Sept. 2 — Jill Long Thompson, Democratic candidate for governor; and Brad Ellsworth, incumbent U.S. representative from District 8; speak at the Wabash Valley Central Labor Council awards banquet.
Sept. 3 — Event chairman David Felstein, of the first Victory Days celebration planned for Oct. 3-5 at Terre Haute International Airport-Hulman Field, calls on World War II veterans to share their stories in the living history event.
Sept. 4 — Kellogg Co. buys the IndyBake plant in Seelyville in a move that could bring several hundred manufacturing jobs to Vigo County.
Sept. 5 — Donations from the public have led to the Terre Haute Police Department’s acquisition of Shadow, a Belgian Malinois dog that can track people as well as find hidden drugs.
Sept. 6 — United Way of the Wabash Valley kicks off its fundraising campaign in the Ohio Building. The goal is $2 million.
Sept. 7 — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama speaks to about 1,000 in a limited-seating presentation at the Wabash Valley Fairgrounds.
A proposal to install synthetic turf football fields at three Vigo County high schools is scrapped because a committee says it has been unable to raise sufficient matching funds.
Sept. 9 — Indiana State University’s student chapter of the NAACP comes in second place for national College Chapter of the Year.
Sept. 10 — Vigo County’s 3,235 applicants for flood-related Federal Emergency Management or Small Business Administration assistance resulted in assistance or loans totaling $9.23 million, according to government figures.
Jenn Kersey of Clinton has been named director of the Wabash Valley Long-Term Disaster Recovery Coalition.
Sept. 11 — Philip T. Myers of Clay City, an employee of Indiana Railroad Co., died after a tanker derailed from a rail spur at Tangent Rail Products in Terre Haute.
Sept. 12 — Hundreds participate in a candlelight vigil in Dede Plaza on the campus of Indiana State University to commemorate the lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001.
Sept. 13 — About 240 people take part in the United Way’s 11th Annual Days of Caring, in which volunteers work in local not-for-profit agencies.
Sept. 14 — As many as 10,000 people attend the Saturday’s day- and evening-long Blues at the Crossroads festival in downtown Terre Haute.
Sept. 15 — Between 600 and 700 guests attend Taste of India in Hulman Center, raising more than $10,000 for the Wabash Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross.
Sept. 17 — Post office box customers are being notified about a change in the location of their boxes as part of the transition under way for Indiana State University to assume ownership of the federal building at Seventh and Cherry streets next year.
Sept. 18 — Vectren Energy predicts natural gas prices will result in heating bills of 15 to 25 percent higher this winter.
Sept. 19 — Teams from the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee will be out knocking on doors to conduct needs assessment for flood victims as part of the Wabash Valley Long Term Disaster Recovery Coalition’s efforts.
Sept. 21 — Indiana State University President Daniel J. Bradley says he wants to increase student enrollment by 1,500.
Sept. 23 — Vigo County School Board OK’s $425,000 for a practice football field for West Vigo High School, using money from the refinancing of a bond.
Sept. 24 — Police are investigating the painting of a swastika on the shed at the home of an interracial couple near Voorhees Park.
Sept. 25 — Ann Bradshaw, mayor of Brazil since the previous mayor’s resignation in June, names former police Capt. Dave Archer as chief.
Sept. 28 — Terre Haute’s fourth annual Street Fair profits from beautiful weather to draw about 15,000 people to the festivities downtown.
Sept. 29 — Television and film star Kal Penn visits Barack Obama headquarters in Terre Haute to encourage young voters to participate in the November presidential election.
Sept. 30 — The Swope Art Museum ($31,750) and Wabash River Development and Beautification ($30,000) are among the beneficiaries from $207,000 given to 22 recipients by the Wabash Valley Community Foundation in grant awards.
Oct. 1 — Duke Energy is recognized as the Outstanding Business of the Year with the Business, a Level Above Award in the 95th Annual Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce.
Oct. 2 — Tribune-Star Publishing Co. honored by Gov. Mitch Daniels with Century Business Award for more than 100 years in business. The Meadows shopping center, Ragle & Co. and C.H. Garmong & Son were honored with Half-Century Awards.
Oct. 3 — AP & S Clinic announces it will donate $300,000 to Union Hospital’s $185 million expansion/renovation project.
Oct. 4 — Terre Haute’s localized version of “Dancing with the Stars” nets thousands for CHANCES for Indiana Youth in a fundraiser in which local celebrities pair with dance instructor before a large paying crowd.
Oct. 5 —About 2,554 people walk or run in the 12th Annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure cancer fundraiser at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College.
Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America, is awarded the annual Eugene V. Debs Award during a banquet in Hulman Center.
Oct. 6 — Organizers of first Victory Days celebration at Terre Haute International Airport-Hulman Field pronounced the two-day event a success, with thousands attending the second day on Oct. 5.
