Jose Celaya needs to start living like a fighter, being in camp, doing all of the things a fighter does. That's the bottom line, ... I had legendary trainers when I was fighting -- Angelo Dundee, Lou Duva and Georgie Benton -- but I never listened to them. I always thought I knew more. And you know what I didn't.
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Benton County Prosecuting Attorney Robin Green said she handled several jury trials in Huffmans court after he was assigned DWI appeals from municipal courts. Although I did not always agree with his rulings, I enjoyed Judge Huffman and his personality, ... He truly enjoyed the courthouse camaraderie. Every year he would bring cinnamon rolls to his office and invite everyone in the courthouse to join him for coffee and cinnamon rolls.
Our staff did a good job of getting ahead in the count with many of their hitters. They are a great hitting ball club. Benton did an exceptional job for us.
That Dalton Benton. He'll close a team out pretty quickly.
On behalf of all the members of the Adams for County Judge 2006 campaign, I want to assure you that we intend to run a responsible campaign on the issues. Benton County is changing daily, and we are excited about the prospect of being a part of that change in this election year. I hope you are as well.
In Benton County, from the fourth quarter 2004 to fourth quarter 2005, home prices rose 7.14 percent on the average.
It's a huge game to beat Benton. It's a big rivalry. I get up for the Benton week. I think our kids do, maybe we do even more than the kids because we remember how it was years ago. I think it's still a big rivalry. We had a ton of adversity this week and our seniors really came together. We had a teammate (FCHS senior Wes Miller) who was in a coma in St. Louis. I had no idea how we were going to show up. We had some kids miss practice to go up there, and that's fantastic. They really stood by their fallen teammate. We've been preaching all week to come together as a team and I think we did tonight.
A new bridge will provide safe travel for motorists in this area of Benton County for years to come.
We were kind of uncertain about ourselves going in. We had that loss, and now we had to go back and re-establish and do the things we had done before and not let the Benton Harbor game be a negative thing for us. We said let's do a positive thing and go out and play Niles basketball. I thought our kids did just that. We got out of the blocks quick like we needed to. And I thought we controlled the offensive tempo.
We're thrilled to death because we just beat an excellent basketball team. This isn't the last time Benton Central's going to be here.
Franklin County as a whole is really my home, ... I was born in Benton and attended grade schools in Benton, Rend City, and up at the old Mt. Pleasant school house. When I went to school in Rend City it was a bustling little mining town. My grandfather, Herman Bradford was a hoisting engineer at the mine there until the mine closed.
I've been here for 24 years. I've been up there when we beat Perry in '91, when they had a team with Will Macon and Eddie Benton that was almost like us. We had a team that was determined. I tell the guys, 'This is two of the best going at each other, and they're not afraid of your ranking or your record.' They realize the importance. With one team moving on and the other going home, it raises the stakes.
The striking thing about this is that hair-loss syndrome is just not consistent from one valley to the next. There are places where it is much more severe and other locations where it really doesn't seem to be much of a problem. Regionally there seems to be more affected animals in Linn, Benton and Lincoln counties with low fawn-to-adult deer ratios in the spring.
We think this event has the ability to bring people from outside of the area. Thomas Hart Benton and the work he did is very popular right now, so we saw the momentum.
No Tax will act as a focal point for opposition to both the increase and the unnecessary cost being placed on the community by the special election. Benton County already has one of the highest sales-tax rates in the country, and it makes absolutely no sense to add to that burden when there are viable alternatives, especially since the sales tax hits the middle class and working people the hardest.
The civil unrest of recent days must come to an end, and the healing process must begin for the future of the community. We will provide assistance both in ending the violence and enabling the healing process in Benton Harbor.