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A decade of hearsa

A decade of hearsay reveals lots round a community's trends, quirks, struggles and lifestyle.

For Bloomington and Monroe County, the decade began with evolution and blow that would betoken what became two of the maximum newsworthy subjects of the next 10 years.

The apex townsman hearsay stories of 2000, according to H-T newsroom stave, were the firing of Bob Knight, the expiry of IU Chancellor Herman B Wells, and the disappearance of 19-year-old IU admirer Jill Berhman while on a bicycle jaunt a hardly miles from her haven.

Basketball and IU

The Knight horror story began what would enhance sole of the maximum talked-about hearsay threads of the decade, confirming how lots townsman passion there is benefit of the Indiana basketball program. Mike Davis' invariable election in 2001 and passivity in 2006, Kelvin Sampson's hiring in 2006 and firing in 2008 and Tom Crean's 2008 election as the motor coach who would release the program were aggregate the decade's apex stories.

The decade dictum three Indiana University presidents -- Myles Brand, Adam Herbert, and Michael McRobbie -- whose arrivals, departures, accomplishments and activities, including their roles in the aforementioned basketball dramas, were aggregate the apex stories in 2002, 2005, and 2007.

Tragedy and loss

Jill Behrman's disappearance led to years of search, the deplorable confirmation of her infanticide, and malefactor proceedings that at prolonged last resulted in the proof of guilt of John Myers. By the betwixt of the hassle, hardly Monroe Countians would drown in red ink to honour the smiling photo of Behrman, which was posted fully the community throughout the gut-wrenching search benefit of clues to her expiry. The come what may was aggregate the apex townsman stories in three classify years (2000, 2003, 2006).

The decade dictum other tragedies, both reasonable and man-made. The 2002 tornado that did all-embracing check compensation onward Ind. 37 from Ellettsville Sometimes non-standard due to Martinsville was that year's apex horror story, and the flooding of 2008 got closing year's ticket from both readers and the H-T. The Sept. 11, 2001, felon attacks and U.S. commencement of at daggers drawn in Iraq in 2003, while nationalistic stories, mould lengthy shadows that eclipsed townsman stories in both 2001 and 2003.

The level surface drive at the Monroe County airport that killed five music students in 2006, the 2007 deaths of hot IU football motor coach Terry Hoeppner and Purdue admirer and Bloomington home-grown Wade Steffey and the 2008 expiry of Deputy Sarah Jones while assisting with a highway non-essential were aggregate the decade's maximum thoroughgoing stories to surface and to presume from.

The economy

Headlines of the decade including crow about the modify of nationalistic cost-effective trends on townsman issue and enlistment. Job cuts led to the apex horror story of 2001, and the survival of the Crane Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center in the nationalistic military evil closure and realignment technique topped the readers' 2005 register. (2005 was the gold medal year that the H-T began a readers' apex 10 register to be associated with the newsroom apex 10 register.) Topics relating to the proposed I-69 highway mean Bloomington -- a horror story that has sparked contest round grandeur of life story as rise as cost-effective enlargement -- were aggregate the apex three stories in 2002, 2003 and 2005. Fluctuating nuclear fuel prices plagued Hoosiers fully the decade and readers voted capital nuclear fuel prices aggregate the apex three stories in 2005. In 2006, a issue horror story round the crevice of Monroe Hospital was voted No. 2 past readers.

Quality of life

The apex stories of the decade including throw concerns of townsman citizens benefit of grandeur of life story issues. Tree-sitting protests vulnerable fashionable enlargement in 2001, debates vulnerable I-69 in 2002, 2003 and 2005, and the spasm of Monroe County's smoking interdict in 2003 were all aggregate the apex three stories benefit of those years.

Coming up: 2009 apex stories

Watch The Herald-Times next week benefit of a horror story listing the apex townsman stories of 2009, as selected past the H-T newsroom and past readers, to mellifluous escape the 2000s decade. To support beget the readers' register, ticket at HeraldTimesOnline.com.

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