Oct. 8 — A state jail inspector orders that all mold be removed from the Vigo County jail, a problem Sheriff Jon Marvel blames on a leaking, second-floor roof.
Oct. 9 —Melissa Limcaco of Terre Haute and Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, representing a victims’ advocacy group, meet outside the Vigo County Courthouse to raise awareness of the group’s efforts to have charges brought against Harry Monroe, a priest who allegedly molested boys in Terre Haute in the 1970s.
Oct. 10 — The first guest has checked in to the Candlewood Suites hotel in downtown Terre Haute in the refurbished former Tribune-Star Building. Dora Bros. Hospitality Group owns the new inn.
The 52nd annual Covered Bridge Festival begins today, with tens of thousands expected to descend on Parke County for 10 days of bargains, food, entertainment and tours of the countryside.
Oct. 11 — National economic woes, including a sunken Dow Jones Industrial Average, have local investors and businessmen worried and U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar calls the market turmoil “very, very serious” in a visit to the Wabash Valley.
Oct. 12 — Fifty-four members of the Canal Society of Indiana tour the remains of 19th century Locks 47 and 49 of the Wabash-Erie Canal near Riley, rare locks because they are made out of stone instead of the usual timber.
Oct. 14 — A National Public Radio report notes that Vigo County’s voting record shows its people have voted for the winner in 27 of the past 29 presidential elections, and have been within 3 percent of the national vote every time since 1960.
Oct. 15 — Citing an economic downturn and a credit crunch, Great Dane Trailers lays off 108 workers, or half its work force, from its Terre Haute plant.
Terre Haute Fire Capt. Sam Lane, who saved the life of a family while on vacation in North Carolina, is honored by the Exchange Club of Terre Haute as its Firefighter of the Year.
Oct. 16 — Pfizer begins cleanup of Jordan Creek in preparation for its plan to remove PCBs from private property adjacent to its property south of Terre Haute, a contamination caused by the June flood.
Oct. 17 — Environmental Protection Agency announces it will begin cleanup next month of hazardous waste at Wabash Environmental Technologies on South First Street, because of its imminent health threat to nearby residents.
Oct. 19 — Four hundred volunteers clean up trash in Terre Haute in a semiannual cleanup sponsored by Keep Terre Haute Beautiful and Trees Inc.
Oct. 21 — Bill Kurtis, anchor of television’s “American Justice,” speaks to a crowd in Tilson Auditorium as part of Indiana State University’s Speaker Series.
Oct. 22 — John Lovett of Brazil, accused of murders in the 1988 homicides of Ricky Mustard and Tonya Pickett, is given a bail setting of $200,000 after an evidentiary hearing in Clay County.
Terre Haute Police Cpl. Phil Haley, who volunteers time teaching martial arts to young people, is named Exchange Club’s Law Enforcement Officer of the Year.
Oct. 24 — Diedre Adams, a science teacher at West Vigo Middle School, is honored in Washington, D.C., as one of 15 national Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator awards.
Oct. 26 — The final chapter closes on VX nerve agent in the Wabash Valley in a community gathering in Clinton to recognize the end of neutralization in August of the deadly substance and the closing of the Newport Chemical Depot.
Oct. 28 — More than 100 people turn out for the grand opening of the Voorhees Skate Park, a paved facility for skaters, skateboarders and stunt bikers that had been years in planning and building.
Oct. 29 — The city’s 43 arsons so far in 2008 are a “big problem,” Terre Haute Fire Chief Jeff Fisher says, and he encourages the public to report suspicious activity.
Oct. 30 — WTHI television station reached an agreement with Time Warner after a contract dispute had kept the station’s Channel 10 off the air for 26 days.
Oct. 31 — Vigo County residents who live near the Pfizer plant talk about contamination of their homes by PCBs as the company begins a state-approved cleanup process. A dam that breached during the June flood released water from a containment pond that caused the contamination.
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A look back at 2008: September-October: Campaign stops and Victory Days
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Patriotism & Honor
From his vantage point, Sonner Faught could see almost every volunteer in the cemetery.
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Graduation turns to mourning in Clinton
Jeana Lunsford’s graduation from South Vermillion High School Saturday should have been a time of celebration.
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School choice proponents foresee growth of vouchers
Twenty-seven Vigo County students benefited from tax-supported vouchers during the first year of the Choice Scholarship Program, and that number is expected to grow for 2012-13, say Indiana school choice leaders who visited Terre Haute Thursday.
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Tales of obstruction meet first takeover attempts
A decade after Indiana legislators gave the state the power to take over chronically failing schools, the first implementation of the law is meeting with resistance, skepticism and questions about its costs.
