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All-SWIAC slate released
(High School Sports ~ 03/09/12)
The Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference released its slate of All-conference athletes for boys and girls basketball and the academic all-conference slate following voting by conference coaches Thursday night at Dugger. Named to the list were 15 players from the boys and girls ranks, as well as nine members of the honorable mention list from the girls pool and 10 from the boys...
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T-Birds feature seven special seniors
(High School Sports ~ 03/09/12)
LITTLE CINCINNATI --Eastern Greene graduated seven seniors from last year's 23-win team that won a Class 2A Sectional championship and advanced to the final game of the regional. Despite that loss, the 2011-12 version was filled with hope, led by Division I (Wright State University) recruit JT Yoho, one of seven returning seniors...
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Linton Councilman aims for cleaner streets
(Local News ~ 03/09/12)
Linton City Councilman Jathan Wright's talking trash lately: Specifically, there's around 50 industrial strength garbage cans the city would like to sell to those who often find they've got a lot to throw away. Wright, newly elected as a councilman and recently appointed to the Greene County Solid Waste Board by Mayor John Wilkes, has made recycling and cleaner streets one of his primary projects...
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Owensburg Fire Department accepting donations to help tornado victims
(Local News ~ 03/09/12)
The tornadoes that hit southern Indiana last week were close to home for an eastern Greene County fireman. Owensburg-Jackson Township EMS Captain Brian Taylor grew up in New Washington, Ind., less than 10 miles from the areas destroyed by tornadoes March 2...
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Locals donate more than 80 prom dresses in less than an hour
(Local News ~ 03/09/12)
An overwhelming response by local residents to 100.7 Mix-FM's Operation Prom Dress: Henryville left morning show hosts Storm Avery and Jay Michaels in awe. In less than one hour, Greene County residents donated more than 80 prom dresses, in addition to a number of shoes and accessories...
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Cheapo Depo to host another "donation only" sale, inside this time
(Local News ~ 03/09/12)
Linton's Cheapo Depot will try another "donation only" sale next weekend, but will keep the inventory indoors, aiming to avoid the theft -- and controversy -- which followed September's tent sale. "We're going to keep it all inside this time," said volunteer worker Louise Sullivan. "We want to avoid the hassle we had last time."...
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Local fire department receives donation
(Local News ~ 03/09/12)
The Worthington Fire Department is appreciative of the help from a local business to replace an antiquated part on one of their fire trucks. Worthington Fire Department recently visited Crop Production Services (CPS), south of Worthington, for an annual review of their Emergency Response Plan, according to Fire Chief Kyle Steward...
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Indianapolis man flips vehicle; only minor injuries
(Local News ~ 03/09/12)
(By Nick Schneider) A 20-year-old Indianapolis man escaped serious injury in this single-vehicle rollover crash at about 2:05 p.m. on Friday on State Road 67, about two miles south of Lyons near Beehunter. Jonathan Sutton, driving a 1999 Honda CRV, was southbound and left the roadway overturning turning several times before coming to rest in a field, according to a report from Greene County Sheriff's Department Deputy James O'Malley. ...
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Greene County CASAs visit State House
(Local News ~ 03/09/12)
Six Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) from Greene County, along with director Samantha Flath, visited the statehouse in Indianapolis last week to help draw attention to the importance of the CASA program. CASAs Donnamarie English-Basilici, Mae Bell McCafferty, Lesa Corwin, Leslie Nelson, Shirley Hughes, and Sharon Edwards joined Flath at the Rally at the Statehouse on Monday...
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Police Logs
(Police Reports ~ 03/09/12)
GREENE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT JAIL LOG LINTON POLICE DEPARTMENT ACTIVITY LOG The Linton Police Department log for March 8 included: One vandalism case; one animal cruelty case; one personal injury traffic accident; one animal complaint; two theft cases; one disabled/stranded vehicle; and one traffic stop...
