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Executive director hired at WestGate at Crane Tech Park
(Local News ~ 06/30/11)
LOOGOOTEE -- The WestGate Authority named Charles Selby, 57, a WestGate Authority member and executive director of the Daviess County Chamber of Commerce, to serve as the WestGate technology park's first executive director, according to Kent Parisien, president of the Authority. Selby was selected at the June meeting of the Authority on Tuesday after a six-month executive search process...
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Witt among GVSU athletes receiving honors
(College Sports ~ 06/30/11)
Witt among GVSU athletes receiving honors Bay City, Mich. -- The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) recently announced its Spring 2011 All-Academic and All-Academic Excellence Teams, as Grand Valley State's spring student-athletes were well represented on both academic teams. ...
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Tour continues for three local golfers
(Community Sports ~ 06/30/11)
Three area golfers have completed another round of competition in the 2011 Mountain Dew Tour. This time around it was the Indiana Golf Foundation Age Group Championship played at the Indiana National Golf Club in Plymouth. In the boys 17 year old division a pair of Linton-Stockton golfers, Ben Boyd and Luke Jerrells, recorded scores, while Levi Jerrells competed in the boys 11-year old division...
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Miner Shootout Saturday
(High School Sports ~ 06/30/11)
The Linton-Stockton High School boys basketball team will be hosting a shootout Saturday. Eastern Greene, Terre Haute North, Eminence, Loogootee, Clay City, Owen Valley, Robinson, Ill., Sullivan and Riverton Parke are the high school boys basketball teams that will be joining the Miners in the tournament,...
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SHS grad leads South Putnam to state title
(High School Sports ~ 06/30/11)
Make no mistake about it, Chris Jones still wants to be a high school varsity boys basketball coach, but in the mean time the 2000 Shakamak High School graduate is carving himself a niche as a softball coach at South Putnam. After posting records of 19-1 and 24-2 in the first two seasons, South Putnam won 28 of 29 games and earned a Class 2A softball state championship earlier this month, including pulling out a 5-1 victory in nine innings over Woodlan in the championship game at Ben Davis High School in Indianapolis.. ...
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Linton food pantry collecting canned goods during Monday's parade
(Local News ~ 06/30/11)
While many floats will be throwing candy and other items from their cars, trailers and walkers, the Linton Community Food Pantry will be reversing the Independence Day tradition. The eight partner churches involved in the Linton Community Food Pantry are inviting everyone in the community to bring canned goods with them to the parade Monday. The group will have a float in the parade, equipped with patriotically painted shelves and large can with their logo on it...
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Reduced pharmancy dispensing fees have local businessman concerned
(Local News ~ 06/30/11)
Linton Family Pharmacy owner Jeff Doris is concerned about new dispensing fee reductions for Indiana Medicaid providers that take effect today. The pharmacy dispensing fee will be cut 38 percent to $3 from $4.90 per prescription. "It's going to pinch," Doris told the Greene County Daily World. "They (the state) sort of did this through the backdoor mechanism of invoking an emergency rule, rather than putting it before the legislature for public commentary ... I don't know what to make of this."...
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Trish's, a new Italian eatery, opens in Linton Tuesday
(Local News ~ 06/30/11)
A new Linton eatery opening Tuesday in the former home of the Double Dog serves up Italian food by way of Alaska. Trish's, an Italian-American restaurant, serves as the first foray Bloomington native Trish Wible's made into owning a restaurant after years spent as a hotel manager who also loved to cook...
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Carpenter has been coaching a long time
(High School Sports ~ 06/30/11)
DANVILLE, ILL. -- Linton native Mike Carpenter always wanted to be a coach, he just did not realize how much of a head start he would get. Carpenter had planned to have a playing career at Danville Area Community College after graduation from Linton-Stockton High School in 1994...
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Early morning appetite for hot dogs lands man in trouble with the law
(Local News ~ 06/30/11)
Apparently, a 37-year-old Bloomfield man has an early morning appetite for hot dogs. More particular, his palette-pleasing search for wieners and then dipping them in melted nacho cheese sauce has landed Michael G. Pitcher in trouble with the law. Pitcher, who is formally charged in Greene Superior Court with theft -- a class D felony -- is accused of visiting a Bloomfield convenience store and not paying for the tube-shaped meat products on at least five different occasions...
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Bloomfield Elementary ISTEP scores 'outstanding'
(Local News ~ 06/30/11)
Bloomfield School District (BSD) Superintendent Dan Sichting commended Elementary School Principal Mary Jane Vandeventer and her staff for their increased ISTEP+ testing scores while in regular session at the school board meeting on Thursday. "The third, fourth and fifth (grade) ISTEP scores were outstanding ...Hats off to her (Vandeventer) and her staff," Sichting said...
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The 'Colonel' is leaving town; KFC closing its doors
(Local News ~ 06/30/11)
The colonel will no longer be a part of Linton after Thursday; Colonel Sanders that is. Kentucky Fried Chicken in Linton will close down at 10 p.m. on Thursday due to a lawsuit that has been filed with the company citing the lack of remodeling, according to Linton KFC General Manager Stacy Thuis said...
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