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Office Donation

Office360’s Partners in Giving program recently presented The Clearinghouse with a check to help the food pantry in Southeast Indiana. Office360 is one of the largest and fastest growing independently owned office products companies in the country. It is headquartered in Indianapolis with warehouses located across the continental United States. SUBMITTED PHOTO VIA FACEBOOK

Food growers group receives grant

The Food and Growers Association of Dearborn, Decatur, Franklin, Jackson, Ripley, Rush, Shelby and Union counties has received a $14,720 Food Council Development Grant from Indian Grown. The association was one of five that receives grants from Indiana Grown.

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PAINTING A MURAL

Students in Kim Lyttle’s art classes at Moores Hill School are working on a Collaboration Project. Students in each class are participating in a different part of an end of the year mural to hang in the halls of Moores Hill School. The sixth grade students are painting the trees that will be a part of the mural. Other classes were in charge of adding buildings, clouds, raindrops, suns, and smiley faces. SUBMITTED PHOTO

What’s Going On

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State Sen. Jeff Raatz

Balancing the powers of Indiana government

One of the main lessons we’ve learned from the COVID- 19 pandemic is that, under a statewide emergency, it makes sense for Hoosiers to have all branches of their state government involved in making decisions that affect them. House Bill 1123 would allow the General Assembly to play a more active role in decision-making during statewide emergencies.

Online tool connects to jobs, career

Hoosiers seeking a better-paying job can use the state’s new Hoosier Talent Network website to match to one of more than 135,000 job openings, according to State Reps. Randy Lyness (R-West Harrison) and Cindy Ziemke (R-Batesville).

Lawrenceburg catcher Colin Mueller awaits the pitch as Rising Sun’s Braylan Williams squares to bunt in the Tigers’ 22-5 season opening win March 31 at RS. MASON J. UHLMANSIEK

L’burg thumps Pirates to follow 22-5 debut

LAWRENCEBURG - After exploding for a chilly 22-5, 5-inning win at Rising Sun in the season opener last Wednesday, March 31, Lawrenceburg baseball saw its 3-2 lead after 2-1/2 innings at Harrison (Ohio) get buried by a 12-run Wildcats third in a 16-3, 5-inning rout Saturday.

East Central shortstop Carson Koelling (9) loses his sunglasses as he makes a diving attempt to snag a base hit in the Trojans’ 7-5 conference loss to Franklin County Monday. SANDY MAHONEY

EC nine falls 7-5 in league opener

ST. LEON - After a 2-0 start to the long-awaited 2021 season, East Central baseball dropped the next 2 games, including Monday’s 7-5, 8-inning loss to Franklin County in its conference opener.

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Baseball Knights retain EIAC bat with 10-3 win

RUSHVILLE - South Dearborn baseball, owner of the EIAC bat traveling trophy since 2019, kept it at home with Monday’s 10-3 win in its 2021 conference opener at Rushville. The bat, a concept formulated by longtime Knights head coach Jay Malott to boost Eastern Indiana Athletic Conference rivalries, remained idle all of last season after IHSAA cancellation of spring sports across the board, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Boys hoops MVPs

All-Dearborn County Boys Basketball By Register Publications PLAYERS OF THE YEAR 1995 - Eric Ketcham, East Central 1996 - Brian Sturgeon, Lawrenceburg 1997 - Brian Sturgeon, Lawrenceburg 1998 - Brett Snodgrass, East Central 1999 - Brett Snodgrass, East Central 2000 - Zak Kirchgassner, East Central 2001 - Brandon Gabbard, South Dearborn 2002 - Jordan Dever, East Central 2003 - Brandon Kaiser, East Central 2004 - Brandon Kaiser, East Central 2005 - Brandon Kaiser, East Central 2006 - Cody Johnson, South Dearborn 2007 - Seth Daugherty/ Brandon Callahan, East Central 2008 - Seth Daugherty, East Central 2009 - Jim Faehr, Lawrenceburg 2010 – Kevin Kidd, EC/ Justin Ricketts, L’burg 2011 – Joel Scudder, SD/ Logan Jaehnen, EC 2012 – Logan Jaehnen, EC/ Jake Rennekamp, L’burg 2013 – Howie Backherms, East Central 2014 – Hunter Kammer, EC/ Adam Harves, L’burg 2015 - Adam Harves, Lawrenceburg 2016 - York McCory, East Central 2017 - Brady Ewing, EC/ Curtis White, Lawrenceburg 2018 - Tyler Koelling, EC/ Curtis White, Lawrenceburg 2019 - Gavin Yoon, L’burg/ Luke Collinsworth, EC 2020 - Gavin Yoon, Lawrenceburg 2021 - Luke Collinsworth/ Logan Rohrbacher, EC; Eli Hoffman, SD.