Stories from Friday, January 1, 2010

After a few days off to celebrate the arrival of the new year, the local boys basketball season restarts with the Greene County Invitational. The eight team tourney gets underway Tuesday and continues through Saturday when a champion will be crowned...

Wes Franklin's sixth-grade classroom at WRV Worthington Elementary has been turned upside down in the effort to eliminate mercury but school officials say the building will be safe, clean and mercury-free by Monday. Superintendent Layton Wall said clean-up crews have been working overtime...

Rosemary Ida McKee, 88, of Worthington passed away at 6:45 P. M., Thursday, December 31, 2009, at Lyons Health & Living Center. She was born July 31, 1921 in Greene Co, to Leonard & Flossie L. (Tribble) Calvert. She was a homemaker and member of Baptist Church...

White River Valley School Superintendent Layton Wall says all WRV buildings will reopen as scheduled on Monday following a painstaking clean-up effort after the discovery of a mercury release in a sixth-grade classroom at Worthington Elementary on Wednesday...

The Greene County Sheriff's Department is seeking information on the criminal mischief-makers who have been damaging mailboxes in Richland Creek Addition and Beech Creek Township. Deputy Terry Wade reported sometime after midnight on New Year's Day, unknown suspects damaged several mailboxes along county roads...

The Linton Police Department's activity log for Wednesday included one protective order violation, one accident with property damage, three medical/illness, one fingerprint for a gun permit, two domestic disputes, one open garage door and six traffic stops...

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