Stories from Sunday, October 9, 2011

Nyla June Eccles, 81, of Plainfield, passed away October 8, 2011. She was born July 14, 1930 in Coalmont, IN to the late Floyd and Gladys Chamberlain. She was a graduate of New Albany School of Cosmotology. Nyla retired in 1993 after 18 years as a real estate broker for F.C. Tucker and Century 21. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Plainfield...

Pairings for the annual Indiana High School Athletic Association state football tournament were announced Sunday night. In Class A Sectional 40, there will be four opening round games on Friday, Oct. 21. North Daviess will play at Tecumseh, Wood Memorial will travel to Dugger to face Union, Eastern Greene will play at North Knox and in a rematch of last year's championship game, Perry Central will play at Linton-Stockton...

Little Miss Apple Festival Maddisan Slevin lets some candy fly along the parade route. (By Nick Schneider, Assistant Editor)

Sunshine and warm weather greeted a variety of spectators at the Bloomfield Apple Festival parade Sunday afternoon. The streets were packed with onlookers and children catching candy along the parade route, with some in golf carts, on chairs and sitting on the curbs...

Nancy A. Clark, 67, of Linton, passed away at 5:18 p.m. Friday October 7, 2011 at Sullivan County Community Hospital. She was born in Sullivan County, Indiana on Feb. 5, 1944, the daughter of Titus Eugene Morrison and Thelma Mollet Morrison