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Three WRV teachers retire
(Local News ~ 05/29/03)
When Jan Cabel, Dallas Fines and Marsha Roberts retired at the end of the 2002-03 school year, White River Valley High School didn't just lose teachers ---- it lost over a century of teaching experience. Cabel taught art for 44 years, and knows she will miss the daily interaction with the kids. But she also knows she's going to enjoy being home with her husband, Joe ---- also a retired teacher ---- working on their new house, and in her garden...
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Miners face North Knox ... again
(Local News ~ 05/29/03)
Linton-Stockton baseball coach Bart Berns has been in this predicament previously ---- having to play North Knox near the end of the regular season and then turn around and face the Warriors a week (eight days actually) later at the sectional. The Miners (18-9) and Warriors met last night, with host North Knox (9-11) prevailing 10-6. The two will turn around and face each other in the bye game of the Class 2A Eastern Sectional at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 5...
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Union falls to Pats
(Local News ~ 05/29/03)
Owen Valley had five players shoot 36 or less as the Patriot boys golf team defeated Union (Dugger) 136-204 in a match at the Sullivan Elks Club Wednesday. Owen Valley was led by medalist Nick Gillespie, whose 32 was one stroke lower than teammate Matt Beckwith...
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Miners fall to Warriors
(Local News ~ 05/29/03)
North Knox came up with 15 hits, including three home runs, as the host Warriors defeated Linton-Stockton 10-6 in a non-conference baseball game at Bicknell Wednesday. Nevin Ashley had two home runs and three RBIs while David Combs hit a three-run dinger in the four-run fourth inning...
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Game rained out
(Local News ~ 05/29/03)
Shakamak was leading visiting West Vigo 6-0 in the bottom of the third when the non-conference baseball game was called. "We got the JV game in and we won 2-1," said Shakamak coach Chip Sweet. "They had already stopped the (varsity) game several times before they finally called it...
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Miners advance to title game
(Local News ~ 05/29/03)
CLAY CITY-Linton would have waited all night if that's what it would have taken to beat Shakamak on Wednesday at the Clay City Sectional. As it was, the Lady Miners only needed half the night to down the Lady Lakers 5-3 and earn a spot in tonight's championship game against North Central, 7-4 winners over Clay City...
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Eastern gets by Bloomfield
(Local News ~ 05/29/03)
Shoddy defense is largely responsible for Bloomfield's 8-16 record and poor defense reared its ugly head again at Cardinal Field on Wednesday where the Cardinals lost to Eastern 10-8 in eight innings. Bloomfield made eight errors in the contest, six coming in Eastern's two big innings. Eastern (16-10) did not make an error...
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Talent contest scheduled
(Local News ~ 05/29/03)
Could the next "American Idol" be lurking in and around Greene County? The search is now on. Two county establishments are serving as preliminary competition sites in an effort to find the best karaoke singing talent in the area. Best Karaoke Rental, Inc., based in Bloomfield, is currently staging karaoke contests at eight area establishments ---- two are located in Greene County. ...
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Derr starts his campaign
(Local News ~ 05/29/03)
On Tuesday, Boonville native Kevin Derr announced his bid for the office of U.S. Congress in Indiana's 8th District. Beginning early in the morning at the courthouse in Greencastle, Derr spoke to a crowd that included David Wells, a representative of the local carpenter's union in Putnam County, and Andy O'Leary, former executive director of the Indiana Democratic Party...
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Cool nights delaying opening of Linton pool
(Local News ~ 05/29/03)
The opening date for Linton's A.M. Risher Memorial Swimming Pool ---- originally scheduled for Monday ---- has been put on hold, due to cool nights making the water too cold for swimming. Pool officials, including pool board president Nigel Lehman, are hoping warmer weather will heat up the water soon...
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Mother wants to help others
(Local News ~ 05/29/03)
Area drug and alcohol addicts could soon be helped by a special memorial fund that has been established by the family of a Bloomfield man who was tragically killed in a traffic accident on Memorial Day. A grieving mother sat in her downtown Bloomfield law office Wednesday morning and wept as she tried to remember her son and make sense of his death in an auto crash on State Road 54 east of Bloomfield on Monday evening...
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Zitterman signs plea agreement
(Local News ~ 05/29/03)
BLOOMFIELD ---- A 16-year-old Linton girl has signed a negotiated plea agreement admitting her part in the murder of Ronald Tomich on Feb.14. On Tuesday morning the plea agreement was filed in Greene Circuit Court, and Melissa Zitterman signed the agreement that was initially offered April 24...
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Bixler admits to his guilt
(Local News ~ 05/29/03)
BLOOMFIELD ---- Aaron Isaac Bixler, 16, who was charged in Greene Circuit Court as a juvenile, with conspiracy to commit murder, has signed a negotiated plea agreement admitting his guilt. Bixler was the third person charged in the Valentine's Day shooting death of Ronald Tomich...
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T-Birds blast Union
(Local News ~ 05/29/03)
North Central exploded for 20 runs in the final three innings as the visiting Thunderbirds defeated host Union (Dugger) 23-6 in a Tri-River Conference baseball game Wednesday. North Central, who evened its record at 11-11, finished with 22 hits. "We were ahead 5-2 going to the fourth inning," said Union coach Clarence Johnson. "Then they just started teeing off on the ball...
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