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Bloomfield's Hi-Lift jack invented 100 years ago
(Local News ~ 03/25/05)
Bloomfield Manufacturing Company has been a part of the Greene County business community for 110 years. Today, products produced at the Bloomfield-based company have a worldwide distribution to more than 60 counties. The year 2005 is also a very one special for the family-owned business...
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Fife named new coach at Indiana-Purdue-Fort Wayne
(High School Sports ~ 03/25/05)
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) ---- Former Indiana basketball star Dane Fife was named head coach at Indiana-Purdue-Fort Wayne on Thursday, making him the youngest Division I coach in the nation. Fife, 25, was one of the catalysts on the Hoosiers' Final Four team that lost to Maryland in the 2002 national championship game...
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Greenspan stays quiet on expectations for Davis next season
(High School Sports ~ 03/25/05)
INDIANAPOLIS---- Indiana athletic director Rick Greenspan expects the Hoosiers to win more basketball games. He still won't say how many more wins it will take for Mike Davis to feel safe as the coach. "When you look at the what-if scenarios, what if we win this many, what if we don't win this many, I don't think a lot of athletic directors want to get locked into that," he said Thursday during a conference call. ...
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Franklin pleased with turnout for track program
(High School Sports ~ 03/25/05)
The Linton Lady Miners' track and field team is primed and ready to suit up for the 2005 season. This year's squad boasts a roster of 42 athletes, 18 of which are freshmen. According to head coach Jeff Franklin, this year's team is the largest in recent memory...
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Sectional title is on the mind of Berns, players
(High School Sports ~ 03/25/05)
If there is one item you can count this season it is Linton baseball coach Bart Berns owning a pencil and a sturdy eraser. On Monday that pencil and eraser will get its first use of the 2005 season as the Miners open regular season play against defending sectional champions South Knox...
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Norval M. Harper
(Obituary ~ 03/25/05)
Norval M. Harper, 89, of Bloomington passed away Wednesday, March 23, 2005 at the Bloomington Hospital. He was born on August 1, 1915 in Greene County the son of Noah and Marguerite (Ault) Harper. He was a retired parts manager for Ralph Rogers and Co. and also worked at Crane during World War II...
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Judge meets with local landowners, IDNR about Bolton Road controversy
(Local News ~ 03/25/05)
An administrative law judge for the Natural Resources Commission (NRC) was in Linton March 18 for a pre-hearing meeting related to a proposed Indiana Department of Natural Resources project on Bolton Road. The meeting resulted from an appeal by Kent "Opie" Wall for the commission to halt the project, which will impact his entire road frontage, and ask IDNR to consider another option. ...
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Jasonville Fire Department receives grant
(Local News ~ 03/25/05)
A grant, recently received by the Jasonville Fire Department, has provided upgrades for the department as well as purchased training equipment. In September, the department received a $127,000 grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The department's 10 percent matching funds were $12,700...
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IU lends financial help to save NSWC Crane
(Local News ~ 03/25/05)
Staff Report BLOOMINGTON -- Indiana University officials on Wednesday presented a check for $25,000 to organizers of a community-based effort to protect the Crane Division Naval Surface Warfare Center from being targeted in the next round of military base closures and realignments...
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Courthouse work continues to make progress
(Local News ~ 03/25/05)
The project manager for the Greene County courthouse renovation/addition on Thursday said that work on the courthouse is progressing. In the Greene County Building Corporation meeting, held with two members present and member David West on a conference call from Texas, Jim Corey announced that things are running "pretty smooth."...
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Hoosiers begin spring football practice with new coach
(High School Sports ~ 03/25/05)
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) ---- New Indiana football coach Terry Hoeppner called the start of spring practice a special moment in his college coaching career. Hoeppner has been with the Hoosiers since December, after Gerry DiNardo was fired, but the beginning of spring drills this week marked the first time he was able to see his players in action on the field...
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