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Top 10 tax-filing errors to avoid
Comet staff report
      Just a few days remain to file Indiana individual income taxes. To help taxpayers reduce filing errors during the final push to the April 17 deadline, the Department of Revenue has identified the top 10 tax-filing errors found on Indiana tax returns.
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Canal speaker's topic to be one-room schools
Comet staff report
      Wallace "Wally" Dolan will portray the schoolmaster and talk about one-room schoolhouses for the program at the Carroll County Wabash & Erie Canal annual meeting on April 17. It will begin at 7 p.m. at the Canal Center, and is open to the public. Dolan is a retired college teacher of history from...
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Child injured in hit and run
By Debbie Lowe Staff writer
      While riding his bicycle April 2 at 6:35 p.m., a fiveyear old West Delphi boy was possibly struck by a vehicle near the corner of Mill and Sixth streets. The child suffered a knot to his head and scratches on his arms and back. He was transported by ambulance to St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Laf...
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Military Family Relief Fund ready to help military families
Comet staff report
      Indiana National Guard and Selected Reserve families who are experiencing financial difficulties due to the deployment of the service member can now receive help in the form of grants from the State.
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Child of the Kindertransport
Purdue professor tells his story
By Jennifer Archibald Staff writer
      Dr. Joseph Haberer was one of the 10,000 children rescued from Nazi Germany and transported to England in 1938-1939. This mass humanitarian effort was called Kindertransport (kinder in German means children). Haberer said most of the children were Jews, and most never saw their parents again.
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Baby, it was cold outside!
      The wind was howling, the temperature was struggling to reach 25 degrees, but the sun was out as the annual Easter Egg Hunt in Delphi was held on the courthouse grounds Saturday.
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Canal Center host site for two plays in April
Comet staff report
      Master's Voice Players Drama Club will feature two one-act plays during its spring productions - April 20 at 7 p.m. and April 21 at 1 and 6:30 p.m. at the Wabash & Erie Canal Conference Center in Delphi. "The Importance of Being Earnest" and "Tevya's Daughters" will be presented.
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Old Ben 5K reset to April 14
Comet staff report
      The 22nd annual running of the Old Ben 5K Run/Walk in Kokomo's Highland Park has a new date April 14. Originally scheduled on March 24, the race was postponed when the City of Kokomo closed Highland Park due to high water. The event includes an 8:30 a.m. 1-mile Fun Run, simultaneous 5K run and wal...
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Summit to increase awareness and reduce motorcycle fatalities scheduled
Comet staff report
      Motorcycle fatalities have increased dramatically over the past 10 years in all age groups. Nationally, rider fatalities increased nearly 250 percent among those 40 and older and more than 350 percent among those 50 and older. In Indiana in 2006, 52 percent of all motorcycle fatalities occurred bet...
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Singers herald Child Abuse Prevention Awareness Month
      April is National Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Awareness Month. The fifth-grade Hillcrest Elementary Choir was on hand for an April 4 proclamation reading in the courthouse rotunda.
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Be informed... get involved!
It's all about being informed
By Debbie Lowe Staff writer
      Indiana Code dictates how a governmental or taxing entity publicizes to establish a tax to bolster a budget line-item fund. The taxing entity must pay for a "legal ad" or public notice in the local newspaper, in this case the Comet. Those advertisements appear in a second section of the weekly pa...
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Staying Connected
E-mail from those serving our country
      E-Mail from those serving our country Master Sergeant Taff Klepinger is a 1985 graduate of Delphi Community High School. He has been in the U.S. Army for 21 years and specializes in Military Intelligence.
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