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Florence M. Graham
(Obituary ~ 05/06/08)
Florence M. Graham, 95, of Carlisle, passed away at 7:50 p.m. Monday May 5, 2008 at Miller's Merry Manor in Sullivan. She was born in Oblong, Ill. June 5, 1912 to William Hoover and Bertha Sears Hoover. She was a member of the Church of Christ in Linton...
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UPDATED: Voting underway; turnout has been steady
(Local News ~ 05/06/08)
Greene County Primary Election voters were greeted today with blue skies and sunshine and they are expected to be headed to the polls in record numbers. Polls opened at 6 a.m. with few if any glitches, according to Marjorie Cullison, who is a deputy in the Greene County Voter Registration office...
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Can you spoil your baby by holding them too much?
(Column ~ 05/06/08)
Anonymous writes: In my occupation, I hear a lot of moms say that if they hold their infants too much it will spoil them. I don't believe it is true. Which is true? My reply: Holding your baby too much can spoil him is a myth. Actually, it is old thought based on lack of research. Current, valid, research shows that it is impossible to spoil an infant. There is conflicting research as to when you can start spoiling your child, but that time is between 8 and 12 months of age...
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Christy, LeCocq to marry May 24
(Engagement ~ 05/06/08)
Katrina A. Christy and Brandon W. LeCocq would like to announce their engagement. Christy is a 2004 Union Jr./Sr. High School. Her parents are Melissa Christy and Jack Christy. LeCocq is a 2002 graduate of Linton-Stockton High School. His parents are William and Darla LeCocq. The wedding will take place May 24 at 5 p.m. at the Roy Clark Community building, with a reception immediately following. All friends and family are welcome...
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Florence M. Graham
(Obituary ~ 05/06/08)
Florence M. Graham, 95, of Carlisle, passed away at 7:50 p.m. Monday May 5, 2008 at Miller's Merry Manor in Sullivan. She was born in Oblong, Ill. June 5, 1912 to William Hoover and Bertha Sears Hoover. She was a member of the Church of Christ in Linton...
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Jones tops Tibbett in Democratic surveyor's race
(Local News ~ 05/06/08)
Timothy Jones beat out James Tibbett for the Greene County Surveyor Democratic nomination in a 3,396-2,017 vote total in Tuesday's primary. He will face Republican incumbent Ira "Butch" Wright in the fall election. After hearing of his nomination, Jones explained, "I feel pretty good. Actually, I'm very surprised. This is the first time I ran for a public office. I'm feeling pretty good ... I'm just kind of shocked."...
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Preble keeps Linton-Stockton District 1 seat
(Local News ~ 05/06/08)
Incumbent John D. Preble was the winner of a three-way race for the District 1 seat on the Linton-Stockton School Board. When the election results came in Tuesday evening, Preble had tallied up 1,158 votes which represented 43.44 percent of the total votes cast in this race...
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Combs, Hostetter elected to Bloomfield School Board
(Local News ~ 05/06/08)
The Bloomfield Board of School Trustees will have two new faces on July 1. Both John W. Combs and Dwayne E. Hostetter landed the two at-large seats on the Bloomfield School Board of Trustees in Tuesday's primary -- beating out incumbents Eric Moody and Bob Kirk...
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Miller, Stockrahm win Shakamak board seats
(Local News ~ 05/06/08)
Veteran school trustees for Metropolitan School District of Shakamak, Jeff Miller (District 1) and Brian Stockrahm (District 3), pulled ahead of their opponents in Tuesday's election to earn another four-year school board term. Of the three running against Miller, Vince House gave him the closest opposition with 366 votes to Miller's 495. Loren Holdaway and Don Stanifer, Jr. also ran in District 1...
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Dowden will face Meurer on Nov. 4
(Local News ~ 05/06/08)
In a 1,468-1,185 vote, Stuart A. Dowden received the Republican nod for Greene County Treasurer beating out his opponent, Susan Fowler. Dowden will face Democrat Shelby Meurer in the Nov. 4 election. Meurer was unopposed in the primary. Dowden said Tuesday night, "I feel good. ... I think I can do the job. I've had some people ask me if I really want to be a politician ... No, I don't. I can do the job."...