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THE OFF SEASON: Raising a flag for my father, veteran or not
My daughter, Ellen, and I stood at my parents’ graves on Mother’s Day a few weeks back and talked about how it couldn’t possibly have been so long since we lost them. My dad, for instance, has been gone for 16 years, and that is nearly unimaginable
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3 rescued from burning residence
Quick action on the part of some first-responders is credited with saving the lives of three people in a Vermillion County fire early Saturday morning, according to the Vermillion County Sheriff’s Department.
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He never forgot a name: Friends remember victim of fire at Garfield Towers
When Freddie Poore met you, he never forgot you.
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Hometown boy embraces ‘Promise I Made’: Clinton native Ken Kercheval takes role in Dreams Come True production
Thanks to some help from a hometown boy in Hollywood, “This Promise I Made” is still on track to be kept in Clinton.
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STATE OF THE STATEHOUSE: Many say they don’t vote in primary because of tag that comes with it
A couple of columns ago, I posed a question about why most Indiana polling places on primary election day had so few customers.
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Police looking for convenience store robber
Police are seeking a robbery suspect following a Saturday morning armed robbery at the Jiffy MiniMart at 25th Street and Eighth Avenue.
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Graduation ‘responsibility’: Rose-Hulman stages 134th commencement exercises
Inventor Dean Kamen gave a first-hand demonstration Saturday of how to be an innovator.
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THE OFF SEASON: To the seniors, one last lecture before you go …
It dawned on me one day last week, as I sat at my desk in my teacher clothes and shoes, a stack of ungraded essays calling to me from a rather tall and depressing pile, that I hadn’t missed a high school graduation in 33 years.
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Water rescuers
Emergency personnel wheel a man who was removed from a vehicle that had been driven into the water at Crystal Lake on Boston Avenue near 14th Street at about 9 p.m. Friday.
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For many, camping outdoors is the way to beat the heat, enjoy nature
Stringing up fishing poles in the shade of American flags, households full of Hoosiers are packing into parks across the state this weekend.
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Towns along National Road readying for next week’s miles-long yard sale
Stretching 824 miles from Baltimore to St. Louis, the National Road — known as U.S. 40 through Indiana — will soon be the host site for perhaps the longest bargain market in the country.
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Rose grads honoring late president Branam at commencement today
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology’s Class of 2012 will honor the memory of Matt Branam during today’s commencement ceremony by wearing special pins with the phrase “Make It Happen; Make It Fun,” a favorite saying of the former Rose-Hulman president, who died unexpectedly on April 20.
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Vigo County Jail Log: May 26, 2012
The following individuals were booked into the Vigo County Jail by area law enforcement on Thursday and Friday, based on jail records. Charges are recommended by arresting officers but are not final until the Vigo County prosecutor reviews the case and files official charges.
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A fallen soldier returns home
An Army carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Spc. Arronn D. Fields early Thursday morning at Dover Air Force Base, Del.
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Official touts trade with northern neighbor
A top Canadian diplomat told a Terre Haute audience Thursday his country was “disappointed” when President Obama at least temporarily rejected a proposed transcontinental oil pipeline from Alberta to Texas.
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Caution urged for summer’s kickoff
Lane restrictions in construction zones on Interstate 70 and other highways around the state will be lifted to accommodate holiday travel for the Memorial Day Weekend.
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Letters delivered
Several positions will be eliminated this summer at the Terre Haute mail processing facility as the U.S. Postal Service begins moving the operation to Indianapolis, a U.S. Postal Service spokesman has confirmed.
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Companies seek Vigo tax abatements
Two Vigo County companies are seeking tax abatements for expansion projects, one of which is included as part of a county incentive package.
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High-speed chase suspect caught in West Virginia
The suspect in a cross-country, high-speed chase originating in Terre Haute last week was reportedly in federal custody Thursday evening.
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Second victim of deadly I-70 semi-trailer crash identified
The Vigo County Coroner’s Office has identified the passenger of a semi-tractor crash on May 16 in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 70 near the 12-mile marker.
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Burn ban in effect for Vigo County through holiday weekend
Vigo County officials have issued a burn ban effective Thursday and remains in effect until 8 a.m. Tuesday.
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Brazil remembers a Fallen Son
A small town seemed sadly quiet Wednesday, waiting to honor a local fallen warrior.
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ISU OKs four-year degree guarantee
Indiana State University has announced a four-year “graduation guarantee” for students enrolling this fall and beyond.
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Dems tout good side of compromise
Indiana Senate Minority Leader Vi Simpson, chosen to run as the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor with gubernatorial candidate John Gregg, said during a stop Wednesday in Terre Haute that bipartisan experience is a key factor in creating jobs and legislation to help Hoosiers statewide.
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Motorcyclist dies, motorist charged after accident
A Terre Haute man has died of injuries he sustained in a two-motorcycle, one-car crash that also injured another motorcyclist late Tuesday. The incident has led to the arrest of the car’s driver.
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