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Goose Pond calendars available
(Local News ~ 12/02/09)
The 2010 Goose Pond photo calendars, priced at $10 each are now for sale. Calendars are available for purchase or pick-up at the following locations: Main Street Gifts, Linton; Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Barn, south of Linton on State Road 59; Heritage Cafe, North Main Street in Linton; and Casa del Muse Art Gallery and Studio in Bloomfield. ...
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Bloomfield man hurt in wreck east of town
(Local News ~ 12/02/09)
Indiana State Police are investigating a crash east of Bloomfield on Monday evening that sent one man to an Indianapolis hospital via air ambulance. The driver, Scott R. Parkes, 51, Bloomfield, was injured and transported to Wishard Hospital reportedly suffering from gashes and cuts to the head and neck...
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Sandborn Town Council meets
(Local News ~ 12/02/09)
SANDBORN -- Rita Wampler from Knox County Community Foundation presented a check in the amount of $218 to the town of Sandborn at Tuesday's town council meeting. The money is to be used for Sandborn Town Park and was proceeds from a fund that was invested by Don and June Gregg...
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Bloomfield council OKs equipment for police cars
(Local News ~ 12/02/09)
From police and fire department requests to an update from the park board, the Bloomfield Town Council's December meeting had a full agenda. In police business, Town Marshal Kenny Tharp requested equipment for two police cars. Det. Harvey Holt's vehicle needs a set of flashing lights for the front end, he said. Cost is $300 plus installation...
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Agricultural Outlook meeting set for Tuesday
(Local News ~ 12/02/09)
SWITZ CITY -- The annual Agricultural Outlook meeting, sponsored by the Greene County Purdue Extension Service, will be conducted at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday. The free program will take place at the Greene County 4-H Fairground Community Building. Chris Hurt of Purdue University's Department of Agricultural Economics will present the outlook that will look at how the recession has put downward pressure on farm incomes...
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Weekend prep hoop schedule features nine games
(High School Sports ~ 12/02/09)
As the calendar changes to December, the Indiana high school boys basketball season swings into full gear. Locally there will be nine games on the first full weekend of the 2009-10 campaign, featuring a handful of key conference contests and local rivalries...
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National Guard recruitment remains OK
(Local News ~ 12/02/09)
The National Guard remains a good part-time job and recruiting efforts over the last year in the midst of two war conflicts in the Middle East are encouraging for Indiana National Guard Company A, 1-151st Combat Team Alpha Company, based in Linton. Unit recruiter Staff Sgt. J.D. Wilson said recruiting has continued to do well in the last year, despite tougher entrance requirements and ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...
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Sports briefs
(Community Sports ~ 12/02/09)
The Linton-Stockton Junior High School eighth grade boys basketball team captured a 48-27 win over North Central at Farmersburg Tuesday night to remain unbeaten after three games. "We got off to a slow start and didn't match North Central's intensity in the beginning," Miners coach Darren Woodward said. "We were able to stretch it out to an eight-point lead at halftime and, after some halftime adjustments, was able to take control of the game in the second half."...
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Holiday Open House set for Friday at courthouse
(Local News ~ 12/02/09)
The Greene County Courthouse will be decked out for the holidays and alive with the sounds of Christmas on Friday to welcome the public to a special Holiday Open House. The festivities will begin at 11 a.m. with punch and cider served with veggie and cheese plates, crackers and pastry items through the lunch hour and homemade holiday cookies and other sweet treats throughout the afternoon...
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Letters to the Editor
(Letter to the Editor ~ 12/02/09)
Thanks for helping Mansions In Heaven To the Editor: Mansions In Heaven Church would like to thank everyone who helped in our fundraiser for the Family Life Center. Because of you 10 children will be clothed from head to toe this winter! A big thank you also goes out to Kentucky Ridge Baptist Church for their generous donation...
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Man faces two counts of sexual misconduct with a minor
(Local News ~ 12/02/09)
A 20-year-old man accused of two instances of sexual misconduct with a minor was arrested Tuesday and is being held in the Greene County Jail in lieu of $20,000 bond. Cory M. Lemond was booked in by Greene County Prosecutor's Investigator Julie Martin...
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Linton-Stockton Elementary School's SEEK Lego Robot team does well in recent competition
(Local News ~ 12/02/09)
Hard work has paid off for the Linton-Stockton Elementary School's SEEK Lego Robot team. The team of fifth and sixth graders recently placed third in robot performance at the Lego Robotics regional competition in Columbus. Susan Anderson, SEEK coach, said the competition included 24 schools from the Hoosier state...
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Habitual traffic violator jailed after November wreck
(Local News ~ 12/02/09)
A man wanted in another county, who didn't have a valid driver's license because he was an habitual traffic violator, was involved in an accident with another vehicle in Greene County on Nov. 25. But he left the people in the other vehicle on the side of the road, fled the scene then told a couple of different stories before tucking the damaged vehicle away in a garage in Crane Village...
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Police Logs
(Police Reports ~ 12/02/09)
GREENE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT JAIL LOG LINTON POLICE DEPARTMENT ACTIVITY LOG The Linton Police Department's activity log for Monday included one drug investigation, one school/foot patrol, two accidents with personal injury, one accident with property damage, three medical/illness, one alarm, one suspicious vehicle/person, one assist to another agency, one harassment complaint, one lost or stolen license plate, two domestic disputes, one shoplifting and nine traffic stops...
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Greene County Court News
(Court News ~ 12/02/09)
GREENE CIRCUIT COURT CRIMINAL CASES State v. Mallory M. Frye, theft State v. Renny L. Marshall, operating a vehicle while an habitual traffic violator, failure to stop after an accident State v. Cory M. Lemond, two counts of sexual misconduct with a minor...
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Community Notes
(Community News ~ 12/02/09)
Goose Pond calendars for sale The 2010 Goose Pond photo calendars, priced at $10 each are now for sale. Calendars are available for purchase or pick-up at the following locations: Main Street Gifts, Linton; Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Barn, south of Linton on State Road 59; Heritage Cafe, North Main Street in Linton; and Casa del Muse Art Gallery and Studio in Bloomfield. ...
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