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Courthouse project comes under question
(Local News ~ 05/21/03)
BLOOMFIELD ---- Bills from contractors and engineers for work begun on a $10.5 million courthouse renovation project are coming in to county officials. So are bills on the extra work it's taking to fix an unstable foundation that has already caused some of the courthouse walls to crack...
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David Doyle
(Local News ~ 05/21/03)
BLOOMFIELD ---- David Doyle, 53, of Bloomfield, passed away at 11 a.m., Monday, May 19, 2003 at his residence. Born Jan. 13, 1950 at Johnson County, he was the son of Hurschell and Evelyn (Tearman) Doyle. He was in lawn care service, and self-employed. He was a member of Hobbieville Community Church, and was a veteran of the U.S. Army...
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Joanna L. Struckmeyer-Sutphin
(Local News ~ 05/21/03)
Joanna L. Struckmeyer-Sutphin, 82, of Linton, passed away at 9:52 a.m., Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at Greene County General Hospital in Linton. Born April 9, 2003 at Lyons, she was the daughter of Oliver Harry and Nelle (Shorter) Leavitt. She formerly worked as a nursing home secretary, and she was a member of the Saron United Church of Christ...
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Linda Marlene Lohkamp
(Local News ~ 05/21/03)
BLOOMFIELD ---- Linda Marlene Lohkamp, 59, of Bloomfield, passed away at 10 a.m., Tuesday May 20, 2003 at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. Born Aug. 7, 1943 in Indianapolis, she was the daughter of Ernest and Norma (Wicker) Grube. She was a homemaker, a horse woman, amateur artist, estate planner, investor, tax preparer, and a property manager...
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Cards 6-14
(Local News ~ 05/21/03)
Bloomfield's baseball team appeared set to snap a three-run losing streak when the Cards took an 8-5 lead into the bottom of the sixth inning at Barr-Reeve on Tuesday. Instead, the Vikings scored eight runs and sank the Cards 13-10. "It's extremely disappointing," said Bloomfield coach David Dean, who watched his team sink to 6-14. ...
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Bloomfield wins twinbill
(Local News ~ 05/21/03)
Bloomfield's softball team won a unique home and away SWIAC doubleheader on Tuesday. The Lady Cards, playing makeup games with White River Valley and Eastern, blanked WRV 14-0 at the Northside Diamond Complex, the loaded up and traveled to Eastern, defeating the Lady T-Birds 6-3...
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Linton girls finish fourth in track sectional
(Local News ~ 05/21/03)
TERRE HAUTE - Linton-Stockton did not have the breakout night that coach Jeff Franklin was looking for, but in the end the Lady Miners amassed 62 points, good for fourth place at the Terre Haute North girls track and field sectional here Tuesday night...
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Linton falls to South
(Local News ~ 05/21/03)
Terre Haute South fired a 141, which was 29 strokes better than visiting Linton-Stockton in a boys golf match at Rea Park Tuesday. The Braves had four golfers shoot 37 or less, led by Charlie Kluesner and Jason Ireland, who both fired 34s. For the Miners, who scored 170 and suffered its first loss in a dual meet, sophomore Drew Dunkerly was low with a 39...
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Miners earn 16th win
(Local News ~ 05/21/03)
Linton-Stockton scored all of its runs in the sixth inning as the Miners defeated host Loogootee 3-2 in a non-conference baseball game Tuesday. The three-run outburst in the sixth allowed the Miners to overcome a two-run deficit. Ted Butler singled, one of his two hits, and Nick Jones, who had a double, walked to start the rally. Josh House then doubled to left field, tying the game at 2-2...
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Eastern teacher wins Golden Apple Award
(Local News ~ 05/21/03)
EASTERN HEIGHTS ---- An Eastern Elementary School art teacher has been honored as one of the best teachers in a 16-county area of Indiana and Illinois. Charlotte Paul, a 14-year teaching veteran at the rural Greene County school, was selected by Terre Haute television station WTHI-Channel 10 as one of five Golden Apple Award recipients for 2003...
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Patterson beating the odds
(Local News ~ 05/21/03)
DOANS ---- For Todd and Amy Patterson of rural Bloomfield, news that their young son suffered from a rare and many times fatal form of cancer was shocking, devastating, and simply horrifying. They were numb with disbelief. How could this happen to them? Their son, Leon was just 14 months old...
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Log cabin provides fun learning tool
(Local News ~ 05/21/03)
A log cabin behind Linton-Stockton Elementary School is intended to be more to the school than its humble appearance suggests ---- it will lend authenticity to students' learning experiences when studying the early pioneer days. Its debut came on Monday when the fourth-grade classes visited the cabin to see demonstrations on pioneer life. ...
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Road near Bloomfield needs some help
(Local News ~ 05/21/03)
BLOOMFIELD ---- Greene County Commissioners discussed a county road south of Bloomfield that is slowly being eroded by a shifting river, and possible solutions, at their meeting Tuesday. The changing flow of the White River has been eroding the ground very near Base Road, which is the south end of South Seminary Street, south of Bloomfield, near the Greene County Covered Bridge...
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Council seeking some answers
(Local News ~ 05/21/03)
Members of the Greene County Council charge that the Greene County Commissioners, and specifically the Greene County Highway Department, are not following budget cutback guidelines like the other county offices, and accused the department of violating a hiring moratorium...
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Raymond Mizer
(Local News ~ 05/21/03)
WORTHINGTON ---- Raymond Mizer, 87, of Worthington, passed away at 9:15 p.m., Monday, May 19, 2003 at Owen Valley Health Campus in Spencer. Born July 3, 1915 in Owen County, he was the son of Grover and Alma (Collenbaugh) Mizer. He was a retired farmer and worked at Winters Limestone in Spencer until retiring in 1979. He was a member of the Church of Christ in Worthington...
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