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Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce to host Meet and Greet
(Local News ~ 02/14/08)
The Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce will host its Meet and Greet event Feb. 20 from 5-7 p.m. at the Bloomfield Community Building. Refreshments will be served. The event will allow Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce members and area residents to meet the new Board of Directors...
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Marion B. Manis
(Obituary ~ 02/14/08)
Marion B. Manis, 85, of Dugger and formerly of Merrillville, passed away at 7:25 p.m. Wednesday Feb. 13, 2008 at Sullivan County Community Hospital in Sullivan. Born in Merrillville on April 25, 1922, he was the son of Sydney and Ethel Dilling Manis...
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Three from county attend community development session in Danville
(Local News ~ 02/14/08)
A critical question to ask of our citizens is "What do you care enough about to cause you to take action?" This answer will highlight the difference between motivation and opinion and help a community identify those areas that citizens are motivated to address. Identifying what motivates citizens is a key area of "Asset Based Community Development"...
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Candidates have a week to file for election
(Local News ~ 02/14/08)
A week remains for candidates to file their intentions to be on the May 6 Primary Election ballot. The deadline to file candidacy papers with the Greene County Voter Registration office is noon Feb. 22. Several hotly contested races are shaping up for county commissioner, county council at large and the school boards, according to Greene County Voter Registration Clerk Marjorie Cullison...
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Mowery, Spade to marry
(Engagement ~ 02/14/08)
Bobby and Char Lene Mowery of Jasonville are pleased to announce the engagement and upcoming wedding of their daughter, Chasity Ann Mowery to Tony Ryan Spade, the son of Tony and Tonya Spade and Sarah (York) Spade, all of Robinson, Ill. The bride-elect is a graduate of Shakamak High School and Lincoln Trail College where she earned an associate degree in nursing. ...
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Indiana Bowhunter Association makes significant contributions
(Outdoors ~ 02/14/08)
Many moons have passed since the inception of the Indiana Bowhuter Association back in 1965. For over 40 years now, the IBA has been striving to not only protect the rights of bowhunters across the State of Indiana, but also to ensure future generations of arrow flingers have the opportunity to roam the woods armed with nothing more than a stick and string...
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Shakamak school board learns old Coalmont property title search is done
(Local News ~ 02/14/08)
JASONVILLE -- Reporting for Superintendent CG Epple who was absent, Junior/Senior High School Principal Vanessa Hodge announced at the MSD of Shakamak Board of School Trustees meeting Thursday evening that the Coalmont property's title search is completed, and it will be appraised next week...
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Family Life Center offering training sessions
(Local News ~ 02/14/08)
The Family Life Center is now offering free training sessions to the public on subjects such as community networking and volunteerism. Dianne Langer, FLC director, explained that the four training sessions provide lunch and are open to all Greene County residents...
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Felony charge results in habitual offender enhancement filing against Linton man
(Local News ~ 02/14/08)
A felony theft charge was filed in Greene Superior Court on Thursday along with a request for habitual felony offender sentence enhancement against a Linton man, Kirk R. Sanders, with two previous felony convictions. The preliminary charge of class D felony theft is in connection with an incident which occurred at Jim's Petro Plus Gas Station in Linton on Jan. 31 and has been under investigation by the Linton Police Department...
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What's that smell?
(Local News ~ 02/14/08)
The Bloomfield Town Council will focus on how to control the petroleum-based smell reported near Seminary and Railroad Streets in a special session at 5 p.m. today at town hall. Council President Jo Ann Carmichael explained Thursday, "We're just going to decide (whether) to run a camera up the sewer lines on the south end. We have a smell down there every once in awhile."...
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Bethell: Economic development takes time
(Local News ~ 02/14/08)
There are no quick fixes or hasty results when it comes to economic development. The business is highly competitive and every county in the state is involved in this high stakes game. Greene County Economic Development Corporation Executive Director Joan Bethell says the nature of what economic developers -- like herself -- do is long-term with tangible things sometimes years away...
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Economic development director understands recent criticism
(Local News ~ 02/14/08)
Greene County Economic Development Corporation Executive Director Joan Bethell says she doesn't take recent criticism and apprehensions expressed by local town officials personally when they were asked to pay a per capita amount to help support local economic development efforts...
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Linton man nabbed on federal child pornography warrant
(Local News ~ 02/14/08)
A Linton man is in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Indianapolis on California charges accusing him of distributing child pornography following his apprehension in Sullivan County by a state police trooper on Thursday afternoon...
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Police Logs
(Police Reports ~ 02/14/08)
GREENE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT JAIL LOG LINTON POLICE DEPARTMENT ACTIVITY LOG The Linton Police Department's activity log for Wednesday included one driver's license check, one medical/extraction, one follow-up investigation, three requests for information only, one school/foot patrol, one disorderly conduct, one accident with property damage, three medical/illness, four animal complaints, one prowler, one suspicious vehicle/person, one harassment complaint, one extra patrol, one theft-other, one disabled/stranded vehicle, one domestic dispute, one open door/garage, one battery, two traffic stops.. ...
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Greene County Court News
(Police Reports ~ 02/14/08)
GREENE SUPERIOR COURT CRIMINAL CASES State v. Jason Wisniewski, check deception State v. Cynthia A. Reed, check deception State v. Dustin D. Hayes, driving while suspended State v. Brian E. Carpenter, operating a vehicle while intoxicated in a manner which endangered a person, operating a vehicle while intoxicated, obstruction of justice...
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Election Filings
(Police Reports ~ 02/14/08)
Filings with the Greene County Clerk's office for the May 6 Primary Election as of 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14. The filing period for the primary election opened Jan. 23 and will continue until noon on Feb. 22. The General Election will be conducted Nov. 4...
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Community Notes
(Community News ~ 02/14/08)
Wage rate meeting set In accordance with Indiana Open Door Law, a meeting to determine Common Construction Wage Rates has been arranged for the Town of Worthington -- Williams House Hotel Asbestos Abatement project and other such business as may be brought before the committee on that date...
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Lady Wolverines prepare for regional
(High School Sports ~ 02/14/08)
After breezing through the Class A Clay City Sectional, the White River Valley Lady Wolverines will begin their quest for their third regional title Saturday morning. WRV last won a regional title in 2001, a year in which they also claimed the semistate title...
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Lady T-Birds begin regional against Covenant Christian
(High School Sports ~ 02/14/08)
Neither Covenant Christian and Eastern Greene are used to playing at the regional level in high school girls basketball. The Lady Thunderbirds (11-15) hadn't done it since 1985, when coach Toby Yoho was leading Eastern Greene to the second of back-to-back sectional titles at Switz City...
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WRV falters in second half at No. 3 North Daviess
(High School Sports ~ 02/14/08)
ELNORA -- The White River Valley boys basketball team had the Class A No. 3 North Daviess Cougars on the ropes throughout most of the first half, but it was the Cougars who delivered the knockout punch in the second half as they defeated the Wolverines 64-43 here Thursday night in a Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference game...
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Nicholson sisters finally get chance to play together
(High School Sports ~ 02/14/08)
EASTERN HEIGHTS -- Allyson Nicholson has been looking up to her older sister Alyssa Nicholson for as long as she can remember. Allyson also was dreaming of the day when the two could play side-by-side on the Eastern Greene High School girls basketball team...
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