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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
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If Mike Pence (R) and John Gregg (D) win their primary races next year, who would you vote for to be governor?
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The 2010 Business Card Directory will help you find a business in our area. For more information about advertising in the 2011 directory, contact Christy Lehman, Tina Snow or Stuart Dowden at 847-4487.

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Bloomfield' video entry in the Indianapolis 500 Speedway's "Back Home Again in Indiana" contest
This is the Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce's video entry to the Indiana Motor Speedway "Back Home Again in Indiana" contest, produced by ibsmithmedia LLC. The Chamber of Commerce entered the "Back Home Again in Indiana" Indianapolis 500 Festival competition in hopes of winning the $20,000 grand prize for their downtown Bloomfield Revitalization Project. Its goal is to win the grand prize and use $13,000 of the winnings to sponsor a summer-long revitalization program with help from Ball State University's Architecture Program. You can also keep up to date on what the Chamber is doing on its Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/Bloomfield500Celebration.
"Goose Pond: The Story of a Wetland and Its Neighbors" wins coveted Telly Award
The documentary film "Goose Pond: The Story of a Wetland & Its Neighbors" has won a national Telly Award in the nature/wildlife program category. The documentary "Goose Pond: The Story of a Wetland & Its Neighbors" was selected as a Bronze Telly Award Winner out of nearly 11,000 entries from all 50 states and 5 continents, according to the film's executive producer and Linton native, Bill Barnes, who now lives in Charlotte, NC. Barnes, who received notification of the award late last week, is pleased with the recognition the film winning the Telly Award will bring to the area of southwestern Indiana where he grew up. The Telly Awards were founded in 1979 and is the premier award honoring outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials and programs, the finest video and film productions, and online commercials, video and films. Click here for a preview of the film.
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  • 'Lady A' fetes students in tornado-hit Ind. town
    INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The Grammy Award-winning country music trio Lady Antebellum performed a "mini-prom" for students of a southern Indiana town that was devastated by a tornado in early March....
  • Ind. lottery seeking ideas from private firms
    INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The Indiana State Lottery Commission endorsed a plan Wednesday to seek out private companies to take over some operations of the Hoosier Lottery, a state agency whose income has shrunk in recent years....
  • Private Cline Avenue toll bridge agreement struck
    EAST CHICAGO, Ind. (AP) -- The city of East Chicago and the state have struck a deal with contractors to build a private toll bridge to replace a span that was shut down in 2009....
  • Gregg seeks corporate tax cut for Ind. businesses
    INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Gregg called for eliminating the state's corporate income tax on Indiana-based businesses Wednesday as he continued to roll out his policy ideas ahead of November's election....
  • Feds: Ind. man provided gun used to shoot officer
    INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- An Indianapolis man has been charged with illegally buying a handgun for a felon who later used it to shoot and wound a police officer....
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