Stories from Monday, May 16, 2011

The 9:30 a.m. meeting today (Monday) of the Greene County Commissioners will be live-steamed broadcast on this web site. Go to the left side of the home page and click on Channel 3 for the broadcast.

INDIANAPOLIS -- John Gregg, Vincennes attorney, former college president and former Indiana House Speaker from Sandborn, filed paperwork Monday to create an exploratory committee for the Indiana governor's race in 2012. Gregg was speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives from 1996 to 2002. He led the House when it was evenly split with 50 Republicans and 50 Democrats and brought both parties together to pass legislation to create jobs, remake public education and keep Indiana taxes low...

Jean Swaby, 84, of Hendersonville, TN, formerly of Linton, passed away on May 13, 2011. She is survived by her son, Butch Swaby, of Goodlettsville, TN; a daughter, Jeannine Brumley of Escondido, CA; five grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren. A memorial service will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 17 at the Park Place Retirement Center in Hendersonville...

Mark Angell did a lot for pantry To the Editor: The Linton Community Food Pantry would like to express our sincere sympathy to the Angell family and pray that God will grant them strength and peace. Mark Angell was one of the people who helped make this pantry the success it is today. He was more than willing to give us good buys, free delivery, and always gracious when helping with any project we ask of him, which was quite often...

The bargains were definitely in the air during yard sale heaven in Bloomfield on Saturday. The weather helped to make the 15th annual town-wide yard sale a success. Jenny Crites, of the Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce, shared some details on the community sale...

SWITZ CITY -- White River Valley High School hosted Greene County's Relay for Life on Saturday. Activities began at 8 a.m. and continued for 24 hours. Due to the threat of rain for the third year in a row, the event was moved inside the gym. "It was our first year that we had it inside. ... We were worried that people would be upset that we had it inside, but we had really positive feedback," event co-chair, Dawn Price, said...

ELNORA -- Bloomfield girls' tennis team went into the second day of the SWIAC tournament with two singles players and two doubles teams still alive. With a total team effort the Lady Cards walked away with the conference title with 16.5 points, followed by North Daviess with 9 points and Linton and White River Valley with 4 points each...

Six area high schools, five Greene County schools as well as neighboring Union High School, will be celebrating the commencement of the Class of 2011 on May 28. May 28 will be the day that all area schools send their high school seniors onto a new path...

The county has a new courthouse maintenance supervisor. On Monday morning, the commissioners promoted Tim Carpenter, of Bloomfield, to the position of Courthouse Maintenance Supervisor, replacing Gene Spikes, who recently retired, effective April 8...

Expansion of the Linton Community Food Pantry may be stalled due to part of its supplies being stolen sometime last week. The community organization is building an addition to the ministry to include a selection of large electronic supplies for the people of the community, Tim Hale, of the Linton First Christian Church, said...

With Ben Boyd leading the way, the Linton-Stockton High School boys golf team captured its 13th consecutive Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference championship. With Boyd shooting a 3-under par 68 to earn medalist honors for the second consecutive year, the Miners finished with a score of 291, easily continuing its domination of the SWIAC...

GREENE CIRCUIT COURT Civil filings Capital One Bank USA vs. John Siglin, civil collection. GREENE SUPERIOR COURT Civil filings LVNV Funding LLC vs. Teresa May, civil collection. LVNV Funding LLC vs. Joshua Keller, civil collection. Criminal filings State vs. Sandra K. Zimmerman, operating a vehicle while intoxicated endangering a person; operating a vehicle while intoxicated; operating a vehicle with an alcohol concentration equivilent to at least .08 percent, but less than .15 percent...

LINTON POLICE DEPARTMENT ACTIVITY LOG The Linton Police Department's activity log for May 13-May 15 includes: one fight, two vandalism cases, two drug investigations, one fire, one property damage traffic accident, two personal injury traffic accidents, two animal complaints, one harrasment case, two theft cases, two missing person cases, three domestic disputes, one ordinance violation and 21 traffic stops...

