Stories from Friday, April 18, 2008

Earthquake? What earthquake? I must have been dead to the world during Friday morning's shake. But I do remember being in sunny, southern California in the '90s and feeling several afterwaves of a major quake there. It was always quite disturbing. During the trembling, I would look around and run outside. It freaked me out...

To the Editor: From the daughters of Michael Scot Moore: We wish to express our loving gratitude, first and foremost, to all of our family whose love and faith have sustained us throughout many difficult days. Also, we want to offer a heartfelt thank you to every one who sent cards or flowers, and offered countless prayers...

To the Editor: The family of Billy Rippy would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following care givers: Glenburn Nursing Home, Vista Care, Sullivan Community Hospital, Greene County General Hospital, Lyons Health and Living Center, Terre Haute Regional Hospital, Dr. AJ Deshpande and Dr. Purohit...

To the Editor: In honor of Girl Scout Leader Day on April 22, Girl Scouts of Tulip Trace Council, Inc. would like to thank all of our volunteers who live in Greene County. The dedicated women and men who serve as Girl Scout leaders in this area have a profound effect on everyone that they help...

Crappie fishermen are probably at home right now rubbing their hands together, starring out the window begging for a few sunny days. Water levels around the region are extremely high. With a little consistency of warm weather, water temperatures could reach a level conducive to catching lots crappies, real soon...

The children and grandchildren of Arkie and Earlene Vandeventer will host an open house May 4 at the Worthington Community Building from 1-4 p.m. celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. Lunch will be served. The couple was married on March 15, 1958 at the Folsom United Methodist Church in Worthington. Mr. and Mrs. Vandeventer are the parents of two children, Todd (Sherry) Vandeventer of Jasonville and Mindy (Danny) Lent of Worthington...

SWITZ CITY -- The third class of the Greene County Citizen's Academy went through its graduation ceremony Thursday night at the 4-H Fairgrounds extension building. The 2008 graduates include Valerie Abshire, Linda Bedwell, Janet Brown, Brad Feaster, Rita Hennette, Kimberly Hoffman, Paul Hoernig, Liz Luce, Karen Marsh, George Mendenhall, Richard Nichols, Todd Payne, Nadine Rouch, Jack Terrell, and Roy Terrell...

A Linton-Stockton junior automotive student fared well in a recent automotive contest sponsored by Ivy Tech Terre Haute. Caleb Shelton placed first in his division at the contest on Thursday. "There were 11 schools represented and you could enter one junior and one senior," explained, Jim Lumsdon, automotive instructor for Twin Rivers...

A 16-year-old Bloomfield boy who has been in trouble numerous times as a juvenile is going to be tried as an adult on new charges of burglary and theft that were filed against him this week. Alexander Lee Rathbun has been charged with burglary, a class B felony, and theft, a class D felony, in connection with an incident involving the theft of items from a home in Bloomfield in March...

Linton Police Chief Troy Jerrell recently completed training that is aimed to help in the coordination of emergency response in a man-made or natural disaster. Jerrell recently finished Homeland Security training at the Center for Domesticated Preparedness (CDP) in Anniston, Ala...

Democrats set to pick commissioner Greene County Democrat Precinct Committeemen will gather at 11 a.m. this morning at the Girl Scout Cabin at Humphreys Park in Linton to select a successor to fill the District 2 Commissioner seat formerly held by the late Larry Hasler...

A candlelight vigil and 36 seconds of silence Wednesday evening -- April 23 -- will symbolically remember 36 Hoosier youngsters who died in the state during 2007 as the result of child abuse or neglect. One abuse/neglect related death was recorded in Greene County last year -- a rollover death involving an infant child under the age of 1...

There will be more than 1,300 additional Greene County residents eligible to vote in the May 6 Primary than were registered for the previous primary or general elections. The registration period closed April 7 for the upcoming Primary Election. Greene County Voter Registration Clerk Marjorie Cullison reports a registration total of 19,041. That's a 1,388-voter increase over the 2006 Primary Election registrants when 17,653 were eligible to cast ballots in the county...

Imagine building an entire airplane with your own hands. Can you see yourself putting together all the pieces and performing all the electrical work on your own? This is a task only few people have the patience, time, and skills to complete. In November 2005, Bloomfield resident Steve Clark embarked on a journey to build an airplane … a journey that is taking place mainly in his garage...

For those who are registered to vote in the May 6 Primary Election, the clerk's office will have personal available Saturday for satellite voting at the Center Township Fire Department in Little Cincinnati from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. That's the second time that county voters have the opportunity to cast ballots at a location other than the courthouse or the regular voting location...

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There was some shaking and rattling going on early Friday morning in Greene County. Residents were shook by what weather and emergency management officials are calling an earthquake. Greene County Emergency Management Agency Director Roger Axe said the quake shook most of the county shortly after 5:30 a.m...

Greene County Historical Society The Greene County Historical Society will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Bloomfield Public Library's community room. Guest speaker will be Teresa Thompson, president of the Owen County Historical and Genealogical Society...

Allene H. Pound, 84, of Indianapolis, formerly of Linton, passed away on Friday, April 18, 2008 at the Altenheim Community in Indianapolis. She was born January 19, 1924, in Louisville, KY, the daughter of Willard and Irene (Gregory) Hart. She was a homemaker and a substitute school teacher in Greene County Schools. She graduated from Harding College. She was a member of Summerville Church of Christ, northwest of Linton, where her husband served for 40 years as minister...

The Shakamak boys track team captured 11 out of 16 events, in defeating Owen Valley in a dual meet Thursday on the Patriots home track. The Lakers scored 74 points while the Patriots posted a team score of 55. T.J. Hill broke the school record in the shot put with a heave of 47 feet, nine inches to outdistance his opponents. The previous school best was 46-3 1/2 set by Tom Green in 1974...

Miner baseball helps with fight against cancer The Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association in cooperation with the American Cancer Society has initiated a statewide effort to raise money for the fight against cancer. The effort is to be called Baseball Strikes Out "K"ancer...

Linton-Stockton erupted for 10 runs in the fifth inning to defeat visiting Eminence 10-0 in a Tri-River Conference softball game Friday. "We started out very sluggishly," said Linton-Stockton coach Jill Flater. "We started very slowly. "Obviously it took us five innings to get going. We made base running errors in the first and second which cost us. We have to start quicker because teams will take advantage of that."...

One night after pounding out 14 hits and scoring 11 runs, the offense for the Lady Lakers softball team remained hot against visiting Hutsonville, Ill. with a 10-3 victory. With the win, the Lakers improved to 8-1 on the season. The offense produced 10 hits for the game, and took advantage of nine miscues by the Lady Tigers defense...

North Knox exploded for 12 runs in their final three at bats, including nine in the sixth inning, as the Warriors rallied to beat host Union (Dugger) 15-9 in a high school baseball game Friday. The Bulldogs, who suffered its first defeat in four outings, led 2-0 after the first inning and 4-2 after the fourth...

DUGGER -- The Union (Dugger) softball team moved over the .500 mark on the season with a 15-3 win over West Vigo here Friday. The Lady Bulldogs were the visiting team on the scoreboard as the game was originally scheduled to be played at West Vigo, but the game was moved due to construction...