Stories from Thursday, July 10, 2008

Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman recently awarded the city of Jasonville a $30,000 planning grant to fund a water system planning study. The Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs administers the planning grants through the Small Cities and Towns Development Block Grant (CDBG) program...

In the early morning hours of Jan. 8, Blaine Gillan -- a Linton-Stockton High School graduate -- received a call from Lt. Steve Woolwine of the Indiana Conservation Officers District 3 Lafayette Post to respond and assist flood victims along the Tippecanoe River in Carroll County...

The first day of school will bring more than new classes and books to a local elementary school. The Bloomfield Elementary School -- which was built in 1961 -- will open its doors Aug. 12 with 15 newly renovated classrooms. School Superintendent Dan Sichting explained, "The area that is being renovated now is the lower elementary hallway. ...

It will be interesting to see if several men in Jasonville will keep their unique beards, goatees and mustaches that they have been sporting around town for the past six months. At Hanna Field shortly past noon on July 20, they will be judged as to whom has the longest, the neatest or most unusual facial hair...

GREENE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT JAIL LOG LINTON POLICE DEPARTMENT ACTIVITY LOG The Linton Police Department's activity log for Wednesday included two requests for information only, two medical/illness, two alarms, one animal complaint, one suspicious vehicle/person, one assist to another agency, one harassment complaint, two thefts-other, one message delivery, one motor vehicle theft, one fingerprint for a gun permit, three domestic disputes, one ordinance violation, four traffic stops...

The 67th annual Greene County Open golf championship is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday at the Phil Harris Golf Course in Linton. Bart Beard, who also is the golf pro at Phil Harris, will be looking to defend his 2007 championship and become the first golfer to repeat since Randy Smith in 2002-03...

SWITZ CITY -- Gerald Murdock, of rural Worthington, was unanimously selected to serve for the upcoming year as president of the White River Valley School Board during a special session Thursday night. Glen Cundiff will serve as the board's vice-president and Brian Blackmore was named as secretary...

SWITZ CITY -- Two recent Bloomfield Junior-Senior High School graduates gathered in the top honors in the 2008 Greene County 4-H Fashion Revue staged Thursday night at the fairgrounds. Jennifer Wilson was named Senior Grand Champion while Nikkole Thombleson was the Senior Reserve Grand Champion...

A.J. Graves may be known nationally because of his remarkable basketball career at Butler University, but he was more than a basketball player for the Bulldogs. He was a well-rounded student-athlete. He graduated from Butler in May with a 3.369 grade-point average and a degree in actuarial science. He currently is working for AIT Laboratories in Indianapolis, one of the nation's leading forensics labs. He's a business analysis.

The 4-H organization teaches its young members to take active roles in citizenship and community projects. 4-H members from Vigo County are putting those ideals to work to help a 13-year-old rural Worthington boy and fellow 4-H member, who was critically injured in a farm tractor accident last month...

Thirteen-year-old Jordan Murdock, from rural Worthington, was really looking forward to participating next week in the Greene County 4-H Fair. The seventh grader at White River Valley Junior High School had signed up to exhibit in the corn, soybeans, entomology, garden and strawberry projects. He was also raising a boar (meat) goat and swine for showing in the livestock barn arena...