Knightstown News

Southern Wells opened its 2009-10 wrestling season in rousing fashion by ruling the Frankton Duals with four overwhelming victories on Saturday.

The Indianapolis Star won 37 awards in the annual Hoosier State Press Association's Better Newspaper Contest, it was announced Saturday.

MUNCIE -- Sutton Elementary School's Public Law 221 committee will meet at 2:45 p.m. today.

Carl Manger had just paid for soda pop and a newspaper in a Ricker's gas station in Chesterfield.

SGT. HOPE NISBET, a Muncie native, recently re-enlisted in the Army in Iraq. She was the first of many soldiers in the 541st Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 96th Sustainment Brigade to re-enlist. She was given the oath of re-enlistment by Army Capt.

MUNCIE -- The Munsonian, Central High School's student newspaper, won first place in Division II in news writing from the Indiana High School Press Association.

Southern Wellsa athletic department will be selling tickets for the Raidersa Class A regional football game against the Knightstown Panthers on Friday at 7:30 p.m. Tickets will be on sale from 8 a.m. Wednesday through noon Friday.

On Saturday, the Hoosier Gym Community Center in Knightstown will be the site of the 3rd Annual Knightstown Community Chili Cook-Off. The event will run from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Contestants are still needed.

A Knightstown man is accused of abducting his estranged wife and forcing her to accompany him on a trip to Tennessee.

THE ARTIST WITHIN will feature artwork of Daralee D. Donathan this month. An opening reception will be 5-8 p.m. Thursday.

Jane Elizabeth Holmes, 73, Speedway, passed away Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009. She was born Nov.

Garden author/Indiana Living Green editor Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp stops in for a garden chat at 11:30 a.m. Saturday at Cobalt Blue Press, 102 E. Main St.

Parts of Interstate 70 will close at Knightstown this week for bridge replacement on Indiana 109.

Northeastern and Hagerstown both won first-round sectional matches during the Class 2A tournament Thursday at Lincoln.

There is a rare type of home located at 154 N. Main Street in Cloverdale. It is an Octagon House and is currently up for sale.

Bobby Holmes Benefit Bike Ride will be Saturday. Sign up 11 a.m.; leave Rushville Eagles at noon, to Knightstown American Legion, The Pit Stop in Carthage, back to Eagles for food, music, auction.

Rush County Treasurer Mary Ann Beard reminds Rush County taxpayers that it is time to find those fall tax bills.

For Lou Ann Young, the Autumn Gala of the Anderson Young Ballet Theatre isn't just about dance.

Eighty one year old Paul Youngerman has been found alive and well in Knightstown, Indiana, just east of Indianapolis.

An 81-year-old man with Alzheimer's disease missing since Friday afternoon, Oct.