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NEWS ONLINE - SATURDAY, AUGUST 16 & SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 2014 - SENIOR SCRIBES
A Summer’s Sunday Night in Greenville
By Sharon Hopper
Seven years ago we moved to Greenville and began going to the summer
Sunday Night park concerts. I always wondered why there were so few in
attendance every Sunday night. Sometimes I would count only 20 or so
people on the benches and maybe 30 or so in the lawn chairs. Well
something happened this year and I have to say it is really a good
something. We started going to the park for the first concert, July 6
this year and have gone every single week of the concert season. To my
surprise the concerts were well... Read
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MUSINGS OF A SENIOR SCRIBE
Skip a Rope
By Mona Lease
Hi, all!! When I was in elementary school, we had a list of four or
five sentences. You had to put a number (1-4, in this case.) at the
beginning of each sentence to list the order of priority. So it would
be: You have one cleaning cloth you have to reuse. You need to do the
dishes, clean the refrigerator, clean the toilet, and hand mop the
floor. You may rinse out the cloth. Where do you start and end... Read
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GREENVILLE GIRLS TENNIS
Lady Wave netters
sweep Wayne Greenville makes it two straight
By George Starks
GREENVILLE- After popping Celina Wednesday, 4-1, the home court
advantage took a slight twist Thursday against the Wayne Lady Warriors.
Midway through the second set of the singles matches, a car horn was
inadvertently set off forcing play to come to a halt for a short
period... Read
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IN LOVING MEMORY OF BRENDA SUE BAKER
So long, Brenda… but I’ll never say goodbye!
By Amanda Olson, Editor
Earlier this week, a good friend of mine passed away after fighting a
courageous battle with cancer. Now, I’ve lost loved ones in my life,
and Brenda Sue Baker is right at the top of the list of those I miss
most. As Editor of this site, it was my job to post her obituary for
all of our readers to see. And let me tell you, it was one of the... Read
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TEEN TO TEEN TALK
Being Practical
by Elizabeth Horner
My dad has never made a particular secret of the fact that he wants me
to be a lawyer or a business-woman. I’ll call him up on the phone, as I
do every week, talking about my American Literature class, and after
I’ve finished my ten-minute long speech, he’ll say, “Why don’t you talk
to some people about taking a business class. You know, you have to ask
questions early or the... Read
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GREENVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY
Greenville Library
kicks off First Friday
GREENVILLE – While Main Street Greenville’s First Friday officially
starts at 6 p.m., enjoyment of the monthly activity actually begins at
11:30 a.m. at Greenville Public Library with its “Lunch on the Lawn.”
Aug. 1 was no different with Higgins-Madewell entertaining
approximately 200 people with the pair’s mixture of country, blues and
classic... Read
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GREENVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT
2014 Drive Sober
or Get Pulled Over
Greenville, OH - The Greenville Police Department will join local and
national law enforcement officers and highway safety advocates all
across the country for the 2014 National DRIVE SOBER OR GET PULLED OVER
Campaign. During the mobilization, officers will be cracking down on
motorists, August 15th - September 1st- both day and night. Did You
Know... Read
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FROM
THE EDITOR... ON THE INSIDE - SATURDAY, AUGUST 16 & SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 2014
Editor's
Photo: Join the Darke County Parks on Sept. 4th for a program about the
technical and artful skill of transforming pieces of specialized rock
into useful tools. For more information, read the full story next week.
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Ackley
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