Stories from Wednesday, April 23, 2008

James A. Asher, 49,of Midland, passed away Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at Greene County General Hospital in Linton. Arrangements are pending at McClanahan-Lee Funeral Home in Jasonville.

Are you a motorcycle enthusiast who would like to meet up with other bikers to ride, exchange shop talk and have some good, clean fun? If so, then Bike Night just might be the social scene for you. Dave Altamore, a local bike enthusiast explained, "It's not a biker club ... it's not raising hell and riding through town. It's for bike enthusiasts who are looking for people to ride with and see some fun sights."...

Annabelle Fifer, 84, of Dugger passed away at 10:05 a.m. Wednesday April 23, 2008 at Terre Haute Regional Hospital. She was born in Dugger on Feb. 24, 1924, the daughter of Bonnie Louis Hickman and Ethel Lorenda Seals Hickman. She was a member of the Mt. ...

Arthur E. Hubbar Arthur E. Hubbard, 65, of Sullivan, passed away at 8 a.m. Wednesday, April 23, 2008, at his residence. Arrangements are pending at Welch & Cornett Funeral Home Worthington Chapel.

Jerry L. Kessner, 74, of Terre Haute passed at his residence at 6:20 a.m. Wednesday April 23, 2008. Born in Greene County on Aug. 2, 1933, he was the son John and Della (Moss) Kessner. He was a retired certified blaster/shooter for Monsanto, involved in many area coal mines. After his retirement he also worked as a driver for Furrow Lumber and Wolohan Lumber. Most recently he was employed at Sam's Club...

Kathleen Cooksey, 79, of Solsberry, passed away 7:20 a.m. Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at her residence. Born October 23, 1928 in Solsberry, she was the daughter of Troy and Geneva (Crane) Campbell. She was an assembly operator for RCA in Bloomington and a member of the Solsberry Christian Church...

GREENE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT JAIL LOG LINTON POLICE DEPARTMENT ACTIVITY LOG The Linton Police Department's activity log on Tuesday included one follow-up investigation, four requests for information only, two vandalism, two protective order violations, one school/foot patrol, one lost and found, three medical/illness, three animal complaints, two suspicious vehicles/persons, two harassment complaints, one theft-other, one welfare check/concern, one 911 prank/false call, one arrest-wanted on a warrant, one domestic dispute, one abandoned vehicle and three traffic stops.. ...

GREENE SUPERIOR COURT CRIMINAL CASES State v. Roy L. Frye, failure to register as a sex offender, failure to register as a sex offender with a prior conviction State v. Stephanie Hudoff, operating a vehicle while intoxicated in a manner which endangered a person, operating a vehicle while intoxicated, operating a vehicle with an alcohol concentration of .15 grams or more of alcohol in blood or breath, operating a vehicle while intoxicated causing serious bodily injury...

Linton-Stockton High School girls tennis coach Brad McKinney is hoping for one thing this season -- good health. The Lady Miners, who are playing without singles players Lauren Karazsia and Abbey Burris, lost a 5-0 decision to Sullivan in a match at Humphreys Park in Linton Wednesday...

Daily World Staff Report Shelby Targett limited Linton-Stockton to one hit as host Clay City defeated the Lady Miners 5-0 in a dual conference softball game Tuesday. Targett, who threw her second one-hitter in as many days, fanned 12 and did not issue as walk, improving her record to 7-2. She had 14 Ks and no walks in a 2-0 win over North Central Monday...

The Lady Thunderbirds recorded firsts in all three relay races as Eastern Greene High School defeated host Shakamak 67-53 in a girls track and field meet at Jasonville Tuesday night. Holli Moore of Shakamak was a double winner as she took first in the 100 meter hurdles at 17.7 seconds. She also was first in the 300 hurdles (54.9)...

Jeff Laughlin came up with three strikeouts in the seventh inning to earn the save as Linton-Stockton remained undefeated in the Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference, with a 10-9 victory over visiting North Daviess at Roy Herndon Field Tuesday. "This was a really huge win for us," said Linton-Stockton baseball coach Bart Berns. "Jeff recorded three big strikeouts to get the save, after they had pushed across two runs and had two on in the seventh...

The Bloomfield Junior High School boys and girls track and field teams have been busy during April. On April 3, the Cardinals competed in a meet at North Central that included Palestine, Ill. The Lady Cardinals won with 76 points while Palestine had 26 and North Central scored 23...

