• Defending FOIA

    Thank you Sen. David Wyatt. Last week I placed a call to our senator and asked him to vote against Senate Bill 131, which he did. Wyatt, along with a few others, eight exactly, were the only ones who opposed the bill which would completely …

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  • Hope Lutheran to hold Wednesday dinners/services

    Hope Lutheran Church will have dinner and services for the public on Wednesdays from Feb. 13 through March 20 in observance of Lent. Dinner begins at 5:45 p.m. with the service at 7. The church is located at the corner of East Main Street and …

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  • Fundraiser rescheduled

    NEWARK — Newark Elementary’s fundraiser, Jog for a Hog 5-kilometer race, has been rescheduled due to a conflict with the Southside School District basketball tournament. The race will be held at 6 p.m. March 15. This race supports Cedar Ridge School District’s sixth-grade field trip …

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  • BHS student accepted to academy

    Kali Richardson, a junior at Batesville High School, has been accepted into the U.S. Naval Academy summer seminar set for June 15-20 in Annapolis, Md., according to a news release. “The seminar is a fast-paced, intense introduction to the academy. Richardson will be one of …

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  • Oh dear, Doily

    Donetta’s column “Like mother, like daughter” in the Guard’s Friday edition got me to thinking just how much I’m becoming like my own mother. I’ve known it for a long time, but reading her story reminded me of my own situation as I work to …

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  • This Day In History…

    Today is Monday, Feb. 11, the 42nd day of 2013. There are 323 days left in the year.

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  • Mayor proclaims National Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week

    Seven-month-old Nataley Jones of Batesville watches along with her mother, Sarah Jones, as Mayor Rick Elumbaugh signs a document proclaiming this week as National Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week on Thursday. The infant was found to have the disease soon after she was born when …

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  • Batesville man sentenced to 35 years – ‘Ringleader’ among 22 indicted in ‘Operation Meilke Way’

    A Batesville man and “ringleader” of a large-scale drug-trafficking organization was sentenced to 35 years in prison without parole this week by a U.S. district judge. Twenty-seven-year-old Jorge Rojas-Olivera of Batesville and  Michael Meilke, 38, of Bradford were among 22 people indicted and arrested in …

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  • Three charged with shoplifting

    Three people have been cited for allegedly shoplifting a variety of clothing items valued at $118 from the Batesville Walmart store Wednesday morning. Charged in the incident are Laci D. Jones, 21, of Melbourne, and Joshua A. Gordon, 23, and Alexa C. Gordon, 22, both …

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  • ‘Mega Force’ on a mega mission

    Can crusher. Bat breaker. Steel bender and shredder of the Yellow Pages. Steve Carrier knows how to get attention and he had just that from a few hundred West Magnet Elementary students last week who — with their shrieks of excitement encouraged by Carrier — …

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  • ATV pursuit ends in capture

    The driver of a stolen four-wheeler who ran from police early this morning was eventually caught in a wooded area near Pleasant Plains, according to Deputy Wayne Green. Green said he was patrolling on Humphrey Drive around 1:30 a.m. when he met a man, later …

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  • ‘Silent No More’ dinner tickets, sponsorships now available

    Family Violence Prevention of Batesville is looking to be “Silent No More” with its upcoming “Dine to End Domestic Abuse” fourth annual dinner and silent auction on April 26. Tickets are currently on sale and are $85 each, $425 for a table of six and …

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