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Eastern board cuts three teachers
(Local News ~ 04/09/03)
EASTERN HEIGHTS ---- In an effort to soften the anticipated financial blow associated with hefty state budget cuts and uncertainty of when the Eastern School District will receive its county property tax collection allotments, the school board acted Tuesday night to issue reduction in force notices to three full-time teachers for next school year...
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Lakers win second game
(Local News ~ 04/09/03)
Matt Davis made the most of his first outing, striking out four and walking two in three shutout innings as Shakamak defeated visiting Ravenna, Mich. 12-2 in five innings Tuesday night. "It was a good game as far as Matt getting out on the mound for the first time this year," said Shakamak assistant baseball coach Matt Fougerousse. "Brock Hudson (four strikeouts, two hits, two unearned runs and three walks) also threw two quality innings."...
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Lakers blank WRV
(Local News ~ 04/09/03)
Nicole Fougerousse tossed a no-hitter to lead Shakamak to a 13-0 victory in five innings over visiting White River Valley in a South Western Indiana Athletic Conference softball game Tuesday night. Fougerousse struck out 10 and walked two, improving to 2-0...
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Linton's baseball team routs Washington Catholic
(Local News ~ 04/09/03)
Linton-Stockton is still displaying the ability to put together big innings. The Miners scored 12 runs in the fourth as they extended their winning streak to two games with a 21-5 victory over Washington Catholic at Roy Herndon Field Tuesday night. "We seem to have the ability to have one breakout inning," said Linton-Stockton baseball coach Bart Berns. "We had an eight-run inning against Shoals and scored seven runs in the sixth against Cloverdale."...
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Three seniors lead the way for Linton's track team
(Local News ~ 04/09/03)
Aaron Lynn will begin his fourth season as boys track and field coach at Linton-Stockton with 22 athletes on the roster, including three seniors ---- Bobby Rose, Daniel French and Tommy Wilson. French competed on the 400 meter relay team that was first at the Greene County Invitational, helping the Miners to their first county championship since 1996...
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Linton's girls track team has a lot of members this year
(Local News ~ 04/09/03)
With 28 girls, including six seniors and 10 freshman on the 2003 Linton-Stockton girls track and field team, coach Jeff Franklin won't have any problem filling any of the events. "I feel like we have more depth than we've had in years," said Franklin, whose Lady Miners have won the Tri-River Conference, South Western Indiana Athletic Conference and Greene County meet the past four seasons. "It makes it real neat when you are able to move so many girls around...
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IHSAA to decided about sectional assignments
(Local News ~ 04/09/03)
SWITZ CITY ---- The Indiana High School Athletic Association will decide whether White River Valley or Clay City will host the boys and girls basketball sectionals for the next four years or whether those sectionals will operate on a rotating basis...
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Worthington council concerned with safety
(Local News ~ 04/09/03)
WORTHINGTON ---- The Worthington Town Council discussed safety fencing around an old building, placing two trailers on a single property, and property owners' responsibility to pay overdue sewer bills. Council president Bill Bays and council members Vern Spoor, Hal Harp, Josh Harrell and Debbie Dyer discussed plans to install a six-foot, chain-link fence around the old Williams Hotel building on Washington Street...
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Mehrle resigns as Eastern principal
(Local News ~ 04/09/03)
EASTERN HEIGHTS ---- For the past four years, Eastern Junior-Senior High School principal John Mehrle has tried hard to present a positive, upbeat attitude to his staff and students everyday he walked into the school building. Mehrle said he's learned much in this, this first administrative assignment, and it is with mixed emotions that he's made the decision to move on to the next hurdle in his career...
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Worthington to put up signs at WRV elementary
(Local News ~ 04/09/03)
WORTHINGTON ---- The Town Council and the White River Valley-Worthington Elementary/Junior High School agreed to place new "School Zone" signs near the school, to make the area safer for children. At Tuesday's town council meeting, Layton Wall, the school's assistant principal and athletic director, said an old, movable sign that is placed in the middle of Main Street each day by school custodians, needs to be removed. ...
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Inspectors impressed with NJROTC
(Local News ~ 04/09/03)
Clip-clop, clip-clop, clip-clop. The precision sound of perfect, in-synch marching steps of the young cadets from the Bloomfield High School Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps program echoed loudly throughout Glover Gymnasium on Tuesday morning...
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Gregg to serve as Fourth of July parade marshal
(Local News ~ 04/09/03)
One of Indiana's most famous residents ---- and certainly Sandborn's ---- will serve as parade marshal of the Linton Freedom Festival Parade on July 4. John Gregg, former State Representative and Speaker of the House, served in the Indiana House of Representatives from 1986 until last year. Gregg, a Democrat, has also served as Majority Leader and Minority Leader...
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Bayh works to keep jobs at Crane
(Local News ~ 04/09/03)
WASHINGTON, D.C. ---- As Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center and other important military facilities around the country brace themselves for another round of base closings, U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Indiana) has asked Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to include foreign installations in the pool of facilities being considered for closure...
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Mary Lou (Blockland) Williamson
(Local News ~ 04/09/03)
JASONVILLE ---- Mary Lou (Blockland) Williamson, 64, of Jasonville, passed away Saturday, April 5, 2003, at her residence. Born Jan. 4, 1939, in Hammond, Ind., she was the daughter of Fred and Nellie (Geren) Blockland. She was a homemaker, and attended the Assembly of God Church in Portage...
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