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Linton family likes horsin' around
(Local News ~ 08/17/04)
With a series of clucks, smooches, nudges with their spurs, and other cues, Erin and Shannon Pittman maneuver their trusty steeds around the arena. Any arena. Any chance they get. But not on just any ol' horse. Erin, 13, rides "Barefoot Bit O' Gold," a cream Palomino more affectionately known as Bear to the family "because sometimes he's a bear to work with."...
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Bloomfield comes up short to South
(High School Sports ~ 08/17/04)
TERRE HAUTE ---- It wasn't the opening that first-year coach Lu Anne Anderson had in mind to open the 2004 volleyball season Monday. Take away the fact they had to open with unranked, but highly regarded, Terre Haute South on South's home court. But add in the misfortunes of Anderson's best outside hitter going down during pre-game warm-ups with a twisted knee, and you have the makings of a disastrous evening...
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Pruett takes medalist honors against Evansville Central
(High School Sports ~ 08/17/04)
VINCENNES ---- The Linton-Stockton Miners' golf team is showing improvements as the season progresses. That's really all that head coach Aaron Lynn could ask for. Although there were many individuals representing teams at Vincennes Monday, Linton was one of only two teams to fill a complete scorecard at the Vincennes Elks' front nine...
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Union tops South Vermillion in volleyball
(High School Sports ~ 08/17/04)
DUGGER ---- If waiting all summer for the start of the volleyball season wasn't dramatic enough, the South Vermillion Wildcats prolonged the started of the season with the Union Bulldogs because they had transportation issues Monday evening. What was scheduled as a 6:00 p.m. junior varsity start turned out to be a roughly 6:45 jv opener. Nonetheless, the Lady Wildcats made it to Dugger only to get send back to Clinton on the losing end of a 3-0 match to the Bulldogs...
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Teresa Patricia (Terri) Smith
(Obituary ~ 08/17/04)
Teresa Patricia (Terri) Smith, 57, of Anderson, passed away Sunday at St. John's Hospital in Anderson. She was born in Chicago, Ill., on March 28, 1947. She was a member of New Hope Christian Church. Survivors include: her ex-husband Alfred Smith, Jr. ...
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Donnie O. Payne
(Obituary ~ 08/17/04)
LOUISVILLE, Ill. - Donnie O. Payne, 53, of Louisville, Ill., passed away at 8:26 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 14, 2004 at St. Anthony's Memorial Hospital, Effingham, Ill. Born July 23, 1951 in Effingham, Ill., he was the son of Maurice O. and Arlene (Stipp) Payne...
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Mary Jane Gill
(Obituary ~ 08/17/04)
Mary Jane Gill, 84, of Jonesboro, Ga., and formerly of Linton, passed away Sunday, Aug. 15, 2004 at Roswell Ga. Born Nov. 25, 1919 in Linton, she was the daughter of Jesse and Opal (Gilbert) Flack. She was a homemaker and a member of the Methodist faith...
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Ralph H. Bohmeier
(Obituary ~ 08/17/04)
SULLIVAN ---- Ralph H. Bohmeier, 89, of Sullivan, passed away at 10:50 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 13, 2004 in Sullivan County Community Hospital. Born Aug. 11, 1915 in Bicknell, he was the son of William Bohmeier and Lula Nieoringhaus Bohmeier. He had worked on a dairy farm and served as custodian at Sullivan Schools and Sullivan County courthouse. He was a member of the First Christian Church in Sullivan...
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Terre Haute-based soldiers to mobilize
(Local News ~ 08/17/04)
INDIANAPOLIS ---- Major General R. Martin Umbarger, the National Guard Adjutant General for the State of Indiana, received notification that the 438th Chemical Company, headquartered in Terre Haute is being mobilized for active duty. The notification provides authorization to order the unit to active duty under a Partial Mobilization Authority. ...
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Local group wants to know county's needs
(Local News ~ 08/17/04)
At the 4Community grant meeting Monday evening at People's Trust Company Bank in Linton, the steering committee took another giant step forward toward applying for an Implementation Grant, which could be used toward improving Greene County. The grant given by Lilly Endowment to United Way with a dollar for dollar match amounts to no less than $50,000 or no more than $500,000 a community...
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Crane VFW sponsors local youth's camp experience
(Local News ~ 08/17/04)
The Crane Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9297 is supporting a local youth in a mentoring program ---- called Answer To The Crisis ---- that teaches the responsibility of adulthood. VFW House Committee chair Bobby Just happens to work with Darin Ashley, a program mentor who's taken Ben Stewart, 14, Crane, under his wing...
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Courthouse project still on hold
(Local News ~ 08/17/04)
Representatives from both sides of the Greene County Courthouse project delay dilemma remain cautiously optimistic that some construction work will resume at the site soon. Exactly when that work will resume remains a mystery, according to an official with Weddle Brothers Construction Company and the project manager employed by the county commissioners...
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Linton School Board meets
(Local News ~ 08/17/04)
Now that school is back in session, buses will be out and about. Linton-Stockton Superintendent Ron Bush wants to remind drivers to be careful. "School has started," Bush said at Monday night's Board of School Trustees meeting. "Be very careful around buses."...
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Eastern falls to Barr-Reeve
(High School Sports ~ 08/17/04)
EASTERN HEIGHTS ---- New Eastern Greene volleyball coach Gina Ingram is patiently awaiting her team to grow together with experience of a long season. On Monday, the Thunderbirds entertained Barr-Reeve who, year in and year out, have one of the better volleyball programs in the area. On Monday, they showed why...
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