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Bixler appears in court
(Local News ~ 03/19/03)
BLOOMFIELD ---- A 16-year-old boy police believe was the third part of a twisted triangle murder plot appeared in Greene Circuit Court on Tuesday afternoon. Aaron Issac Bixler was read the charge against him, a charge of conspiracy to commit murder. The charge follows the arrests of Constance Tomich and Melissa Zitterman in the Valentine's Day shooting death of Ronald Tomich of Linton...
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James E. Goad
(Local News ~ 03/19/03)
BLOOMFIELD ---- James E. Goad, 64, of Bloomfield, passed away at 9:18 p.m. March 17, 2003, at Bloomington Hospital. Born May 29, 1938, in Greene County, he was the son of Ernest Roy and Garnet (Rose) Goad. He worked in maintenance at Thomson in Bloomington for 39 years, retired. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and Solsberry Order of Eastern Star, a life member of the National Rifle Association, and a veteran of the Army...
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Violet L. Fleming
(Local News ~ 03/19/03)
Violet L. Fleming, 85, of Linton, passed away at 7:40 p.m. Monday, March 17, 2003, at Greene County General Hospital in Linton. Born Nov. 22, 1917, in Springfield, Ill., she was the daughter of Ocie and Beulah (Homer) Robinson. She formerly worked in various positions, including in the cafeteria at North Central High School. She was a 1937 graduate of Center Grove High School in Greenwood. She was a member of the First Christian Church in Linton...
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Linton splits
(Local News ~ 03/19/03)
Linton's seventh grade AAU boys basketball team split two overtime games, finishing third in a tournament at Bloomfield Saturday. In their opener, Jacob Fender (21) and Ethan Brewer (17) combined for 38 points to help the Miners get by Oolitic 52-49 in overtime...
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Misner to play volleyball for Vincennes University
(Local News ~ 03/19/03)
Good things come to those who wait, at least that was the case for Linton-Stockton senior Brittney Misner. The 5-7 outside hitter did not know if she was going to be able to continue her volleyball career, but Tina Miller, the coach of Vincennes University Junior College, offered Misner a scholarship...
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Indiana Department of Commerce opens Bloomington office
(Local News ~ 03/19/03)
The Indiana Department of Commerce recognizes the need for economic development in the state, and in an effort to step up their efforts it has put a regional office in Bloomington. Doris Sims, director of region 10, was at the Linton-Stockton Chamber of Commerce meeting Tuesday afternoon to talk about the regional office...
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Attorney files for change of venue for Constance Tomich
(Local News ~ 03/19/03)
Constance Tomich's attorney has filed a motion for a change of venue for her trial in the case of the murder of her husband, Ronald Tomich. Randall Scott Johns filed the motion late Tuesday afternoon in Greene Circuit Court. Constance Tomich is facing life without parole if she is convicted of aiding in murder and conspiracy to commit murder. She was initially charged with murder, but then 16-year-old Melissa Zitterman confessed to shooting Ronald Tomich to death on Valentine's Day...
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Linton officials hear update on JH study
(Local News ~ 03/19/03)
Linton-Stockton school officials met Tuesday night with engineers from Schmidt Associates, an Indianapolis company doing a building study on the Linton-Stockton Junior High School facility. The three-hour-plus meeting was mainly spent with the school officials listening to information presented to them by Schmidt Associates, according to Linton school superintendent Ron Bush...
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Courthouse employees get first-hand answers
(Local News ~ 03/19/03)
BLOOMFIELD ---- For the first time since a $10.5 million courthouse renovation project started last fall, Greene County commissioners Tom Britton, Warren Bartlett and Bart Beard sat down with courthouse employees Tuesday to talk about the problems facing the project...
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Woman wants help with muddy roads
(Local News ~ 03/19/03)
BLOOMFIELD ---- Greene County Commissioners on Tuesday heard one road complaint and a report on KPT, Inc., an abandoned tile manufacturing business, on which property taxes have not been paid. Charlotte Thomas of Jasonville complained about the condition of County Roads 800N and 1500W...
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Mildred V. Hanger
(Local News ~ 03/19/03)
SULLIVAN ---- Mildred V. Hanger, 85, of Sullivan, passed away at 7 a.m., March 18, 2003 at Lyons Health & Living Center. Born Sept. 18, 1917 in Lebanon, she was the daughter of Russell T. and Sylvia Lewis Morrow. She was a member of North State Street Church of Christ...
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