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Video: 81st annual 4th of July Celebration guide in today's edition
(Local News ~ 06/24/16)
Here is a morning video update of local news: https://www.facebook.com/frank.phillips5...
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Bruner is newest educator in extension office
(Local News ~ 06/24/16)
Bob Bruner is the newest addition to the Purdue University Extension offices in Clay and Owen counties. He is getting settled into his new role as Agriculture and Natural Resources Extension Educator. He has taught classes in Iowa and elsewhere in Indiana...
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Let God take the wheel for you this week
(Community News ~ 06/24/16)
I drive for a living, sort of. I average two hours a day, I'm not complaining, it's part of my life based on where I live and where I work. In fact, I have driven "for work" all my professional life. I went to college at Indiana University (one hour from Indianapolis where I lived) and remember the drives back and forth to Bloomington with my college roommate buddy. ...
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Kaylee Westfall
(Obituary ~ 06/24/16)
Kaylee Westfall, 21, of Brazil, passed away on June 22, 2016 at Union Hospital with her family by her side after a courageous fight. Kaylee was born February 3, 1995 in Terre Haute, the daughter of Bryan and Becky Westfall. At the age of 17, she was first diagnosed with Leukemia on July 5, 2012. Four months later she was in remission. In October of 2014 Kaylee was finished with her Chemo treatments and rang the bell in December of 2014 to celebrate everything she had battled and beat...
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CHURCH NEWS: Saturday, June 25, 2016
(Community News ~ 06/24/16)
Otter Creek Christian Church Hello from your friends at the Otter Creek Christian Church. I would like to wish my wife, Sandy, Happy Wedding Anniversary as we celebrate 35 years of marriage on Sunday. What God has joined together, let no man put asunder. You know God really does know what is best for us even we think that we know what is best. Have you taken time this week to really spend time talking to people? Well, I would like to share with you my thoughts about that...
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Six Knights suiting up for tonight's football all-star game
(High School Sports ~ 06/24/16)
By CAREY FOX Times Sports Editor The crack of a baseball into a mitt has barely subsided across the Wabash Valley, but many of the top high school football players will take the field Saturday night for the Wabash Valley Football Coaches Association All-Star game at beginning at 7:30 p.m. at Terre Haute North High School...
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Wednesday storms resulted in local power outages on Thursday, Duke Energy says
(Local News ~ 06/24/16)
More than 1,200 Duke Energy customers in the Brazil and Staunton area lost power Thursday night, said Lew Middleton, a spokesman for the company. At 8:45 p.m. Thursday, the first call about the outage was received by Duke Energy. By 9 p.m., the company reported 1,239 customers were without power...
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Clay County 4-H Food Drive is under way
(Local News ~ 06/24/16)
Farm Credit, The Indiana State Fair, Indiana Association of Fairs, Feeding Indiana's Hungry, Farm Credit Mid-America, and Clay County 4-H have joined together for the Farmers Care County Food Drive. The goal of Famers Care is to raise awareness of local hunger needs and help feed Hoosiers impacted by hunger...
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Tri County Homemaker's Extension Club
(Community News ~ 06/24/16)
The Tri County Homemaker's Extension Club met June 14 at the home of Jean Rowings. Ruth Timm served as the co-hostess. After President Jane Williams said a prayer blessing the food, the ladies enjoyed a delicious meal. Since it was Flag Day, the table was decorated with red, white and blue napkins, plates and decorations. The meal included recipes from the evening's lesson. Debbie Lawson and Claralou Thompson won the lucky plate and napkin prizes...
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Homemakers celebrate longevity, spirit
(Local News ~ 06/24/16)
As they say "membership has its privileges," and members of Clay County Extension Homemakers Association say it's fun too. "It is a very nice club," Carroll Harden said of her years with the Everwelcome club. "I wanted so much to be a part of the club, but I worked. They meet in the daytime, and I just couldn't do it. But the minute I retired, I joined up immediately."...
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Evaluation ordered in battery case
(Local News ~ 06/24/16)
The Clay County Superior Court recently approved the appointment of a psychiatrist to evaluate the medical/mental health and potentially assist during the sentencing phase of court proceedings for the young man involved in the battery of an elderly Brazil resident in May...
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Prohibition and a forgotten bottling company
(Column ~ 06/24/16)
I met Keith Murphy on May 21, 2016 at the dedication of his fourth great grandfather, Nathaniel C. Farmer, an American Revolutionary Patriot in Carroll County, Indiana. This chance meeting became the beginning of a search into part of Brazil's forgotten history...
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Indiana warns poor air quality Saturday
(Local News ~ 06/24/16)
(AP) -- Indiana officials are warning of poor air quality in four regions of the state Saturday. The Indiana Department of Environmental Management issued ozone advisories for Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson, Scott, and Washington counties in southern Indiana; Daviess, Dubois, Gibson, Greene, Knox, Perry, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties in southwestern Indiana; Lake, Porter, LaPorte counties in northwestern Indiana; and for much of central Indiana including the cities of Anderson, Bloomington, Carmel, Indianapolis and Muncie.. ...
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Historical Society plans special program for bicentennial
(Local News ~ 06/24/16)
In celebration of Indiana's bicentennial, the Clay County Historical Society is hosting "Hollywood Hotel" starring Brazil's own Johnnie "Scat" Davis, on July 11 at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6:30, at the Walnut Theatre. Brazil Concert Band Director Matt Huber will present a brief history of the Davis Family before the movie. This movie is free to the public and is being sponsored by French Funeral Homes, Lynn's Pharmacy and the Walnut Theatre...
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