WASHINGTON —
A plethora of Daviess County law enforcement officials, including (from left) Judge Greg Smith, Prosecutors Byron Overton and Dan Murrie, police Chief Mike Healy and Judge Dean Sobecki, judge entries for the anti-drug poster contest. The entries came from all of the county elementary schools and junior highs. The grand prize winner will be on a billboard and on the cover of the 2013 calendar and will receive a Kindle Fire. First- and second-place winners will receive Kindles and the third-place winner will receive a gift card from Walmart. The posters had to convey an anti-drug and/or anti-alcohol message.
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Anti-Drug poster selection
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CITY REPORT
10:59 p.m. — A complainant at Westwood Place Apartments reported finding a basket of clothing and other clothing articles scattered in front of some of the buildings. -
Farmers feeling crunch of wet planting season
Area farmers are feeling the crunch to get crops into the ground as soon as possible. Wet conditions have halted many of the planting days in the last week. Just five days were suitable for planting as the soil remains too wet in much of the southern portion of the state.
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DCH announces safety upgrade
For most students, improving a school grade from an F to a C is quite an improvement.
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Area Briefs
SAFS activities for next week
Monday — Closed for Memorial Day
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Loogootee graduation scheduled for Friday
Loogootee Junior/Senior High School will hold its 2013 graduation exercises at 7 p.m. today.
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CITY REPORT
Thursday2:19 p.m. - Debbie Fields, 520 S.E. Second St., reported that her black moped was taken from her residence. The moped had been padlocked.
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Refugee overcomes barriers to graduate WHS
Seh Reh, like many who has come to Washington as a Burmese refugee, found life in his new home daunting. The language was so intimidating that he dropped out of high school in 2010.
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Pike Central to hold graduation
Pike Central High School will hold its 38th commencement exercises at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the high school gymnasium.
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Closings for Memorial Day
The following are area closings for the Memorial Day holiday Monday:
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North Daviess still facing budget cuts
Members of the state legislature gave schools a two percent increase but North Daviess Community Schools Superintendent Robert Bell said the corporation will still get funding cuts over the next four years.
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