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Home sale numbers encouraging for county
Boone County — The Metropolitan Indianapolis Board of Realtors released its latest housing data for central Indiana Tuesday, and in the three-month period ending July 31, Boone County was one of only four counties to report a positive trend in properties sold; a 4 percent increase from the same period in 2008.
Montgomery County was the only county to have a higher percentage of properties sold over the three-month period, with 5 percent, but the average sale price of a home in Montgomery is $95,679, compared to $222,462 for Boone.
Even more telling, Boone was also the only county to hold steady over the sixth-month period ending July 31. Every other county saw significant decreases in home sales from a year ago, including nearby Hamilton County, which saw a 12 percent decrease, Marion County (15 percent) and Hendricks County (6 percent).
See Tuesday's Lebanon Reporter for the complete story.
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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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