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Greene County Court News
(Court News ~ 03/09/12)
GREENE SUPERIOR COURT Criminal Filings State vs. Ray G. Rose, Jr., public intoxication. State vs. Christopher J. Flynn, driving while suspended with a prior conviction. State vs. Aaron Deckard, burglary, theft State vs. Herschel L. Lake, burglary, theft...
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Couple who took cans from VFW picked up on theft charges
(Local News ~ 03/09/12)
Two individuals from Coal City were arrested Thursday for their alleged involvement in the theft of recycle aluminum cans from the Worthington VFW Post 7117 last month. Daron A. Wallace, 46, and 40-year-old Dana R. Summers, both of 6442 Bethsedia Road in Coal City, were arrested by Greene County Sheriff's Department Deputy Ricardo Marques on Greene Circuit Court warrants -- approved Feb. 17 -- charging them with theft, a class D felony...
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Stolen belt could cost a Bloomington man his freedom
(Local News ~ 03/09/12)
It appears a stolen belt could cost a Bloomington man his freedom after he was arrested Thursday on petition to revoke his suspended sentence. George Smith, 42, formerly of Floyd Knobs, Ind., is being held without bond pending a court appearance. The petition to revoke his suspended sentence was filed Jan. 4 in Greene Superior Court by County Probation Officer Patrick Hillenburg...
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Jasonville PD catch men with stolen items
(Local News ~ 03/09/12)
Two men caught by Jasonville police in Wright Township earlier this week with a variety of hand tools -- including a bolt cutter -- in their possession will be in Greene Superior Court on Monday for initial hearings on burglary and theft charges. Aaron Deckard, 58, of Lawrence Hollow in rural Bloomfield and Herschel Lake, 44, of Bloomington, were detained by Jasonville Police Officer Brian Pilant on Wednesday evening after a report of a possible residential entry on County Road 1500W near County Road 900N was received by the Greene County Sheriff's Department.. ...
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Betty J. Etmeier
(Obituary ~ 03/09/12)
Betty J. Etmeier, 85, of Sandborn, , passed away Friday, March 9, 2012, at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes. Arrangements are currently pending at the Anderson-Poindexter Memory Chapel in Linton and will be made available to the public as soon as details are finalized...
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Bloomfield youth will travel to Puerto Rico
(Local News ~ 03/09/12)
The First Christian Church in Bloomfield would like to announce that its high school youth group, known as Teens Taking Action (TTA), is traveling to Puerto Rico in June to serve in the mission field through the YouthWorks mission organization. Teens Taking Action has worked together to attempt to raise the necessary money through craft and food sales, but they still need the majority of the fee for the trip. ...
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Joyce C. Landis
(Obituary ~ 03/09/12)
Joyce C. Landis, 63, of Linton, passed away Wednesday, March 7, 2012, at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. She was born on November 2, 1948 in Beulah, ND to Alex and Ida (Hausauer) Voegele. Joyce married William E. 'Bill' Landis on Nov. 26, 1968...
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Community Notes
(Local News ~ 03/09/12)
Today Sunday, March 11 Monday, March 12 Tuesday, March 13 Wednesday, March 14 Thursday, March 15 Friday, March 16 Saturday, March 17 Tuesday, March 20 Wednesday, March 21 Thursday, March 22 Friday, March 23 Saturday, March 24 Sunday, March 25 Friday, March 30...
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Molestation: Victim's mother says support is key
(Local News ~ 03/09/12)
One of the toughest things for the mother of the victim in the Randell Vandeventer molestation case to overcome is the betrayal of trust that she feels toward the defendant and his wife. "We really considered them to be our friends," she said in pointing out that Vandeventer and his wife went to her father's out-of-town funeral in 2006...
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Slashed tires were motive for Lawrence Hollow shooting
(Local News ~ 03/09/12)
Greene County police say a rural Bloomfield man was shot while lying on the couch inside his mobile home. The shooting was allegedly in retaliation for tires on three of his friend's vehicles being slashed, according to a probable cause affidavit that was filed in Greene Circuit Court on Friday...
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