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Community Notes
(Community News ~ 05/06/08)
Food Drive Saturday is the 16th annual National Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive. To donate just place non-perishable food items by your mailbox. All donations help stock local food pantries. Vendors wanted The Linton Farmer's Market is looking for vendors to sell their homegrown produce. The market begins May 10 and will be on Saturdays from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. at the northeast corner of Humphreys Park. Contact Fran Abbott at city hall for applications at 847-7754...
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Linton Police Log
(Police Reports ~ 05/06/08)
LINTON POLICE DEPARTMENT ACTIVITY REPORT The Linton Police Department's activity report for Monday included two assists to the utility department after hours, one vandalism, one accident with personal injury, four medical/illness, one alarm, three animal complaints, one prowler, one suspicious vehicle/person, one assist to another agency, one harassment complaint, one speeding vehicle, one welfare check/concern, one fingerprint for a gun permit, one fingerprint-miscellaneous and one battery...
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Greene County Sheriff's Log
(Police Reports ~ 05/06/08)
GREENE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT JAIL LOG...
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Tuesday's election goes 'pretty smooth'
(Local News ~ 05/06/08)
A little more than half of the registered Greene County went to the polls on Tuesday to cast ballots for Democrat and Republican candidates in the Primary Election. The county tallied a 51.89 percent turnout with 9,883 voter casting ballots out of 19,047 registered voters...
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Lady Miners win second match
(High School Sports ~ 05/06/08)
The Linton-Stockton girls tennis team picked up its second victory of the season, defeating visiting South Knox 4-1 at the Linton City Park Tuesday. "It was a very hard-fought match," said Linton-Stockton coach Brad McKinney. "They area a good club and going to get even better. They don't have any seniors...
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Eastern Greene tops Wolverines
(High School Sports ~ 05/06/08)
Eastern Greene scored six runs in the sixth inning to salt away an 8-0 victory over visiting White River Valley in a Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference baseball game Tuesday. It was the 11th victory in 16 games for the Thunderbirds. They are 4-0 in league play...
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Lady Cardinals top Loogootee
(High School Sports ~ 05/06/08)
The Bloomfield Cardinals stepped up their game Tuesday and defeated the visiting Loogootee Lions 3-2. To say this was a big win is an understatement. This is the first time the Cardinal seniors have witnessed a victory over the Lions. Bloomfield's last win against Loogootee was in the 2004 season. Earlier this season, LHS put a 5-0 loss on the Cardinals at the Loogootee Invitational Tournament. Today was a huge win...
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Lady Miners rally in seventh
(High School Sports ~ 05/06/08)
Izzy Carpenter's hit to center field drove in pinch-runner Kelsey Overton with the game's only run with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning as Linton-Stockton defeated visiting Cloverdale 1-0 in a high school softball game Tuesday. "We challenged the girls to do what we needed to go to get a run across in the seventh," said Linton-Stockton coach Jill Flater. "They really stepped up to the challenge and came through...
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Cardinals finish third
(High School Sports ~ 05/06/08)
Bloomfield shot a 200, which was good for third place in a high school boys golf match played Tuesday at the Jasper Municipal Golf Course. Perry Central won with a 168 while Northeast Dubois fired a 172. Zack Graves of Perry Central was low medalist with a 38...
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Tigers rally to beat Miners 7-6
(High School Sports ~ 05/06/08)
Hutsonville, Ill. scored five runs in the top of the seventh inning to post a 7-6 victory over host Linton-Stockton in a high school baseball game at Roy Herndon Field Tuesday. The Miners slipped to 9-9 with the loss. "We had some positives like Adam Neff going 2-for-3 with three runs scored," said Linton-Stockton coach Bart Berns. "Jeff Laughlin was 2-for-3 with two runs and two RBIs...
