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Model with Bloomfield ties doing well
(Local News ~ 06/04/03)
Excited relatives back home in Indiana watched the 38th annual Academy of Country Music Awards show on television with pride and jubilation a couple weeks ago with good reason. Amber Heard, the 17-year-old niece of rural Bloomfield resident Amber Roberson, was a featured performer on a new music video by country music duo Brooks and Dunn that aired on the live program from Las Vegas...
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Last day of school at Eastern eventful
(Local News ~ 06/04/03)
EASTERN HEIGHTS ---- The final regular day of school Tuesday at Eastern Junior-Senior High was anything but business as usual. Three seventh-grade girls were treated in the emergency room at Bloomington Hospital for what was believed to be a prescription drug overdose following a morning incident in which the trio of students became sick about an hour after classes started, according to superintendent Randy Barrett...
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Community Learn Center helps Linton mother
(Local News ~ 06/04/03)
SWITZ CITY ---- A busy mother of five, who recently graduated from Vincennes University, says furthering her education would not have been possible without the Community Learning Center of Greene County. Formerly known as the Greene County Area Learning Center, the facility provided Debbie Flynn of Linton the opportunity to shuffle her schedule to accommodate her family responsibilities along with helping her to meet the academic requirements for the diploma she earned from VU earlier this month.. ...
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Lehman picks Faulk over McClure
(Local News ~ 06/04/03)
The slate is finally set for the Linton City Council District 4 race in the General Election ---- more than a month after the Primary Election ballots were counted. Three-term Linton City Council candidates Robert "Bob" McClure and Michael Faulk tied in the May 6 Primary on the Democrat Party ticket ---- each gathering 171 votes...
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Commissioners up Cumulative Capital Fund fee
(Local News ~ 06/04/03)
BLOOMFIELD ---- Greene County Commissioners on Tuesday voted 3-0 to raise the county's Cumulative Capital Fund fee from five cents to seven and one-half cents. The raise will go into effect Aug. 1 and be included on county taxpayers' property taxes next year...
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Vicksburg man heading south to help build homes
(Local News ~ 06/04/03)
A Vicksburg man will leave Thursday for a six-day working trip to Georgia where he hopes to roll up his sleeves and help construct Habitat for Humanity houses along side former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Chuck Franklin, a member of the Greene County Chapter of Habitat for Humanity, will travel to LaGrange, Ga., to participate in the 2003 Jimmy Carter Work Project that will also have work sites in Anniston, Ala., and Valdosta, Ga...
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Commissioners get update on courthouse
(Local News ~ 06/04/03)
BLOOMFIELD ---- Greene County Commissioners on Tuesday heard the latest report from Todd Taylor, project engineer for United Consulting Engineers, on the work ---- or lack of it ---- being done at the courthouse. Work on a $10.5 million courthouse renovation project has been intermittent since problems surfaced with the building in January. ...
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Dugger Town Council meets
(Local News ~ 06/04/03)
DUGGER ---- Dugger Town Marshal David Heaton is preparing for the opening of Redbird on Saturday. The Redbird State Riding Area, just north of Dugger, will be Indiana's first state-regulated, off-road riding facility. Hundreds of off-roading enthusiasts and their families are expected to attend the grand opening. The facility will then be open on weekends only, for riding...
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Dayhoff No. 1 seed at state meet
(Local News ~ 06/04/03)
SWITZ CITY-Doug Dayhoff earned more than a regional championship last Thursday at Bloomington North. The White River Valley junior got what he was after, the top seed in the 400 meter dash at the state meet in Indianapolis on Friday. Dayhoff, who finished third last year at IUPUI's Michael Carroll Track and Field Stadium and will be making his third straight appearance at the state meet, will run out of lane number one...
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