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No one seriously hurt in wreck at Newberry
(Local News ~ 01/31/02)
NEWBERRY ---- A wreck involving two pick-up trucks and a semi sent one driver to Greene County General Hospital on Wednesday afternoon with slight injuries. Treated and released from the hospital was Jerome K. Browning, 39, of Washington. Browning was transported from the scene by Greene County Ambulance. No information was available on Browning's injuries...
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Weekend high school basketball preview
(Local News ~ 01/31/02)
With the absence of Bloomfield, who lost a 43-30 decision at Bloomington South Wednesday night, the other five area boys basketball teams will be in action this weekend. In all, there will be seven boys games and three games in the final weekend of the girls regular season...
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WRV girls split
(Local News ~ 01/31/02)
White River Valley jumped to a 16-4 lead and never looked back as they defeated host Shakamak 38-12 in an eighth-grade girls basketball game Wednesday night. WRV (12-3) had seven girls score. Sarah Sater contributed six rebounds and two points, Annie Davis was credited with six rebounds, and Kristal Maners and Casey Blackman both added two points...
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Forsyth helps Rose women win fifth game
(Local News ~ 01/31/02)
Christina Forsyth had 17 points, nine rebounds and three blocks shots, helping Rose-Hulman's women's basketball team to a 51-48 victory over Hendrix Sunday. The win was the fifth in 18 games for the Lady Engineers. Forsyth, a graduate of White River Valley High School, tops Rose-Hulman, averaging 16.7 points and 10.0 rebounds per game. She also has 24 blocks, 17 steals and 10 assists...
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Griffith adds to record
(Local News ~ 01/31/02)
Brooke Griffith scored 12 points to help St. Mary-of-the-Woods College defeat Lincoln Christian College 86-72 in a women's college basketball game at Terre Haute Tuesday night. Griffith has 489 points this season, averaging 21.3 points per game. Earlier this season, the 1998 Shakamak graduate became the all-time leading scorer at St. Marys. She currently has 1,478 points...
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South takes Cardinals
(Local News ~ 01/31/02)
Bloomfield committed 16 turnovers and shot 39 percent in a 43-30 loss at Bloomington South Wednesday night. Bloomfield, ranked No. 7 in Class A, threw the ball away 11 times as they trailed 21-12 at halftime. The Cardinals (13-6) cut the deficit to five points in the fourth quarter ---- 35-30 ---- after back-to-back 3-pointers by Jon Neill and Corey Gremore and a high-arching layup by junior guard Dustin Haywood...
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Linton White 1-2
(Local News ~ 01/31/02)
Linton White dropped a 21-13 decision to host Sullivan in a sixth-grade girls basketball game Wednesday night. Jessi Bohnert topped the Lady Miners (1-2) with seven points. Brittany Pledger, Livi Miller and Emily Fischer all scored two points. Lauren Jones, Sam Atkinson and Desiree Sullivan also played...
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Lyons splits with Linton
(Local News ~ 01/31/02)
Noah Summitt hit two free throws with 1.7 seconds remaining to lift White River Valley-Lyons to a 38-36 victory over Linton-Stockton in a fifth-grade boys basketball game Monday night. Derek Dixon paced the winners (3-5) with 15 points. Trey Sparks scored 10 points, Patrick Hamm seven and Summitt finished with six points...
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Police searching for Worthington man
(Local News ~ 01/31/02)
A Greene County man has been charged in Greene Superior Court for allegedly coercing juveniles into stealing accessories for his truck. According to a probable cause affidavit filed in Greene Superior Court, Dennis L. Nash, 18 and of Worthington, is charged with two counts of receiving stolen property, a class D felony, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a class A misdemeanor...
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Major snowfall to miss area this time
(Local News ~ 01/31/02)
There's an old saying about Indiana that goes something like this: "If you don't like the weather, stick around and it will change in the next five minutes." Though that can't be taken literally too many times, the next couple of days is a good example of how close to the truth it can be...
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County Council talks about funding
(Local News ~ 01/31/02)
BLOOMFIELD ---- The Greene County Council agreed to pay $112,000 to the firm working on the courthouse renovation project, but it wants to study the costs more closely before going any further with the project. "Are we buying a car without asking what our monthly payment is going to be? We are just spending money like it is coming out of nowhere. If the numbers I ran are correct, we can't afford this project," Council member Teddy Harmon said...
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Company files for bankruptcy
(Local News ~ 01/31/02)
The Kentucky-based company that owns Kindill III Mine near Dugger is seeking approval to restructure through a pre-packaged reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. According to a press release provided by Roger Gillott of AEI Resources, Inc., based in Ashland, Ky., AEI Resources Holding Inc. ...
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Oliphant named County Council president
(Local News ~ 01/31/02)
BLOOMFIELD ---- Do you remember the commercial for Life cereal where nobody wanted to try the cereal? They kept pushing it back and forth and finally decided to give it to Mikey. That scenario was played out at the Greene County Council meeting Wednesday...
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Georgia "Marian" Oelheim
(Local News ~ 01/31/02)
SULLIVAN ---- Georgia "Marian" Oelheim, 77, of Sullivan, passed away at 4:02 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2002, at Sullivan County Community Hospital. Born Aug. 14, 1924, in Cave In Rock, ILL., she was the daughter of George and Evelyn (Thomas) Pickering...
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