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Apple Festival set for this upcoming weekend
(Local News ~ 09/30/02)
The Bloomfield Apple Festival will be a little different this year. It's been moved from the traditional site on courthouse square to the city park. The festival begins Friday and concludes with a "Big Apple" parade at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday. This year's parade grand marshal is longtime Bloomfield resident Bernie Hansford...
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Larry D. Pierce
(Local News ~ 09/30/02)
SWITZ CITY ---- Larry D. Pierce, 60, of Switz City, passed away at 3:43 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 29, 2002, at Greene County General Hospital in Linton. Born Oct. 12, 1941, in Greene County, he was the son of Converse J. and G. Marie (Beal) Pierce. He worked for Pillsbury in Terre Haute and New Albany, retiring in February 1998...
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Michael J. Nelson
(Local News ~ 09/30/02)
HYMERA ---- Michael J. Nelson, 53, of Hymera, passed away at 4:37 a.m. today, September 30, 2002, at Sullivan County Community Hospital. Funeral arrangements are pending at the Newkirk Funeral Home in Dugger.
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Betty J. Geatches
(Local News ~ 09/30/02)
Betty J. Geatches, 79, of Linton, passed away at 5:55 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26, 2002, at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. Born Nov. 11, 1922 in Linton, she was the daughter of William and Edna Ellen (Baker) Harrell. She was a homemaker and a member of the Linton Church of Christ...
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Phyllis Minton
(Local News ~ 09/30/02)
GOOSE CREEK, S.C. ---- Phyllis Minton, 59, of Goose Creek, S.C., passed away Saturday, Sept. 28, 2002, at a local hospital. Born May 31, 1943, in Indianapolis, she was the daughter of Archie Peyton Crisp and Violet May Watson Murphy. She was a homemaker...
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Veda Chambers
(Local News ~ 09/30/02)
CARLISLE ---- Veda Chambers, 73, of Carlisle, passed away at 4:20 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 29, 2002, at Sullivan County Community Hospital. Born Jan. 26, 1929, in Martin County, she was the daughter of Orian and Ora (Parson) Hembree. She was a sewing machine operator in a shirt factory, and had also worked at Kellers Aluminum Factory in Linton...
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Sports briefs
(Local News ~ 09/30/02)
Girls coaching opening Linton-Stockton Elementary School is looking to hire two fifth grade girls basketball coaches for this season. Anyone interested should contact Mike Riggleman at 847-9611 or 847-6024, extension 435. Linton-Stockton 7-0...
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Northview wins Shakamak Invitational
(Local News ~ 09/30/02)
Northview placed three runners in the top 10 as the Lady Knights took first place in the girls race at the Shakamak cross country invitational at Jasonville Saturday. Linton-Stockton, who had two runners among the top nine, placed a distance second with 91 points. Northview won with 41 points...
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Union routs Union in football
(Local News ~ 09/30/02)
Freshman Dwight Brown made the most of 12 carries, rushing for 121 yards and four touchdowns to lead Class A No. 7 Perry Central to a 53-0 victory over visiting Union (Dugger) at Leopold Friday night. The Commodores, who improved to 5-1 with their seventh consecutive victory over the Bulldogs (3-3), had four different players score in the first quarter as jumped to a 28-0 advantage and cruised...
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Linton tops North Daviess in football
(Local News ~ 09/30/02)
ELNORA ---- Power. It has been the one element missing from the Linton-Stockton offensive attack, until Friday night that is. Fullback Jason Ortega rushed for a career-high 86 yards on 18 attempts, scoring two second-half touchdowns as the Miners defeated North Daviess 33-7 here at Thurman H. Brown Field...
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Cards win No. 12
(Local News ~ 09/30/02)
Bloomfield did not lose as set as the Cardinals defeated Owen Valley 5-0 in a boys tennis match Friday. This was a continuation of a match that started on Sept. 19 but was stopped because of rain. The Cardinals improved to 12-5 with the victory. BHS will host North Daviess Tuesday. Corey Gremore, Chad Burnett and Jordan Burnett will be honored on Senior Night. The Cards will conclude the regular season Wednesday at Linton...
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Linton-Stockton 7-0
(Local News ~ 09/30/02)
Linton-Stockton's eighth-grade volleyball team is still undefeated with victories over Bloomfield 17-21, 21-7, 21-9 and Carlisle 21-5, 16-21, 21-9 last week. Rachel Bredeweg lead the team, making 14 of 15 serves. Brooke Baize was 11-for-13; Jennifer Suthard and Brianna Ward were 8 of 9; Nikki Spinks 7 of 7; Shannon Sullivan 4 of 4, and Cami Miller was 2 of 2...
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Linton woman faces charges
(Local News ~ 09/30/02)
A Linton woman is facing a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia after Linton police found the items in her home Sunday. According to a report filed by Linton Officer Gary Tannehill, he and Linton Officer Chad Crynes went to the home of Michelle L. Baker, 25...
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It's time to get that flu shot
(Local News ~ 09/30/02)
Flu-shot season begins in October, and this year marks the first time parents are being urged to get babies and toddlers vaccinated. Why? Because influenza sends babies and toddlers to the hospital as often as it does the elderly. However, unlike the once yearly shot most adults need, the first-ever inoculation for young children requires two doses, given one month apart. ...
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Crane recognizes POWs, MIAs
(Local News ~ 09/30/02)
With the 9/11 anniversary recently behind us and the clouds of another war hovering, it was a solemn ceremony as 19 surviving Indiana former prisoners of war and five POW widows were recognized Thursday at Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center for the POW/MIA Recognition Day...
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Dugger receives $400,000 grant
(Local News ~ 09/30/02)
The Dugger Improvement Incorporation has learned it will receive $400,000 from the Indiana Housing Finance Authority to build new, 10-unit rental housing apartments. The IHFA approved over $35 million in awards throughout Indiana to help create affordable housing. The money is part of the first round of a 2002-03 Housing from Shelters to Homeownership Partnership Program and Community Development Block Grant funds as well as the Indiana Low Income Housing Trust Fund, to support such housing...
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Linton board expected to name interim superintendent Tuesday
(Local News ~ 09/30/02)
The Linton-Stockton Board of School Trustees is expected to name an interim superintendent for the corporation Tuesday night. That's when the board will meet in executive session. According to former superintendent Doug Rose, whose final day at Linton was Friday before taking over this week at the Vincennes Community School Corporation, a school board can hire a superintendent in executive session...
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Bloomfield bowling alley destroyed by fire
(Local News ~ 09/30/02)
BLOOMFIELD ---- The Bloomfield area's only bowling alley was destroyed by fire Saturday morning ---- a fire police say is "very suspicious." Bruce Porter, chief of the Fairplay-Grant Township (Switz City) Volunteer Fire Department, said his department was called to the Heaton Bowling and Recreation Center on State Road 54 west of Bloomfield at 5:40 a.m. on Saturday. When they arrived, the building was almost fully engulfed in flames...
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Martha Sadie Wright
(Local News ~ 09/30/02)
LYONS ---- Martha Sadie Wright, 83, of Lyons and formerly of Bicknell, passed away at Greene County General Hospital in Linton at 4:35 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 27, 2002. Born July 15, 1919, in Edwardsport, she was the daughter of Darwin and Etta (McLin) Martindale...
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