Stories from Thursday, August 26, 2010

The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) will conduct a public hearing on Thursday, August 26, 2010, regarding the recently released Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for Section 4 of the I-69 corridor. The meeting will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. (EDT) at the Eastern Greene Middle School gymnasium at 10503 East State Road 54 near Bloomfield...

A 48-year-old Worthington man, William Arthur, who had jumped in the bed of a truck being driven by a woman, is accused of injuring the woman after punching the back window of the cab as she drove through town honking the horn trying to attract help in a rolling domestic dispute...

Mel Walker, 70, of Martinsville, suddenly passed away on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. He was born in Vincennes, to the late Spencer and Mary Ellen (Coffel) Walker. He married Patricia A. "Patti" (Rynard) Walker on Jan. 28, 1983. Mel retired from the Indiana State Police as a Master Trooper after 20 years of service. He most recently worked security at Cook, Inc. in Bloomington...

A Bloomfield woman faces charges after allegedly pointing a gun at her boyfriend and threatening his life. Donna S. Stidd-Krepps was arrested for intimidation with a deadly weapon, a class C Felony, and pointing a firearm, a class A misdemeanor, by Greene County Deputy Jeremy Inman on Monday...

Mary Violet Burch, 79, of Linton and formerly of Dugger, passed away at 6:10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010 at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. She was born in Farmersburg, Feb. 28, 1931, the daughter of Charles William Jennings and Ida Bailey Jennings...

When the Red Bull MotoGP motorcycle race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway takes the green flag Sunday, a Lyons resident will have one of the best seats at the track. Larry Waggoner has been a part of the fire/rescue crew at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for 35 years...

Linton businessman Mike Morin and his stepchildren, Mason and Alexis Boyd, got an upclose look at Peabody's dragline earlier this week near their Cass home in Sullivan County.

Several Greene County school superintendents find information contained in a Federal Railroad Administration database on local rail crossings hard to believe. The database states that no school buses cross any of the 108 rail crossings in the county...

Click on the following link to see a photo gallery of the Peabody dragline moving toward the Bear Run Mine. These photos were taken Wednesday near Dugger. http://gcdailyworld.com/gallery/6091/ According to Cher Goodwin with the Indiana Department of Transportation, S.R. 54 west of Dugger will close Saturday morning. It could remain closed for up to five days. As of 4 p.m. on Thursday, the dragline was located a mile west of Dugger, and about a mile north of S.R. 54.

GREENE CIRCUIT COURT CIVIL CASES Capitol One Bank v. Brittany Goodman, collection LVNV Funding LLC v. Richard A. Ervin, collection Nathan Bough v. April D. Bough, dissolution The Indiana Railroad Company v. David L. Swalls, Jennifer G. Swalls, John H. Allen, Sharon S. Allen, Bloomfield State Bank, Patti Getzinger, John Herman Allen Revocable Trust, Sharon Sue Allen Revocable Trust, plenary...

Friday, Aug. 27 Saturday, Aug. 28 Sunday, Aug. 29 Monday, Aug. 30 Tuesday, Aug. 31 Wednesday, Sept. 2 The Linton Public Library will open late (at noon) to provide in-service training for staff. Friday, Sept. 3 Saturday, Sept. 4 Sunday, Sept. 5 Monday, Sept. 6...

The Linton Police Department's activity log for Wednesday included one request for information, one incident of vandalism, two drug investigations, one intimidation, two vehicle fires, one medical/illness, one alarm, one suspicious vehicle/person, one complaint of harassment, one possibly intoxicated driver, one reckless driver, two thefts and 14 traffic stops...

Bloomfield's boys and girls cross country teams, led by individual winners Jake Phegley and Julie Riggins, won the Greeene County Invitational meet at White River Valley High School Thursday. It was the third year in a row that the Lady Cardinals have won. It also was the third straight season that Riggins has been the quickest in the girls race...

For the second consecutive evening, the Linton-Stockton boys tennis team came up on the short end of a 3-2 score. The Miners slipped to 0-3 with a loss at Barr-Reeve Thursday. "Didn't we go through a similar spell where we lost a lot of 3-2 matches at the begining of last season before we broke through," asked Linton-Stockton coach Brad McKinney. "But I feel better about tonight than last night...

The Linton-Stockton Lady Miners and White River Valley Lady Wolverines traveled to Hidden Hills Golf Course for a triangular meet with host Eastern Greene Thursday. The Lady Thunderbirds captured the team title -- and their first win in girls golf -- with a 259 followed by WRV with a 269...

Members of the Bloomfield Teacher's Association (BTA) displayed a show of solidarity to the Bloomfield Board of School Trustees at Thursday night's monthly meeting. The BTA members -- numbering 38 -- attended the board meeting, packing the junior high conference room to a standing room only crowd. Some teachers were even sitting on the floor and a couple of them even crowded together on a single chair...

Linton-Stockton made quick work of visiting Washington Catholic, as the Lady Miner volleyball team defeated the Lady Cardinals 25-11, 25-15, 25-9 Thursday. "Sophomores Ashley Cooper and Courtney Barnes both had great nights on serve receive," said Linton-Stockton coach Jill Fougerousse. "Kayla Cox did a nice job tonight. Kayla is great as an opposite (hitter). She is capable of hitting the ball and has great hands to set the ball when needed."...