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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13,
2011 - THE INFORMAL AG GROUP MEETS MONTHLY AT BRC
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Ag Extension group gets county and state
update
By Bob Robinson, Editor
Darke County Treasurer Scott Zumbrink reported that to date the county
has collected $19,825,000 in property taxes, with a delinquency rate of
4 percent. Darke County Municipal Court Judge, Julie Monnin, told the
group that third, fourth and fifth graders from Montessori recently
visited her courtroom… and got quite a surprise. “Their eyeballs were
huge,” she said. “These were real people – real cases – they saw coming
before the court.” John Keller reported that State Rep. Jim Buchy is...
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MAUSOLEUM
RESTORATION PROJECT
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Mausoleum Window Project Completed
By Delbert Blickenstaff
The weather had to improve enough to allow the bricked up windows at
the west end of the Mausoleum to be knocked out so that the new windows
could be installed. This took place on April 7, 2011, and the feat was
accomplished by Steve Barhorst (of Iddings Glass), and Paul Siefring
and Dennis Tipple of the... Read
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TEACHING KIDS
ABOUT NATURE
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Darke County
Parks Begins Spring School Visits
Spring is here and the school students have not forgotten where Shawnee
Prairie Preserve is located. They are arriving eagerly to learn
something new each and every day. Versailles Exempted and
Mississinawa Valley 2nd grade students kicked off the beginning of the
busy spring school trips this year... Read
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MEDICARE
SOLUTION... POLITICS AS USUAL
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Townhall... Reforming Medicare
for the Real World
By Steve Chapman
After House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan unveiled a plan to
overhaul Medicare, Democrats announced that despite some imperfections,
it was a brave and thoughtful attempt to grapple with a problem that
has been ignored for too long.
Just kidding. They said it was the worst thing they’ve seen since “Sex
and the City 2.” House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi accused Ryan... Read More. See More Blogs. |
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TSA +
POLITICALLY CORRECT = FAILURE
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Human Events...
TSA Follies:
See SPOT Fail
by Michelle Malkin
Air traffic controllers have been catching a lot of grief for sleeping
on the job lately. But do you know what Transportation Security
Administration officials have been doing -- or rather, not doing --
lately? A federal watchdog revealed this week that TSA’s
counterterrorism specialists failed to detect 16 separate jihad
operatives who moved through target airports... Read More. See More Blogs. |
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| NOTES
FROM
THE
EDITOR - TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13,
2011 |
In case you’ve been following the campaign to bring one of the NASA
Shuttles to Dayton, we lose. See story in News…
Dayton officials upset over shuttle news. More reports – and opinion –
likely to come soon. Also in News:
Diebold Announces New $105 Million HQ Campus in NE Ohio; Ohio Education
Reform: Schools Can Cut Costs, Be Successful; Honda shutdowns may last
through June; and Showtime for President Obama on deficit. Community:
Spring Pasture Management. Blogs:
Op Ed: Evaluation of teachers must improve; and Government Land
Management: A Waste of Green. Letters:
Proposed 28th Amendment. Obituaries:
Jeffrey G. Dirksen. For
Yesterday's Home Page Click Here.
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