- The Beauty of Birds (Local News ~ 01/25/13)
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Youth and adult allies encouraged to attend tobacco education conference
(Local News ~ 01/25/13)
Greene County Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Coordinator Sandy May is encouraging local organizations to take part in educating youth about tobacco use. May is currently promoting the VOICE 101 Training in Evansville to join adult allies and youth in grades 6 to 12 to learn about the tobacco industries targeting youth...
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Inaugural event generates interesting stories
(Column ~ 01/25/13)
I was able to take two of our grandkids to Washington this past weekend for the Presidential Inaugural festivities. Friday, Saturday and Sunday we were able to take in the sights and museums as well as visit up close to the Inaugural preparations. In contrast to the last Inauguration, the size of the crowd was down some, which is not unusual for a second term President...
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Letters to the Editor
(Local News ~ 01/25/13)
A relationship between major hurricanes and major tornadoes was studied. A strong natural short-term cycle was observed overlaying the long-term multi-decadal cycles of hurricane and tornado activity. This research was presented in a paper titled "The Art of Forecasting Extreme Weather Events" at the Second International Conference on Global Warming and the Next Ice Age sponsored by Los Alamos National Laboratory in July 2006...
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Youth instructor offers insights on raising children in the digital age
(Local News ~ 01/25/13)
There are many challenges raising a child, and those challenges are even greater with the new digital technologies that today's youngsters are very much in tune with. However, the director of the Indiana Youth Institute says parents shouldn't fear the technologies of the Internet, smartphones, tablets, laptops, video games, and other electronic gizmos...
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Mary Louise Schwinghammer
(Obituary ~ 01/25/13)
Mary Louise Schwinghammer, 83, of Linton, passed away at 11:53 a.m. on Jan. 24, 2013 at Indiana University Hospital of Indianapolis. She was born in Pike County on May 15, 1929, the daughter of John and Lucille (Soderling) Wood. She was a 1947 graduate of Winslow High School and attended Oakland City College. She worked in the administrative office at Glenburn Nursing Home for many years, and then in later years volunteered at Glenburn...
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Elizabeth M. "Betty" Vasilak
(Obituary ~ 01/25/13)
Elizabeth M. "Betty" Vasilak, 88, of Jasper, Ind. and formerly of Whiting, Ind., passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013 at The Timbers of Jasper after a long illness. She was born Aug. 21, 1924 in Velka Ida, Czechoslovakia to Joseph and Barbara (Majlath) Monyok. She married Joseph John Vasilak on Feb. 3, 1951 in Whiting. He preceded her in death on June 8, 1987...
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Audrey Mae Bennett
(Obituary ~ 01/25/13)
Audrey Mae Bennett, 99, of Indianapolis, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013 at Parkwood Healthcare Center in Lebanon, IN. Born Oct. 31, 1913 in Owensburg, IN, she is the daughter of Virgil and Nora (Strosnider) Miller. Audrey was raised in Owensburg and graduated from Switz City High School in 1930. .....
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Greene County Sheriff's Department
(Police Reports ~ 01/25/13)
JAIL LOG Jan. 24 -- Jeffery James Cliver, 37, Linton, was taken into custody on a Writ of Attachment issued for contempt of court in a civil case. He was released the same day after posting $500. Jan. 24 -- Stacey L. May, 31, Jasonville, was arrested on a warrant issued for failure to appear then released the same day on a $5,000 bond...
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Linton Police Department
(Police Reports ~ 01/25/13)
ACTIVITY LOG The Linton Police Department's activity log for Thursday included one fraud investigation, one follow-up investigation, two requests for information, one assist to the utility department after hours, one property dispute, one accident with personal injury, two accidents with property damage, one lost and found, one complaint about an animal, one prowler, one theft and six traffic stops...
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Linton man cited in crash, OVWI charges pending
(Local News ~ 01/25/13)
Corey C. Robison, 39, Linton, wound up in jail following a crash late Thursday involving two vehicles. Robison is accused of operating a vehicle while intoxicated and charges are pending. The accident occurred around 9:45 p.m. Thursday on N. Main St. in Linton at the intersection of NW F St...