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Rhoten paces Miner victory
(High School Sports ~ 05/06/08)
Chase Rhoten shot a 37 to earn low-medalist honors and help the Linton-Stockton High School boys golf team defeat host Eastern Greene 158-199 in a match at Stonecrest Tuesday. "I can't say enough about Chase tonight," said Linton-Stockton coach Bart Beard, whose Miners are now 13-2. "We have been wanting our fourth and fifth guys to step up and he did."...
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Union (Dugger) knocks off WRV
(High School Sports ~ 05/06/08)
White River Valley rallied to take a 4-2 lead in the seventh, but host Union (Dugger) came up with three runs in the bottom half of the inning to pull out a 5-4 victory in a Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference softball game at Dugger Tuesday. "This was a really good ball game," said Union (Dugger) coach Rick Swan, whose Lady Bulldogs improved to 8-6, 2-4 in the SWIAC. "It was a pitcher's duel until the seventh inning...
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Lady Cards score early in win over Stars
(High School Sports ~ 05/06/08)
The Bloomfield Cardinals bounced back from a tough conference loss one night earlier, with a quality 5-2 win over Bedford North Lawrence on the road Tuesday in a non-conference softball game. The Lady Cards wasted no time getting on the scoreboard, as Kendra Spelts had a two-run double and Britney Myers added a two-run triple in the top of the first inning for the early lead and they never looked back...
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Cards cant overcome errors
(High School Sports ~ 05/06/08)
The Bloomfield Cardinals suffered a tough 4-2 loss Tuesday on the road at Washington in a non-conference high school baseball game. With the loss, the young Cardinals fall to 3-14 on the season. The host team tallied two runs in the home half of the fifth inning to reclaim a one-run lead then added an insurance run in the sixth inning for the final score...
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Lady Lakers welcome new field in style
(High School Sports ~ 05/06/08)
JASONVILLE -- The first game for the Shakamak softball team on their new field was delayed nearly an hour, but the end result was well worth the wait. The Lady Lakers disposed of visiting Eminence 10-0 in five innings here Tuesday in a Tri-River Conference game...
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Gremore, Frye, White advance to General Election
(Local News ~ 05/06/08)
Greene County Republican voters picked one incumbent, the current county treasurer and a Bloomfield businessman to be the party's nominees in the contest for County Council at-large. Incumbent Ken Gremore, Jerry Fyre and Carolyn White all advance on to the fall election match-up against incumbent William "Butch" Brown of rural Bloomfield, David "Scott" Richards, of Linton and Rae Della Cravens of rural Bloomfield...
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Holtsclaw will face Crouch in Nov. 4 election
(Local News ~ 05/06/08)
Kermit Holtsclaw prevailed in convincing fashion in the Democrat race for Greene County District 1 Commissioner. In a three-man field, Holtsclaw, the current Center Township Trustee, tallied 3,071 votes -- a 1,678 vote margin -- compared to Charles Bennett with 1,393 votes and 1,363 for Marvin Hash...
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Lindsey, Abrams will face off in District 2 for commissioner
(Local News ~ 05/06/08)
The General Election slate is set for the Greene County District 2 Commissioner's seat. Democrat Steve Lindsey will face Republican Nathan Abrams in the Nov. 4 Election. Lindsey topped his nearest competitor in the Democrat race by a 121-vote margin...
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Fish tops Strueh
(Local News ~ 05/06/08)
Jacob Fish will be the Democrat Party's candidate for Superior Court Judge in the General Election in November. Fish defeated Karen Strueh, 3,524 to 2,666. Out of the total votes cast county-wide, the vote count for Fish represents 56.93 percent of the total and the vote count for Strueh represents 43.97 percent...
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Benham-Martin defeats Powell
(Local News ~ 05/06/08)
Dena Benham-Martin will be the Republican Party's candidate for Superior Court Judge in the General Election in November. Benham-Martin defeated David N. Powell, 1,627 to 1,272. Out of the total votes cast county-wide, the vote count for Benham-Martin represents 56.12 percent of the total and the vote count for Powell represents 43.88 percent...
- Primary Election Results (Final unofficial results) (Local News ~ 05/06/08)
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