Stories from Wednesday, April 8, 2009

It's a new fire truck for the Linton Fire Department. The tanker pumper was recently delivered and should be in service by next week. The 2009 International pumper was purchased from Pierce Manufacturing of Florida for $213,563. The new tanker will replaces a 1970s homemade tanker, noted Fire Chief Gary Tannehill...

A 29-year-old Jasonville man, Joshua D. Haton, was injured in an accident around 3:31 a.m. on Wednesday north of Linton in Wright Township. He ran off the left side of the road and wrecked a 2002 Ford mini-van. Less than a month ago, he ran off the right side of a road in a 2003 Dodge Caravan. In that incident, he didn't wreck the vehicle but a police officer was watching and arrested Haton for operating a vehicle while intoxicated...

The Linton-Stockton High School boys golf team will have five lettermen returning last year's regional-qualifying team. "We lost George Fritch, who played No. 1 for us and Kent George, who was our No. 3 golfer last year," said second-year coach Bart Beard, whose Miners also won the Tri-River Conference and Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference for the 10th consecutive year. "They both had played a lot of golf for us...

SWITZ CITY -- Second year White River Valley girls tennis coach Katie Mullis enters the season in search of her first win in charge of the Lady Wolverines. Mullis will have to replace five starters from last season's 0-13 team, but is optimistic about the season...

John Wesley Hugunin, 34, of Sullivan and formerly of Greene County, died Tuesday evening, April 7, 2009, at his residence. He was born in Daviess County on Nov. 15, 1974, the son of John Edwin and Teresa (Rasico) Hugunin. He was a 1994 graduate of White River Valley High School in Switz City. He had worked in construction...

The American Cancer Society in cooperation with the Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association is again sponsoring Baseball Strikes Out 'K'ancer. The Linton-Stockton High School baseball team is again participating. They were part of 70 high schools that helped raise almost $11,000 last year...

Linton man offers his concerns To the Editor: I'm writing this in regards to many "bad" things I see in Linton and the area. First are our rotten roads. All of us have to pay a "wheel tax" for every car we own when we renew our plates, that's fine, but I think the guys that the commissioners have do them, really need to go to school to learn "how" to repave a road...

Americans carry more than $2 trillion in consumer debt, with $937 billion of it being tied up in credit cards, according to the Federal Reserve. This month, Americans are encouraged to tackle that debt and commit to improving their money management habits...

Stray dogs was a topic of discussion during the Bloomfield Town Council's meeting Tuesday. Council Member Jo Ann Carmichael brought the subject up. "There's stray dogs in town ... running all over the south end ... I'm not happy ...," she stressed. Town Marshal Ken Tharp agreed and noted that aggressive-bred dogs can be problematic in town...

Linton-Stockton School and IUPUI teamed up for a grant from the Laura Hare Charitable trust to Promote Discovering Science and the Environment. Last summer a team was formed by Linton-Stockton consisting of teachers from the high school and elementary school. ...

Charles Kenneth Jones, rural Farmersburg, died at Sullivan County. Community Hospital in Sullivan at 10:42 a.m. April 8, 2009. Born on March 23, 1929 in Washington, IN, he was the son of Harold Leroy and Lillian Ann (Walford) Jones. He retired in 1973 after being a letter carrier for 22 years...

Ralph L. Kirchoff, 81, of Vincennes, passed away April 8, 2009 at 11:52 a.m. at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes. He was born May 5, 1927 in Edwardsport, the son of Emil and Hilda Pepmeier Kirchoff. He graduated Edwardsport High School and he married Wilma J. ...

TERRE HAUTE -- The Wabash Valley Audubon Society's annual banquet in Terre Haute on Wednesday, April 15 will feature the Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area. A social time at 5:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 6 p.m. and a presentation at 7 p.m. will be conducted at Louise's Italian Fine Food & Bar at the Terre Haute International Airport, 561 South Airport Dr...

If you like a good Mexican meal, then don't miss out on the White River Valley Spanish Club's upcoming fundraiser. On Friday from 6 - 8 p.m., WRV's Spanish Club will hold a Mexican fiesta from 6 - 8 p.m. Friday in the high school cafeteria. Tickets are $5 and may be purchased at the door...

Ideas and information for small business networking was exchanged Tuesday evening at the Greene County Commerce Rally hosted by the Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce. Several Greene County business men and women met at the Bloomfield Junior/Senior High School cafeteria to examine possibilities and share capabilities for ways to build relationships and develop synergies for business growth...

Greene County Sheriff's Deputy Christopher McDonald arrested two Jasonville men who were allegedly caught "red-handed" with newly stolen items. The arrest came during a traffic stop that was initiated by Jasonville Police Officer Ryan Van Horn around 3:28 a.m. Tuesday...

Justin C. May, a 28-year-old Linton man, was sentenced to 30 years in prison, with five of those years suspended, by Greene Circuit Court Judge Erik C. Allen on Wednesday morning. May was convicted by a 12-member jury on March 12 of the crime of attempted dealing in methamphetamine in an amount of three grams or more, a class A felony.

