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Shawnee provides actor with chance to improve
(Local News ~ 07/21/06)
If you want laughs along with mystery then be sure to hit this week's show at Shawnee Theatre. "If It's Monday, This Must Be Murder" is a murder, mystery comedy that will keep you guessing throughout the show, explained Josh Carroll, who plays the show's main character, Harry Monday...
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Johnny Johnson still racing at age 74
(High School Sports ~ 07/21/06)
Paragon Speedway, a 3/8ths of a mile oval dirt track in the tiny Morgan County town of Paragon, Ind., has been in operation since 1955. It was shortly before that Johnny Johnson of Bloomfield started running his 1952 Ford Coupe at Paragon, located some 45 minutes southwest of Indianapolis...
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Gregory Haworth
(Obituary ~ 07/21/06)
Gregory Haworth, 51, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and formerly of Linton, passed away on Wednesday, July 19, 2006 in Cincinnati. Born in April 11, 1955, in Bloomington, he was the son of Rodney Haworth and Kay (Lester) Haworth Irwin. He was a graduate of Linton-Stockton High School and Indiana University...
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What is the Greene County Foundation?
(Local News ~ 07/21/06)
Founded as a public charity in 1998 with just $4,300 in assets, the Greene County Foundation is now a vital and sustainable organization. Today, the foundation has grown to more than $3 million in assets and has granted almost $9 million to community projects and organizations...
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Bloomfield hires WRV grad to teach math
(Local News ~ 07/21/06)
During a special meeting of the Bloomfield School Board of Trustees on Thursday, the board approved the hiring of Jennifer Daniels as a junior and senior high math teacher. Daniels, a 1995 White River Valley graduate, will teach seventh-grade math as well as junior and senior high algebra...
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Dugger man to enter plea
(Local News ~ 07/21/06)
A 19-year-old Dugger man charged with creating a bogus bill that was eventually used in an illegal drug buy is expected to enter a guilty plea as part of a negotiated plea agreement next week. Thomas Jeffrey Stoner was arrested late last month and charged on a pair of Greene Circuit Court warrants for counterfeiting and conspiracy -- both class D felonies...
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Bloomfield man sentenced
(Local News ~ 07/21/06)
NASHVILLE -- A 20-year-old Bloomfield man was sentenced to six years in prison recently after pleading guilty to three felony crimes in Brown County Circuit Court. Phillip D. Magness Jr. admitted to two counts of burglary -- both Class C felonies -- and one charge of auto theft -- a Class D felony...
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James accepts leadership position with Elks
(Local News ~ 07/21/06)
Morgan L. James, of Linton, was recently installed as the new leader of the West District of the Indiana Elks Association when members of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks gathered in Orlando, Fla. for the Order's 142nd Grand Lodge Convention...
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Green sentenced on federal firearms charge
(Local News ~ 07/21/06)
Mark E. Green, 49, Linton, was sentenced Thursday to 57 months in prison by U.S. District Chief Judge Larry J. McKinney following a guilty plea to possession of an unregistered firearm. The prosecution stemmed from an investigation by the Linton Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. It's part of the Project Safe Neighborhoods initiative...
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Greene County Community Corrections gets verbal 'thumbs up'
(Local News ~ 07/21/06)
Greene County Community Corrections got a verbal "thumbs up" from the state to go ahead with plans for a new facility. "Once we receive the letter, we'll contact the commissioners and builders and move forward," said board member and Greene County Prosecutor David Powell. "Hopefully that letter will come, and I'll get on the commissioners' agenda and will advise them funding is in place and ask their approval."...
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Greene County Foundation wants to educate public
(Local News ~ 07/21/06)
SWITZ CITY -- Prompted by a recent study that indicated that just three-in-10 people in the county who were surveyed had ever heard of the Greene County Foundation -- a new three-year long marketing blitz will soon be under way. "It (the survey) was absolutely an eye-opener for us," Greene County Foundation executive director Kerry Conway said Thursday when announcing plans for an extensive public relations campaign...
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Linton library board approves bid for building
(Local News ~ 07/21/06)
The Linton Margaret Cooper Public Library Board of Trustees accepted the $1.3 million bid from Neidigh Construction of Bloomington on Thursday night to construct a new library facility. Neidigh Construction built additions to the Bloomfield, Ellettsville, and Sullivan libraries...
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Greene County Legion team falls in tournament
(High School Sports ~ 07/21/06)
JASPER -- Just call the Greene County American Legion team the walking wounded. Whether it's wounds of a physical ailment or an emotional one, the Greene County team has taken its beatings with the injury bug as of late and it finally came back to bite them on Thursday with a shaky start to the American Legion sectional tournament after a 15-6 loss to French Lick at Alvin C. Ruxer Field in Jasper...
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