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January 2022 Page 6 2022 public notice rate charts available The state Board of Accounts has released the charts for pub- lic notice rates. You can access these charts on HSPA's website, https://bit.ly/3dRHCWn HSPA also sent out copies of the 11-pages of charts to both publishers and ad direc- tors of member newspapers earlier this month. The state Board of Accounts and HSPA have worked together for years to make sure all news- papers' one- and two-column widths are included in the offi- cial document. David Vantress has joined The Commercial Review as its sports editor. Vantress, 55, most recently worked as sports editor at the Janesville Gazette in Wisconsin. He has previously worked for The News-Sun in Kendallville and The Goshen News in Indiana. He has also had stints at newspapers in Illinois, Oklahoma, Texas and North Carolina. He is a 1994 graduate of San Diego State University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in journalism with a minor in polit- ical science. Born and raised in Chula Vista, California, Vantress enjoys reading, exercise and creative writ- ing. He is the author of three pub- lished novels and has three grown children: Bryan, 25; David, 23; and Marissa, 19. David Vantress named sports editor at The Commercial Review in Portland Vantress The Nina Mason Pulliam Environmental Journalism Award was created through a grant by the Pulliam Trust to the Hoosier State Press Association Foundation to recognize Indiana journalists for outstanding reporting on environ- mental issues. The award was part of the HSPA Better Newspaper Contest for the first time in 2018. Sara Clifford of the Brown County Democrat received the 2021 award for her reporting on water contamination. Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust $1,000 Environmental Journalism Award Hoosier State Press Association Foundation Staff reports Associated Press Rex Dearmont Rust, co-presi- dent of the Missouri-based media company Rust Communications, has died. He was 52. The company's flagship newspaper, the Southeast Missourian in Cape Girardeau, reported that Rust died Jan. 6 after a yearlong battle with cancer. Rust grew up in Cape Girardeau and graduated from Harvard University in 1992. He worked in finance in New York, Chicago and Virginia before returning to Missouri. In 2001, Rust and his brother, Jon K. Rust, were named co- presidents of the company founded by their father, Gary Rust, who continued on as chair- man of the board. Today, Rust Communications owns more than 40 newspapers in eight states, numerous magazines and web- sites, and has minority ownership of 17 radio stations. In Indiana, The Brazil Times, Greencastle Banner Graphic and Greene County Daily World (Linton) are Rust Communications newspapers. U.S. District Judge Stephen Limbaugh Jr. recalled once invit- ing Rust to play golf. He said Rust had to pass because he was on his way to a prison to provide minis- try to inmates. "As good as he was as a civic leader and businessman, and he was fantastic in those roles, he was an even better Christian," Limbaugh said. Rex Rust, Rust Communications co-president, dies at 52 Rust News in Brief

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