Cindy Klepper - Thursday, March 21, 2013 8:48 AM
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Originally published March 21, 2013.
The girl who came to the door at Huntington House was obviously upset.
She was crying, says shelter manager Carolyn Ray, who eventually determined that the teen had run away after a family dispute.
"She was just running ... She didn't know where to go," Ray says. "She saw the sign and said, ‘Can you help me? Can you help me?'"
Steve Clark. - Monday, March 18, 2013 8:14 AM
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John Easterday, of Huntington, worked as both a farmer and a banker, and those two professions often conflicted.
"Especially in the farming side, when I was working at the bank, and in the spring and the fall, you'd never know whether to take a day off or not, whether it was going to rain or not," says Easterday.
But, he adds, "Now I don't have to worry about any of that."
Last year, on his 66th birthday, Easterday retired from banking, calling it a career after 43 years.
Lauren M. Wilson - Thursday, March 14, 2013 8:08 AM
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Originally published March 11, 2013.
"I used to think, like most Americans do, ‘Slavery ended in the 1800s.'
"But that's wrong. It is still prevalent today," says Sarah Schmidt.
Schmidt, director of the Huntington County Historical Museum, is speaking of her travels overseas in Latvia, where she worked with women of all ages who are victims of human trafficking or are working in the sex industry.
Andre B. Laird - Monday, March 11, 2013 8:23 AM
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Originally published March 7, 2013.
Despite a slow economy and declining home purchases, Huntington County is still one of the few counties in the nation that has seen a steady stream of community development projects.
That's the view from Mark Mussman, executive director of Huntington Countywide Department of Community Development, the department that handles building permits.
Cindy Klepper - Thursday, March 7, 2013 8:45 AM
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Originally published March 4, 2013.
The deer harvest in Indiana during the 2012 hunting season hit record levels.
That didn't hold true in Huntington County, where the deer harvest continued a three-year slide.
Huntington County, however, can boast of a near-record - a buck taken Nov. 17 in Huntington County by hunter Tim Beck.
Steve Clark. - Monday, March 4, 2013 8:18 AM
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Originally published Feb. 28, 2013.
During the Cougar Wrestling Invitational on Feb. 23 at Crestview Middle School, in Huntington, Crestview students Megan Adkins and Veronica Russell were seated in a row of chairs alongside a wrestling mat with Crestview's wrestling team.
They weren't spectators.
And they weren't managers.
Outfitted in the same blue "Crestview Wrestling" uniforms as the boys sitting around them, they were team members, and they were each waiting for their next match.
Lauren M. Wilson - Friday, March 1, 2013 5:59 AM
Photo by Lauren M. Wilson.
When Kathy Rhodes was watching the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show from home last year, she had no idea she would be in attendance at the show in 2013.
Not only did Rhodes attend the show in 2013, she was present as owner of an entered dog - her Pyrenean Shepherd, Zhako (pronounced Ja-co).
Zhako won Best of Winners and came home from New York City with a purple ribbon.
His breed is fairly new to the American Kennel Club (AKC), recognized as an AKC breed only since 2009.
Currently, the AKC recognizes 175 dog breeds.
Lauren M. Wilson - Monday, February 25, 2013 7:47 AM
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They say every cloud has a silver lining.
The storm cloud here passed through in June of 2012, bringing a large tree down upon the goat and sheep building at Hier's Park just weeks before the 2012 4-H Fair.
The collision was, at first, a setback.
But this week, the cloud's silver lining has grown apparent as Huntington North High School senior Austin Garde's blueprints for the proposed new FFA pole barn were presented to the 4-H Fair Board.
Steve Clark - Thursday, February 21, 2013 7:53 AM
Photo by Steve Clark.
Originally published Feb. 18, 2013.
At 81, Warren resident Bill Couch is learning how to play the ocarina, a type of flute.
Six years ago, he started woodworking for the first time in his life, producing everything from bookshelves to cabinets, as well as restoring antique pieces.
It's because he's interested in knowledge, he says. And also because he likes a challenge.
Cindy Klepper - Monday, February 18, 2013 8:11 AM
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It's been 74 years, and the girls are still getting together.
"We go out to eat, and then we go back to one of the homes," says Betty Schoeff, the "baby'" of the club.
"Now, we usually show pictures of our grandchildren."
Grandchildren - and great-grandchildren - weren't even close to being in the picture when the Penguin Club had its start.
Back then, its members were a bunch of giggly high school girls with movies (and boys) on their minds.
Cindy Klepper - Thursday, February 14, 2013 8:36 AM
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An uninhabited island with a history reaching back a couple of centuries will come back to life this spring, thanks to a state grant and the efforts of Historic Forks of the Wabash volunteers.
A $56,000 grant, which was presented to the Historic Forks of the Wabash board of directors on Tuesday, Feb. 5, will be used to tie the island to the Forks property by means of a walking path and footbridge.
Lauren M. Wilson - Monday, February 11, 2013 8:04 AM
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Traveling outside Huntington, or even Indiana, to study roller coaster design, electrical engineering, natural resource management, diesel mechanics, meteorology or oncology isn't the typical day in the life of a Huntington North High School student, but for six sophomores participating in the school's new job-shadowing program, these unique experiences have become their own.
Andre B. Laird. - Thursday, February 7, 2013 8:09 AM
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Originally published Feb. 4, 2013.
Within A.F.O.L. (Adult Followers Of LEGOS) circles, Huntington resident Matthew Stephenson is considered a purist.
Stemming from a childhood fascination for building and seeing how things are constructed, Stephenson has spent the last few years amassing quite a collection.
"I've played with LEGOS since I was little," he states. "I got my first set when I was about 6 years old."
Stephenson adds that he played with LEGOS until the "Dark Ages," a period most adult LEGO enthusiasts undergo.
Cindy Klepper - Monday, February 4, 2013 8:39 AM
Photo by Cindy Klepper.
Originally published Jan. 31, 2013.
Oh, those gloomy months of February and March.
Christmas is in the past; spring is in the future.
What we have is rain.
Snow.
Ice.
Mud.
The remedy - in Huntington at least - seems to be curling up with a good book.
"We get a lot of readership in February and March," says Kathy Holst, director of the Huntington City-Township Public Library.
And our favorite topic, it seems, is murder - at least the fictional kind served up by novelist James Patterson.
Steve Clark - Friday, February 1, 2013 5:59 AM
Photo by Steve Clark.
Originally published Jan. 28, 2013.
The secret to being a professional bowler isn't being good.
It's being consistently good.
That's a lesson that EJ Tackett, of Huntington, is learning right now.
Tackett, 20, became a professional bowler last November.
It was the culmination of competing in years of tournaments where he displayed the same skill and consistency that professional bowlers have to a regular basis.