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Full speed ahead for county extension office
Despite cutbacks, programs and professional staff remain constant
The Carroll County Extension Office was significantly impacted by 2008 budget reductions. Extension staff member Joann Lytton explained that the office suffered the loss of a program assistant, a part-time clerical worker and will assume the annual $14,500 rent obligation. More...
SBOA audit completed… county finance committee left out of loop
By Debbie Lowe Staff writer

The Carroll County Council finance committee engaged the Indiana State Board of Accounts (SBOA) in dialog in 2007 prior and during the audit of the 2006 financial records. It was the understanding of committee Ron Slavens, Ann Brown and Steve Ashby after that experience they would be afforded the same opportunity in 2008 for the 2007 audit. However, that did not happen. More...

When a road is not just a road
And a bridge is not just a bridge
Story and photos by Debbie Lowe

While discussing the proposed restoration of Burnetts' Creek Arch at the Aug. 18 county commissioners meeting, Carroll County Highway Department Superintendent Ron Francis reported a landowner of adjoining property would not allow county employees or surveyors access to his land to work on the Arch. More...

 Local News
• article has image Rescued sparrow becomes house pet
If a baby sparrow falls from the nest, does anyone care? Sharon Herron of Deer Creek does. She found a tiny house sparrow, less than a week old, in her front yard in July. She said she looked around for a nest but didn't see one. Sharon took the bird into her house, nurtured and cared for it, and now it is thriving. More...
• Delphi resident is honored for volunteerism
• article has image Hawkins heads up fire prevention program
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 Community
• article has image Business Brief
RAY SHEAGLEY has been hired as director of the Lafayette- W e s t Lafayette Employers Health Forum, an employers' group founded in 2005 to address local health care cost issues. Sheagley of Flora, has 35 years' experience in human resources, most recently at Wabash National Corp., where he was director of compensation and benefits before retiring in June. More...
• Channel 2
• article has image Hoosier Home Cookin'
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 Opinions & Letters
• article has image Midwest Memo
Labor's satisfaction
The warm red of tomatoes and the sharp green of zucchini are coloring our kitchen table these days as the yield of the garden makes its way to the blue dinner plates we've used for over 30 years. The toil of the gardener who started laboring back in early spring is once again bursting forth as a bountiful harvest and also announcing the conclusion of summer. More...
• Who really wants to close Carroll Manor?
• article has image Cartoon
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 Sports
• article has image Cougars start slow, but finish with the win
Not since 2004 has the Carroll Cougars football team won the first game of the season. Friday night they recorded a big 28-6 victory over the Tri-County Cavaliers 28-6. Cougar fans did not know what to expect. Would the team be ready? Physically? Emotionally? More...
• article has image Knights run past Oracles
• Rankin's team wins national championship
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 Faith
• article has image Lessons from the Heart
'Hookin' up' or 'one flesh'
The "Sex in the City" franchise appeal has escaped me, possibly just because I am a man. I attempted to watch a few episodes, but it really did not catch my attention. The plot seems to be that four friends try to find fulfillment as they live their lives in New York City which gives them opportunity to experience many worldly enticements. More...
• DIRECTORY OF AREA CHURCHES
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 Society
• article has image Shanks, Lantz wed
Amber Nicole Shanks of Delphi and Herbert Eugene Lantz III of Burnettsville exchanged marriage vows June 28 at 3:30 p.m. at Faith Church of Christ in Burlington. She is the daughter of Randy and Pam Shanks of Delphi. He is the son of Herb and Deb Lantz of Burnettsville. More...
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 Looking Back
• article has image Looking Back
10 YEARS AGO Camden Elevator closed its doors for business following many years of service to the farm community. The elevator was purchased by Jesse Zook in 1935. Elevators at Flora and Thorntown owned by the company have already closed. The Flora elevator closed in the 1980s and Thorntown was closed in June. More...
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 Education
• article has image Rockettes earn opportunity to compete at nationals
Rossville Rockettes High School Dance Team recently returned from Elite National Dance Alliance (NDA) summer camp held at Valparaiso University where they earned several awards. Over 150 dancers, representing nine teams, participated. More...
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 Obituaries
• William Antcliff
A memorial service for William "Bill" Antcliff, will be held by his family at the Riverside Cemetery in Brook on Saturday Sept. 6, at 12 noon Eastern time/11 a.m. Standard time. Riverside Cemetery is located one mile east of Brook on State Road 16. More...
• Mattie Jane Maxwell
• Joan L. Gray
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 Public Records
• Superior Court
Judge Jeffrey Smith
Superior Court judgments are gathered from public records on file in the Carroll County Clerk's office on the second floor of the courthouse, Delphi. Timothy M. Mounts, 41, Monticello, was found not guilty of battery resulting in bodily injury. More...
• Circuit Court
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