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Roy Clark show tickets now on sale
(Local News ~ 04/16/04)
Tickets for the Roy Clark Show, sponsored by the Greene County Foundation, are now on sale at several area locations. Clark, his band and several well-known guest stars will return to Greene County for another evening of music and comedy June 5 at 7 p.m. in the air-conditioned Linton-Stockton High School gym...
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Wolverines riding a two game winning streak
(High School Sports ~ 04/16/04)
SWITZ CITY - For the first time since Eric Lyons became coach of the White River Valley Wolverines, its baseball team has two straight games after the Wolverines' win on Thursday against Clay City, 10-7.. Brandt Zimmerly is now 2-1 on the season after coming in for relief of starter Dustin Abel...
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Boys team 9-0 in track; girls pick up solid win
(High School Sports ~ 04/16/04)
Josh Miller broke his own school record in the 300-hurdles with a time of 41.49, dropping his time below 42 second for the first time. "He's not too far from 40 seconds," said Linton track coach Aaron Lynn. With six first place finishes, the Linton Miners are now 9-0 in meets this season with a convincing win in a four-way meet...
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Cardinals power past Vincennes Rivet
(High School Sports ~ 04/16/04)
BLOOMFIELD - The Bloomfield Cardinals collected 16 hits and stole 11 bases, as the Vincennes Rivet Patriots were not enough for the Cardinals, as Rivet fell 17-7 in a six inning affair. Rivet put one run on the board in the first inning after a single from Alex Halter and an RBI from Jon Halter...
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Back nine at Cloverdale no match for Miners
(High School Sports ~ 04/16/04)
CLOVERDALE - The Linton Miners' golf team competed in the back nine at the Cloverdale course and scored a 161-167 team victory. "I was pretty pleased with the score," said Linton coach Darren Clayton. "Normally we'd like to stay under 160, but considering the circumstances that none of these guys had ever played there before, I was pleased with the score."...
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Two wrecks occur near Dugger
(Local News ~ 04/16/04)
The Sullivan County Sheriff's Department worked two accidents in two days, each involving cars running off the road and becoming airborne. According to Deputy Jim Goodwin of the SCSD, at approximately 1:50 p.m. Wednesday, Kyla King, 23, of rural Vincennes and formerly of Dugger, was driving a 1997 Chevrolet eastbound on County Road 250S approximately one-half mile east of State Road 159...
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Greene County doesn't make air standard
(Local News ~ 04/16/04)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday afternoon named Greene County among 24 Indiana counties that do not meet the new eight-hour, health-based outdoor air quality standard for ground-level ozone. Aside from Greene County, the designated non-attainment counties are: Lake, Porter, Elkhart, St. Joseph, Clark, Floyd, Marion, Boone, Hendricks, Morgan, Johnson, Shelby, Hancock, Madison, Hamilton, Vanderburgh, Warrick, Delaware, Jackson, LaPorte, Allen, Vigo and part of Dearborn...
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Sheriff's department warns of possible scam
(Local News ~ 04/16/04)
The Greene County Sheriff's Department warns of a possible telephone scam that may be perpetrated against local residents. The department has received several reports this week from the eastern part of the county of a female suspect telephoning residents soliciting donations to help support reading to children about strangers and promoting fingerprinting for youngsters, according to GCSD Maj. Terry Pierce...
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Bloomfield library to host several events next week
(Local News ~ 04/16/04)
The Bloomfield-Eastern Greene Public Library will be bustling with plenty of activity all next week in observance of National Library Week. A different activity is planned each day Monday through Saturday, starting with a "Celebrate Hats at the Library Day" on Monday...
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Museum highlights Jasonville's past
(Local News ~ 04/16/04)
JASONVILLE ---- The Heritage Museum in Jasonville is now open Saturdays. Jasonville's old jail and city hall has been converted into the museum. Visitors walking into the old city building will immediately enter the early 20th century jail. As they enter one of the cells they can experience what it may have been like nearly 100 years ago. The Greene County Ambulance also shares the building, and the bay in which they park is where the horse-drawn fire wagons were once housed...
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Wright Township VFD to have open house
(Local News ~ 04/16/04)
MIDLAND ---- It has been 25 years ago since the residents of Wright Township decided they wanted their own fire department. On Saturday the Wright Township Volunteer Fire Department will celebrate that anniversary with an open house and program. Kallie Rehmel, spokesperson for the department, stated the department was started Jan. 1, 1979...
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Eastern to get state-of-the-art bus
(Local News ~ 04/16/04)
A simple conversation with a school bus manufacturer sales representative at a convention earlier this year will soon result in Eastern Greene School District receiving use of a state-of-the-art pre-production model at no cost. Eastern superintendent Randy Barrett estimated the new 2005 model International Harvester 78-passenger school bus is worth about $70,000...
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Linton spraying for mosquitoes again
(Local News ~ 04/16/04)
The city of Linton has begun spraying for mosquitoes, and is asking residents to help eradicate the pests ---- which can carry many diseases ---- by taking preventative measures, mainly by eliminating standing water where mosquitoes breed and lay eggs...
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WRV wins at Barr-Reeve
(High School Sports ~ 04/16/04)
MONTGOMERY - It came down to the last match of the night, but the White River Valley Wolverines defeated the Barr-Reeve Vikings, 3-2, in tennis on Thursday. The decisive match came in the No. 3 singles where WRV's Erica Capehart outlasted the Vikings' Haylee Miller, 7-5, 7-6 (7-4)...
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