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Condition of Linton utilities explained
(Local News ~ 09/12/03)
Linton Utilities superintendent Brent Slover presented a 10-year statistical summary to the Linton City Council on Monday, showing that the city-owned water utility lost over $46,000 last year. "Since we've had the water project and the last rate adjustment we had ... ...
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Lady Miners extend winning streak
(High School Sports ~ 09/12/03)
Linton-Stockton golfers has been displaying consistency lately and as a result have a three-match winning streak after getting the best of visiting North Central in a high school girls match at the Phil Harris Golf Course Thursday. The Lady Miners (3-5) fired a 208 while the LadyBirds did not have a full team...
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Eastern girls win T-Bird Invitational
(High School Sports ~ 09/12/03)
Eastern's junior high girls cross country team defended their Eastern Invitational title on Thursday. The Lady T-Birds won with 33 points. Tri-North had 46 points, Jackson Creek 65 and Batchelor 84 The T-Birds also defeated Mitchell 21-34 the previous day...
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Linton frosh win two
(High School Sports ~ 09/12/03)
The Linton-Stockton freshmen volleyball team won two matches at Terre Haute South Wednesday. The Lady Miners (2-1) defeated South 21-18, 22-20 and then disposed of Terre Haute North 20-22, 21-10, 21-9. Against South, Rachel Bredeweg tallied 15 digs, 10 points, two aces and one kill while Jennifer Suthard collected 10 points, five aces, four digs and six assists...
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Linton JH volleyball teams split
(High School Sports ~ 09/12/03)
Sullivan defeated Linton's seventh grade volleyball team 21-13, 25-24 on Thursday, but the eighth grade Miners won 21-18, 17-21, 21-19. Tricia Emmons, Megan Barnes and Savannah Henico each served three points for the Lady Miners. Morgan Sanders, Brittany Rehmel and Taneal Church each had two points...
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Update on area college athletes
(High School Sports ~ 09/12/03)
Several former SWIAC athletes are involved in fall sports on the collegiate level. Most of them are volleyball players, but there are also cross country runners and golfers, as well as baseball and softball players involved with fall schedules. -Amie Humerickhouse is a Bloomfield graduate and a junior on the DePauw University volleyball team. The Lady Tigers are 5-4 and Humerickhouse has played in 20 of her team's 30 games. She has 21 kills, 11 digs and eight blocks...
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Local runners compete at Clay City
(High School Sports ~ 09/12/03)
Eastern, White River Valley and Shakamak competed at the Clay City cross country invitational Thursday. In the girls race, South Putnam needed the fifth runner to edge Owen Valley as both teams finished with 47 points. Clay City was third, Eastern fourth with 99 points, Shakamak had 123 and White River Valley only had three runners, two short of a complete team...
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Lady Lakers rally to beat North Knox
(High School Sports ~ 09/12/03)
After losing four in a row, Shakamak's volleyball team has now won two matches in as many nights, including a 18-21, 19-21, 21-15, 21-9, 18-16 victory at home against North Knox Thursday. "We rallied back the last three games," said SHS coach Jeri Morin. "The girls done really well."...
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Bloomfield tops Vikings in tennis
(High School Sports ~ 09/12/03)
All four coaches who will have teams in the SWIAC tennis tournament this weekend will tell you there's no clear cut favorite. That may be, but Bloomfield, the two-time defending champions, have been playing like favorites of late. The Cardinals (5-3) defeated Barr-Reeve 3-2 on Thursday. The Vikings' three wins this season have come against SWIAC teams White River Valley, Linton and North Daviess...
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Union rallies to beat Rivet
(High School Sports ~ 09/12/03)
Union (Dugger) overcame poor serving to defeat host Vincennes Rivet 14-21, 18-21, 21-10, 21-16, 15-11 Thursday night in a non-conference volleyball match. "It all started by missing 15 out of 87 serves," said Union (Dugger) coach Tammy Meurer. "We were really flat and it was kind of a domino effect...
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WRV, Eastern spikers drop matches
(High School Sports ~ 09/12/03)
White River Valley and Eastern both dropped road volleyball matches on Thursday. West Vigo defeated WRV (5-5) 21-13, 21-19, 21-16, while Eastern (4-7) lost to Brown County 18-21, 21-13, 10-21, 18-21. WRV's loss stemmed from poor serve reception, which didn't allow the Lady Wolverines to run their offense very often...
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Fettig wants another chance to coach
(High School Sports ~ 09/12/03)
Paula Fettig has 100 career victories as a girls varsity basketball coach. The former Bloomfield coach hopes she'll get a chance to add to that number some day. She's only 33 years old and feels like she still has a lot to offer a needy program...
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Mary Margaret Osha
(Obituary ~ 09/12/03)
Mary Margaret Osha 74, of Linton, passed away at 11:07 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003 at her residence in Linton. Born Sept. 22, 1928 in Lyman, Miss., she was the daughter of William and Hazel (Daugherty) James. She worked at various factories as a seamstress...
