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Bomb threat clears bank, businesses
(Local News ~ 09/22/03)
Linton police are checking into phone records as a part of their investigation into a bomb threat at the Linton Banking Center of Bloomfield State Bank. The bank received the bomb threat from a woman caller at 10:45 a.m. on Saturday. "We arrived on the scene and secured the area by evacuating the bank. We sealed off the bank and the two businesses on either side," Linton Police Chief Keith McDonald said...
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Miners top Clinton Prairie, now 5-0
(High School Sports ~ 09/22/03)
The Linton-Stockton football express continues to roll along. The Miners, No. 10 in the latest Class A Associated Press poll, spotted Clinton Prairie a six-point lead before responding with eight touchdowns in a 56-6 romp at Roy Williams Field Friday night...
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Smith comes back to win 10th county open
(High School Sports ~ 09/22/03)
They just keep getting better and sweeter for Randy Smith. The Bloomfield native overcame a three-stroke deficit over the last 18 holes, including making up a stroke on the final two holes to finish with a 36-hole total of 137, giving his his 10th Greene County Open championship at the Phil Harris Golf Course Sunday afternoon...
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Pruett advances to golf regional
(High School Sports ~ 09/22/03)
SULLIVAN ---- Rachael Pruett saved her best for when it counted most. The Linton-Stockton freshman fired an 80, her best score for 18 holes during the regular season, at the Sullivang girls golf sectional Saturday, earning a trip to the Bedford North Lawrence Regional, set for Saturday at Otis Park...
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IU offers Dayhoff track scholarship
(High School Sports ~ 09/22/03)
Less than four months after winning a state track championship in the 400 meters as a junior, White River Valley senior Doug Dayhoff has made a verbal commitment to attend Indiana University on a full-ride scholarship. Dayhoff, who made an unofficial visit to IU a few weeks before the start of school, made an official visit on Saturday. IU made an offer and Dayhoff took it. He will sign in November...
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T-Birds give up field position, game to PC
(High School Sports ~ 09/22/03)
Sports Editor BLOOMINGTON-Field position is not a statistic that shows up in the stat line at the end of a football game, but it was one of the single biggest factors on Friday in Perry Central's 56-12 romp over Eastern at Olcott Field. The eighth-ranked Commodores (4-1) started in Eastern territory the first four times they scored and five of Perry Central's six first half touchdowns came after they started drives on Eastern's side of the 50-yard line...
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Linton freshmen, sophomores team up to win
(High School Sports ~ 09/22/03)
Linton-Stockton displayed a glimpsed of the future when five girls team up for a first-place finish in the Class A Freshmen-Sophomore race at the South Knox cross country invitational Saturday. Jennifer Miller led the youthful Lady Miners as she won the event with a time of 16 minutes, 43 seconds...
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Cards, T-Birds in big meets
(High School Sports ~ 09/22/03)
Abbey Gilliland and Bloomfield's freshmen and sophomore boys enjoyed a good day Saturday at the Bloomington North Invitational cross country meet. Gilliland, a freshman sensation for the Lady Cards, placed second overall in Division 'B', while Bloomfield's freshmen boys were third and the sophomores were second in class races...
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Tennis Cards drop pair
(High School Sports ~ 09/22/03)
One week ago Bloomfield's tennis team conquered the SWIAC. On Saturday, two teams they could face next month in the Loogootee Sectional dispatched the Cards. Bloomfield played in the Loogootee Invitational where the host Lions defeated the Cards 4-1 in the opening round, followed by a 3-2 consolation loss to Paoli...
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Truman Steve Talley
(Obituary ~ 09/22/03)
Truman Steve Talley, 54, of Switz City passed away Sept. 19 at 8:30 a.m. at his residence. He was born July 16, 1949, in Sullivan County, the son of Truman Talley and Helen Robertson Talley. He was a member of the Zorah Shrine and Scottish Rite of Terre Haute; the United Mine Workers of America; and the Dugger Masonic Lodge. He was employed at Numerical Concepts, Inc., in Terre Haute...
