Stories from Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Britnee Kay Smith, 19, of Bloomfield, passed away Tuesday April 19, 2010 at her residence. Arragements are pending at Jenkins & Sons Funeral Home in Bloomfield.

Response to Intervention (RTI) was brought to the forefront at the Monday meeting of the Linton-Stockton School Board. This is the first year for the process to be used at the elementary school. Matt Johnson, Jawna Graniti and Christina Knapp presented information on the RTI process -- which focuses on matching interventions to elementary student needs and monitors student progress on a frequent basis...

Greene County Farm Bureau Incorporated is hosting a "Meet the Candidate Night" on Thursday evening. The event will be staged at the Greene County Extension Service Community Building at the fairgrounds -- located about one mile east of Switz City just off of State Road 54...

The focus was on art for several White River Valley Elementary students who recently participated in a drawing contest. Bob Schlemmer, WRV Elementary art teacher, shared details on the contest that highlighted each student's personality and was sponsored by Worthington Tri Kappa...

NEWBERRY -- The town of Newberry is ready to sponsor its first-ever Community-Wide Yard Sale on Saturday. A total of 18 sites have been set up for the yard sale that runs 8 a.m. until 3 p.m, according to Kim Pickett, who helped organize the event with Dometa Hasler...

A disputed land-clearing and demolition job for the Bloomfield School District may be close to being settled after an offer is being considered to the original low bidder, who was later shunned when a negotiated price was agreed upon with another contractor...

State Sen. Lindel Hume talked unemployment and the economy during the Linton-Stockton Chamber of Commerce's Tuesday meeting. "We just completed a fairly constructive legislative session," Hume explained, adding the session ended March 13. During the last session, the No. 1 agreement among everyone was no tax increases, he noted...

Some people wind up in jail on felony drug charges when several officers from the Greene County Drug Task Force knock on their door with a search warrant granted after days, weeks or months of an ongoing investigation. But others are booked in on felony drug charges because they were driving a little too fast or failed to dim a headlight and an officer decided to turn around and make a routine traffic stop. That's what happened to at least three people within the last couple of weeks...

GREENE CIRCUIT COURT CRIMINAL CASES State v. Ted Gardner, possession of marijuana, dealing in marijuana, domestic battery State v. Jeremiah Damron, dealing in methamphetamine, possession of methamphetamine State v. David Liston, dealing in methamphetamine, possession of methamphetamine, possession of chemical reagents or precursors with intent to manufacture...

LINTON POLICE DEPARTMENT ACTIVITY LOG The Linton Police Department's activity log for Monday included one request for information only, one assist to the utility department after hours, one drug investigation, one accident with property damage, one funeral escort, one lost and found, three medical/illness, one animal complaint, one suspicious vehicle/person, one harassment complaint and one shoplifting incident...

GREENE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT JAIL LOG ACTIVITY LOG...

D.J. Newton limited Eastern Greene High School to two hits and struck out 11 as host Clay City defeated the Thunderbirds 6-1 in a Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference baseball game Monday. "To take nothing away from Newton, who pitched a really good game, and Clay City, this was a disappointing loss," said EGHS coach Trevor McConnell, who's Thunderbirds slipped to 3-5, 1-1 in the conference. ...

Linton-Stockton remained undefeated in dual high school boys golf matches after topping visiting Edgewood 155-182 Tuesday at the Phil Harris Golf Course in Linton. Cole Bradbury paced the Miners with a 1-over-par 36. Ben Boyd and Clayton French each shot 39, Chase Rhoten had a 41, Luke Jerrells 42 and Brady Stefancik carded a 43...

Tammy S. Polmanter, 50, Bloomfield, was in Greene Superior Court Monday and was charged with criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon, a class D felony. Polmanter is accused of shooting at a dump truck four or five times as it was being driven off her property by an ex-boyfriend on April 13. She was arrested the same day...

The visting Terre Haute South Braves snapped a 4-4 tie with four runs in the sixth to hand the Shakamak Lakers an 8-6 non-conference defeat at Jasonville. "This was a game I hope and believe will make us a better team," Shakamak (4-4) coach Chip Sweet said. "We competed very well, but we made four errors. That's too many against a pretty good team."...

Shakamak came up with 12 hits and outlasted host Turkey Run 12-9 in a high school softball game Tuesday. "It really was a slugfest," said Shakamak coach Brent Anderson, whose Lady Lakers improved to 5-6. "This was a game featuring two teams that kept kept going at one another and put a lot of pressure on each other...

Linton-Stockton managed just three hits and did not dent the scoreboard as visiting Washington beat the Miners 10-0 Tuesday in a high school baseball game at Roy Herndon Field. The non-conference game was halted after five innings via the mercy rule...

Bloomfield High School had one of its worst outings of the season, finishing third in a triangular boys golf match at Phil Harris Tuesday. Mitchell shot 162, Loogootee 190 and the Cardinals had a 201. Brothers Chad and Taylor Phillips each carded 38s to pace Mitchell...

The Bloomfield girls tennis team picked up its second win of the week improving their season record to 6-1. The Cardinals defeated Edgewood 4-1, dropping only a singles spot. At No. 1 singles Sarah Miller stayed perfect by cruising past Hannah Douglas, 6-0, 6-0...

FARMERSBURG -- Senior right-hander Stephanie Fougerousse took a no-hitter into the sixth inning, and a shutout into the seventh as the Linton-Stockton Lady Miners prevailed over host North Central 10-1 in a Tri-River Conference softball game here Tuesday...

The Linton-Stockton High School baseball program will once again be participating in the American Cancer Society's Baseball Strikes Out "K"ancer." The ACS is again working in cooperation with the Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association to have games between April 19 and May 1 designated as fund-raising events...

Shelby Gott struck out double-digit batters for the fourth consecutive time and joined Kendra Spelts, Sammy Deaton and Holly Zschiedrich in driving runs as the Lady Cardinals handed North Knox a 4-1 setback at Bicknell Tuesday night in a non-conference softball game...

Teachers, school administrators and taxpayers are concerned about funding for public schools. State support for education has been cut by $300 million, local school budgets have been tightened, school employees been lost their jobs and school boards across the state are looking for creative ways to preserve education in the classrooms. Tuesday night, candidates seeking seats on the Bloomfield Board of School Trustees talked about the budget and a property tax cap constitutional amendment that will be on the Nov. 3 General Election ballot.