GREENE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT JAIL LOG LINTON POLICE DEPARTMENT ACTIVITY LOG The Linton Police Department's activity log for Tuesday included one incident of someone refusing to leave, one custody dispute/exchange, one suicide or attempted suicide, two medical/illness, one alarm, two animal complaints, one reckless driver, one theft-other, one disabled or stranded vehicle and three traffic stops...

GREENE CIRCUIT COURT CIVIL CASES Flagstar Bank FSB v. Dewayne Fletcher, Susan E. Fletcher, mortgage foreclosure GREENE SUPERIOR COURT CRIMINAL CASES State v. Tina Louise Hampton, operating a vehicle while intoxicated in a manner which endangered a person, operating a vehicle while intoxicated, operating a vehicle with an alcohol content equivalent to at least .15 grams or more of alcohol in blood or breath...

CGCMA Easter Sunrise Service Changes Location The Community Easter Sunrise service, sponsored by the Central Greene County Ministerial Association, has been relocated. Originally scheduled for the First Presbyterian Church, the service will now be held at First Baptist Bloomfield, located at 500 Lincoln Drive. The service is set for 7 a.m. to be followed by a full breakfast in the church's Fellowship Hall. For more information, call 384-8459...

Bloomfield girls' tennis team opened the season with a 4-1 road win over the Edgewood Mustangs. The Cardinals' singles players were never tested by Edgewood's weakened lineup. Edgewood was operating without its top two singles players forcing their usual No. 3 player into the first singles spot and junior varsity players into the No. 2 and No. 3 singles positions...

Shakamak stranded seven runners on base as the Laker baseball team lost a 5-1 decision to visiting Terre Haute North Wednesday night at Jasonville. Billy Newton doubled in three at-bats for the Lakers (0-2). His two-bagger came in the sixth. He went to third on an error by North and scored the lone Laker run on a sacrifice fly by T.J. Hill, who went 1-for-2...

Brown County exploded for eight runs in the fifth inning to close out an 11-1 victory over visiting Eastern Greene in a high school softball game Wednesday. In their season opener, the Lady Thunderbirds led 1-0 after its first at bat and only trailed 3-1 going to the bottom of the fifth...

Jake Hash and Eric McArtor combined to throw a two-hitter as Eastern Greene defeated host South Knox 11-1 in six innings in a non-conference high school baseball game Wednesday. Hash, a freshman, pitched the first five innings to earn his first varsity decision. He struck out four and walked three while allowing one earned run...

Brad Thomas pitched 4 1/3 innings for Linton-Stockton High School, who lost to host Bloomington North 9-0 in a high school baseball game Wednesday night. "Brad pitched a whale of a game," said Linton-Stockton coach Bart Berns, whose Miners fell to 3-1. "He gave them one run in the first. He kept a (Class) 4A team off balance for the better part of five innings...

The Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference recently announced their all conference teams for boys and girls basketball. Twenty-four local athletes, twelve on each team, were among the 34 athletes (18 boys and 16 girls) that were nominated by their coaches...

North Daviess tallied three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning then pushed across another runner in the eighth inning to come away with a 7-6 win over visiting Bloomfield in a Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference softball game Wednesday night...

Barr-Reeve used a six-run fifth inning to send the Union (Dugger) softball team to their fifth straight loss to start the season. The host Vikings disposed of the Lady Bulldogs 12-2 in five innings. Megan Gambill and Shayna Nicol paced the Bulldog offense, as each player was 3-for-3 at the dish. Gambill recorded a triple and scored a run, while Nicol had a run batted in...

Two nights after their original season opener was washed out, the Linton-Stockton softball team finally was able to take to the field for the first time. They unfortunately ran into a buzz-saw as they fell to visiting North Central 6-1 in a Tri-River Conference game Wednesday night...

White River Valley opened the 2009 baseball season with a 6-5 victory at Washington Catholic Wednesday. The game was moved from WRV because the field at Switz City is being redone. "This is the first time we have been on a baseball field in about nine days," said WRV coach Mike Karr. "We were a little rusty because of that, but the kids really well played...

Country Music Hall of Fame member Roy Clark will once again headline the 30th Annual Greene County Foundation Festival set in Linton on May 29 and 30. The weekend includes a two-day golf scramble, a celebrity dinner at the Greene County Shrine Club and highlights with the Evening with Roy Clark and Friends show at the Linton-Stockton High School gym on Saturday, May 30 beginning at 7:30 p.m...

The Linton-Stockton and White River Valley boys and girls track and field teams opened their season Wednesday night with a triangular meet at Roy Williams Field. Visiting Mitchell came away victoriously in both meets, while Linton-Stockton finished second and White River Valley finished third...

The Bloomfield Town Council discussed the Bloomfield Comprehensive Plan at its recent meeting. David A. Ripple brought the subject up. Ripple serves as the chief of transportation and land use planning at Bernardin Lochmueller & Associates in Evansville...