RONDAL SNYDER Rondal Snyder, 83, of Liberty passed away on November 2, 2020, after several months at the Whitewater Commons nursing home. Rondal was born on January 2, 1937, in Connersville. He was the son of Ralph and Mary Snyder and had two sisters, Sallee Roach and Karen Plyley. Rondal married the love of his …
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Obituary for Annabelle Sandlin
ANNABELLE SANDLIN Annabelle Sandlin, 82, of Greensboro, passed away on Wednesday, November 4, 2020, at IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie. She was born on January 2, 1938, in Brookville, and is the daughter of Clarence and Josephine Oder Abercrombie. On May 18, 1957, she married Elgan E. Sandlin in Connersville. They were able to …
Obituary for Paul Nutty
PAUL NUTTY Paul Nutty, 71, of Connersville passed away Wednesday afternoon, November 4, 2020, at Hickory Creek of Connersville. One of eight children of Carl and Leota Lou Stevens Nutty, Paul was born in Connersville on October 5, 1949, and graduated from Connersville High School with the class of 1968. Paul served his country in …
Deer hunters asked to held DNR with wasting disease information
From a DNR press release Hunters can help the DNR with chronic wasting disease (CWD) surveillance efforts by submitting samples from harvested deer during the 2020-21 deer hunting season. CWD is a neurologic disease that affects white-tailed deer. The fatal disease is transmitted directly through bodily fluids such as feces, saliva, blood, or urine, or …
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Fayette County has another additional death in the Thursday, November 5 ISDH report
By John Estridge from ISDH data Fayette County recorded its 26th death related to COVID-19, according to ISDH data released on Thursday, November 5. It is an addition of one death over Wednesday’s total. Indiana blew through its own one-day COVID-19 positive test results record with 4,462. It is almost 600 more than the old …
I’m embarrassed to say I enjoy reading phone books or my sister Karen’s definition of special — a column I think
By John Estridge I have an admission to make, and it’s a more than a little embarrassing. I have found I enjoy reading phone books. Let me back up here a little bit. After I was fired from my editor’s position at the Brookville Democrat/American and Liberty Herald, I applied at the Brookville Library, and …
History of the Franklin County Courthouse
By Brookville and Franklin County Historian John Newman Editor’s Note: Mr. Newman wrote this in 1995 before the Franklin County Government Center was opened on Franklin Avenue in Brookville. When he wrote this history, all the county offices were in the courthouse. Mr. Newman offered the use of this history while we were watching the …
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Officer involved shooting update from ISP
From an ISP press release Indiana State Police detectives continue to investigate an officer involved shooting that occurred on Sunday November 1, in Seymour, that resulted in the death of a Beech Grove man. The incident began at approximately 8:30 p.m., when two officers with the Seymour Police Department responded to a report of a theft …
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Fayette County, Union County and Indiana have bad COVID-19 positive test numbers
By John Estridge from ISDH data For Indiana, Fayette County and Union County, it was bad news in the number of new positive test results. After one day — Tuesday, November 3 — of recording less than 20 positive test results, on Wednesday, November 4, Fayette County had 36 new positive test results, making the …
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Obituary for Faye (Brown) Campbell
FAYE (BROWN) CAMPBELL Faye (Brown) Campbell, of Harrison, passed away on October 31, 2020, at the age of 84. She was born on February 25, 1936, to the late Albert and Jannie (Hall) Brown in Letcher County, Kentucky. She married Lawrence Leo “Snook” Knepfle, and they were blessed with a daughter: Jannie. Faye worked at Sperry Rubber …