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Local Record: July 6, 2024

Crawfordsville Police Department Wednesday • Operating a vehicle while intoxicated in the 1300 block of Darlington Avenue — 2:58 a.m. • Mariah Kaye Burns, 29, was …

Local Record: July 5, 2024

Crawfordsville Police Department Tuesday • Drug investigation in the 400 block of South Washington Street — 1:46 a.m. • Jairo Oporta Sobalvarro, 43, no city listed, was …

Local Record: July 3, 2024

Crawfordsville Police Department Monday • Property damage in the 1500 block of Edgewood Drive — 6:46 a.m. • Property damage in the 1500 block of Edgewood Drive — …

Local Record: June 29, 2024

Crawfordsville Police Department Thursday • Fight at South State Road 47 and West C.R. 400S — 1:15 a.m. • Property damage crash at Purple Heart Parkway and South U.S. …
LIFESTYLE
Bundles of Joy
Audrey Joanne Bannon, a daughter, born at 9:30 p.m. July 13 at Hendricks Regional Health, Danville, Indiana, to Jason and Becka (Murphy) Bannon. At birth, she weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces and measured …
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EDUCATION & SCHOOLS
Ryan Miller, left, was selected as a 2024 Journal Review Scholar and received a $1,000 check from Journal Review Publisher Shawn Storie.
Miller, Sayler selected 2024 JR Scholars
Ryan Miller and Abigail Sayler were recently awarded financial scholarships from the Journal Review. Each student received $1,000 to use toward their college expenses. Miller is a Crawfordsville …
Millikin posts spring Dean’s List
DECATUR, Illinois — Meagan Lyon and Reagan Minnette, both of Crawfordsville, were named to the Millikin University Dean’s List for the spring semester. Students who attempt 12 graded …
Keystone Cooperative awards scholarships
INDIANAPOLIS —   Keystone Cooperative Inc. has announced the 54 recipients of its $1,000 scholarship program for 2024. The scholarships were awarded to high school seniors with an interest …
North meal prices to increase
North Montgomery Community School Corporation students will have a slight increase in breakfasts and lunches in the 2024-25 school year. On Monday, the school board approved the news prices. …
OPINION
Letters to the Editor

Letter: Reader pleased with column

Regarding the column by Raymond Williams published June 25 on the Viewpoints page: I am writing to thank Professor Williams for the beautiful and thought provoking column, “Them that has …

Letter: Reader suggests a focus on humility

How about Humility Month? We have days/months for many celebrations, so why not one for humility? Why don’t we celebrate being humble or having humility? Many years ago, when the …

Letter: Honor our vets, reject dictators

With Memorial Day approaching I am thinking about our veterans. I recently finished watching a powerful streaming show called Masters of the Air. During each episode young American pilots and crews …

Letter: Attending school events too costly

My five grandchildren are students in Crawfordsville and participate in sports, music and theatre. I am writing to express my dismay and disappointment in the Crawfordsville school system for their …

Letter: Election turnout saddens reader

I’ve crunched the preliminary numbers and they saddened me. Montgomery County on May 7 saw its lowest voter turnout for a presidential primary in at least 32 years. I’m not naive to …
Columns
In 2019, the Knight Foundation set out to understand why nearly 100 million eligible voters sit out one of the “central democratic acts” for people in the United States — casting a …
Most observers link identity politics with Democrats, as underrepresented groups have used their common fate as a vehicle for political action since the movement politics of the 1960s and 70s.  …
The year was 1986. Kate Lindsay had just returned to the workforce, where she was an operating room nurse after taking four years off with her son, when she read in an article in the Austin American …
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