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Traveling artist calls Lyons home
(Local News ~ 02/07/05)
Lyons resident Bart Combs is a bit of a celebrity. Better known as Bart the Artist, the 53 year old has made his living creating works of art and music "forever." "Art and music is all I've ever done. I couldn't keep a real job," Combs said...
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Union girls finish on winning streak
(High School Sports ~ 02/07/05)
The Union Lady Bulldogs are starting to hit a hot streak as of late and over the weekend was no exception. On Friday, Union faced Sullivan County rivals North Central and came away with a 60-55 victory to finish the Tri-River Conference at 3-2. With the loss the Thunderbirds slipped to 2-3 on the campaign...
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Clay City tops Lakers in TRC game
(High School Sports ~ 02/07/05)
Craig Koch, Sports Writer JASONVILLE ---- The Shakamak Lakers are searching for an identity, and that search encountered another setback as the Lakers dropped a hard-fought, close game to the Clay City Eels, 51-48. "Right now, we're going through a different phase," said Laker head coach Ernie Maesch. ...
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Eastern Greene tops WRV
(High School Sports ~ 02/07/05)
SWITZ CITY ---- The Eastern Greene Thunderbirds have recently become accustomed to the revenge aspect of boys high school basketball. When the Linton Miners defeated the T-Birds in the Greene County tourney, Eastern Greene returned the favor a few weeks later by knocking off the Miners...
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Eastern Greene remains hot with win over South Knox
(High School Sports ~ 02/07/05)
EASTERN HEIGHTS ---- Coming off the emotional win against White River Valley the night before, the Eastern Greene Thunderbirds found themselves in trouble for the better part of three quarters, but still managed to hang on for a 53-48 win against the South Knox Spartans, a potential sectional opponent...
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Vandeventer looking forward to some practice time
(High School Sports ~ 02/07/05)
SPENCER ---- After a tough weekend, White River Valley's boys basketball team has more than a week to get things back in shape before its next game. "We've got a week to have a good week of practice," said WRV Coach Sean Vandeventer after his team's disappointing 77-46 setback at Owen Valley on Saturday night. "I'm not going to say anything negative about my kids. We're not going to quit and we're not going to get down...
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Miners get offensive in win over Eels
(High School Sports ~ 02/07/05)
EMINENCE ---- There was an explosion in the Eminence High School gym Friday night, and luckily no one was hurt. The explosion was the Linton-Stockton High School basketball team's offense coming to life. The Miners defeated the Eels 81-57 in a Tri-River Conference game that was never really close after the first couple of minutes...
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Robert Charles Sullivan
(Obituary ~ 02/07/05)
Robert Charles Sullivan, 79, of Elnora, passed away at 5:13 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 3, 2005 at Ketchum Memorial in Odon. Born Sept. 6, 1925 in Greene County, he was the son of Charles Edward and Ruby (Minks) Sullivan. On July 27, 1948, he married Delores (Watkins) Sullivan...
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Anchor Enochs McKee
(Obituary ~ 02/07/05)
Anchor Enochs McKee, 88, of Stone Mountain, Ga., and formerly of Sullivan, passed away at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 3, 2005 at Southern Assisted Living Center in Stone Mountain, Ga. Born Dec. 14, 1916 in Sullivan County, she was the daughter of Ruch and Gertie (Carrico) Enochs...
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Fred Alsman
(Obituary ~ 02/07/05)
Fred Alsman, 72, of Dugger, passed away Sunday, Feb. 6, 2005 at Greene County General Hospital Arrangements are pending at Newkirk's Funeral Home in Dugger.
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Burn victim identified as Evansville man
(Local News ~ 02/07/05)
On Friday morning, the Lewis Township Fire Department responded to a call of a burn-injured person at 6265 West State Road 48, which is the residence of the Shakamak State Park's assistant manager. "On the arrival of the rescue unit, we found a camper that had walked to the residence with burns on his head, back and arms," Bryan Husband, of the LTFD, said...
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Howesville Ditch to be discussed Tuesday
(Local News ~ 02/07/05)
Greene County Surveyor Ira "Butch" Wright, who took office Jan. 1, is expecting a large crowd of residents who live along the Howesville Ditch at Tuesday morning's meeting of the Joint Drainage Board of Greene, Clay and Owen counties. Wright is also anticipating that the contingent will not be very happy when they learn they won't be getting back any money that has been collected for ditch improvements that have never been done...
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County clergy honored
(Local News ~ 02/07/05)
More than 75 guests attended the annual Clergy Banquet on Friday night at the Linton Assembly of God Church. The men and women of Linton's Civitan Clubs jointly sponsored the event in recognition of Civitan International's declaration of Clergymen's Week, celebrated each year during the first week of February...
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County eyeing a new firm for courthouse project
(Local News ~ 02/07/05)
Contract talks broke down late Thursday evening between Greene County officials and an Indianapolis-based architecture/engineering firm on the courthouse renovation/addition project. Faced with a threat that the general contractor was going to pull off of the Greene County Courthouse project unless a structural engineer could answer a pressing construction question, the Greene County Commissioners convened in emergency special session Friday morning...
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Bloomfield, WRV to play for JH SWIAC title
(High School Sports ~ 02/07/05)
The Bloomfield Cardinals and the White River Valley Wolverines will compete for the girls junior high SouthWestern Indiana Athletic Conference title tonight. The game will begin at 6:30 p.m. and will be hosted by Eastern Greene. First and second round game were played on Saturday morning and afternoon. Eastern Greene also hosted Saturday's contests in the high school and elementary gymnasium...
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