Positive news from Indiana
High School Students To Spearhead Organic FarmCommunity, education and healthier food choices are at the center of a new urban garden planned for Indianapolis' northeast side.
"The students will then have this as their actual hands-on laboratory, working the farm, and then they'll have a farmers market, too."
- Naeemah Jackson, DCDC deputy director |
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High School Students To Spearhead Organic FarmCommunity, education and healthier food choices are at the center of a new urban garden planned for Indianapolis' northeast side. |
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Feds designate $320 million to improve Mississippi River water qualityThe river that begins as a trickle in Itasca State Park in Minnesota and ends 2,350 miles later at the Gulf of Mexico will get a $320 million infusion from the federal government to improve water quality. |
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Housing Boom: Habitat for Humanity gets $100M GiftThe housing market may be sputtering, but Habitat for Humanity is getting a $100 million jolt. |
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Upside of a downturn: Dropouts drop back inGrades in the gutter, cutting classes, expelled from Elkhart Central High School for fighting: Yamilette Colon was as close to becoming a dropout as a ninth-grader can get. |
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Mystery donors give $45 million to collegesA mystery is unfolding in the world of college fundraising: During the past few weeks, at least eight universities have received gifts totaling nearly $45 million, and the schools had to promise not to try to find out the giver's identity. |
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Traffic deaths decline as more people are buckling upIt’s becoming increasingly safer on the roads. |
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Dog rescued from icy White River gets new homeIndianapolis, Indiana, USA - Biscuit, the two-year-old Great Pyrenees pulled from the ice on the White River in January has a new home. |
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Mystery $500 tip means big night at the prom: Teen was selling newspapersCincinnati, Ohio, USA - An 18-year-old in Indiana will have the prom night she was dreaming of, thanks to a mystery man's Easter tip. |
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Knitters Dress Up Trees for Public ArtYellow Springs, Ohio, USA - No, that's not a hallucination. That pear tree is wearing a sweater. |
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Skies to be swept for alien lifeHat Creek, California - The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life. |
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