GREENE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT JAIL LOG...

The Greene County Daily World staff brought home five awards from Saturday's Indiana Associated Press Managing Editors' awards ceremony at the Sheraton City Centre Hotel in downtown Indianapolis. Sports writer Rick Curl won first place honors in the Sports Column category (Division 4) while sport editor B.J. Hargis placed second in the same category...

Linton-Stockton School Corporation Transportation Director Tom Baker presented the board of school trustees with transportation information at the board's monthly meeting Monday evening. Baker, who recently attended his 17th consecutive transportation conference, reported having several good discussions in addition to attending classes offered at the most recent conference...

Bloomfield's Nicole Hughes took a no-hitter into the seventh inning before finally allowing a hit in a 7-1 rout at Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference rival Clay City Monday evening. Hughes allowed just two hits while fanning 16 and walking just two to help the injury-plagued Lady Cardinals improve to two games over the .500 mark at 11-8...

The White River Valley Lady Wolverines softball team improved to 6-10 on the year following an 11-1 win over host North Knox Monday night at Bicknell. Led offensively by Jordan McHenry, Sydney Kail and Jazmine May, the Lady Wolverines pounded out 14 hits and never trailed in the contest...

The Shakamak Lakers handed Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference rival White River Valley at 13-2 setback Monday afternoon at Switz City. The game was stopped after five innings due to the 10-run rule. "It was obviously another conference win on the road," Shakamak (13-6, 5-2) coach Chip Sweet said. "And the kids played pretty well."...

Miners stumble against South Knox The South Knox Spartans snapped an 8-8 tie with a run in the top of the seventh thwarting a Linton-Stockton comeback that was interrupted by a baserunning mistake to post a 9-8 non-conference baseball win Saturday at Linton's Roy Herndon Field...

The White River Valley Lady Wolverines scored five unanswered runs in their final three at bats to help them overcome the Bloomfield Lady Cardinals 6-1 Saturday in a Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference softball game a the Northside Diamonds in Bloomfield...

The Shakamak Lady Lakers handed Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference rival Eastern Greene at 7-2 setback Saturday at Little Cincinnati. The Lady Lakers took advantage of five Lady Thunderbird miscues to rally from an early 1-0 deficit with a single run in the third, three in the fourth, two more in the fifth and one in the sixth...

Shakamak only managed two hits in a 10-0 loss at Terre Haute North in a high school softball game Monday night. Lacy Ashcraft and Kelsey Pilant each singled for the Lakers (6-14). Meghan Miller was the losing pitcher. "We just did not play very well," said Laker coach B.A. Shipman. "We had two errors which led to four unearned runs in their six-run second inning...

Linton-Stockton senior's Sabrina Colvin, Megan Johnson, Sarah Hensley and Olivia Villain had their last match at the park go down as a victory. The one doubles of Colvin and Johnson played their best match of the year. Both seniors came out and took care of business...

SWITZ CITY -- WRV girls tennis wrapped up their regular season at home against Washington Catholic. The Cardinals came away with a 4-1 win but the match was very competitive. Two of the matches went three sets. The one win came from the number one doubles team of Amanda Mowery and Brooke Braswell with an easy 6-2, 6-2 win...

Thursday, May 19 Have Dessert First." Sew-Sigh-Et-Tea club of the Worthington area will be hostess for the evening. Saturday, May 21 Sunday, May 22 Monday, May 23 Tuesday, May 24 Wednesday, May 25 Saturday, May 28 Sunday, May 29 Monday, May 30...

Larry Edward Hayes, 70, of Bloomfield, passed away on Friday, May 13, 2011 at his residence. Larry had been ill for several months due to extensive small cell lung cancer. Larry was born on Dec. 13, 1940 in Hobbieville in Greene County to Gene and Edith (Bland) Hayes. On June 28, 1958, he was wed to Loessa Royal at his parent's home in Hobbieville.