Stories from Wednesday, November 11, 2009

WORTHINGTON -- Street Superintendent David Dyer told the Worthington Town Council on Tuesday night that he plans to continue picking up leaves through the end of November. The council conducted its regular monthly meeting in Town Hall with all members present except Debbie Dyer...

The high school football season was extended at least another week for the Linton-Stockton Miners following their 28-24 win Nov. 6 over North Daviess in the Class A Sectional 40 title tilt at Roy Williams Field. With the victory the Miners completed a pair of revenge wins that also included a 44-0 pounding of the North Knox Warriors the week before...

Orvel Stremming sat proudly in the Linton-Stockton High School gymnasium, smiling broadly as he stood to salute the flag before him. Over 65 years ago, Stremming, 89, helped invade Normandy during D-Day. The former technical corporal of the U.S Army's 826th Aviation Engineers spent "39 months and 21 days" overseas, before returning home...

A convocation's end didn't stop the outpouring of cheers from Bloomfield schoolchildren Wednesday as they celebrated Veteran's Day. Waving hundreds of flags as veterans walked off the gym floor, elementary students spontaneously began chanting "U.S.A.!" proudly...

Respect was paid to those who have served our country during a Veteran's Day memorial service at the Anderson-Poindexter Funeral Home lawn in Linton on Wednesday. Jim Meng, director at Anderson-Poindexter, provided the introduction as well as thanked all veterans who have served our nation...

Linton area veterans -- both living and deceased -- now have their own park. Frank Courtney American Legion Post No. 22 dedicated its new Veterans Mall Park in a ceremony late Wednesday afternoon capping off a full day of Veterans Day programs in the area...

Greene Countains paused Wednesday and remembered the remarkable job done by the past and current military veterans -- both in war and peacetime. In a service sponsored by the Greene County Veterans Council on the courthouse square in Bloomfield, residents bowed their heads in prayer and paid homage to the many sacrifices of this nation's veterans...

GREENE CIRCUIT COURT CRIMINAL CASES State v. Greg S. Thatcher, possession of methamphetamine with a firearm, two counts of possession of a controlled substance, maintaining a common nuisance, possession of marijuana, reckless possession of methamphetamine...

GREENE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT JAIL LOG...

Bloomfield School Board The Bloomfield School Board will meet in regular session at 7 p.m. Nov. 19 in the junior high conference room. Twilight party A Twilight party will be held from 4:30 - 6 p.m. Nov. 20 at the Linton Public Library. The event is for teens in the fifth through the 12th grades. Readings from "Twilight" and "New Moon", games, trivia and refreshments are planned. For information or to sign-up call 847-7802...

To the Editor: As of the end of October, the cumulative number days without sunspots in the transition into solar cycle 24 now stands at 745. So far the sun continues to be fairly quiet. This solar minimum acts like the Energizer bunny. It just keeps going, and going, and going...