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Charles (Jack) Lester
(Obituary ~ 09/12/03)
LAS VEGAS, Nev. ---- Charles (Jack) Lester, 71, of Las Vegas, Nev., and formerly of Cedar Springs, Mich., and Bloomfield, passed away Friday, Sept. 5, 2003 in Grand Rapids, Mich. He was a Korean War veteran. Survivors include his children, Charles Alan Lester of Indiana; Mark and Rolen Lester of Richland, Mich., Pam and Doug Meddleton of Cedar Springs, Mich., Cindy of Grand Rapids, Mich., Joe and Maien Lester of Grand Rapids, Mich., Ruth Duffield of Howard City, Mich., and Kathryn and Mark Knapp of Las Vegas, Nev.; 15 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.. ...
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Skate park liability to be center of meeting
(Local News ~ 09/12/03)
A representative of the Indiana Association of Cities and Towns Foundation, Inc., will discuss skate parks and liability laws pertaining to them in Linton next week. Skateboarding proponents have been trying to get a skate park in Linton for about two years, without luck...
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Doane enjoyed tracking hurricanes
(Local News ~ 09/12/03)
Whenever Bloomfield resident Roger Doane hears a news report about an approaching hurricane or tropical storm, his ears perk up and he immediately pays close attention. Call it second nature, to the former U.S. Navy "Hurricane Hunter," who logged more than 1,800 hours in the air between 1957-61. ...
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Worthington drive-in opens again
(Local News ~ 09/12/03)
WORTHINGTON ---- A popular drive-in eatery on State 67 South in Worthington has new owners, carhops and a brand new theme that's a throw back to the 1950s era. "Happy Days" opened Labor Day weekend under the ownership/management of Danny and Lisa (Keys) Racine of Worthington...
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Prisoner dies at Carlisle prison
(Local News ~ 09/12/03)
An inmate at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility at Carlisle has died from injuries suffered in a fire he started in his cell Thursday afternoon. Kevin Mitchell, 21, was pronounced dead early this morning in the St. Joseph Hospital burn unit in Fort Wayne...
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Rotary Club to conduct fourth annual supper, auction
(Local News ~ 09/12/03)
The Bloomfield Rotary Club has finalized plans for its fourth annual Chili Supper/Auction event. The Rotary Club annually awarded several college scholarships and makes a generous donation to the Clothe-A-Child program at Christmas. To raise money for these two local charities, the Rotary Club will stage a Chili Supper/Auction on Sept. 29 at Good Times restaurant, located west of Bloomfield on State Road 54, according to Rotarian Bill Chaney...
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Linton mayor has kind words about O'Bannon
(Local News ~ 09/12/03)
With Indiana Gov. Frank O'Bannon gravely ill but improving after surgery following a massive stroke Monday, friends, family and supporters are praying for his recovery. Linton mayor Jimmie K. Wright, who has known O'Bannon for many years, is among them...
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Hays pleads not guilty
(Local News ~ 09/12/03)
A Kentucky man who often frequented Greene and Daviess counties looking for horses and competed in horse pulling contests plead not guilty in a U.S. District Court in Kentucky on Wednesday on felony drug and other charges. Michael Hays, 43, of Gravel Switch, Ky., is accused with concealing the death of Rusty Marshall, a Danville, Ky., man, as well as being part of a marijuana farming operation, according to the Advocate Messenger of Danville, Ky. He plead not guilty to that charge...
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Harriet Lou Ford
(Obituary ~ 09/12/03)
SULLIVAN ---- Harriet Lou Ford, 84, of Sullivan, passed away at 9:15 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2003 at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. Born June 25, 1919 in Sullivan, she was the daughter of J. Newton and Edna (Scott) Rosenberger. She worked in the Ford Grocery Store and in the office at Mary Sherman Hospital. She was a member of Sullivan Elks 911 Ladies Auxiliary, Psi Iota Xi, Alpha Delphian, and the Sullivan's First Christian Church...
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Benjamin "Billy" Hall
(Obituary ~ 09/12/03)
BLOOMFIELD ---- Benjamin "Billy" Hall, 68 of Bloomfield, passed away at 5:13 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003 at Greene County General Hospital in Linton. Funeral arrangements are pending at Jenkins Funeral Home in Bloomfield.
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Keith Harper
(Obituary ~ 09/12/03)
SOLSBERRY ---- Keith Harper, 67, of Solsberry, passed away at 12:40 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003, at his residence. Born Jan. 10, 1936 in Greene County, he was the son of Charles R. and Geneva (Price) Harper. He was a used truck salesman for Navistar International...
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Bloomfield blows past Arrows
(High School Sports ~ 09/12/03)
Bloomfield collected a cross country sweep at Sullivan on Thursday. Bloomfield's boys won 22-49 and the girls prevailed 25-32. Sullivan's Matt Dupree won the boys race, but Bloomfield placed seven runners in the top 10, led by Nathan O'Neall in second...
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