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WEATHER Today Skies: Sunny Temps: High 52; low 32 Extended outlook, Page A2
YOU SHOULD KNOW Cumberland officials add parks board member CUMBERLAND — Officials in Cumberland recently appointed a new member to the town parks advisory council. Brenda Gaston was sworn in by the Cumberland Town Council at a recent meeting. She is the sixth member of the parks advisory council, which advises the town council on facilities and programming.
WHAT’S IN
THE WATER?
GREENFIELD — The Hancock County Historical Society will host Michele Greenan, director of archaeology at the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites, for an “Identify Your Artifact” event. The public is invited to bring items such as stone arrowheads, knives, scrapers, axes, pestles and pipes from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Hancock County Historical Society’s Chapel in the Park Museum, 28 N. Apple St. The event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
Contaminants are measured by parts per billion and parts per million and reported to the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Samples reflect the latest-available data.
GREENFIELD Contaminant Arsenic Fluoride Lead Copper Chlorine
Allowed 10 ppb 4 ppm 15 ppb 1.3 ppm 4 ppm
Detected 1.5 ppb 0.8 ppm 1.3 ppb 0.6 ppm 0.3 ppm
FORTVILLE Contaminant Arsenic Fluoride Lead Copper Chlorine
Allowed 10 ppb 4 ppm 15 ppb 1.3 ppm 4 ppm
Detected 1.3 ppb 1.4 ppm 5.7 ppb 0.4 ppm 1 ppm
SOURCES: 2014 Greenfield Consumer Confidence Report, 2015 Fortville Consumer Confidence Report
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Small amounts of impurities pose few health risks to consumers, a fact water utility officials have worked to highlight in recent months after a lead contamination crisis in Flint, Michigan, drew national attention. Hancock County has two community water systems, one in Greenfield and one in Fortville, neither of which reports INSIDE, A2 contaminant samples How to get exceeding limits set by water tested the United States Enand where vironmental Protection to learn more Agency to keep consumers safe. The EPA requires water system operators to monitor more than 80 drinking water contaminants and to report any detected in water samples in an annual report. Lead, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is one of the most dangerous contaminants found in water and a top concern for residents who
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Senate contest for GOP heats up BY SAMM QUINN | DAILY REPORTER
Those are some of the contaminants that can be found in Hancock County’s drinking water, but city officials say there’s no need to panic. H2O-NO?
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Stutzman, Young bring experience from Congress
Copper. Arsenic. Lead. Sodium.
Artifacts welcome at historical society event
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HANCOCK COUNTY — Two U.S. Congressmen are vying for the United States Senate ELECTION seat being vacated by retiring INSIDE, A7: Republican Sen. Dan Learn more Coats. about the Both Recandidates; publicans, debate time Todd Young of Bloomannounced ington and Marlin Stutzman of Howe, have served in Congress since 2010. They’re seeking the Republican nomination in Indiana’s May 3 primary. The victor will face Democrat Baron Hill in the fall. Marlin Stutzman, a small business owner and farmer, currently represents the northeast corner of the state in Congress; Young, a Marine veteran and former management consultant, represents residents in the central section of southern Indiana, from Johnson and Morgan to Harrison counties. Young said Hoosiers who support him are tired of “political pageantry” in Washington, D.C.; they want conservative results and haven’t seen them. He won’t go to the Senate and grandstand, he said. He’s looking to make America stronger. Stutzman said some career politicians in Washington, D.C., both Republicans and Democrats, have created a broken system with congressmen unable to agree on many issues, including the nation’s debt, which continues to rise rather than leveling out. The next senator from Indiana needs to be willing to put their career on the line to serve Hoosiers by making decisions that might not be popular but are needed to fix government; he already
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Kindergarten prep program expands to Eastern Hancock BY RORYE HATCHER | DAILY REPORTER rhatcher@greenfieldreporter.com
HANCOCK COUNTY — Walking the hallways in a straight line, getting on the school bus, opening a milk carton. They are simple tasks for many school children — but a challenge for those coming to class for the first time. Kindergarten 101, a program coming to
Eastern Hancock Elementary next school year, seeks to help children who have not attended preschool or structured day care prepare for the start of school. Hancock County Purdue Extension and the Eastern Hancock Education Foundation are co-sponsoring the program, which will be done at no cost to the school district
or the children who attend, said Amanda Pyle, elementary school principal. Prospects for the program were identified at Eastern Hancock’s kindergarten roundup last week. The program will take place the last full week before the beginning of the 2016-17 school year and will consist of half
days, Monday through Thursday, and a longer day that will include a lunch period Friday. The education foundation will cover the cost of staff members, including a teacher and a counselor; high school students also will volunteer to help, Pyle said. Children will receive one
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