05 July 2011
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue has announced an interim policy that assures students they will not face university discipline if they seek medical assistance when they or someone they help is intoxicated. This good Samaritan policy, called Purdue CARES, is the product of yearlong research and advocacy by the former president of Purdue Student Government, […]
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01 July 2011
WASHINGTON, DC — The Internal Revenue Service has announced that interest rates for the calendar quarter beginning July 1, 2011, will remain the same as in the previous quarter. The rates will be: four (4) percent for overpayments [three (3) percent in the case of a corporation]; four (4) percent for underpayments; six (6) percent […]
Posted in Business News
30 June 2011
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The destructive emerald ash borer has been confirmed in Lafayette by a Purdue entomologist, the city forester and the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. The invasive insect that destroys ash trees was first found in Tippecanoe County near Americus last year, but city forester Belinda Kiger said this latest confirmed find […]
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30 June 2011
LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The annual 4th of July Stars & Stripes concert and fireworks display will be held in downtown Lafayette for the 2011 celebration. Due to many road construction projects at Purdue University, Slayter Center for the Performing Arts was not available for this year’s event, so the Stars & Stripes planning committee selected […]
Posted in Community News
10 June 2011
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A Purdue agricultural economist expects Indiana farmland values to keep rising this year, continuing a trend that has seen them increase by 270 percent since 1985. Farmland increased in value by 12 percent last year. In June 2010, the average price for an acre of land in Indiana was $4,419. With […]
Posted in Agriculture
10 June 2011
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — If the Purdue campus has seemed quiet the last several weeks, it could be because the Boilermaker Special has not been around. Since early February, the university’s official mascot has been in Lafayette for a major renovation. “It’s getting a new chassis, new engine and a new transmission,” said Patrick Hart, […]
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