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Greene Countian receives unwanted 'special delivery'
(Local News ~ 04/13/05)
It's usually fun to get a surprise in the mail, but Brock Ellis got a little more than he bargained for when he checked the mail Saturday. Ellis said he noticed a large snake curled up in the leaves near the mailbox. When he got within about 2 feet, he said, the snake's tail went up and began to rattle...
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Seniors claim four of five spots on all-area team
(High School Sports ~ 04/13/05)
Fans of basketball will remember the 2004-05 season for tremendous team accomplishments with both Eastern Greene and Bloomfield winning sectional titles and White River Valley claiming its second straight Greene County Invitational tournament win. What will also stand out about the season will be superb individual accomplishments led by the five selected to the Linton Daily Citizen/The Evening World's All-Area Boys Basketball team...
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Earl "Pete" Terhune
(Obituary ~ 04/13/05)
UNION CITY ---- Earl "Pete" Terhune, 80, of Union City, Ind., passed away Thursday, March 24, 2005 at Center of Hope in Union City, Ohio. Born June 22, 1924 in Dugger, he was the son of Ollie and Flora (Borders) Terhune. He was an Army veteran of World War II and a funeral director for over 40 years in the Union City area and owned Fraze & Timmons Funeral Home. ...
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Joan E. Pigg
(Obituary ~ 04/13/05)
Joan E. Pigg, 85, of Sullivan, passed away at 11:50 p.m. Monday, April 11, 2005 at Sullivan County Community Hospital. Born Nov. 7, 1919 in Sullivan County, she was the daughter of Herman and Eunice (Storey) Lovelace. She had been married to Gilbert C. Pigg, who passed away in 1980...
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Frederick Lowell Haywood
(Obituary ~ 04/13/05)
BRADENTON, Fla. ---- Frederick Lowell Haywood, 75, of 2019 Hopkins Dr. W, Bradenton, Fla., passed away April 4, 2005. Born Dec. 21, 1929 in Bloomfield, he was the son of Paul and Opal (Mullis) Haywood. He moved to Bradenton in 1973. He retired as an accountant. He was a member of Christ United Methodist Church of Bradenton. He was a Korean War veteran and a member of the Sahib Shriners and Scottish Rite of Tampa. He was also a member of the Manatee Classic Cruisers and VFW of Bradenton...
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Elouise Geene
(Obituary ~ 04/13/05)
Elouise Geene, 63, of Crane, passed away at 12:15 p.m. Monday, April 11, 2005 at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. Born July 20, 1941 in Bloomfield, she was the daughter of Lanis and Margret (Martin) Sipes. She was an assembly line worker for RCA and had also worked for GE. She was a member of the Linton Assembly of God...
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Wilburina (Close) Dennis
(Obituary ~ 04/13/05)
Wilburina (Close) Dennis, 62, of Jasonville, passed away at 4:11 p.m. Monday, April 11, 2005 at Regional Hospital in Terre Haute. Born Aug. 28, 1942 in Sullivan, she was the daughter of John Wilbur and Eleanore Thomas Close. On Feb. 15, 1964, she married Frank Dennis in Cicero, Ill. He passed away June 19, 2002...
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Worthington loses grant administrator
(Local News ~ 04/13/05)
The Worthington Town Council learned Tuesday night in their regular session that Southern Indiana Development Commission was not approved as the administrator of the town's Indiana Housing Finance Authority grant. Jo Arthur of SIDC explained that IHFA guidelines were tough to meet...
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Axe looking for voulnteers to help with disasters
(Local News ~ 04/13/05)
Greene County Emergency Management Agency Director Roger Axe needs the help of volunteers from all parts of the county and he's looking for a few good people to play a very vital role in the event the area is struck by some kind of natural disaster...
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Shakamak Area Chamber of Commerce meets
(Local News ~ 04/13/05)
JASONVILLE ---- About 20 members of the Shakamak Area Chamber of Commerce gathered at Southwestern EMS on Tuesday evening for their monthly meeting. Chamber of Commerce President Brad Duncan wants to have meetings at different businesses in Jasonville. This gives chamber members a chance to see the business and gives business owners a chance to be involved with the chamber...
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Students get a taste of reality
(Local News ~ 04/13/05)
Hundreds of students from throughout the county traveled to the 4-H Fairgrounds on Tuesday and received valuable life lessons at the Reality Store. Three bus loads of students from Eastern Greene filled the Greene County Cooperative Extension Community Room before lunch. Two of those students were Brittnee James and Ryan Wilcoxen, both freshmen...
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Northeast School Corporation school board meets
(Local News ~ 04/13/05)
Due to an increased number of free and reduced lunches at Hymera Elementary and Shelburn Elementary, a summer foods program will be offered at Shelburn this summer. "The percentage of free and reduced lunches has risen drastically," Northeast School Corporation Superintendent Rick Walters said...
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No electricity forces school to close today at Bloomfield
(Local News ~ 04/13/05)
Students, teachers and staff in the Bloomfield School District got an unexpected day away from the classroom today. There was no electrical power at the school this morning, the result of heavy thunderstorms that rolled through the Greene County area on Tuesday night, according to superintendent Ron Hasler...
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Eastern Greene school board meets
(Local News ~ 04/13/05)
EASTERN HEIGHTS ---- Eastern Greene School District is moving ahead with its plans to construct an athletic field complex. On Tuesday night, the board of school trustees voted to advertise for bids for the physical education complex to be located on land the school owns on Old Sylvania Road, just off SR. 54 ---- about a mile from the current school campus...
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Tickets on sale for 'An Evening with Roy Clark'
(Local News ~ 04/13/05)
Tickets for the Evening with Roy Clark and Friends show ---- presented by the Greene County Foundation ---- are now on sale. The show is slated for 7 p.m. on June 4 in the air-conditioned Linton-Stockton High School gymnasium. Tickets are $20 each for floor seats, $10 for reserve bleacher seats (rows 2-6) and $8 for general admission bleacher seats...
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Game suspended due to lightning
(High School Sports ~ 04/13/05)
BLOOMFIELD ---- It was amazing Linton and Bloomfield managed to get four complete innings into the books before the lightning and downpour of rain began to fall, but that's exactly what they managed to do. It was an early season battle of two county team jockeying for position in the SouthWestern Indiana Athletic Conference...
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