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Bloomfield man in jail after ISP locate active meth lab
(Local News ~ 01/25/13)
A 31-year-old Bloomfield man was arrested by the Indiana State Police Meth Task Force Thursday night on multiple methamphetmaine-related charges. Just before 8 p.m., troopers with the Indiana State Police Meth Task Force located an active methamphetamine lab at 8630 East State Road 54 near Bloomfield, according to Indiana State Police Public Information Officer Sgt. Curt Durnil,......
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Worthington Town Council meets briefly to finish electing Stahl as president
(Local News ~ 01/25/13)
WORTHINGTON ---- It didn't take long to get a vote for Worthington Town Council president done right this time. In a special meeting that lasted less than five minutes on Friday evening, Mackey Stahl was unanimously elected as president of the town council for the 2013 calendar year.....
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GCGH leads the way with new endoscopy system
(Local News ~ 01/25/13)
Greene County General Hospital in Linton is among the first hospitals in Indiana to acquire the Olympus EVIS EXERA III video endoscopy system. Endoscopy systems, through the collaborative use of a video processor, light source, endoscope and monitor, enable physicians to peer inside the human body to diagnose, detect and treat gastrointestinal (GI) diseases and other conditions.....
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BREAKING: Bloomfield School to remain on lockdown with increased police presence throughout next week
(Local News ~ 01/25/13)
Superintendent Dan Sichting announced late Friday that Bloomfield School District will remain on lockdown all next week, with an increased police presence, following an incident on Thursday that sent the school into lockdown on Friday. Sichting's press release states the lockdown will continue when students return to school on Monday, Jan. 28 and remain in place through Friday, Feb. 1......
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Rikki Edwards crowned UHS Winter Homecoming Queen 2013
(Local News ~ 01/25/13)
Senior Rikki Edwards was named the winter homecoming queen at Union High School Friday night. The Bulldogs lost the high school boys basketball game to Shoals 52-48.
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Cards win conference game at NC
(High School Sports ~ 01/25/13)
Bloomfield limited North Central to 19 points over the final 24 minutes as the Cardinals pulled away for a 53-30 win in a Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference high school boys basketball game at Farmersburg Friday night. North Central dropped to 5-9, 0-4 in league play. Bloomfield improved to 9-7, 5-2...
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Loogootee defeats WRV
(High School Sports ~ 01/25/13)
Conner Wittmer scored 29 points to lead host Loogootee to a 62-48 victory over visiting White River Valley in a non-conference high school boys basketball game at Jack Butcher Arena Friday night. The win was the 14th in 16 games for the Class A No. 4 Lions...
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Bulldogs come up short on homecoming
(High School Sports ~ 01/25/13)
DUGGER -- Union bounced back from a slow start, rallied to take the lead, but came up on the short end of a 52-48 score to visiting Shoals, who spoiled homecoming for the Bulldogs here Friday night. It was the third win in 13 games for Shoals while the Bulldogs slipped to 0-14 this year. They have lost 19 straight high school boys basketball games since they defeated SHS 41-40 a year ago...
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Lakers fall at Barr-Reeve
(High School Sports ~ 01/25/13)
The Class A No. 3 Barr-Reeve Vikings got 14 points from Micah Bullock and Addison Wagler and 13 more from Jacob Bledsoe as they defeated visiting Shakamak 60-52 at Montgomery Friday night. Barr-Reeve improved to 15-1 on the year. The Lakers who led 18-15 after one quarter and 29-26 at the half, faltered defensively in the second half...
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Miners notch win over T-Birds
(High School Sports ~ 01/25/13)
LITTLE CINCINNATI -- Linton-Stockton senior Austin Karazsia drained a career-high 33 points and hauled in a game-high 17 rebounds to lead the Class 2A No. 8 Miners to a 58-44 win over host Eastern Greene here Friday night. The victory helped Linton-Stockton remain atop the Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference standings with an unblemished 5-0 mark, they are now 13-2 overall...
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