Stories from Monday, November 5, 2007

Sam Kaye Shipley, 66, of Bloomington, passed away Saturday, Nov. 3, 2007 at his residence. Born Feb. 27, 1941, in Monroe County, he was the son of Willard and Mary M. (Sherfield) Shipley. She was a retired mechanic and gunsmith and was a member of Ellettsville Eagles Aerie...

Alonzo P. "Lonnie" Funkhouser, 90, of Solsberry, passed away Saturday, Nov. 3, 2007 at Bloomington Garden Villa. He was born to Glen C. Funkhouser and Sarah O. (Riggs) Funkhouser on August 16, 1917, in Monroe County. A veteran of the U.S. Army he served during World War II. He worked at Indiana Gas and Indiana University until his retirement in 1983...

Van Edwin Feutz, 78, of Bloomfield passed away at 2:35 p.m.. on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2007 at Greene County General Hospital. Born July 12, 1929 in Greene County, he was the son of Van and Gladys Marie (Bennett) Feutz. He was retired from the Bloomfield Manufacturing...

Gerald Robert "Bob" Saucerman, 67, of Indianapolis and formerly of Broken Arrow, OK, passed away Saturday, Nov. 3, 2007 at Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis.  Born in Sullivan County on Sept. 16, 1940, he was the son of Ray and Eva (Thrasher) Saucerman.He married Ina Sue Hancock on June 10, 1960...

Russell M. Hanson, 91, Beech Grove, passed away Saturday, Nov. 3, 2007. He was born Oct. 22, 1916 in Indianapolis to the late William and Ival Hanson. He was a U.S. Army veteran and served during World War II I as a Half Track Commander for the 11th Armored Division during the Battle of the Bulge and was later awarded a Purple Heart. ...

OK, so I must admit that recently I got a wild idea to disconnect the cable TV. I figured that after spending an entire summer without a single person in the house bothering to turn the television on that no one would miss it. What a relief. In my opinion, the recent decision to disconnect the household from the absent mindedness of flipping through all the channels and still proclaiming "nothing's on" has been a positive move...

To the Editor: Thank you Linton Miner football players and coaches and congratulations on your hard-earned and well-deserved sectional championship. I want you to know that you don't work hard and play each game just for yourselves and Linton-Stockton High School. The entire community takes pride in your accomplishments...

To the Editor: Lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer death in the United States will claim the lives of 163,510 Americans this year alone. In Indiana, an estimated 5200 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer. Of those diagnosed an estimated 3800 will die this year from the disease...

Jim Church has been selected as the Indiana Association of School Principals (IASP) Principal of the Year for District 8. Church, who is currently the principal at Greencastle High School and former principal at Northview High School, was selected over principals in Clay, Greene, Hendricks, Owen, Parke, Putnam, Sullivan, Vermillion and Vigo counties...

Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman announced Friday more than $2.4 million in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding for nine community development projects -- including grants for Linton, Jasonville, and Dugger. The grants will rehabilitate up to 61 local housing units...

A family of ladies spanning five generations are determined to preserve an historical building in Greene County -- the Union Valley Church of God. It sits in a quiet valley not far (southwest as the crow flies) from the "Calvertville Curve" on State Road 157, north of Bloomfield, east of Worthington...

GREENE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT JAIL LOG • Nov. 2 -- Robert L. Martin, 64, Bloomfield, was arrested on preliminary charges of three counts of operating a vehicle while intoxicated andreleased on $4000 bond. Bloomfield Police Department Officer Brad Deckard was the arresting officer...

Christmas Centerpiece class A Christmas centerpiece class will he held from 10:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. on Nov. 10 in the community room at the Bloomfield Library. Local designer Sandy Metzger will share tips and techniques for combining fresh greenery with other natural materials and Christmas ornaments to create centerpieces. ...

Burl Edward Hudson, 81, Terre Haute passed away at 4:14 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 3 at Terre Haute Regional Hospital. Born June 19, 1926 in Owensburg, he was the son of Roy and Stella (Hatfield) Hudson. He married Betty Ann (Caudell) Hudson on Dec. 25, 1948...

This coming Sunday on the 11th month, on the 11th day at the 11th hour, Greene County residents will pause and renew one of its most solemn and important holidays -- Veterans Day. The county-wide Veterans Day observance -- sponsored by the Greene County Veteran's Council will be at 11 a.m. on the northwest lawn of the Greene County Courthouse in Bloomfield...

In keeping with tradition, the Bloomfield School Choral Department will breathe life into the Shawnee Theatre with the sounds and sights of its annual fall musical which opens on Nov. 15. This year's production "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" will be presented by Strut-N-Fret drama students under the production of Laura Young...

What was the first sport televised in the U.S.? How many roller coasters are there at Holiday World? If you have xenophobia, what do you fear? These are a sample of the questions that Literacy Trivia Bowl teams were faced with Saturday...

Walter Virgil "Bud" Langley, Sr., 54, of Bloomfield, passed away Monday, Nov. 5, 2007, at Monroe Hospital in Bloomington. He was born March 8, 1953, to Walter Stanley. On December 10, 1972, he married Patricia Langley, who survives. Bud was a plumber and worked in maintenance. He was a member of the New Covenant Ministries Church in Linton...

Southwest 7 Football All-Conference team First team Linton-Stockton Keith Cunningham Nate Padgett Dustin Haldeman Ethan Brewer Dustin Turpin Lance Irwin Eastern Greene Ben Griffith Miguel Olvera North Daviess Mitch Wier Wayman Brown Wes Porter Union...

SWITZ CITY -- A member of Southern Indiana Development Commission (SIDC) visited the Switz City Town Council Monday evening to conduct a public hearing and finalize paperwork for the Housing Rehabilitation Grant. If Switz City is awarded the grant of $155,080, each resident who receives the award will be granted $11,130.50 for home repair. The resident must own the house with his/her name on the deed and live in the house two years after receiving the grant...

Greene County Crime Stoppers is offering a reward for information about an incident of vandalism last week at Kinnett Auto Sales in Linton. On Halloween morning, when Larry Kinnett came to work, he found approximately 30 late-model vehicles on his car lot had been damaged...

A public plea by a rural Jasonville family for the return of a stolen roadside cross, which served as a memorial tribute to their son who died in a traffic accident about six weeks ago, has gone unheeded. The cross was not returned Saturday as Justin Shane Mowery's parents -- Bob and Char Lene Mowery -- had requested in a story published in Saturday's edition of the Greene County Daily World...

Too many times people forget about the past. It's live for the moment, and the past is the past, never to be remembered. In sports it's not always good to dwell on past performances -- good or bad -- because that really has nothing to do with the next game or event...

BLOOMFIELD -- New Bloomfield girls basketball coach Kyle von Almen learned one very important lesson after Saturday night's IHSAA controlled scrimmage with Vincennes Lincoln and that is his team still has a lot of work to accomplish before the end of the season...

Linton-Stockton girls basketball teams tied two quarters and lost two in a controlled scrimmage at home against Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference foe North Daviess Saturday night. The scrimmage consisted of four, 15-minute quarters with a running clock. Both squads were allowed to call one time-out per quarter...

GREENE SUPERIOR COURT CRIMINAL CASES State v. James K. Hoffeditz, operating a vehicle while intoxicated in a manner which endangered a person, operating a vehicle while intoxicated, operating a vehicle while intoxicated with an alcohol concentration equal to at least .15 grams or more of alcohol in blood or breath...