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DePauw Weekend Sports Round-up Sept. 19-21
(College Sports ~ 09/22/08)
Women's soccer Three different Tigers scored in leading DePauw to a 3-0 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference victory over Oglethorpe. DePauw improved to 2-4-1 overall and 1-1 in the SCAC, while the Stormy Petrels dropped to 3-2 overall and 0-2 in the conference...
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Champions repeat at Lincoln Park Speedway
(Community Sports ~ 09/22/08)
PUTNAMVILLE -- Saturday evening presented the last chance for drivers to earn points to solidify their final position in the season-long points battle. Brownsburg's Billy Puterbaugh had all but wrapped up the sprint car championship for a second consecutive year at Lincoln Park Speedway. So what better way to put the finishing touches on the championship than with another victory?...
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Tiger Cub soccer blanks Golden Arrows
(High School Sports ~ 09/22/08)
The Greencastle boys' soccer team picked up its ninth win of the season Saturday at Dee Monnett Field, defeating Sullivan 2-0 with a pair of goals in the final 10 minutes. The Tiger Cubs dominated play throughout the match, but scoring proved to be difficult for Greencastle as the Sullivan packed tightly in their defensive end. ...
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DePauw opens SCAC play with 27-14 win at Centre
(College Sports ~ 09/22/08)
DANVILLE, Ky. -- Centre scored on its first possession of the second half and took a 14-13 lead, but DePauw responded with 13 straight points over the next three minutes and claimed a 27-14 win over the Colonels in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference opener for both teams on Saturday...
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Three county golfers advance to regional
(High School Sports ~ 09/22/08)
BRAZIL -- Going up against the likes of Terre Haute South, Terre Haute North and Northview, the team competition at Saturday's Northview girls' golf sectional looked to be all sewn up before the competition even started. There was an outside shot of a team like South Putnam wrecking the party, but for Putnam County's golfers, it looked more like a day for individual accomplishments...
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Local cancer survivor recognized
(Local News ~ 09/22/08)
Greencastle resident Kevin Celebi hasn't let cancer stand in the way of his dream of pursuing a college degree. Recently Celebi was awarded an American Cancer Society Young Survivor Scholarship. Celebi, who attends DePauw University, is one of 103 cancer survivors in Indiana and Michigan to receive a scholarship for the 2008-09 school year from the Great Lakes Division of the Society. ...
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Ruth Hobbs
(Obituary ~ 09/22/08)
Ruth E. Hobbs, 79, of Greencastle, died Sept. 20, 2008 at Putnam County Hospital. Born Feb. 1, 1929 in Rush County, she was the daughter of the late Albert and Fannie Mae (Redd) Stevens. She married Clyde Hobbs on Jan. 16, 1946 and he preceded her in death on Nov. 22, 1993...
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Ethel Brown
(Obituary ~ 09/22/08)
Ethel Lorene Brown, 99, of Rockville, died Sept. 20, 2008 at Rockville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was born Sept. 26, 1908, the daughter of William Henry and Ida Ellen Campbell Miller. She married Carl Brown in October of 1927. He preceded her in death in 1978...
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Ray Bohlander
(Obituary ~ 09/22/08)
Ray N. Bohlander, 72, of Indianapolis, peacefully died at home Sept. 18, 2008. He was a proud ironworker for International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Ironworkers Local 22. Memorial contributions may be made to the organization of the donor's choice in his name. He was a loving father and grandfather who never lost his love for country life, horses, the rodeo, western movies and Coca-Cola...
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Ten dollars can save a child's life
(Local News ~ 09/22/08)
Last year a campaign started on the DePauw University campus that saved the lives of hundreds of children by providing nets to protect them from being bitten by malaria carrying mosquitoes. Knitting for Nets raised over $2,000 last year--enough to purchase hundreds of nets from a charity called Nothing but Nets. This group purchases, distributes and educates people on the use of insecticide treated bed nets...
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Albright addresses DePauw crowd
(Local News ~ 09/22/08)
"In the 21st century it may be that there is not a single power," former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright said Friday in her keynote address at DePauw Discourse 2008: America's Role in the World. If the coming years do produce a mult-polar or polarless world, "We shouldn't see American power as a zero sum game. ...
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Woman pleads guilty to felony theft
(Local News ~ 09/22/08)
A Greencastle woman pleaded guilty Wednesday in Putnam Circuit Court to a charge of Class D felony theft. Tamera S. Wade, 45, of the 700 block of South Locust Street, is accused of stealing several thousand dollars from the office of a local accountant. Wade worked for the accountant as an office assistant...
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