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NEW PALESTINE — Whether she’s whipping up a meal for a sick friend or gathering her neighbors for a Bible study, Linda Vice gives as one who remembers what she’s received.

Knoxville, Tennessee, is a frequent trip for my wife and me. It’s her home. We stay at her sister’s house near the campus of Johnson University, my beloved “alma mater.”

Apostolic Pentecostal to pray in new year

Services take place Sunday unless otherwise noted.

Greenfield Intermediate School sixth graders recently participated in a mock trial during a book study on Percy Jackson. Students played the parts of lawyers, witnesses, prosecutors, defendants, the jury and others.

Changing Footprints and Bentley’s Buddies and Friends were selected winners of the 2023 Christmas tree contest at the Twenty North Gallery in downtown Greenfield. The Festival of the Trees was on display the first three weeks of December and people could vote for their favorite. Other participants included the Riley Boyhood Home, NineStar Connect, Palmer State Farm Insurance, Brandywine Wind, KidsPlay Inc., Dr. Knotek and Hancock County Arts.

Each year I devote two columns to review what I wrote about during the previous eleven months. For example, last winter I wrote about a cruise we took to Puerto Rico. Getting on the ship’s elevator required us to scan our room card. I kept swiping but the elevator door didn’t open. A fellow passenger walked by. “You’re scanning the hand sanitizer,” he told me.

GREENFIELD – Local teachers were recently honored by their peers for their dedication to students and the Greenfield-Central community.

In the early educational history of Indiana, schools were under the control of county superintendents. Around the turn of the century, that person for Hancock County was County Superintendent Geo. J. Richman. His job was to run county schools, but he was also involved with the Indiana County Superintendents’ Association, serving on an important committee in the early 1900s for the future of our state. The committee’s task was to write the state examination for students who wanted to go to high school after completing grade 8. That examination, written in 1904 for use in 1905, is the focus of this article.

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