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'Miracle babies' celebrate first birthdays today
(Local News ~ 07/08/04)
"They are miracles." That is how Mary (Gilstrap) Secrest describes her quadruplet great-grandchildren who celebrate their first birthday today. Secrest tries to get to Sullivan as often as possible to see the three girls and one boy. Her grandson, David R. Gilstrap and his wife Brandy are the proud, but tired, parents...
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Renovation being done in honor of Bayse
(Local News ~ 07/08/04)
A shelterhouse in the Bloomfield Town Park will soon undergo a major renovation thanks to a donation from the Bloomfield Masonic Lodge No. 84 as a memorial remembrance to a former town councilman, who died last December. Town council president Eric Harrah announced at Wednesday's monthly meeting that the Masonic Lodge had offered to pick up the tab for planned improvements to the Masonic Shelterhouse, located in the southeast corner of the park. ...
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Bloomfield Police to get training with Tasers
(Local News ~ 07/08/04)
Members of the Bloomfield Police Department will undergo training next week on use of their new arsenal of Taser weapons. The Taser guns deliver 50,000 volts of non-lethal firepower in five-second jolts. The training session will be at 5 p.m. on July 14 at the Bloomfield Junior High School gym...
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Jewell Jubilee Band Festival is Saturday
(Local News ~ 07/08/04)
The marching band and circus music made famous by the late Fred. A. Jewell ---- Worthington's favorite son ---- will be featured at the sixth annual Jewell Jubilee Band Festival on Saturday. Festivities will get under way in the Worthington Park at 11 a.m. on the historic bandstand where Jewell conducted band nearly eight decades ago. Three area bands will each play a concert with all three bands combined in an hour-long grand finale at 2 p.m...
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Seever named to meth task force
(Local News ~ 07/08/04)
A Greene County probation officer and former Indiana State Police undercover drug agent has been appointed to serve on the state's methamphetamine task force. Lance Seever, of Linton, has been selected to serve on the task force created by Public Law 39 ---- authored by District 45 State Rep. Alan D. Chowning (D-Sullivan), which became law July 1...
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Senior citizen facing methamphetamine charges
(Local News ~ 07/08/04)
A 65-year-old man is facing several drug charges after police went to his Jasonville home on June 30. Terry R. Goad has been charged with dealing methamphetamine over three grams, a class A felony; possession of methamphetamine over three grams, a class C felony; maintaining a common nuisance, a class D felony and possession of marijuana, a class A misdemeanor...
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Man flees after shooting at car in Coalmont
(Local News ~ 07/08/04)
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a man who shot up a car in Coalmont on Wednesday afternoon. Chance Kernstein, 20, used "some type of a rifle to shoot up a car in front of a residence. He was angry at the tenants inside the residence," said Indiana State Police Trooper Matt Mischler...
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Petro owner considering options
(Local News ~ 07/08/04)
Eugene Hendricks was on a church mission trip in South Dakota when he received word his business in Linton was on fire. "I didn't know to what extent the damage was. I didn't know if it was something we could just rebuild. I didn't find out until later that it was a total loss. I just wondered what our options were to go on," said Hendricks...
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Informal offer made on Goosepond
(Local News ~ 07/08/04)
State officials have made an informal offer to purchase the Goosepond land making it the largest buy of public recreational land from a private seller in Indiana's history, if it is accepted. The exact amount of the verbal offer made to landowner Maurice Wilder was not released, but Indiana Department of Natural Resources director John Goss says state officials offered an amount within the appraised value range of $5.3 million to $7.3 million...
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Billy J. Harbin, Ph.D.
(Obituary ~ 07/08/04)
Billy J. Harbin, Ph.D., 74, of Baton Rouge, La., and formerly of Indiana, passed away June 24, 2004 in London, England. Born May 27, 1930 in Indiana, he was the son of Jesse and Frances (Tully) Harbin. He received three degrees from Indiana University: the Bachelor of Arts in comparative literature in 1958, a Master of Arts degree in theatre and drama in 1963, and a doctorate in theatre and drama in 1970. ...
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