Stories from Friday, October 2, 2009

The 40th annual Bloomfield Apple Festival started early Friday and runs through the weekend ending with the Apple Festival Parade on Sunday afternoon. The Greene County Daily World published its annual Apple Festival special section on Thursday. The following is the schedule of events for this year's festival:...

WASHINGTON D.C. -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Friday that $9.8 million in grants are being provided to repair rural housing and make energy efficiency improvements in 48 states and Puerto Rico -- including $35,000 for the city of Linton...

DUGGER -- The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) announced that State Road 159 (S.R. 159) will be closing for a few days in eastern Sullivan County for repairs. Working in conjunction with Indiana Railroad officials, INDOT will be closing S.R. 159 from the junction of State Road 54 (S.R. 54) to the end of S.R. 159 at the Sullivan/Greene County Line...

A tale of two tests Changes to the ISTEP+ mean scores drop Administrators say fall can't be compared to spring By MARK STALCUP Staff Writer A change in the Indiana Standardized Testing for Educational Progress exams meant testing times for area schools, with White River Valley schools topping state averages in most grades...

BLOOMFIELD -- Hanging from a carnival booth, an inflatable Spongebob Squarepants danced wildly in the wind with a stuffed Spider-Man as the 40th annual Apple Festival commenced Friday under blue but blustery skies. Rains that troubled organizers Thursday had departed by Friday morning...

Bloomfield Junior-Senior High School senior Megann Hash will be riding in unconventional style in Sunday's 2009 Bloomfield Apple Festival Parade. The newly-crowned Apple Festival Queen will tour the parade route from atop the Bloomfield Fire Department's Aerial Truck...

The Eastern Greene High School volleyball squad continued its quest for a conference championship as the host Lady Thunderbirds defeat visiting Clay City 25-18, 25-16, 25-20 in a Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference match at Little Cincinnati Friday night...

LOOGOOTEE -- Bloomfield boys' tennis team started their quest for a sectional championship by defeating Loogootee 4-1 Friday afternoon in the semifinals of the Loogootee Sectional. A score of 4-1 sounds like a comfortable win but it was far from easy...

The Eastern Greene Middle School girls cross country team placed fifth at the Bedford North Lawrence Invitational Thursday. Batchelor Middle School won with 52 points. Eastern Greene had a score of 146, finishing ahead of nine teams. Savanna Spice led the Lady Thunderbirds, finishing 12th with a time of 13 minutes and 34 seconds...

Alzheimer's Support Group Meeting An Alzheimer's Support Group meets the first Tuesday of every month at 6 p.m. at the Bloomfield Hi-Rise located at 100 W. Main St. in Bloomfield. The next meeting will be Oct. 6. For more information, call Linda Drew at 812-659-1440 or 812-699-0098...

The Eastern Greene Lady Thunderbirds would like to invite back all the former volleyball players and coaches in the history of the program to be honored Thursday, Oct. 15 at their last home volleyball match against Monrovia. The junior-varsity match vs. Monrovia is scheduled to start at 6 p.m...

Linton resident Mildred Mason has lived a tough, grief-stricken life for the last 26 years -- filled daily with a parent's most unthinkable horrible memories. Her daughter, Cindy Lou Mason, was brutally murdered and raped on July 3, 1983 in an abandoned teen hangout near Linton known as the "old stone house"...

BICKNELL -- It's been a good ride for the Linton-Stockton Miners through the first five years of the Southwest Seven Conference. During that span they won or shared the title every year and never lost a game. Then suddenly it's 2009 and things have changed, oh how they've changed...