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Bloomfield School Board to meet
(Local News ~ 08/12/09)
The Bloomfield School Board will meet in special session Thursday at 7 p.m. Several items are on the agenda, including approving 2009-2010 extra-curricular activity positions. A new boys basketball coach is expected to be hired Thursday to replace Ron McBride, who was named athletic director last month...
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County EMA receives two grants to help first responders with communication
(Local News ~ 08/12/09)
Greene County law enforcement agencies and first responders are now better linked in communication, thanks to a pair of grants that were received from the Indiana Homeland Security. Last Thursday, a $228,000 Public Safety Interoperability Grant was received by the Greene County Emergency Management Agency from District 7 of Indiana Department of Homeland Security...
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Linton Park a popular spot
(Local News ~ 08/12/09)
Good things are happening at Humphreys Park in Linton. Fred Markle, park board president, offered some positive news on the city park during the August meeting of the Linton City Council. "The park is being utilized a lot ... I can see the community coming together more," he said...
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Ed Sheppard Award: Rash honored for civic work in Jasonville
(Local News ~ 08/12/09)
JASONVILLE -- A son followed in his father's footsteps Monday, as he was singled out for praise as a concerned businessman active in promoting Jasonville. Tony Rash, the 2009 recipient of Jasonville's Ed Sheppard Award, won the honor just two years after his father Floyd Rash...
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The clothes of summer: Fest aims to get schoolkids dressed
(Local News ~ 08/12/09)
The Linton Community Food Pantry intends to give area schoolkids the shirts off their racks, along with an array of other clothes during its first Family Fun Day on Saturday. Free games, door prizes -- including bikes and a microwave oven -- and food will also be offered during the event...
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Solsberry woman remains in serious condition from last week's wreck
(Local News ~ 08/12/09)
The Solsberry woman seriously injured in a Monroe County traffic accident Aug. 5 remains a patient in the adult critical care unit at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. A routine afternoon trip to the Stanford post office to mail some bill payments turned tragic for 71-year-old Wanda Deckard on State Road 45, near Stanford -- about one-fourth of a mile from the Greene County line...
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Bloomfield man in court Friday on resisting law enforcement charge
(Local News ~ 08/12/09)
A 41-year-old Bloomfield man, Samuel J. Shaw, Jr., accused of trying to elude police officers early Sunday, was arrested, then bonded out, and is scheduled to appear in court early Friday. A preliminary charge of resisting law enforcement in a vehicle, a class D felony, was filed against Shaw in Greene Circuit Court on Tuesday...
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Peaceful protest conducted at Humphreys Park in Linton
(Local News ~ 08/12/09)
Several Greene and Sullivan county residents staged a peaceful mini-protest Tuesday against the proposed federal government healthcare plan as well as the Cap and Trade energy legislation. The group also gathered signatures for several hours in Linton's Humphreys Park...
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Bonnie Lou Chesterfield Evans
(Obituary ~ 08/12/09)
Bonnie Lou Chesterfield Evans, 66, of Worthington, passed away Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009 at 8:01 p.m. at Bloomington Hospital. She was born in Sullivan County on Jan. 22, 1943, the daughter of Bert Chesterfield and Eva Mae Hickman Chesterfield. Bonniegraduated from Union High School in Dugger in 1961...
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Smith draws bond reduction in 'meth lab' case
(Local News ~ 08/12/09)
The amount of bond for Wayne K. "Bear" Smith, the man arrested last week and accused of operating a meth lab near Midland, has been reduced to $55,000. The 50-year-old Smith of rural Jasonville was initially held without bond before his initial hearing in Greene Superior Court. Then at that hearing, his bond was set at $100,000 with no 10 percent allowed...
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Police Logs
(Police Reports ~ 08/12/09)
GREENE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT JAIL LOG LINTON POLICE DEPARTMENT ACTIVITY LOG The Linton Police Department's activity log for Tuesday included two requests for information only, one incident of vandalism, one custody dispute/exchange, one protective order violation, one accident with property damage, one animal complaint, one assist to another agency, one attempted burglary, one disabled or stranded vehicle, one welfare check/concern, two fingerprints for gun permits, one ordinance violation and three traffic stops.. ...
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Greene County Court
(Court News ~ 08/12/09)
GREENE CIRCUIT COURT CRIMINAL CASES State v. Samuel J. Shaw, resisting law enforcement CIVIL CASES Stephanie N. Foster v. Paul E. Foster, dissolution Bobbie-Jo Carter v. Dennis B. Carter, dissolution GREENE SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL CASES Capital One Bank (USA) v. Ryan Flora, collection...
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Community Notes
(Community News ~ 08/12/09)
Work session planned The meeting of the Executive Board of the Greene-Sullivan Special Education Cooperative will meet in an Executive Work Session to discuss budget issues on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 10:30 a.m. in the Conference Room at the Greene-Sullivan Special Education Cooperative, 77 A St., N.E., Linton, Indiana...
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Softball sign-ups
(Community Sports ~ 08/12/09)
The Linton Girls Softball League will be having sign-ups for the upcoming fall league from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 15 and Saturday, Aug. 22 at Linton Sporting Goods. One evening sign-up is set for 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 19 at the east shelter house at the park...
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Co-ed tournament
(Community Sports ~ 08/12/09)
There will be a co-ed softball tournament Aug. 22-23 in Dugger. Entry fee is $125 plus one 11-inch green dot ball and one 12-inch gold dot ball. For more information, call Jessie Martin at (812) 798-6006 or Tina Baker at (812) 240-5480. All proceeds will go to help the Ruckus women's softball team go to the nationals in Alabama Labor Day weekend...
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Beard shoots another hole-in-one
(Community Sports ~ 08/12/09)
Bart Beard, the golf pro at the Phil Harris Golf Course, hit his third hole-in-one in the past three years. He used a 52 degree, gap wedge on hole No. 1 from 120 yards away earlier this month. The ball bounced once and disappeared into the cup. Drew and Caleb Dunkerly and Chris Taylor were witnesses...
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Letters to the Editor
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/12/09)
Miner football program says thanks for support To the Editor: The Linton Miner football program would like to thank all of the following sponsors who generously donated to the second annual Miner Football Golf Scramble. Linton-Stockton Athletic Department...
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Motorcyclist loses limb in Newberry accident on Tuesday night
(Local News ~ 08/12/09)
A 20-year-old Newberry man was seriously injured Tuesday night when he lost control of the motorcycle he was operating on State Road 57 South and struck a roadside sign. Justin Bruhn and a passenger, Anthony Shute, 21, of Newberry were traveling at a high rate of speed on a 1992 Honda motorcycle that left the roadway and struck a highway road sign before coming to rest in the southbound lane, according to a report filed by Indiana State Police Trooper Byron Goodman...
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