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JUNIOR HIGH STUDENTS GRAB WRITING HONORS - TODAY IS MONDAY,
MARCH 28,
2011 |
Greenville Eighth Graders take top POP
honors at Regional Tournament
By Bob Robinson
Greenville Junior High School eighth grader Christal Smith took the
First Place Trophy for Individual Scores home at the Power of the Pen
Regional Tournament in Minster Saturday. She qualifies to compete in
the POP State Tournament in Columbus in April. Also qualifying for
State is Kelly Snyder, eighth grader at DeColores Montessori School in
Greenville, who placed sixth in the individual competition. This is the
first Power of the Pen Tournament in which either student has competed.
It is only the second year that Greenville... Read More with Photos. See additional photos here.
Photos by Ruby Horner. See More Community.
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McGLINCH
HELPS VFW FUNDRAISING EFFORTS
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Skipper of the VFW Chicken Noodle Ship!
By Lyn Bliss, Senior Scribe
GREENVILLE - “Most of the chicken noodle dinners I have fixed have been
fundraisers or for membership dinners at the post.” said Marlene
McGlinch when questioned about her noodle making and chicken cooking at
Greenville’s V.F.W. McGlinch’s most recent chicken noodle dinner was
held at... Read
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DARKE COUNTY
VISITORS BUREAU
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York Visits with Local Legislators in
Support of Tourism
COLUMBUS – Executive Director, Deanna York with the Darke County
Visitors Bureau joined fellow members of Ohio Association of Convention
and Visitors Bureaus (OACVB), Ohio Travel Association (OTA) and Ohio
Hotel Lodging Association (OHLA) as they visited State Legislators on
Wednesday, March... Read
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RESPONSIBILITIES
OF A GRATEFUL NATION
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One Homeless
Veteran Is
One Too Many
By U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown
Generations of Ohio veterans have returned home, settled down, started
a family, and made our state a better place to live. A grateful nation
should never overlook the sacrifices veterans make to protect our
country – nor should we ignore their struggles. Despite this fact, some
Washington politicians are threatening to slash funding that keeps
financially-at-risk veterans in their... Read More. See More Opinion. |
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WHO IS OUR
VICE PRESIDENT?
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Townhall...
Flunking the
Citizenship Test
By Brent Bozell
Anyone who’s ever seen Jay Leno do one of his “Jaywalking” segments on
NBC, locating average Americans and asking them factual questions on
street corners, knows there are far too many Americans who know next to
nothing about just about everything. They can’t name our first
president or don’t even know what the phrase “Founding Fathers” means.
Ask them to name our... Read More. See More Blogs. |
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| NOTES
FROM
THE
EDITOR - TODAY IS MONDAY,
MARCH 28, 2011 |
Top
local story today is two local Junior High Students – Greenville Junior
High’s Cristal Smith and DeColores Montesori’s Kelly Snyder – taking
top honors at Saturday’s Power of the Pen Regional Tournament in
Minster. Smith won the First Place honor; Snyder won Sixth Place. Lead
story with lots of pictures. In News:
U.S. Postal Service eliminating 7,500 jobs; Insider Report from
Newsmax.com; Farmers Sue USDA Over Monsanto Alfalfa – Again; DeWine
wants tighter controls on ‘skill games.’ Blogs:
Liquored up for jobs; Gov. Walker’s Legislation Has Unions Caving
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