Stories from Saturday, January 11, 2003

SPENCER -- The anticipated matchup of speed and quickness versus sheer size never materialized between Northview and Owen Valley on Friday night. The flu bug saw to that. Owen Valley's 6'10 Casey Neal sat out with the flu and 6'7 Darrin Line saw next to no court time against Class 4A's ninth-ranked Knights...

SPENCER -- The Northview Knights took advantage of another big night from freshman center Julie Whitted to power past conference foe Owen Valley 61-39 on Friday night. Three days after getting 28 points and 15 rebounds from the 6'5 center against Greencastle, Whitted scored 14 in the first quarter on the way to a game-high 22 points and eight rebounds in limited action versus Owen Valley...

It has not been determined yet what will become of the space that used to house the baby delivery and nursery department at St. Vincent Clay Hospital. "We have a few options. We may move the critical care beds across from the nurse's station in to provide more a isolation more isolated area. We've also looked at that area for out-patient services and we have other ideas that we'll explore," Rich Johansen, hospital CEO, said...

Kacey Martin wants to go to Australia. The Clay County resident is in the fifth grade at Rio Grande Elementary School. She was recently accepted to participate as a member of the Indiana People to People Student Ambassador Program. The People to People program was founded by President Dwight D. ...

After receiving six bids for the air conditioning project at Forest Park Elementary School, Sycamore Engineering was awarded the job after the Terre Haute firm submitted the lowest bid of $617,929. Bids came in lower than Clay Community Schools Board of Trustees expected. That frees up money to replace the boiler at Forest Park...