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Fletcher gives inside look at a soldier's life
(Local News ~ 12/19/03)
From the desk of 1 Sgt. (Daniel) Fletcher to the citizens of Greene, Owen, and Morgan Counties. I bring you greetings from Bravo Company 1/152 Infantry. Our Armory is in Martinsville, Ind., but our Company is made up of soldiers from the previous stated counties. ...
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Mary B. McCammon
(Obituary ~ 12/19/03)
DUGGER ---- Mary B. McCammon, 77, of Dugger, died at 11:35 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 18, at Sullivan County Community Hospital. Born in Sullivan County on Oct. 21, 1926, she was the daughter of Russel and Toka Moore Clayton. She was a member of the Shiloh Church of Christ, and owned and operated Mary's Country Store in Dugger since 1997...
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Inge L. Opel
(Obituary ~ 12/19/03)
BLOOMFIELD ---- Inge L. Opel, 61, of Bloomfield, died at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 17, at Select Specialty Hospital in Bloomington. Born July 23, 1942, in Kaiserslautern, Germany, she was the daughter of Karl and Marie Bohl Koenig. She worked at RCA and GE in Bloomington, Angell's Food Center in Linton and was a homemaker. She was a member of the American Legion Post 196 Auxiliary in Bloomfield...
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Mary Rebecca Sparks
(Obituary ~ 12/19/03)
ODON ---- Mary Rebecca Sparks, 82, of Odon, died at 1:50 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 18, at Prairie Village Living Center in Washington. Born Jan. 8, 1921, in Martin County, she was the daughter of Stephen and Mary A. Clemons Westhafer. She was a homemaker, a member of the Odon First Christian Church and the Daviess County Homemakers Club...
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Ann E. Stefanski
(Obituary ~ 12/19/03)
JASONVILLE - Ann E. Stefanski, 86, of Jasonville, died at 10:10 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 17, at Union Hospital in Terre Haute. Born July 14, 1917, in Jasonville, she was the daughter of Paul and Anna Ansorge Stefanski. She was a member of Telephone Pioneers and retired in 1982 as a telephone operator from General Telephone...
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Add it up, and Lady T-Birds level WRV
(High School Sports ~ 12/19/03)
SWITZ CITY-In two games leading up to Thursday's SWIAC showdown between host White River Valley and three-time SWIAC champion Eastern, Bloomfield defeated Eastern by five points and WRV beat Bloomfield by 12 points. Did that mean that WRV was going to be 17 points better than Eastern last night? Hardly. The margin was 17 points, but it was the Lady T-Birds who handed the Lady Wolverines a 48-31 thrashing...
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Lady Cardinals hold back Blackhawks
(High School Sports ~ 12/19/03)
Bloomfield nearly let a victory slip through their fingers against visiting Springs Valley on Thursday until sophomore Rachel Thomas came to the rescue. Thomas scored 10 of her team-high 13 points in the fourth quarter and secured the final rebound as the Lady Cardinals held off the Lady Blackhawks 54-53 at Glover Gymnasium...
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Bloomfield-WRV series has been going for strong 14 years
(High School Sports ~ 12/19/03)
This is White River Valley's 14th season as a basketball program. From the program's inception, the biggest rivalry game has been Bloomfield and that hasn't changed. The Wolverines and Cards began playing in 1990 and the series is nearly even. WRV leads the series 12-11 heading into Saturday's showdown between the top-ranked Wolverines and third-ranked Cardinals...
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Area briefs
(High School Sports ~ 12/19/03)
Linton 7th grade girls post victory Linton's seventh grade girls basketball team defeated Washington Catholic 28-25 on Thursday. Megan Barnes led the Lady Miners with 10 points. Izzy Carpenter had six points, Taneal Church four, Morgan Sanders and Tiffany Farmer three and Tricia Emmons two...
