Stories from Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Another line of dark and foreboding clouds, pictured above White River, taken from the Pryor Bridge on State Road 157, moved across Greene County late Monday bringing still more rain to the area. Tuesday reports from the the Linton and Worthington Police Departments and the Greene County Sheriff's Department indicate no serious damages or emergency calls as a direct result of the Monday storms. ...

Since storms with heavy rains have become a daily occurrence over the past week, and since they've left big puddles and lots of standing water behind, many are reminded of the stormy weather in 2008 which produced record-breaking flooding in Greene County...

SWITZ CITY -- The 85th Annual Greene County Fair is now history -- except for the staging of two major events that fell victim to rain and storms. Overall, the fair has been termed a success by Tammy Steiner, Greene County Extension Service Educator in charge of Youth and 4-H...

Wednesday, July 21 * The Indiana Department of Transportation will conduct a groundbreaking ceremony for Section 3 of Interstate 69 at 11 a.m. at Daviess County Municipal Airport, located on County Road 250 East near Washington. Section 3 runs from U.S. 50 (near Washington) via the State Road 57 corridor and cross country to U.S. 231 the near Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center in Greene County. Thursday, July 22 * The White River Valley Board of School Trustees will meet in regular session at 7:30 p.m. in the administrative center located in the junior-senior high school. An executive session will precede the meeting at 6:30 p.m. to discuss personnel.

Editor's Note Caleb Fischer graduated from Linton-Stockton High School in 2006 and Butler Uniersity in 2010 with a degree in biology. He just started at Yale University in a PhD graduate program in Molecular Biology. Nobel Prize winning poet W.B. Yeats proclaimed, "Education is not the filling of a bucket but the lighting of a fire."...

EASTERN HEIGHTS -- Eastern Greene High School Trustees voted "Fore" a one-year trial Monday which will bring the ladies to the links. Trustees unanimously approved the girls golf program for one year, starting this school year, naming Mike Caldwell as volunteer coach...

Southern Indiana Development Commission made a pitch for its annual budget contribution from the Greene County Commissioners on Monday. For every dollar Greene County has contributed to SIDC in the last 18 months, $462 have been returned in the form of grants or other assistance...

Janice Joan (Earlywine) Husband, 75, of Coalmont, died at 12:55 p.m. Monday, July 19, 2010 at Cobblestone Crossings Health Campus in Terre Haute. Her spouse, Gene Husband, preceded her in death on August 2000. They were married Aug. 3, 1991. Janice was blessed with a strong faith and wonderful friends, Linda Bemis, Norma Bemis, Wilma Cochran and many others. ...

2010 General Election Slate State Representative District 62 Matthew A. Ubelhor, Bloomfield, Republican Prosecutor Jarrod D. Holtsclaw, Bloomfield, Republican Clerk Jackie J. Winstead, Bloomfield, Democrat Susan Fowler, Bloomfield, Republican Auditor...