Stories from Monday, April 4, 2011

James B. "J.B." Jones, 66, of Loogootee, died at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis. Born Sept. 8, 1944, in Loogootee, he was the son of Henry J. and Mary (Pettigrew) Jones. A graduate of Loogootee High School, he was a member of St. ...

Naomi Herald, of Green County, passed away Monday April 4, 2011 at Garden Villa Nursing Facility in Bloomington. Born on Nov. 21, 1919 to John R Berry and Stella N (Atchley) Berry in Benton Ill, Naomi was a 49 year member of the Solsberry OES # 547...

With the exception of a single baseball game, all area sporting events were postponed or canceled following heavy rains that belted the area Monday. Postponements include the following softball games: Bloomfield at North Daviess, Vincennes Lincoln at Linton-Stockton and Bloomington North at Eastern Greene...

After months of discussion and amendments, the Greene County Commissioners on Monday morning passed an ordinance that will close a section of Main Street in Midland as requested by Indiana Rail Road Company officials. Approved a motion to have Bynum Fanyo Consulting Engineers, of Bloomington, prepare bid documents and design work for the County Road 700N project in Wright Township...

Attendance was well under average during the past weekend's Saturday School at the Linton-Stockton School Corporation. L-S Superintendent Nick Karazsia explained, "In light of everything going on our attendance was not as good as it was last year (on Saturday School) -- which was about 85 percent. This year was close to 60 percent."...

Monday was the first day in several without a police presence at the Linton-Stockton School Corporation. L-S Superintendent Nick Karazsia provided an update on the recent threat situation at the school in a Monday morning interview with the Greene County Daily World...

The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) is announcing that a stretch of State Road 58 in eastern Greene County will be restricted to ten feet in width. Two small box drainage structures will be replaced 1.10 and 1.25 miles east of S.R. 45. One lane of the roadway will need to be closed to allow crews to install the structure. Signals will be installed to move traffic through the area...

Virginia Frances (Sparks) Spice, 95, of Globe, Arizona and formerly of Linton, passed away Friday, April 1, 2011 at 7:55 p.m. Born, February 1, 1916 in Louisville, KY, she was the daughter of Harvey and Maude Wade Sparks. Ginny married Raymond A. Spice, September 1933. She and Ray lived in the Linton area most of their life until moving to Tucson in 1979...

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The Linton-Stockton Miners opened the 2011 high school baseball season with a 13-2 rout of visiting Shoals Saturday evening at Roy Herndon Field. The game was called after five innings due to the 10-run rule. Three Miner pitchers fanned 10 of the 15 Jug Rox batters they faced as starter Tyler Trent and reliever Ty Scott struck out four each and Tanner Butler, who finished things out, fanned two...

The Shakamak Lady Lakers softball team dropped a 13-3 decision to visiting Bloomington North to open the 2011 campaign Saturday at Jasonville. Hampered by a lack of run production offensively and too many bases on balls issued to Bloomington North, proved to be more than the Lady Lakers could overcome according to first year head coach B.A. Shipman...

Shakamak pounded out 11 hits and overcame a 3-0 deficit as the Lakers defeated host Riverton Parke 12-5 in a high school baseball game at Mecca Saturday afternoon. In their season-opener, the Lakers spotted the Panthers a 3-0 lead after the first before erupting for seven runs in the second inning...

LITTLE CINCINNATI -- With the start of the new track season at hand for the Eastern Greene boys team, there's also a new coach. Gone is Bill Valentine, who stepped down following last year and in his stead is Matt Roberts. Right off the bat Roberts has been impressed with what he's inherited. Even though the numbers are small, just 13 runners chose to participate, he's seen early improvement -- improvement he hopes will continue as the season itself unfolds...

The White River Valley School Board's special session on Monday evening was a short one. They awarded a bus contract. The board voted to award a contract to Leon and Cathy Maners for Route 10L at a rate of $203.55 for years 2011-2015. The agreement states the bus will remain on school grounds during the week in order to conserve fuel costs...

By Jo Chiparo STAFF WRITER SWITZ CITY -- A public hearing conducted by Greg Jones from SIDC was held at the Switz City Town Council meeting Monday evening to receive concerns or complaints regarding the recent HDF Homeowner Repair and Improvement Project...

Last in a three-part series Linton's two Democrat candidates for mayor -- John Wilkes and Mike Hennette -- in the upcoming May Primary Election agree the community's sewer system needs upgraded and now is not the time to think about an annexation. Candidate Hennette says the aging sewer system needs upgraded in order to accommodate any kind of major industrial customer...

COALMONT -- Charles Bickel, 42, of Jasonville suffered a broken leg when he was stuck by an unknown projectile while hunting mushrooms on family owned property, in Sullivan County --- near Coalmont. Conservation Officer Matt Landis is conducting a criminal investigation regarding the weekend incident...

DUGGER -- A dispute raging among the town's volunteer firefighters temporarily gutted the department from 15 down to four with some members cut because they'd failed to respond to a minimum number of fires. However, with a packed house protesting that bylaws and procedures approved by the department and its board of directors weren't followed in the firings, all members were reinstated. They now aim to discuss the troubles at a 7 p.m. public meeting next Monday in the firehouse...

ACTIVITY LOG The Linton Police Department's activity log for Friday through Sunday included one incident of trespassing, one refusal to leave, two follow-up investigations, four requests for information, two juveniles/delinquent, two assists to the utility department after hours, two drug investigations, two school/foot patrols, one brush fire, one accident with personal injury, one accident with property damage, one funeral escort, six medical/illness, two alarms, one complaint about an animal, one VIN check, three suspicious vehicles/persons, four assists to other agencies, one burglary, two harassment complaints, one extra patrol, two thefts, one disabled or stranded vehicle, one bicycle theft, one motor vehicle theft, two arrests - wanted on warrants, two domestic disputes, one recovered vehicle or property, two ordinance violations and 18 traffic stops.. ...