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Mary J. London
(Obituary ~ 09/22/03)
COLUMBUS ---- Mary J. London, 71, of Columbus, passed away at 9:05 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19, 2003 at Columbus Regional Hospital. Born March 19, 1932 in Bloomfield, she was the daughter of Harley A. and Anna Vesta Blevins Anderson. She was co-owner of Columbus Nutrition Shop with her husband. She was a former Bartholomew County Welfare case worker and was a former cook for Bartholomew county schools. She was a member of Faith Temple Church and of the Red Hat Society...
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County remembers the late Gov. O'Bannon
(Local News ~ 09/22/03)
Greene County employees along with other residents gathered late Friday morning to pay a simple tribute, pray and say goodbye to a friend, statesman, a dedicated family man and a fellow Hoosier ---- Indiana's 47th governor Frank O'Bannon. The memorial service, staged on the north steps of the courthouse, came at a time when the county offices were closed for a two-hour period, by order of the county commissioners, to allow the employees a chance to view a television broadcast from Indianapolis of the official interfaith service on television for the late governor.. ...
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Wives of soldiers enjoy 'Ladies Night Out'
(Local News ~ 09/22/03)
Day in and day out the families of the soldiers of the Linton National Guard 152nd Infantry try to keep life as normal as possible. Since January, when the soldiers were deployed, many have had to take on the responsibility of being the head of the household...
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Eastern board admits guilt
(Local News ~ 09/22/03)
EASTERN HEIGHTS ---- The Eastern School Board has admitted to an "inadvertent violation of the Indiana Open Door" law as part of an out-of-court settlement proposal in a civil suit brought last December by a former bus driver over alleged bidding improprieties...
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Rural Linton man faces new legal troubles
(Local News ~ 09/22/03)
A rural Linton man faces new legal troubles after he showed up Friday afternoon for a meeting at the Greene County Community Corrections office in Bloomfield and told officers that he had "smoked illegal drugs" earlier in the week. Erik A. Greaves, 27, of rural Linton, faces preliminary charges of possession of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana and reckless possession of paraphernalia...
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Richard "Dick" Ader
(Obituary ~ 09/22/03)
LOOGOOTEE ---- Richard "Dick" Ader, 72, of Loogootee, passed away at 12:30 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 20, 2003, from an auto accident in Lawrence County. Born Feb. 6, 1931 in Lake County, he was the son of George Phillip and Beatrice Valade Ader...
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Loren F. Bays
(Obituary ~ 09/22/03)
Loren F. Bays, 80, of Linton, passed away at 2:06 a.m. Friday, Sept. 19, 2003, at Bloomington Hospital. Born Oct. 11, 1922 in Greene County, he was the son of Harley and Ida (Skinner) Bays. He was a retired farmer and truck driver. He was a member of Odd Fellows Lodge in Bloomfield...
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Robert Charles Cole
(Obituary ~ 09/22/03)
Robert Charles Cole, 72 of Linton, passed away at 9 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 20, 2003 at Sullivan County Community Hospital. He was born in Palestine, Ill., on Oct. 26, 1930, to Major C. Cole and Florence Irene Wenigar Cole. He was a member of the Bethel Community Church in Dugger...
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Mary E. DuBoise
(Obituary ~ 09/22/03)
Mary E. DuBoise, 79, of Linton passed away Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2003 at her residence. Born March 23, 1924, in Sullivan County, she was the daughter of Benjamin and Anna Vetomvas Jewell. She was employed at RCA in Bloomington. She was a World War II veteran and a member of the Eastern Star in Dugger...
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Cougars come back to edge Bulldogs
(High School Sports ~ 09/22/03)
North Daviess scored two times in the fourth quarter as the host Cougars celebrated homecoming with a 27-16 victory over Union (Dugger) in a high school football game Friday night at Thurman H. Brown Field in Elnora. Union, who slipped to 1-4 with its fourth consecutive loss, went ahead midway in the third quarter...
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