Stories from Friday, April 15, 2011

Thank you for helping family To the Editor: My mother passed away Jan. 2 of this year, and I was having all kinds of trouble with the funeral home taking care of the arrangements. Through my dear aunt, Dodie White, Christy James from Victoria Grace Funeral Home found out about my problems and called offering to help...

Gov. Mitch Daniels issued the following statement Friday morning: "The revenue forecast released later this morning will project somewhat greater future revenues for the state, reflecting recent and expected improvements in the Indiana economy. Coupled with the discipline dividend from years of careful spending control, this forecast, if it proves accurate, means that the state will have a little larger margin of fiscal safety looking ahead...

Orville Don Hasler, 93, of Bloomfield, passed away at 12:15 a.m. on Friday, April 15, 2011 at Glenburn Home. He was born on Jan. 23, 1918, and was the son of Orville and Khiva (Ockerman) Hasler. He was married to Irene (Martin) Hasler for 66 years. He was a World War II veteran, who served in the South Pacific, and was a mechanic on B-29 airplanes. ...

Eulah Sparks, 94, of Columbus, Ind., passed away Thursday, April 14, 2011 at Columbus Regional Hospital in Columbus. Born May 20, 1916 in Koleen, the daughter of James and Eva (Robinson) Gilmore. Eulah was a production worker at RCA. She was also a member of the Christian Church...

WORTHINGTON -- For her ninth birthday Thursday, Mattie Thrasher got a visit from an American hero. Even better, it was her big brother, Army Specialist Garrett Thrasher. Better still, he brought frosted chocolate chip cookies for the whole class. Mattie smiled as her big brother and mom, Judy Thrasher, entered Deb Pruett's second-grade classroom at White River Valley Worthington Elementary on his last day home on leave...

The Linton city-wide sale is the perfect opportunity to clean out your closets as well as look for a bargain. This year's sale is slated for May 21 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The annual sale is an opportunity for locals to work together as a community. "This year it will be free to get your sale listed on the official yard sale map. Everyone having a sale needs to be on the map, there is no reason not to be listed," explained Dave Benefiel, who serves as a co-organizer of the event...

Plans have been announced for the Annual Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce Town-Wide Yard Sale that will take place May 14. There is not a fee to participate, but registration is required to be included on the official yard sale map that will be included in the Greene County Daily World on May 13 and on the map that will be distributed on the day of the sale...

Several spring sports events was rained out Friday. Erased from Friday's slate were the White River Valley at Loogootee baseball game, Linton-Stockton at Mitchell softball and Eastern Greene at Owen Valley softball games with no makeup dates announced...

Richard A. "Dick" Pemberton Jr., 67, of Lewis, Ind., formerly of West Terre Haute, passed away at 1:46 p.m. Thursday, April 14, 2011 in Union Hospital in Terre Haute. He retired as a mechanic with Vigo Dodge in Terre Haute after many years of service...

Jake Johnson tossed a complete game and the Thunderbird offense came up with 10 hits as Eastern Greene defeated visiting North Knox 10-2 in a high school baseball game Thursday night. "This was Jake's first varsity start," said Eastern Greene coach Trevor McConnell. "Our pitching has been really thin, so his performance came at a very good time...

Jordan McHenry had both WRV hits as the Lady Wolverine softball team dropped a 9-0 decision at Brown County Thursday night. The Lady Wolverines committed eight errors. As a result, Brown County needed just three hits to produce nine runs. Sydney Kail took the loss on the mound...

Linton-Stockton had four golfers shoot under 40 as the Miners defeated visiting Cloverdale 151-179 in a high school boys golf match at Phil Harris Thursday. Cole Bradbury was low for the Miners and earned medalist honors with a nine-hole total of 36...

Shakamak pounded out 11 hits, but came up on the short end of a 4-3 score in a Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference softball game Friday night. Meghan Miller allowed just three earned runs in her first varsity start. She scattered 11 hits while walking two and striking out three...

There's been a noticeable increase in the number of tire slashings in Linton in the last couple of days. Two or three surfaced in isolated incidents listed on the police logs in the last couple of weeks, but on Thursday night through Friday morning, there were three that were reported to police...

Jail Log * April 14 -- Michael J. Baker, 31, Lyons, was arrested on a warrant, released on $4,000 bond and scheduled to appear in court on April 18. Greene County Sheriff's Deputy John Fowler was the arresting officer.

Activity Log The Linton Police Department's activity log for Thursday included one follow-up investigation, two incidents of vandalism, one criminal mischief, one structure fire, one accident with personal injury, one accident with property damage, one medical/illness, two suspicious vehicles and/or persons, one child abuse and/or neglect, one traffic control detail, one theft and one domestic dispute...

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SWITZ CITY -- The Linton-Stockton girls tennis team slid past White River Valley 3-2 Friday at the Wolverine courts in a Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference match. All five pairings were won or lost in straight sets. "I was proud of the girls to get this win," Linton-Stockton coach Nathan Skinner told the Daily World. "It's a conference win and those are always a tough win to get...

Washington posted a winning total of 181, defeating Bloomfield (201), Eastern Greene (210) and White River Valley (235) in a high school boys golf match at the Phil Harris Golf Course Friday. Devan Rude of Washington was low medalist with a 42. "We did not play well at all," said WRV coach Jason Chesnut. "I'm not sure if it was the weather or something in the air...

Margaret F. Miller, 87, of Linton, passed away Friday, April 15, 2011 at Greene County General Hospital in Linton. She was born on Feb. 23, 1924, in Howesville to Frank and Pearl (Cooper) Pool. She married Russell L. Miller on Aug. 2, 1943 and they had one daughter...

Correction Note: The Kathy Morrison listed in this week's Court News is not the Kathy (McCammon) Morrison of Linton who is a teacher at WRV Lyons. --- Traffic Infractions Brenda K. Couch, speeding Stacy Lind, speeding Jerad D. Rose, failure of occupant to use safety belt...

An award-winning bluegrass duo from Nashville, Tenn., has been booked for a June 4 benefit concert in Linton. The Roys -- no connection with the Greene County Foundation's former show headliner Roy Clark -- will be featured in a 7 p.m. concert at the Linton-Stockton High School auditeria...

Brian W. Worth, 47, of rural Jasonville has visited the Greene County Jail before, on more than one occasion, and he's there again since his arrest early Monday morning. This time he is accused of shooting his brother in the hand after pistol whipping him, then later getting into scuffles with officers...