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Wind farm foes plan meeting
A meeting to gauge public opposition to wind farms in Boone County is scheduled for 7 p.m. Feb. 19 at the Boone County Farm Bureau Community Building at the 4-H Fairgrounds, 1300 East County Road 100 South, Lebanon.
Rick and Janet Fyffe, rural Thorntown, are concerned a test tower near county roads 850 West and 250 North will show there is an economic basis to building a wind turbine farm in Boone County.
The Fyffes are concerned over the health and safety risks of wind farms.
EnXco, a renewable energy developer, installed the test tower this fall. A two-year study gauging wind speed, direction and consistency will determine if a wind farm is feasible, EnXco representative Laura Vaughn told The Lebanon Reporter.
A typical wind turbine tower is 265 feet high, with three 132-foot-long blades turning a turbine that generates about 1.5 megawatts of electricity.
Wind farms either on-line or planned in Benton County will eventually generate up to 982 megawatts of electricity. Indianapolis Power & Light Co. announced in October it would have EnXco build a 21-turbine wind farm near Fowler.
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Ounce of prevention
The health department began giving these free vaccinations last April, and as of the beginning of the clinic Wednesday, McNutt said she had about 105 students left to check off.
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Unused seat belt leads to foot chase and arrest
Carroll Wethington may be wishing he’d buckled up.
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Community leaders join forces to start mentoring program
The Boone County Mentoring Collaborative, with the help of consultant Tracy Butler of the Indiana Mentoring Partnership, is working to create a high-quality mentoring program to help at-risk children
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McCraw faces four new charges
Charges that he had been using marijuana before he drove a car into a home, killing a woman, have been filed against Joshua McCraw, 22, Lebanon.
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Off-duty cop catches burglary suspect
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Building blocks
Perry-Worth first-grader Ryan Keith counts his fingers to add a math sum while playing an educational computer game Tuesday afternoon as classmate Scout Langley, right, also intently plays during Perry-Worth Elementary School’s intervention block.
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Boone benefits from Indiana’s conservation program expansion
Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman recently visited Starkey Farms here to announce that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has granted an expansion of Indiana’s Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program , a partnership between the USDA and the State of Indiana to address agriculture-related environmental concerns.
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Leap placed on unpaid suspension
Lebanon Police Patrolman Jason Leap is on unpaid suspension pending the result of an Indiana State Police investigation into allegations he pointed a handgun at a bar patron while off duty.
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West Nile pops up in Boone
The West Nile Virus has been detected in adult mosquitoes in Boone County.
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A cross-country summer
Lebanon resident Richard Lyons flew to the Pacific coast in Oregon in June to explore the area on his bicycle. He told his family he was going to ride around for a while and then head back home.
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