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Wabash Valley Community Foundation affiliate meets matching challenge grant in Clay County
(Local News ~ 11/19/20)
The Wabash Valley Community Foundation’s Clay County affiliate, the Clay County Community Foundation, has successfully met the $500,000 challenge grant. This challenge grant was provided by Lilly Endowment Inc.’s GIFT (Giving Indiana Funds for Tomorrow) VII initiative...
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VIDEO - Where do the leaves go?
(Local News ~ 11/19/20)
Brazil City employees were out early Thursday, Nov. 19, picking up leaves in the northwest quadrant. Where do the leaves go? Brazil Street Supervisor Brian Bemis said there are 50-60 trailers filled with leaves each fall, and they are taken to Yankee Rose Gardens and Landscape in Brazil to be turned into compost...
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COVID-19 UPDATE - Officials provide LTC Facilities and School COVID-19 Data
(Local News ~ 11/19/20)
The Brazil Times relies upon local sources to update the public about COVID-19 in long-term care (LTC) facilities instead of the Indiana State Department of Health’s Dashboard Data for Long Term Care Facilities (https://www.coronavirus.in.gov/). The data at the state level is on a separate filing system, which has delayed providing up-to-date information to the public about the four local facilities;...
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RED FLAG WARNING: What does an Enhanced Fire Danger or Red Flag Warning Mean?
(Local News ~ 11/19/20)
While the Northern Indiana forecast area is fortunate enough to not have the forest fires that plague the western states, residents are NOT exempt from fire dangers. A Red Flag Warning was issued November 19 until 7 p.m. by National Weather Service in Indianapolis for Fire Weather Zone 052, which is Clay County...
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Ronald Eugene "Harley" Harden
(Obituary ~ 11/19/20)
Ronald Eugene "Harley" Harden, 69, of Brazil, Indiana, passed away at Union Hospital on November 18, 2020 following a lengthy illness. Harley was born on December 25, 1950, in Brazil, Indiana, the son of Max and Dora (Burkett) Harden. He graduated from Brazil High School with the class of 1968. Following high school he served in the Air National Guard . Harley worked for Peabody Coal, Doan and Decker Ford, and most recently the Clay County Highway Department...
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STAUNTON SCENE: Craft fair planned from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday
(Community News ~ 11/19/20)
The annual Staunton Community Center Craft Fair is this Saturday November 21. More than twenty vendors will be present, selling a variety of items that are sure to be great Christmas gifts. The Lady Volunteers sponsor this event, and will have food items available for purchase. Admission is free and the hours for this popular event are 9:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m...
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CHURCH NEWS: Saturday, November 21
(Community News ~ 11/19/20)
Sunday, November 22 2020 Berea Christian Church began in 1892. 128 years ago. It is impossible to count the number of lives that have been reached for Christ, the number of souls that have been won, the number of people helped. Not just here in Brazil, but the impact that the bride of Christ here has had around the entire world! If you stop and think about how God can and does use us to spread the Gospel to the ends of the Earth, it is truly miraculous!...
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CLAY COUNTY THROUGH THE YEARS: Stout Furniture Company
(Community News ~ 11/19/20)
The first time that the Stout Furniture Company was listed in the newspapers was July 3, 1918. In 1927 Paul Bell stated in the newspaper that he had been a foreman of the Stout Furniture Company plant for seven years before he started his own plant...
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BRAZIL BUZZ: Revisiting the life and times of Massasoit
(Community News ~ 11/19/20)
Paul and I are looking forward to Thanksgiving Day. This year we have been invited to a feast at “May House” with Bruce and Starla , grandchildren , spouses and great-grandchildren. It has been several years since we celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday together...
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TOP STORY OF THE DAY Brought to you by WICU: Casting write-in votes sometimes serious, sometimes a joke
(Local News ~ 11/19/20)
Getting out to vote was essential to many people this year. Voters took to social media to display their "I voted" stickers in selfies and urge others to do the same. It took a couple of recounts, but the 2020 general election appears to be over. President-elect Joe Biden is presumed the winner of the most massive voter turnout recorded in a presidential election since 1900...
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