Stories from Tuesday, July 1, 2008

INDIANAPOLIS -- Three communities in House District 45 on Monday received a total of $1.5 million for infrastructure improvements. Bloomfield, Odon and West Terre Haute each received $500,000 from the Community Focus Fund in a Statehouse ceremony Monday afternoon...

Bloomfield's Derek Corn continued his winning ways by getting to the semifinal match of the Terre Haute Curt Hendrix Memorial Junior Closed tennis tournament, which took place June 30 and July 1 at Terre Haute's Rea Park. Competing in the 18 player, boys 16 bracket, Corn put out Tyler Thornton 6-2, 6-1 and Collin Egan 6-0, 6-0 before losing to Nate Sanders 6-2, 6-2...

Coed softball tourney 180 Energy Drink will have a coed softball tournament July 5th and 6th at the FOP field in Linton. Entry fee is $150 per team. Teams will consist of five females and five males. For more information contact Greg Landry at 812-201-6788 or Travis at 812-890-8734...

A rural Western Greene County volunteer fire department has announced plans to begin the process to build a new fire station. On Tuesday morning, the commissioners gave members of the Wright Township Volunteer Fire Department their blessing to apply for grant funding to assist with the construction of a new Midland-based fire station ...

The Linton Pizza Hut is lending a helping hand to the American Red Cross. On July 8, the local pizza eatery will donate part of its proceeds to the Greene County unit of the Red Cross. "It's to help the community ...I know how much the Red Cross has helped with the Worthington flooding and no water in Jasonville. It's just a way to help others who have been devastated or have lost things due to the recent disasters."...

In support of rural Worthington boy injured last week in a tractor wreck with a semi-truck, a group of his young friends is inviting everyone to a bake sale combined with a yard sale they're planning. The event to benefit Jordan Murdock is set for Saturday in the parking lot of the Worthington Assembly of God on State Road 67 -- just south of the Country Market...

The spiraling cost of fuel is putting a budget crunch on both the Greene County Highway Department and the Greene County Sheriff's Department. On Monday evening, the Greene County Council approved advertising for additional budget appropriations totaling $240,000 -- just to finish out the current calendar year...

The winners of the 2008 Freedom Festival Little Miss and Mister contest Saturday were Olivia Coffey and Ethan Hall. "Each received a crown and trophy will be riding in Friday's parade," Linton-Stockton Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Cheryl Hamilton...

Coonskin Lane. The sound of her newly-assigned E-911 address doesn't strike Tulip area resident Christine Marley very well. In fact, she said in her mind, the term has racial overtones that she would prefer not to be associated with her family and the business she operates from her home...

CHAMPAIGN, ILL. -- An autopsy conducted on a 3-year-old Linton showed he died as the result of drowning on Monday afternoon, according to Champaign County (Ill.) Coroner Duane Northrup. Wyatt Daniel DeJesus, Route 1, Linton, was pronounced dead at 1:16 p.m. (CST) at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, Ill...

Dale G. Sanders, 52, of Linton and formerly of South Bend, passed away at 1:28 a.m. Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at Sullivan County Community Hospital in Sullivan. He was born July 28, 1955 in South Bend to William and Margurite Cook Sanders. Survivors include: one son, Aaron Wesley Sanders of South Bend; two brothers, Carl Sanders and Bill Sanders, both of South Bend; and several nieces and nephews...

Friday will mark more than just the Fourth of July in Bloomfield. It's also the long-anticipated first day of the town pool's re-opening since its last season in 2006. The news was made official at the Bloomfield Town Council's Tuesday meeting. To kick the summer season off right, the town council announced that admission into the pool on Friday is free...

Wyatt Daniel DeJesus, 3, of Linton, passed away at 1:16 p.m. Monday at Carle Foundation Hospital in Champaign, Il. He was born April 22, 2005 in Terre Haute to Rommel L DeJesus , of Champaign, Ill. and Heather L Grounds of Linton. Other survivors include: a brother, Waylon Dudley of Linton; maternal grandparent, Nan West and Papaw Bob of Jasonville and Mark Grounds of Navarre, FL; paternal grandparents Constacia DeJesus of Philippines and Narciso DeJesus of Philippines; maternal great grandparents, Woody and Gertrude West of Linton, Kenny and Christy Kennett of Jasonville, Devonna and Paul Johnson of Midland, Sondra and Rick Dayhoff of Lyons, Beckie Grounds of Bloomington; maternal great-great grandparents, James Yeryar of Midland, Dorothy Kennett of Jasonville and Dorothy and Jim Grady of Jasonville; aunt, Mercy Oliphant, uncle, Uretz John Oliphant; cousins, Kathryn Oliphant, Michael Oliphant and Jonathan Oliphant; and many other aunts, uncles and cousins. ...

Timberly Ferree and Kade Puckett of Linton would like to invite their close friends and family to share in their exchange of wedding vows at 5 p.m., July 4, 2008 at the Ferree-Puckett homestead in Linton. Timberly is a staff writer at the Greene County Daily World...

GREENE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT JAIL LOG LINTON POLICE DEPARTMENT ACTIVITY LOG The Linton Police Department's activity log on Monday included one incident of an illegal burn, four requests for information only, one vandalism, one disorderly conduct, one accident with property damage, one lost and found, one medical/illness, one alarm, eight animal complaints, one prowler, one VIN check, two thefts-other, one animal/debris in roadway, one motor vehicle theft, two fingerprints-misc. ...

GREENE CIRCUIT COURT CRIMINAL CASES State v. Joshua Sargent, intimidation with a deadly weapon, pointing a firearm, battery resulting in bodily injury, battery resulting in bodily injury, possession of marijuana CIVIL CASES State of Indiana v. Jason Arthur, petition for support...

Worthington Community VBS The Worthington First Baptist Church, Worthington First Christian Church and the Methodist Church in Worthington will hold community VBS 6- 8 p.m. July 7-11 at the First Baptist Church in Worthington. Pre-registration is 5:30 July 7 at the church...