COUNTY
NEWS ONLINE - MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 2015 - AUTHOR'S NIGHT JAN. 23
FOL Members serve library needs
The summer Family Reading Program with its variety of activities,
guests and opportunities for childen and families at the
Greenville Public Library and the four Authors Nights at Montage in
early 2014, were reason for the Friends of the Greenville Public
Library to celebrate its community support in helping the Library
promote literacy. The many services and opportunities provided by the
Library are an asset to our Darke County community and FOL seeks to
help by funding programs that increase Library outreach... Read
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BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS
Monarch Legacy Fund awards funding to BBBS
The Monarch Legacy Fund of the Community Foundation of Shelby County
recently awarded a grant to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Shelby and
Darke County. Big Brothers Big Sisters was chosen to receive funding
because of its continued efforts to make a positive impact in “at risk”
children. The funding will be used for the school mentoring... Read
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DEFENSE SETS TONE EARLY
Tri-Village steamrolls Arcanum
By George Starks
NEW MADISON- It was a night when a basketball game resembled the human
version of the Fast and the Furious. The faster the Tri-Village went,
the more furious the Patriots got. Tri-Village put four in double
figures Thursday, led by Damien Cook’s 28, in a masterful 82-45 Cross
County Conference victory... Read
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DARKE COUNTY PARKS
Hikes, Bird Watching and more!
There is something invigorating about crisp winter morning air! Join a
Darke County Parks’ Naturalist as we hike the trails of Shawnee Prairie
(4267 State Route 502 West) each and every Tuesday morning. We will
focus on birds, tree ID, winter animal tracks and anything else that
catches our eye! Hikes will begin at the... Read
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ATTORNEY GENERAL MIKE DEWINE
DeWine Offers Gym Membership Tips; Complaints Doubled in 2014
(COLUMBUS, Ohio)—Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today offered advice
for consumers who plan to buy gym memberships in the new year after the
Attorney General’s Office received about 250 fitness center complaints
in 2014, double the number received in 2013. “There are many great gyms
and fitness centers throughout... Read
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FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE EDGE.....
Sorry, …but Not ALL Lives “Matter”, …Whatever their Color Might Be
By Joe Facinoli
Black Lives DO matter, …at least 99% of them, anyway. And White
ones too, …though probably only 97 or 98% of these fair skinned souls
(there’s an awful lot of really bad white folks out there).
And Brown, Yellow, and Red can also claim the same percentages of good
and worthwhile people, who walk... Read
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TOWNHALL
A Year of Anniversaries
Thomas Sowell
Dec 31, 2014
2014 has been a year of anniversaries. It was the 100th anniversary of
the beginning of the First World War -- a war which many at the time
saw as madness, and predicted that it would be the harbinger of a
Second World War a generation later. 2014 was also the 70th anniversary
of the fateful landing at Normandy that... Read
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FROM
THE EDITOR... ON THE INSIDE - MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 2015
Editor's
Photo: Join Darke County Parks as we welcome the Boonshoft Museum of
Discovery’s StarLab to the Nature Center on Thursday, January 15th at
6:30! Get the details Tuesday.
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