One night after playing nearly flawless defense, the Union (Dugger) defense committed five errors which contributed to a 7-2 Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference game loss to visiting North Daviess in high school softball action Wednesday. The Cougars made the most out of the Bulldogs miscues and three free passes as all seven runs were unearned. ...

Union (Dugger) senior Bubbi Lucas took home low medalist honors by carding a 40, to help lead the Bulldogs to a win over Eastern Greene Wednesday on the links at the Sullivan Elks. The Bulldogs carded a 185 while the Thunderbirds finished 21 strokes off the pace with a 206...

Two nights after suffering their first defeat of the season, the Bloomfield Cardinals softball team took their frustration out on the Golden Arrows of Sullivan to bounce back with a 9-3 road victory Wednesday. With the win, the Lady Cards improved to 8-1...

Time flies by when I'm looking back through old newspapers. I start reading one little story and then get lost reading another, then another. Two or three weeks ago, when I wrote about what was happening in the Bloomfield Evening World 50 years ago, those items all happened in the first few weeks of 1958. Here's some more .....

SWITZ CITY -- In the spring of 2006 Nicole Fougerousse and her father started a traveling fast pitch softball team, called the Greene County Clovers. The team was an 10-and-under team consisting of 11 girls from Greene County. In two-short successful years, the Clovers have blossomed into three teams, with tryouts for a fourth team underway...

Benefit yard sale/breakfast for Guardsmen The Family Readiness Group of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 151st Infantry of the Indiana National Guard will host a yard sale and pancake breakfast beginning at 7 a.m. Saturday to benefit the families of troops now serving in Iraq. ...

To the Editor: The family of Kenith (Kenny) Baker would like to say thank you to all who showed their love and support with their prayers, visits to the hospital, phone calls, cards, food, flowers, visits to the funeral home, and momentos during Kenny's illness and passing. All of your acts of kindness and sympathy were very much appreciated...

To the Editor: Despite the loss of the first 1.8 miles of Indiana farmland to I-69, opposition to this wasteful project is steadfast. Our highway system is not designed to support $100 per barrel oil and the cost of highway construction has skyrocketed. Realistic cost estimates for I-69 are nearly double original estimates. I-69 continues to drain funding from worthy transportation projects around the state...

To the Editor: Thank you all for celebrating with me on my 90th birthday. Elta Wonder Linton

Roy L. Frye, 29, of Bloomfield, was arrested Saturday by Bloomfield Town Marshal Ken Tharp on a preliminary charge of failure to register as a sex offender, a class D felony. That charges was filed in Greene Superior Court by the prosecutor's office on Tuesday with the addition of failure to register as a sex offender with a prior conviction, a class C felony...

Bogart and Bacall, rhinestone buttons and circle pins, three-piece suits and silk stockings, "Sentimental Journey" and World War II... Do you remember the Forties? The Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library invites you to a special presentation of "Styles from the Avenue," a celebration of fashions from the past that will be a trip back in time...

The fate of the Bloomfield swimming pool may be unknown, but the town council is still working on making its opening a reality. But prior to any opening the pool must be deemed safe, explained Bloomfield Town Council President Jo Ann Carmichael. Right now, the council wants to get on the same page with the engineer, Board of Health and the volunteer contractor...

Barbara Joyner and Brian Stockrahm are campaigning to represent District 3 on the board of school trustees for MSD of Shakamak. Joyner says she thinks she can improve the Shakamak School District by being open to new ideas and willing to research ways in which other school districts of similar size are achieving success...

The Eastern Greene Chamber of Commerce is planning a community beautification project and to kick off the campaign it will be planting flowers and scrubs at local business early next month. Chamber volunteers will gather at 6 p.m. on May 1 at the Crossroads Café in Eastern Heights, located at the intersection of State Road 45/State Road 445...

A current White River Valley School Board member was arrested Wednesday by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents on a warrant related to a federal grand jury indictment charging him with conspiracy. Glenn D. Cundiff, of Worthington, is charged with one count of conspiracy in an alleged scheme to re-label and sell faulty diversionary or "flash bang" or "stun" grenades to several government military and police department agencies across the country.

Worthington resident Glenn D. Cundiff says he is innocent of a federal conspiracy charge for which he was arrested Wednesday morning. "It's just a deal where they (the federal prosecutors) are trying to put a blemish on my reputation. They (the prosecutors) don't want me to appear as a witness for this company (Pyrotechnic Specialties Inc., of Byron, Ga.)," Cundiff told the Greene County Daily World in a telephone interview from his Main Street home in Worthington on Wednesday evening...