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Both city, county receive $250K from OCRA grants
(Local News ~ 04/27/21)
Clay County was recently awarded $250,000 for grants to small businesses and the City of Brazil was just awarded $250,000 for food distribution/mental health piece. Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch and the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs announced that an additional 80 Hoosier communities will receive more than $18.6 million in federal grant funding through OCRA’s COVID-19 Response Grant Program...
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TOP STORY OF THE DAY, brought to you free by WICU: Only minor injuries result as occupants jump from windows
(Local News ~ 04/27/21)
Shortly before 7 p.m. Sunday, first responders were dispatched to an accidental structure fire where three people jumped out a window at 228 East Kruzan Street. Brazil Fire Chief Jake Bennett said when firefighters arrived with the first engine; flames were covering the front porch, window, door, and stairway leading to the upstairs apartment...
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Brazil man gets OWI charges from UTV accident
(Local News ~ 04/27/21)
MANSFIELD — Austin W. Hunt of Brazil was charged with two operating while intoxicated charges after a Saturday evening UTV crash in Parke County. At 5:39 p.m., Parke County deputies responded to a UTV rollover with entrapment and an ejection on Mansfield Road west of Indiana 59. Upon arrival, EMS and first responders extricated the passenger from the field...
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CCS curriculum meeting set Thursday evening
(Local News ~ 04/27/21)
Clay Community Schools Central Curriculum Committee will meet on Thursday, April 29 at 6:30 p.m. at Clay Community Schools Central Administration Office. Items on the agenda include discussion and vote for new textbook and instructional resources for social studies grades K-12 and English grades 6-12...
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Summer food program recruiting volunteers
(Local News ~ 04/27/21)
The Clay County Summer Food Program is asking for your help if it works into your summer 2021 schedule and tugs at your heart. Summer Program 2021 will start the week after school is out. The organization plans on delivering a week’s worth of shelf-stable food this Summer Program like in 2020...
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TH residents involved in Monday morning crash
(Local News ~ 04/27/21)
Four Terre Haute residents were involved in a local traffic accident Monday morning. According to a press release by the Clay County Sheriff’s Office, a 911 caller reported around 7:32 a.m. to the Clay County 911 Dispatch a motor vehicle accident in US 40 and CR 425 W...
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Drug "take-back" effort successful
(Local News ~ 04/27/21)
Clay County Sheriff’s Department deputies joined Brazil Police Department officers and Ascension St. Vincent Clay Hospital staff members Saturday for the national Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) “Prescription Drug Take-Back” initiative. Residents dropped off 11 boxes of expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs - which will be disposed of without threat to the environment - during the four-hour event. Pictured are CCSD Brison Swearingen, BPD Detectives Graig Bass and Zach Overton, Pharmacy Supervisor Sarah Cox, Emergency Room Nurse Amy Shelton, and CCSD Eric Oberholtzer.
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Northview’s Ruhe credits others for Golden Apple
(Local News ~ 04/27/21)
Michelle Ruhe did not initially foresee herself as a high school family and consumer sciences teacher. Once she was indoctrinated into the field on a temporary one-class assignment, Ruhe went back to school to get her license and hasn’t regretted it a day since then...
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CLAY COUNTY THROUGH THE YEARS: George H. Morgel
(Local News ~ 04/27/21)
After playing with the Brazil Concert Band for fifty-five years and serving as treasurer of that organization for forty years George H. Morgel retired. He had operated the Morgel Jewelry Store on W. National Avenue for many years. Morgel studied under Herman Egner, an old German musician, who also directed his own “Little German Band” that practiced in Hudson’s Monument Shop, where the Dickson Oil Company headquarters became located. ...
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Lady Knights locate holes that need sewn in losses to Braves, Vikings
(High School Sports ~ 04/27/21)
From the outside, dropping a pair of high school girls tennis matches in back-to-back days may not appear like a promising start a four-match week. But inside the Northview program, despite falling to Terre Haute South 4-1 on Monday and West Vigo 3-2 on Tuesday, the losses were a positive step forward...
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Swearingen caps career at HBCA All-Star Game
(High School Sports ~ 04/27/21)
At the beginning of March, while Northview was in the midst of preparing for what turned out to be a sectional championship run, the Hoosier Basketball Coaches Association named its 2021 All-Star Game rosters. Among those to earn a spot on the West team was Caleb Swearingen...
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Great third inning lifts Eels over Miners
(High School Sports ~ 04/27/21)
Clay City came into Tuesday’s game at Linton with a No. 5 ranking in the latest softball poll and five is the number of runs the Eels put on the Miners in the third inning. Linton switched pitchers but could never generate the offense to get back in the game as it fell to Clay City 7-3...
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