Stories from Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Norma Dowden Coleman, 76, of Terre Haute, passed away at 7:30 a.m., Monday, November 12, 2007 after a long battle with ovarian cancer. She was born in Switz City on Dec. 20, 1930 to William H. Dowden and Edna Jackson Dowden She enjoyed a 30 year career as senior clerk of the checkout department at the Vigo County Public Library...

For area paintball fanatics it has been tough finding a place close to home to enjoy their hobby. But that has changed, thanks to Boltenwood, which is located north of Linton along State Road 59. It is now offering paintball, including courses and equipment...

Several Sullivan High School art students had the opportunity to listen to a local artist's story during a field trip to a Linton coffee shop Monday. Tony Cox's junior and senior art students visited Francisco de Borja to listen to a presentation from local artist Jeff Thom...

Welcome to new Linton-Stockton Chamber of Commerce member LeeRoy Patton Timber and Timberland. They are located in Cloverdale and have been in business since 1977. They are buyers of standing timber and logs. They will also purchase land. Watch for upcoming information on a sale of 500 acres of land they will be conducting south of Linton on Dec. 15...

Editor's Note: Greene County Daily World Assistant Editor Nick Schneider sat down with Gov. Mitch Daniels and other newspaper representatives from Daviess, Martin and Dubois counties Tuesday morning. The governor talked candidly about his property tax relief proposal and how he expects that to mesh with recommendations handed down by State Tax and Financing Policy Commission; shrinking the spending levels of local governments and schools districts, economic prospects for southwestern Indiana; the progress on the construction of Interstate 69; NSA Crane and WestGate Technology Park; the state's transportation system; and other topics of interest to Hoosiers. ...

Sometimes my kids complain that there's not much to do around here. Sometimes I feel the same way, wishing some of the things going on in Bloomington, Indianapolis or Terre Haute were not so far away. Then I'll read the paper from one of those cities and be reminded of why I'm thankful to be here -- living in a place where the people say, "Nothing ever goes on around here."...

To the Editor: We would like to thank everyone for the cards we received for our 50th anniversary. We celebrated with a family dinner hosted by our children. Thank you. Jimmie and Judy Yagle Sandborn

Norma Dowden Coleman, 76, of Terre Haute, passed away at 7:30 a.m., Monday, November 12, 2007 after a long battle with ovarian cancer. She was born in Switz City on Dec. 20, 1930 to William H. Dowden and Edna Jackson Dowden She enjoyed a 30 year career as senior clerk of the checkout department at the Vigo County Public Library...

GREENE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT JAIL LOG LINTON POLICE DEPARTMENT ACTIVITY LOG The Linton Police Department's activity log for Tuesday included three follow-up investigations, two information only, one loitering, two accidents with personal injury, two medical/illness, one suspicious vehicle/person, one child abuse/neglect, one theft-motor vehicle, two domestic disputes, one animal/canine removed and nine traffic stops...

GREENE SUPERIOR COURT CRIMINAL CASES State v. Terry L Garrett, operating a vehicle without ever receiving a license State v. Leon G. Maners, resisting law enforcement State v. William C. Groomer, operating a vehicle while intoxicated in a manner which endangered a person, operating a vehicle while intoxicated, operating a vehicle with an alcohol concentration equal to at least .15 grams or more of alcohol in blood or breath...

During its November meeting, the Newberry Town Council adopted a new water ordinance which will reflect an increase in customer rates in the December billing. In a phone interview, Town Council Member Chris Rollins explained that customers have not had an increase in water rates since February 1998...

Cowboy Life Program In celebration of Children's Book Week, Joe Smith, a life-long cowboy, will be at the Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library. He will tell about the life of a cowboy and show examples of the equipment a cowboy uses. The program will be today at 4 p.m. for grades K-6...

A 22-year-old Linton man who crashed his car into an embankment at 2:30 in the morning, in front of a police officer, is in jail. Linton Police Cpl. Paul F. Clark was watching early Wednesday as Isaac B. Donie, driving a black Grand Prix passenger car southbound on NE 9th St. near Vincennes St., crashed...

Shakamak High School teacher Dena Irwin has received a prestigious award. The Apple Award for Business Marketing and Information Technology was given to Irwin by Barb Beadle, Specialist for Business Marketing Information Technology and Cooperative Education for the Indiana Department of Education, on Nov. 10...

A Bloomfield man was seriously injured Tuesday morning when he swerved his pickup to miss a deer and struck a semi tractor trailer head-on on U.S. 231-- just south of the Owen-Putnam County line. The pickup driver, Chad G. Davis, 29, was northbound on U.S. ...

A Linton business owner hopes to strike up an agreement with the city in order to make use of a vacant building. Jarman Lannan, owner of Hoosier Hobbies, wants to bring his business to the vacant Ameritech building, which is located on 12th Street, and has proposed to rent it from the city...

A local chapter of a faith-based, not-for-profit ministry organization hopes to put nutritious venison on the tables of Greene County needy families and individuals through a national program that accepts donations of harvested deer by hunters and farmers...

One Bloomfield School official hopes the recent sentencing of twin sisters Macy L. and Gracey M. Stone, who pled guilty to making two false bomb threats to the school, is a wake-up call to the seriousness of such criminal acts. Both girls, 16, were sentenced Tuesday to the Indiana Girls School and ordered to pay $5,492.63 to the Bloomfield School District and the two fire departments that responded to the Aug. 23 and 30 bomb threats...

A set of 16-year-old twin girls have been sentenced to Indiana Girls School after pleading guilty of calling in two bomb threats to the Bloomfield School in August.

The Shakamak High School girls basketball team scored 33 points in the first half and cruised to a 58-43 victory over visiting Clay City in a dual conference game at Jasonville Tuesday night. The win was the first in two games for the Lady Lakers, who are 1-0 in both the Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference and Tri-River Conference...

Clarence Johnson is used to being in charge of his own hoop program. After five seasons as an assistant boys basketball coach at Union High School, Johnson is now in charge of the Bulldog basketball fortunes, taking over for Doug Boyd, whose contract was not renewed...

Shakamak setter Amanda Gilbert was named most outstanding volleyball for 2007 as presented by the Greene County Daily World Wednesday. Gilbert, a two-year starter, completed her sophomore season with 892 assists, the most of an player in the area. That number represented all but 35 assists recorded by the entire Lady Laker squad...