses to Eastern, beating the Thunderbirds by six points (162-156). White River Valley was third with 87 points, Bloomfield had 54 point sand Shakamak was fifth with 13 points...
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Switz City Town Council meets
(Local News ~ 05/06/03)
SWITZ CITY ---- With the absence of president Don Blanton, there were few items on the agenda at the Switz City Town Council meeting Monday evening. Council member Doneva Fines and clerk-treasurer Carla Porter reported that many people had complained to them about the water rate increase. Porter noted that some residents were under the impression that sewage rates would also increase...
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Company donates greeting cards for cause
(Local News ~ 05/06/03)
The "Until They Come Home" project, which collects new greeting cards for military service personnel now serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom, got a big boost late last week when a Bloomington-based card manufacturer/distributor donated more than 4,000 greeting cards to the effort...
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Standoff ends with no one getting hurt
(Local News ~ 05/06/03)
JASONVILLE ---- Alcohol, a gun and a family fight proved to be a dangerous combination Saturday night and Sunday morning in Jasonville. Terry Handley, 41, has bonded out of Greene County Jail this morning after he was charged with criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon. However, police are expecting more charges to be filed against him...
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Meeting set about anthrax, SARS
(Local News ~ 05/06/03)
Greene County Emergency Management will sponsor classes on infectious disease, Anthrax and SARS this Thursday and Friday, May 8 and 9, beginning at 6 p.m. both evenings, at the White River Valley High School in Switz City. School personnel also have a chance to take the classes if they notify the the GCEMA by Tuesday...
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Linton Fire Department to host fish fry
(Local News ~ 05/06/03)
Want to have a good meal, try your luck at winning a rifle, and help your fire department out all at the same time? You can do all that at the annual fish fry sponsored by the Linton Fire Department. The dinner, which is an annual fundraiser for the fire department, will be May 9 at the Roy Clark Community Building in Linton's Humphreys Park. It starts at 4 p.m...
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Wright, Jones talk about why they should be mayor
(Local News ~ 05/06/03)
Five-term Linton mayor Jimmie K. Wright is being challenged by newcomer Tom Jones in Tuesday's primary election. Both are Democrats. No Republican candidate has yet filed. Wright has been mayor of Linton since 1984, and Jones is a Linton businessman and former coal miner...
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Relay for Life pre-events raise $3,000
(Local News ~ 05/06/03)
Greene County Relay for Life pre-event activities got into full swing this past weekend with a celebrity grocery sacking event, a ribeye steak cookout, a bake sale and a traffic stop collection point. Preliminary donation totals show at least $3,000 was raised...
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Greene County trustees gather
(Local News ~ 05/06/03)
The Greene County Trustees Association voted Friday night to allow one of its member trustees to withdraw from a four-year contract to employ a clerical administrator at the end of 2003. Taylor Township Trustee Lori Brown, who first took office in January, appealed to the trustee's group in a special called meeting at the Greene County Courthouse, to allow her to pull out of the contract, arranged by her predecessor Alan Toon, so she could better spend her money to purchase a computer program and do her clerical work herself.. ...
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Sylvania church breaks ground
(Local News ~ 05/06/03)
SYLVANIA ---- With sights set on better serving current and future generations, a small rural eastern Greene County church broke ground Sunday morning on a new sanctuary, classrooms and fellowship hall. Sylvania Community Wesleyan Church had its humble beginnings 149 years ago in 1854...
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Fire damages Linton woman's home
(Local News ~ 05/06/03)
The State Fire Marshal's office will be in Linton today to investigate a Friday-night fire that damaged a home and garage on Linton's southwest side. Linton Fire Department assistant chief Lonnie Eberhardt said the single-story frame home belonged to Evelyn Harris at 890 SW 2nd St. He said the LFD was called to the scene at 5:30 p.m...
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Courthouse project under way again
(Local News ~ 05/06/03)
BLOOMFIELD ---- Todd Taylor, an engineer with United Consulting Engineers and Architects of Indianapolis which is overseeing a $10.5 million courthouse renovation project, told Greene County Commissioners on Monday that work is under way that hopefully will get the stalled renovation project back on track...
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Courthouse towers come under fire
(Local News ~ 05/06/03)
BLOOMFIELD ---- Greene County Commissioners Tom Britton, Bart Beard and Warren Bartlett agree on many things, but not on how to proceed with one phase of the $10.5 million courthouse renovation project ---- the proposed decorative towers. In the original renovation plans, the towers were to be built on each corner of the north roof of the courthouse, at a cost of about $750,000. ...
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Voter turnout good in Linton
(Local News ~ 05/06/03)
"Turn out is exceptionally well for this small of an election," said John Fowler, who was working at the Stockton 5 voting site this morning. In the first two hours of voting this morning, 53 people had taken advantage of their right to vote...
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Hostettler talks about Crane
(Local News ~ 05/06/03)
Eighth District Congressman John Hostettler (R-Ind.) says a proposal to resume a permanent bomb production line at nearby Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, could enhance the facility's worth to the U.S. military and possibly help avert its shutdown as Congress considers the next round of Base Realignment and Closure in 2005...
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Dugger Town Council meets
(Local News ~ 05/06/03)
DUGGER ---- Monday night the Dugger Town Council announced the opening of the bids for the construction of the individual family houses through the Dugger Improvement Inc. project. "We will have a pre-bid meeting for contractors May 14, 2003, here at the town hall at 11 a.m. The bidding will be opened May 19, 2003," explained council member Bill Pirtle...
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James Herbert McElroy
(Local News ~ 05/06/03)
BLOOMINGTON ---- James Herbert McElroy, 85, of Bloomington, passed away at 9:05 a.m., Monday, May 5, 2003 at Bloomington Hospital. Born Oct. 1, 1917 in Daviess County, he was the son of Edward and Laura (Lester) McElroy. He was a dairy farmer in Greene County and worked at Westinghouse in Bloomington. He was a member of Saint Paul United Methodist Church in Bloomington...
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