Stories from Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Eastern Greene's Lindsey Stevens will be making a return trip to the state finals this year as she advanced in the 300 meter hurdles. The senior was the Bedford North Lawrence Regional champion in the event with a time of 47.08. Stevens also narrowly missed advancing to the state meet in the long jump (fifth) and 100 hurdles (fourth). The top three in each event advanced to next Friday's state meet at Robert C. Haugh Track and Field Complex on the campus of Indiana University...

VINCENNES -- For the second time in two nights, Amber Scott tossed a shutout as South Knox defeated Linton-Stockton 3-0 in the semifinals of the Class 2A South Knox softball sectional here Tuesday night. Scott fanned 12 and did not issue a walk as she won for the 15th time in 20 decisions. The victory, the 17th against seven losses, propelled the Lady Spartans into Wednesday's sectional championship game against Bloomfield...

VINCENNES -- Bloomfield came up with four hits in the fifth inning as the Lady Cardinals pushed across four runs to pull away from county rival Eastern Greene in the semifinals of the Class 2A South Knox Sectional here Tuesday night. The Lady Cardinals broke open a 1-1 tie and went on for a 6-1 victory...

Cody Barlow was Mr. Everything Tuesday as he led the Bloomfield Cardinals to a 5-2 non-conference baseball win on the road against Washington Catholic. The senior hit a grand slam in the top of the third inning and pitched a complete game on the bump for the victory...

CLAY CITY -- Cassie Parr drilled a two-out RBI double off the center field fence to score Ashli Scott in the top of the fourth inning to give Union (Dugger) a 1-0 lead over host Clay City. The one run was all the support that Scott would need as the Lady Bulldogs defeated the Eels 2-0 here Tuesday in the first semifinal of the Class A Clay City Sectional...

CLAY CITY -- Michael Jordan owned the Cleveland Cavaliers with numerous buzzer-beating shots in the playoffs, or really just about any other team for that matter. David Ortiz owned the Yankees pitching staff in the 2004. And now it can officially be said that Jackie Porter owns the Shakamak Lakers...

Daniel K. Kelley, 53, of Terre Haute, formerly of Lyons, passed away Wednesday, May 21, 2008, at Union Hospital. Born in Bloomington on Sept. 16, 1954, he was the son of Otto and Elsa (Wilson) Kelley. He served in the U.S. Army and was a laborer. Survivors include his two brothers, Tom Wilson and Joe Wilson, both of Linton; one sister, Patty Pinto of Twinsburg, OH; as well as several nieces and nephews...

Business Professionals of America held its National Leadership Conference last week in Reno-Tahoe, Nev. I was one of four student members from the Linton-Stockton High School chapter to make it to the national conference. Lance Irwin, Jon Allen, and Jon Hensley were my other three partners in crime over the five days we were out west...

Fifty years ago, when The Bloomfield News came out every Thursday, at the top of page 1 it declared "Published in the Community of Opportunity" and the price to have it delivered by mail was $2 per year. I always liked the News even better than the daily papers -- it had a tight layout that was a synopsis of everything important in one neat package. It was my great-grandma's paper of choice. If she read it in the News then it must be so...

To the Editor: I watched Joel Osteen on TV Sunday evening. His message was about being in a rut. He really spoke right at me. How about your life, is it droll? Do you feel like you're in a rut? The thought of it set me to thinking. Is our life a repetition of samo samo? Do we have the blahs? We need a change in perspective along with a change in routine. We need to seek new horizons, walk through new neighborhoods and smell other flowers...

It's time to buckle up for safety. The Linton Police Department along with over 250 other state and local enforcement agencies have launched an Indiana "Click It or Ticket" enforcement campaign which lasts through June 1. LPD Police Chief Troy Jerrell said the aim of this high-visibility campaign is to buckle down on those people who are not buckling up...

LYONS -- Trevor Sparks has been invited to meet the governor. He has been notified that he is the Greene County winner of an annual essay contest sponsored by the Indiana State Troopers Association. Sparks is a student in Matt McCammon's fifth grade class at White River Valley Lyons Elementary School...

Greene County's largest employer has signed a new multi-million dollar contract for work to be done at Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane. Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) announced on Thursday it has been awarded a task order by Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane...

You can expect cuts at your local public library soon. Besides slashing the budgets of local government, House Bill 1001 -- property tax reform, will also cut funding to public libraries. Cuts totaling about $16,000 could affect the Bloomfield-Eastern Greene Public Library in several ways, explained John Helling, the library's director...

Preliminary charges against a Carlisle man, who was jailed early Sunday after a high speed chase through the county, were filed in Greene Superior Court on Wednesday. Michael C. Bohnert, 26, will make his initial court appearance on Friday on two charges -- resisting law enforcement, a class D felony, and reckless driving, a class B misdemeanor...

Linton's stop sign vandals may now have to find something new to believe in. Five Linton juveniles are being held responsible for painting "Don't (Stop) Believin" on 12 city signs and will serve 40 hours of community service and pay the city for damages, explained Linton Police Chief Troy Jerrell...

Expect to see a tightened cell phone policy at Linton-Stockton High School next year. The change was adopted by the school board Monday night, and will be added to the student handbook next year. During the meeting, high school Principal Nick Karazsia explained, "On cell phones we had over 100 discipline referrals on student cell phone use (this year)."...

Democrat District 1 Commissioner's candidate Kermit Holtsclaw says there was no political wrongdoing done when the Greene County Highway Department east side garage foreman stopped at his Center Township office on the day after the Primary Election earlier this month...

GREENE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT JAIL LOG LINTON POLICE DEPARTMENT ACTIVITY LOG The Linton Police Department's activity log for Tuesday included one follow-up investigation, two requests for information only, one vandalism, one custody dispute/exchange, one off-road vehicle complaint, two medical/illness, one animal complaint, two suspicious vehicles/persons, two assists to other agencies, one domestic battery, one possibly intoxicated driver, two thefts-other and six traffic stops...

GREENE CIRCUIT COURT CIVIL CASES Old National Bank v. James Aden Rollins, collection Ashley Teague v. Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers, Inc., John G. Fritz, civil tort Old National Bank v. Kylee Wood, collection GREENE SUPERIOR COURT CRIMINAL CASES State v. Tasha R. Booker, public intoxication...

Bloomfield Council to meet Tuesday The Bloomfield Town Council will meet in special session at 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Bloomfield Town Hall. The purpose of the meeting is to discussion of emergency sirens, town ordinance updates and the swimming pool. Following the special meeting the Town Council will meet in executive session to discuss personnel matters...

VINCENNES -- "Complete Team Effort" is one of those phrases in sports that is often tossed around like a punch line at a cocktail party. But witnessing a CTE, if you will, in a pressure-packed situation, is a thing of beauty and more rare than a double rainbow...