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Linda D. Mayfield
(Obituary ~ 12/19/03)
Linda D. Mayfield, 52, of Linton, passed away at 1:18 a.m. today, Friday, Dec. 20, at Greene County General Hospital Arrangements are pending at the Anderson-Poindexter Memory Chapel.
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Hiram Rodney Baker
(Obituary ~ 12/19/03)
BEDFORD ---- Hiram Rodney Baker, 57, of Bedford, died at 6:45 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 18, at his residence. Born Dec. 1, 1946, in Linton, he was the son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Wilson) Baker. He was a retired tool and die maker for GM Powertrain in Bedford. ...
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Fourth grader had good intentions with present
(Local News ~ 12/19/03)
A Bloomfield Elementary School fourth-grade student apparently has learned at a young age that diamonds are a girl's best friend. On Thursday ---- one day before the holiday break ---- a teaching assistant at the school overheard a young fourth-grade boy boasting to his friends about the "diamond ring" he had brought to school as a Christmas gift for his girlfriend...
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Winalta USA to close its doors
(Local News ~ 12/19/03)
Winalta USA in Linton has closed. "We had no option but to close. To carry on would cost another $2 million and we would have losses for at least another 12 to 18 months. It didn't make any economic sense to go forward," said Blair Halliday, president and chief operating officer of Winalta, Inc. of Canada...
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Two Jasonville businesses destroyed by fire
(Local News ~ 12/19/03)
JASONVILLE ---- An early morning fire today has destroyed two downtown businesses and a couple of apartments in Jasonville. "When I first came around the corner I would not have given you two cents for the whole block," said Jasonville Volunteer Fire Department Chief Harold "Pude" Keller...
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Local officials react to Winalta USA's closing
(Local News ~ 12/19/03)
The sudden closing of Winalta USA, Linton's only manufacturing plant, caused a shock wave throughout Linton and Greene County. The plant, a modular home manufacturing company, employed 80 people. Plant officials say the closure is a business decision, as the plant was losing money...
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Bloomfield may have to borrow more money
(Local News ~ 12/19/03)
Delays in tuition support payments from the state Department of Education and delays in the county reassessment, which has caused additional delays in property tax revenue payments to the Bloomfield School District, has prompted the school board to seek authority to advertise for a $2.5 million emergency operating loan during the year 2004...
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WRV School Board meets
(Local News ~ 12/19/03)
SWITZ CITY ---- The White River Valley Board of School Trustees had good-byes to say at its meeting Thursday evening. Eva Frye, who has been corporation treasurer (at Central High School and White River Valley) since 1980, attended her last meeting as treasurer. She will retire at the end of the month...
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Bloomfield School Board meets
(Local News ~ 12/19/03)
The Bloomfield School District has received a donation of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) unit ---- used in an emergency situation to aid a heart attack victim. The equipment was donated by Emergency Preparedness: Integrated Community Solutions (EPICS) of Greene County...
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Area wrecks
(Local News ~ 12/19/03)
Robert Bradford of Linton sustained a small abrasion on his hand at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 18, in a one-car accident on State Road 54, west of County Road 475W. According to Greene County Sheriff's Deputy Terry Wade's report, Bradford was driving a 1994 Ford Explorer eastbound when he left the right side of the roadway, struck a guard rail and rolled the vehicle, coming to rest inverted in a ditch. ...
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Gun club to host charity shoot
(Local News ~ 12/19/03)
Triple H Gun Club, south of Linton, is about more than guns. It is a facility for shooting sports, no doubt, but it is also used to raise money for charities. On Saturday, the club will host a trap and skeet and sporting clays shoot to benefit the Lighthouse Mission in Terre Haute...
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Cards, Wolverines clash in top five showdown
(High School Sports ~ 12/19/03)
Bloomfield hosted White River Valley for the first time ever last year. The Wolverines entered Glover Gymnasium unbeaten and ranked number one, but didn't leave that way after a six-point loss. The Cards and Wolverines met two-and-a-half months later at Clay City for the sectional championship and the Cards won again by the same six-point margin...
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