WEST LAFAYETTE – Purdue University officials said Wednesday that more than 99% of students who have been tested thus far before their arrival for the fall 2020 semester have tested negative for COVID-19.
INDIANAPOLIS – Gov. Eric Holcomb plans to ask the Indiana State Board of Education (SBOE) to take action to ensure Indiana’s K-12 schools receive 100 percent of funding as he committed earlier this summer.
INDIANAPOLIS — State health officials are urging Indiana residents to take steps to protect themselves from mosquito bites as West Nile virus activity is detected in mosquitoes in multiple locations around the state.
WEST LAFAYETTE — A Purdue University-affiliated LED lighting manufacturer has created new technology to help schools combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The three-year span from 1903 to 1906 identifies the groundwork period, building and completion of Monticello’s Carnegie Library.
If you have followed this column over the last year, you will remember the article on Burnettsville’s newspapers. Today we will share “the rest of the story.”
The March 29, 1918, edition of the White County Democrat featured an article about State Fire Marshal McCall’s condemnation and removal of nine Monticello structures.
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REMINGTON — A Chicago man has been charged with murder in a shooting April 25 at a Remington gas station that left one person dead and himself critically injured.
OCKLEY — A 64-year-old Carroll County man was killed July 4 when a pickup truck struck him while he was riding a bicycle.
REMINGTON — A Remington man was charged with burglary and domestic battery after an incident that occurred June 12 at a residence south of Remington.
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WHITE COUNTY — One of two definitions for the word new is “already existing but seen, experienced, or acquired recently or now for the first time.”
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The venue was different and so was the feel.
WEST LAFAYETTE — Despite an ever-increasing threat from the COVID-19 health emergency, the Big Ten Conference plans to move forward with a modified 2020 football season.
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MONON — The emotion didn’t show until just outside of her hometown.
Game on, for now. With girl’s golf practice Friday, the Indiana High School Athletic Association kicked off what it hopes will be a no-frills re-entry into full-fledged high school sports.
WEST LAFAYETTE — The Purdue Student Farm has started selling to the public.
The COVID-19 pandemic will undoubtedly be the defining economic event of 2020 and beyond, and has brought uncertainty to markets around the world.
WEST LAFAYETTE — Farmer sentiment was virtually unchanged in July in comparison to a month earlier, according to the Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer.
This week’s film, “The Rental,” is a thriller set at, where else, a rental house.
A reader commenting on my column about nimrods from Podunk emailed that he appreciates a little context with his news, “a concept that seems to be an endangered species.”
Some communities have a fine-tuned process when considering proposed developments. Some communities, enamored with new development, ask few questions. Most communities fall somewhere between.
U.S. Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., is blaming Democrats for the congressional impasse on a new federal coronavirus relief package.
(The Center Square) – As more residents receive packets of mystery seeds that appear to be from China, the president of the Agribusiness Council of Indiana (ACI) urges residents to turn in the seeds and learn more about invasive species.
WATERLOO, Ind., Aug. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Blueflame Medical, a medical supply and healthcare logistics company, announced that it will adopt the DeKalb County Central United School District and donate surgical masks and its new Doc Hygiene(TM) hand sanitizer packets in support of the District's re-opening plan. The donation will be made to the DeKalb Central Foundation.
