Stories from Monday, October 29, 2007

SPENCER - Bloomfield's junior high football team can now celebrate its first Quad-County championship after avenging a pair of loss this season to Hanna (Shakamak) with a 32-26 win in the championship game Saturday morning in Spencer. Trailing 26-6 with roughly seven minutes remaining in the game, Bloomfield used a stifling defense and 26 unanswered points, including a touchdown pass as time expired to claim the town's first championship in Quad-County football...

Bloomfield's Jacob Pyne was recently crowned the AMA Indiana Pee Wee Hare Scramble State Champion. Pyne, who is nine years old and in the fourth grade, has been racing motorcycles for two years and competes across the midwest. The Indiana series was an 18 race series that is held across the state and covered a combination of different terrains. The courses range from one to two mikes in length and are run in open field, rocky creek bottoms and hilly woods...

Betty Jane LaPradd, 77, of Linton, passed away at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 28, 2007, at Greene County General Hospital in Linton. She was born April 6, 1930, in Nortinville, KY, the daughter of Ode & Ophellia (Lacy) Marsh. She was a cook at a daycare center at Hoffman Street Baptist Church in Hammond. She was a member of Grace Gospel Church and Forever Learning Homemakers Club, both in Linton...

GREENE SUPERIOR COURT CRIMINAL CASES State v. Jordan K. Moore, battery resulting in bodily injury State v. Levi Moore, battery resulting in bodily injury State v. Jeremiah K. Moore, battery with a deadly weapon, battery resulting in serious bodily injury...

Blood drive Tuesday Union High School Beta Club will be sponsoring a blood drive on Tuesday, Oct. 30 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The blood drive will be set up in the junior high gym and every one is welcome to donate. Free Thanksgiving dinner The Linton First Christian Church will offer a free Thanksgiving dinner to the public from 11 a.m. ...

For the 26th year, Beta Sigma Phi is hosting a holiday craft bazaar in Linton. The annual bazaar will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 3 in the Linton-Stockton High School auditeria. Admission into the event is free and ample parking is available...

Community support and participation in a recent golf scramble netted over $1,000 for the Reserve Officers Program of the Linton Police Department. Police Chief Troy Jerrell said the department sponsored the four-man scramble at the Phil Harris Golf Course as a fundraiser to help buy uniforms and equipment for Linton's reserve officers...

A gentle, quiet giant in the Bloomfield community passed away Saturday. Bernard "Bernie" Hansford was many things to many different people -- young and old alike. However, the superlative most people use when they think of the 85-year-old, who lived on North Seminary Street, is simply a good Christian man who walked the walk and talked the talk seven days a week, not just on Sunday mornings...

With the recent snag in the proposed Bloomfield School District renovation project, one school official still has hope the project will become a reality. The $2 million project -- which would update the heating, cooling and electrical systems in the elementary and junior high schools -- was turned down in a 3-4 vote by the School Property Tax Control Board at a hearing in Indianapolis on Oct. 18...

The joint effort of the city of Linton, town of Bloomfield and the Greene County Commissioners has paid off as each are recipients of a combined grant from the Indiana Department of Transportation totaling $150,000. LuAnn Kohler-Shonk, vice president of the Linton Advisory Planning Commission, accepted the grant on behalf of the city of Linton on Monday...

Republican Kim Flynn is seeking a second term as clerk/treasurer of Lyons. Lori Edmonson, a Democrat, will challenge Flynn for the position in the Nov. 6 election. Flynn has lived in Lyons for 14 years, and she is married to Tom Flynn and has three children...

Spooks are welcome at Ron and Diane Munden's house. While some Greene County residents admit they turn off the lights on Halloween and are less than enthusiastic about little visitors, Munden tries to attract them. Mrs. Munden says her husband goes all out to decorate their house and each year he adds something new...

In an effort to be more competitive with the wages paid by other area ambulances services, the Greene County Council approved a salary re-allocation for the county ambulance service during its regular monthly meeting on Monday afternoon. Ambulance director David Doane, who has been in his new job about a month, asked the council to consider his request to re-allocate about $27,000 in the 2008 budget to pay salary increases for paramedics and EMTs...

FERDINAND -- It simply wasn't fair. Never has Linton-Stockton seen a team as dominating as Brownstown Central was on Saturday night after the Lady Braves won their sixth straight volleyball regional in convincing fashion with a 25-9, 25-8, 25-10 win over Linton at the Forest Park Regional...