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Commissioners establish management board for Community Event Center
(Local News ~ 07/07/15)
Two ordinances were passed Tuesday by the Greene County Commissioners. An ordinance establishing the Greene County Community Event Center Management Board and Event Center Fund was put into effect. The board will consist of five members. The Commissioners plan to have nominations for that board by the next meeting on July 21...
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The Legacy of Maxine and Merle Brown: One Linton-Stockton and one White River Valley student awarded Brown Scholarship
(Local News ~ 07/07/15)
Rod and Beth Hasler, trustees of the Brown Scholarship fund, recently announced the winners of the 2015 award. Aubri Lehman from Linton-Stockton High School and Maria Bluck, a White River Valley graduate, will both receive $10,000 dispersed over a four year period...
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Bloomfield Supply & Hardware Teams Up With Family Life Center To Provide Pet Food To Seniors and Low Income Families
(Local News ~ 07/07/15)
The Family Life Center of Greene County, Indiana in Bloomfield will begin to distribute Mister Bucks Rescue Blend Pet Food to people who are having difficulties affording to feed their pets. Family Life's motto is "Developing relationships that impact a community through supporting families."...
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Sherri Kaye (Baker) Howell
(Obituary ~ 07/07/15)
Sherri Kaye (Baker) Howell, 54, returned to her heavenly home on July 6, 2015, after a very short and valiant battle with an illness. Her devotion to her family and her belief in God carried her throughout her life. Sherri was born to Cecil Paul and Anna Louise (Powell) Baker, on March 24, 1961, and was raised in Owensburg, Ind. ...
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Community Notes
(Community News ~ 07/07/15)
Wednesday, July 8 The Lamb Jam Music Festival scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, August 1-2, in Linton's Humphreys Park is now accepting vendors with a focus on serving people. Lamb Jam, now in its fifth year, is seeking service-oriented vendors including social service agencies, those supporting various causes and ministries. ...
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Bike and Build group rides in Linton Freedom Festival Parade before continuing their trip to the west coast
(Local News ~ 07/07/15)
Stating in New Haven, Conn., through the hills of West Virgina, and riding in the Linton Freedom Festival Parade, the riders of the Bike and Build group had already had an interesting journey before arriving in Linton on the Fourth of July. The Bike and Build is an independent non-for profit organization who has contributed more than $4.5 million to housing groups to fund projects planned and executed by young adults; this includes more than $500,000 donated from the summer of 2013...
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Miner football scramble set
(Community Sports ~ 07/07/15)
The Linton Miner Football team would like to take this opportunity to invite you to be a participant/sponsor for the Eighth Annual Miner Football Golf Scramble. The event is scheduled as a 4 person scramble with a shotgun start at 8 a.m. Saturday, July 18, at the Phil Harris Golf Course, with lunch and door prizes to immediately follow. ...
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The Greene County 4-H Fair opens this weekend
(Local News ~ 07/07/15)
For many people around the Greene County area the wait is over -- the 2015 Greene County 4-H Fair will soon be underway. Every year the Greene County 4-H Fair hosts a wide range of events that is fun for the entire family. Besides some of the crowd-favorite events such as the demolition derby, hog wrestling competition, baby contests, and cooking contest, it is a chance for local 4-Hers to show off their hard work...
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Coach Fougerousse leaving for Tennessee State
(High School Sports ~ 07/07/15)
After five seasons as the head softball coach at Bloomfield High School, Nicole Fougerousse is moving on to the college coaching ranks. Coach Fougerousse recently accepted a position as assistant softball coach at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee...
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Training exercise involving mass casualty scenarios scheduled for Thursday at Linton-Stockton High School
(Local News ~ 07/07/15)
If you listen to a police scanner on Thursday, or you happen to drive by Linton-Stockton High School that morning, don't be alarmed if you see or hear what appears to be a very serious situation unfolding with police from across the county and several ambulances scrambling to the school. Local law enforcement agencies will be participating in a preparedness and training exercise...
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Linton Police Department Activity Log
(Police Reports ~ 07/07/15)
The Linton Police Department responded to 18 calls and incidents on Monday, July 6, including one accident involving personal injury, one alcohol-related offense, one assist to another agency, one battery, one civil dispute, one incident of criminal mischief, two domestic disputes, one missing person, one report of suspicious activity, one theft, one traffic stop, one warrant served and one welfare check...
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Greene County Sheriff's Department Jail Log
(Police Reports ~ 07/07/15)
July 6 -- Aaron Wayne Evans, 27, Jasonville, was arrested on a warrant issued on preliminary charges of dealing methamphetamine and a warrant issued on a Writ of Attachment issued in the amount of $500. His bond on the Writ was set at $500 cash. He was being held without bond on the drug charge. Jasonville Police Officer Ryan VanHorn was the arresting officer...
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UPDATED: French fires 76 in Indiana Open
(Other Sports ~ 07/07/15)
Former Linton-Stockton and current Marian University golfer Clayton French fired a 4-over par 76 in the first round of the 2015 Indiana Open Championship at Brickyard Crossing in Indianapolis. French shot 37-39 with three birdies, three bogeys and two double bogeys. His 76 places him in a tie for 72nd place with 19 other golfers in the field of 154 entrants, including both amateurs and professionals...
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Crane hosts high school students for leadership, STEM event
(Local News ~ 07/07/15)
CRANE -- Crane Army and Navy hosted 78 Navy Junior ROTC students for a Leadership and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics camp. Ten schools from Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, and Georgia participated in the 2015 Basic Leadership and STEM Training Camp for a week of determination, perseverance, and learning...
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