http://www.tribstar.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:50:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/schools/local_story_197214744.html http://www.tribstar.com/schools/local_story_197214744.html Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology’s Efficient Vehicles Team continues to live up to its name, posting an all-time best 1,631 miles per gallon to have the top performance by a U.S. college at this year’s Society of Automotive Engineers’ Supermileage competition on June 5-6 at the Eaton Proving Grounds near Marshall, Mich. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:46:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/schools/local_story_197214521.html http://www.tribstar.com/schools/local_story_197214521.html Even though they may have come from Terre Haute, Clinton, Rosedale and Robinson, Ill., 13 Wabash Valley incoming high school seniors had a common goal this summer: wanting to explore their interests in engineering and science in Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology’s Operation Catapult program. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:43:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/schools/local_story_197214356.html http://www.tribstar.com/schools/local_story_197214356.html The great, great blues singer Billie Holiday died this week in 1959. At the time of her death, the result of both drug and alcohol abuse, she was actually under house arrest for drug possession. Billie Holiday lived a hard life. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:42:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/schools/local_story_197214306.html http://www.tribstar.com/schools/local_story_197214306.html High-school juniors interested in learning more about St. Mary-of-the-Woods College are invited to get acquainted with The Woods during an event Friday. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:40:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/schools/local_story_197214104.html http://www.tribstar.com/schools/local_story_197214104.html The Woodrow Wilson Class of 1973 is turning 50 this year and is celebrating July 25-26 with a reunion. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:39:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/schools/local_story_197213951.html http://www.tribstar.com/schools/local_story_197213951.html On April 19, Terre Haute South Vigo High School’s Spanish students went to the state Spanish competition in Craig Middle School. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:35:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/schools/local_story_197213512.html http://www.tribstar.com/schools/local_story_197213512.html Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:35:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/schools/local_story_197213806.html http://www.tribstar.com/schools/local_story_197213806.html Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:13:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/schools/local_story_183201352.html http://www.tribstar.com/schools/local_story_183201352.html Indiana State University, in partnership with Wabash Valley Master Gardeners, Sisters of Providence, White Violet Center for Eco-Justice and the Terre Haute Community Garden Initiative, will present a variety of educational programs for youth and adults beginning this month. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:12:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/schools/local_story_183201223.html http://www.tribstar.com/schools/local_story_183201223.html When you consider how many gut-wrenching decisions British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had to make during World War II — many of which involved sending young men to their deaths — the decision he called “the most difficult I had to make” must have been a doozy. And it was, but he made it this week in 1940 without hesitation. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:10:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/schools/local_story_183201109.html http://www.tribstar.com/schools/local_story_183201109.html Jan Ratledge didn’t know what to do so she found answers and became a volunteer to help others. A student in her high school family and consumer sciences class told her about being sexually, emotionally and verbally abused. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:06:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/schools/local_story_183200728.html http://www.tribstar.com/schools/local_story_183200728.html Jennifer Swain, a teacher at Meridian Elementary School in Brazil, was full of curiosity when she signed up for a course taught by John Conant at Indiana State University on incorporating economics into the classroom for grades K-5. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:03:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/schools/local_story_183200410.html http://www.tribstar.com/schools/local_story_183200410.html Terre Haute South Vigo High School freshman Colin Boggs recently received a “First Division Award” in the 2008 Indiana Student Media Fair sponsored by the Association of Indiana Media Educators. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:59:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/schools/local_story_183195924.html http://www.tribstar.com/schools/local_story_183195924.html Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:59:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/schools/local_story_183200027.html http://www.tribstar.com/schools/local_story_183200027.html Turkey Run Jr/Sr High School is honoring retiring staff members Judy Brook, Wilma Wooten and Karen Stutler.