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Man sentenced for burglary of church
(Local News ~ 04/22/03)
BLOOMFIELD ---- The burglary of the Bethel Baptist Church near Vicksburg has resulted in a 12-year sentence for Joey D. Baker. As a part of a negotiated plea agreement in Greene Superior Court, Baker plead guilty to the burglary of the church in 2001...
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Vernon Lewis Love
(Local News ~ 04/22/03)
Vernon Lewis Love, 64, of Linton and formerly of Clay City, passed away Monday, April 21, 2003, at his residence. Born Jan 17, 1939 in Clay County, he was the son of Moses and Helen Dorothy (Partlow) Love. He was an Army veteran. Survivors include one daughter and son-in-law, Betty and Paul Page of Clay City; one son, Bryan Lutz of Sullivan; two grandchildren, Paul and Angel Page; his companion, Dixie Hyde of Linton; three sisters, Norma Keller of Clay City, Jeannetta Doall of Paris, Tenn., and Bonnie Carey of Paris, Tenn.; and two brothers and sisters-in-law, Rex and Shirley Love of Clay City and Ronnie and Mary Love of Terre Haute.. ...
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Miners fall to Rivet in baseball
(Local News ~ 04/22/03)
Vincennes Rivet is for real. If you don't believe it, just ask Linton-Stockton baseball coach Bart Berns, whose Miners were beaten by the Patriots 10-0 at Roy Herndon Field Monday. "They are a really fine ball club," Berns said of Rivet. "They have seven seniors who have played together for three or four years and it shows...
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Lakers blank Eels in baseball
(Local News ~ 04/22/03)
Shakamak began defense of its South Western Indiana Athletic Conference championship with an 11-0 victory over visiting Clay City in five innings at Jasonville Monday night. The win also counted in the Tri-River Conference standings. Southpaw Austin Witt tossed a two-hitter, evening his record at 2-2...
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Linton's golf team wins three
(Local News ~ 04/22/03)
For the second time this month, the Linton-Stockton boys golf team needed the fifth-score tiebreaker to earn a victory. The Miners (15-5) and host Sullivan each shot 159, but Kevin Dale's 42 was three strokes less than Sullivan's Jeffrey Moore as Linton recorded the win. The Miners also defeated Washington Catholic, who was third with a 185 and Bloomfield tallied 205...
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Eels top Bulldogs
(Local News ~ 04/22/03)
Clay City shot a 164 at Hoosier Hills, which easily defeated Union (Dugger), who had a 237, in a boys high school golf match Monday. Matt Farmer was low medalist for the Eels, shooting a 38. Adam Stockrahm was low for the Bulldogs with a 42. Logan Stockrahm shot 60, Evan Reynolds 65, Jay Alexander 70, Cody Holladay 71 and Jarrod Pope 73...
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NBA slapped its fans in the face
(Local News ~ 04/22/03)
You have to give credit to Major League Baseball. No matter how confusing it might have been to figure out where you could watch all of the early-round playoff games last fall, you could eventually find them on most cable systems, whether you realized that ABC Family was actually Fox Family in disguise, I think...
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Linton JV second
(Local News ~ 04/22/03)
Linton-Stockton split two games, finishing second at its own junior varsity softball invitational Saturday. In the opener, the Lady Miners held off Cloverdale 10-9. Jessica Boucher and Miranda Garwood pitched for Linton. Boucher allowed six runs, one earned, over six innings. She walked three and fanned three to earn the victory. Garwood had one walk and one strikeout in her one inning of relief...
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Linton School Board meets
(Local News ~ 04/22/03)
Linton-Stockton School superintendent Ron Bush remains optimistic about a tentative agreement recently reached between the school board and the Linton-Stockton Teachers Association, and mentioned it at a school board meeting Monday night. "Teachers will be meeting this week to ratify it from their standpoint, and I want to get with the (school) board to try and set up a special meeting for ratification sometime next week if we can," Bush said...
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Incumbent Slater faces Harris in primary
(Local News ~ 04/22/03)
Democrat incumbent Jack Slater is seeking re-election to the Jasonville City Council in Ward 4. He will face Democrat candidate Dale Harris in the May 6 primary election. Slater has served on the city council for nine years. He has been retired from Standard Register Printing Company from Terre Haute for nearly six years. He was employed there for 32 years...
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Powell offers final report on Landis murder
(Local News ~ 04/22/03)
Greene County Prosecutor David Powell spent the weekend pouring over police reports from the Indiana State Police in the murder of Jerry "Brud" Landis of Jasonville. This morning he issued a statement concerning the case involving Landis and Jon F. Lohr of Terre Haute...
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Jasonville to get police dog
(Local News ~ 04/22/03)
JASONVILLE ---- The Jasonville Police Department is getting ready to take a bite out of crime. On Friday, Jasonville Officer Jim Gadberry went to Denver, Ind., to meet his new partner. Gadberry is becoming Jasonville's first K-9 officer. Iwan, who is a 2-year-old Malinois dog, is spending the next couple of weeks getting to know Gadberry before they head off for five weeks of training...
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Garden spot found in Worthington
(Local News ~ 04/22/03)
WORTHINGTON ---- A local woman has planted the seed of an idea that she hopes will grow ---- a community garden for the people of Worthington. "I brought it up to the town council because I thought it would be good for the community," explained Chrissy McCraney...
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JoAnna Mae Smith
(Local News ~ 04/22/03)
JoAnna Mae Smith 64, of Linton, passed away at 10:45 p.m. Sunday, April 20, 2003, at Union Hospital in Terre Haute. Born Nov. 13, 1938, in Linton, she was the daughter of Aaron Cecil and Martha Dotta (Enochs) Glenn. She was a member of the White Rose Pentecostal Church in Linton, and was a homemaker...
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