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Linton City Council opens bids for new fire station
(Local News ~ 10/11/05)
The Linton fire station project progressed Monday night as nine general contractor bids were opened for the project. A representative from United Consulting opened the bids, which will now go to the building corporation. It's up to the building corporation to select one of the bids...
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Indiana High School Football Top 10 Teams
(High School Sports ~ 10/11/05)
The Associated Press Top 10 Indiana high school football teams, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through games of Oct. 8, rating points (150 possible) and previous rankings: Class 5A W-L Pts Pvs 1. Warren Central (15)........8-0 150 1...
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Linton's JV football team remains unbeaten
(High School Sports ~ 10/11/05)
LINTON -- Linton's junior varsity football team capped off an undefeated season with a 33-13 victory over Owen Valley. The Miners got the ball first and scored on an eight-play, 72-yard drive that took over five minutes, culminating in Nate Padgett running the ball into the endzone from 12 yards out. The kick from Josh Meurer was good, and Linton jumped ahead 7-0...
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Miners move up to No. 2 in poll
(High School Sports ~ 10/11/05)
Sports Report/Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS -- For the first time in many months there's been a chance of the wind in the Associated Press's weekly football poll after former No. 1 Seeger lost its first game of the season to unranked West Lafayette, 14-7...
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George William Myers
(Obituary ~ 10/11/05)
SEBASTIAN, Fla. -- George William Myers, 86, of Sebastian, Fla., and formerly of Syracuse, Indiana, passed away at 7:25 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 9, 2005. Born April 25, 1919, he was the son of Clarence and Eva Myers. He was a retired machinist for Dana (formerly Weatherhead in Syracuse) with 30 years of service, moving to Florida after retirement. He was a World War II veteran, serving with the 99th Infantry Division...
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Carolyn M. Howard
(Obituary ~ 10/11/05)
SULLIVAN -- Carolyn M. Howard, 73, of Sullivan, passed away at 1:02 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 9, 2005 at Sullivan County Community Hospital in Sullivan. Born Sept. 2, 1932 in Sullivan, she was the daughter of William B. and Gladys Adams McCoy. She was a retired registered nurse at Mary Sherman Hospital, a 1950 graduate of Sullivan High School and a 1953 graduate of Union Hospital School of Nursing...
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Virginia M. Dyer
(Obituary ~ 10/11/05)
Virginia M. Dyer, 84, of Worthington, passed away at 12:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 10, 2005 at Owen Valley Health Campus in Spencer. Born May 6, 1921 in Greene County, she was the daughter of Albert and Flora (Abrams) Stahl. She was a homemaker and a member of the Assembly of God Church in Worthington...
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Lyons woman faces additional charges
(Local News ~ 10/11/05)
Jeanie L. Bjella, 42, Lyons, is already being held in Greene County jail on three preliminary charges of theft and now she's being preliminary charged with three counts of forgery. On Aug. 27, 2004, the Indiana State Police was contacted by Peoples Trust Company in Linton because checks had been written on an account that had been closed for approximately 30 years. ...
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Speech team offers many life skills
(Local News ~ 10/11/05)
Although this is only the second year for Bloomfield High School's speech team, the students on the team have taken on some lofty goals. The speech team is the only one of its kind in the county and speech coach Jen Gerni has no doubt that the team will succeed at its many endeavors...
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NESC concerned about fuel costs
(Local News ~ 10/11/05)
HYMERA -- The Northeast Sullivan School Corporation dealt with transportation fund shortfalls and rising fuel costs Monday night. "We checked three vendors for average fuel prices on Oct. 1, and the average was $3.04 per gallon. This fuel increase will be reflected on the contract bus drivers for the next three months," NESC superintendent Richard Walters explained. "It affects each driver differently, due to the number of miles each driver travels each day...
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Bloomfield grad leaving mark on motor sports
(Local News ~ 10/11/05)
One 1994 Bloomfield High School graduate has been fortunate enough to land a job that has been a dream come true. Brett Nicholson is currently a graphic designer for Just Marketing -- a sports marketing firm in Indianapolis. "For me this is a dream come true," he explained...
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Union tops Loogootee in volleyball
(High School Sports ~ 10/11/05)
DUGGER -- Of all the victories the Union Lady Bulldogs have posted on the volleyball court this season, last night's may have been the biggest. Union defeated an excellent Loogootee team last night, but it took five games to do it. The Lady Bulldogs came out on top 24-16, 25-20, 25-19, 21-25, 20-18...
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