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Closing Moores Hill Elementary is one of the options South Dearborn schools is considering to deal with declining enrollment and funding. Another option is closing all the off-campus elementaries including Manchester and Dillsboro.

Elementary school is the heart of the town for many Moores Hill residents
Not everyone is going to feel the same. Everyone has different perspectives, opinions. But for at least some Moores Hill residents, it feels like the possible closing of the town’s elementary school has become an easy target to “fix” the declining...
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Joe Awad/The Register: Veteran Jesse Babson, Clay, Mich, right, is fitted for a bike by technician Jorge Avalos in Lawrenceburg Wednesday morning, Aug. 7. Babson was shot through the back and chest, and took an IED to the head while fighting in the former Mosul Provence, northern Iraq, in 2006.

Injured vets visit for nationally recognized warrior cycling ride
More than 40 American wounded warriors from across the nation will join the Wounded Warrior Project for “Soldier Ride Cincinnati,” which will take place in Lawrenceburg, Aurora, and Rising Sun this week. The educational multi-day bicycling event...
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Submitted photo: DCF Board member Ramzi Nuseibeh, right, delivers a $1,000 grant check to the Barbara Bonney, Director of the Lawrenceburg Public Library District. The DCF grant monies will support the library district’s technology program.

Grant supports tech at library district
The Dearborn Community Foundation Inc. recently awarded a $1,000 proactive grant to the Lawrenceburg Public Library District to help support the library’s technology program.   In a continuing effort to make an impact in the Dearborn County...
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Tired, mud-covered Lawrenceburg High School varsity football players had their toughness and endurance pushed to the limits during a 48-hour version of military basic training, hosted by the Indiana National Guard, at historic Camp Atterbury, near Edinburgh, June 26-28. (LHS Athletics)

BOOT CAMP TRAINING TESTS TIGERS
CAMP ATTERBURY, Ind. - Built amid the farmlands of south central Indiana in 1941 - about 4 miles west of Edinburgh where the Bartholomew, Johnson and Shelby county lines intersect - Camp Atterbury has trained, cared for and sent home US Army...

News Stories

S-D board approves $48M in improvements

Now the wait begins.

Arrests made after one bad guy allegedly burns down another bad guy’s house

What does it mean if a man is sitting in jail, and his house burns down?

Aurora works with Rumpke to make city a little cleaner

 Aurora wants everyone to help keep the city a little cleaner.

Sports

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DEPTH, INJURIES FIGURE IN L'BURG-EC

EAST CENTRAL at

LAWRENCEBURG

KICKOFF: 7 p.m. Friday, Dick Meador Stadium at Neary Memorial Field, Lawrenceburg.

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East Central's Taylor Whitehead (6) juggles the ball as Richmond defender Aaliyah Porfidio hovers in last year's Class 3A girls soccer sectional. (Sandy Mahoney)

CLICHES REMAIN VALID FOR EC GIRLS SOCCER

ST. LEON - It’s an old cliché, but one that might be apt for East Central High School girls soccer again. They are not rebuilding, they are reloading.

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SD SLIPPED IN 2018 OPENER VS. OWLS

SOUTH DEARBORN

at SEYMOUR

KICKOFF: 7 p.m. Friday at Bulleit Stadium.

Community

Moores Hill native chosen for $1,000 scholarship

The ISPE Education Foundation Board of Trustees met June 6, to consider the recommendation of the Scholarship Committee (Gary Pardekooper, Ross Nixon, and Harold Dungan) to award three $1,000 schol

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Grants awarded to 16 educators

The Dearborn County Retired Teachers Foundation recently awarded sixteen educator grants to teachers in both the local public and private schools.  These grants are for projects which would not oth

Kuntz graduates from basic training

U.S. Air Force Airman Kyle B. Kuntz graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas.

Obituaries

Pamela King

Death Notices
Pamela "Pam" J. King, 54, Lawrenceburg, died Monday, Aug. 12, 2019. Service will be private at convenience of the family.

Wilda Deaton

Wilda June Deaton (nee Butts), beloved wife of the late John L. Deaton. Devoted mother of Vickie (Greg) Koch and the late Jackie (Jon) Mitts.

Greg Bissinger

Greg H. Bissinger, 63, of Terre Haute, passed away on Friday, Aug. 16, 2019, at IU Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, surrounded by his family.

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