Stories from Thursday, December 1, 2011

Hilda (Chipman) Byers, 92, of Bloomfield, passed away at 11:20 a.m. Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at IU Health Bloomington Hospital. Born July 9, 1919 in Greene County, she was the daughter of Wesley and Nell (Ockerman) Chipman. She was a homemaker and a member of the Mineral United Methodist Church and the Mineral Ladies aid...

Last Thursday, some gave thanks for the food, and others for the company. Still, regardless of the reasons why nearly a thousand county residents participated, Greene County's numbers for Thursday's multifaith Thanksgiving dinner were even more impressive than expected...

The Greene County Purdue Cooperative Extension Service is offering an educational program to start you thinking about conservation all around your farm. The Dec. 6 program will also offer a chance for recertification of private applicator's license...

The Bloomfield man who drove the get-away car in a March plot for an inmate to escape from the Greene County Jail has been sentenced to seven years in prison. David Dale Foster, 49, was sentenced Wednesday in Greene Circuit Court to six years for a class C felony charge of aiding an escape; and one year for resisting law enforcement, a class D felony...

A man who police say hasn't registered on the Indiana Sex and Violent Offender Registry for at least six months is now behind bars in the Greene County Jail. Clifford Wood, 58, who listed a current address of 410 South Leeds Av. in Indianapolis at book-in, was arrested Wednesday by the Marion County Sheriff's Department. He was then transferred into the custody of the Greene County Sheriff's Department...

A 19-year-old Linton man received an eight-year sentence in prison Wednesday following his guilty plea to two counts of sexual misconduct with a minor. Greene Circuit Judge Erik Allen sentenced Austin J. Brown to four years with two years suspended on two separate class C felony sexual conduct charges, the result of a guilty plea after entering into a negotiated plea agreement with the prosecution...

GREENE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT JAIL LOG LINTON POLICE DEPARTMENT ACTIVITY LOG The Linton Police Department log for Nov. 30 included: Two property damage traffic accidents; two animal complaints; two suspicious vehicles/persons; one theft; and eight traffic stops...

GREENE SUPERIOR COURT Civil Filings Ruby Rogers vs. Walmart Stores, Inc., civil tort. Small Claims filings Jimmy Anderson vs. Robert Alsman, collection. Geneivene Kirby vs. Brett Westray, Nancy Westray, collection. Infractions Michael W. Roach, failure of occupant to wear safety belt; speeding...

Linton Head Start is working with Linton-Stockton High School students to help prevent bullying among their preschool children. "We (Head Start teachers) had some parents saying their 3 and 4-year-olds were not wanting to come back to school because they were being picked on or bullied," Head Start teacher Debbie Flynn explained. "As a teacher, I feel like we need to start the (bullying) education at a young age."...

Robert Earl VanMeter, 92, passed away Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011 at his home in Tallahassee, Fla. A graveside service will be at 11 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 2, at Roselawn Cemetery in Tallahassee. Family will receive friends from 6 until 8 p.m. on Thursday at Beggs Funeral Home, 3322 Apalachee Parkway, Tallahassee, Fla., 32311...

GREENE SUPERIOR COURT Civil Filings Ruby Rogers vs. Walmart Stores, Inc., civil tort. Small Claims filings Jimmy Anderson vs. Robert Alsman, collection. Geneivene Kirby vs. Brett Westray, Nancy Westray, collection. Infractions Michael W. Roach, failure of occupant to wear safety belt; speeding...

GREENE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT JAIL LOG LINTON POLICE DEPARTMENT ACTIVITY LOG The Linton Police Department log for Nov. 30 included: Two property damage traffic accidents; two animal complaints; two suspicious vehicles/persons; one theft; and eight traffic stops...

LITTLE CINCINNATI -- The dominoes are in places, but when are they going to fall. Such could be said of Eastern Greene High School boys basketball coach Andy Igel. The Washington Catholic graduate, who has won 220 games in his 17th season at EGHS and 264 overall in 23 years as a varsity coach, has announced his retirement at a date in the future...

Vincennes Rivet outscored Bloomfield 16-6 in the third quarter as the Class A No. 1 Lady Patriots defeated host Bloomfield 52-34 in a high school girls basketball game at Glover Gymnasium Thursday night. Rivet, who improved to 5-0, led 25-15 at intermission...

The Shakamak Lady Lakers got 20 points from Jade Gambill and nine assists from Jazmine Martin to help them to a 68-12 rout of Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference foe North Central Thursday at Farmersburg. Sierra Hudson also chipped in 12 points as the Lady Lakers improved to 3-3 overall and 3-1 in SWIAC play...

LITTLE CINCINNATI -- Linton-Stockton and Eastern Greene continued to be two Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference girls basketball teams headed in different directions. The Lady Miners slipped to 0-6 as they lost to the 4-1 host Lady Thunderbirds 51-21 in a conference contest here Tuesday night...

Two Purdue standouts were honored by the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame Monday night when the organization named its 2012 class. John Garrett, 1973-75 and Linton High School graduate Elmer Oliphant, 1913-14, are part of the 15-member class that will be inducted into the Hall of Fame in March. Their selections give Purdue 75 members of the Hall of Fame, which is located in New Castle, Ind...

DUGGER -- The White River Valley Lady Wolverines got 19 points off the bench from Amy Ragle and used a stifling full court press midway through the game on their way to a 72-33 Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference win over Union here Thursday. "I thought we came out flat to begin with," White River Valley (3-3, 2-2 SWIAC) coach A.J. Graves said. "But once we got things going and got into our offense, starting using our screens...we started to become more successful."...

The Shakamak seventh grade boys basketball team lost at home Monday 49-40 to Bloomfield. Leading the Lakers were Parker Green with 29, followed by Logan Kinnett with 11. The Lakers defeated the Linton-Stockton Miners in a 49-48 thriller at Linton Thursday night...

The Bloomfield Boys Junior High Basketball teams traveled to Jasonville to take on the Shakamak Lakers earlier this week. The seventh grade was all knotted up at halftime with 16 each. The turning point of the game came in the third quarter when the Cards turned up the defensive pressure which resulted in a 22-point outburst and a 49-40 win...

Eastern Greene defeated WRV-Lyons 38-10 in a fifth grade game Monday and the Thunderbirds also won the sixth grade contest by the identical score. This was the season opener for Eastern Greene. Caleb Hamilton scored 14 points in the sixth grade game for Eastern Greene, who led 25-2 at the half...

The Martinsville vs. Eastern Greene High School varsity boys basketball has been moved to Assembly Hall on the campus of Indiana University. Game time is set for 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 14. Ticket information will be announced later.

The WRV-Worthington basketball teams played at Loogootee Monday and home against Hymera Tuesday. On Monday, the fifth graders lost 23-9 as Shawn Gibson scored three points and Dalton York, Jalen Swaby and Quintin Resler each added two. The fifth graders defeated Hymera 17-16 as Gibson scored seven points and Dalton York added six...

Shakamak and Linton-Stockton will be participating in the inaugural Temple Inland/State Farm Shoot-Out on Saturday, Jan. 14 at Hulman Center in Terre Haute. The first game at 3 p.m. will feature Crawfordsville vs. Rockville; Marshall, Ill. will take on Shakamak at 4:30 p.m.; Cascade will play South Vermillion at 6 p.m. and the Miners will take on West Vigo at 7:30 p.m...

Pizza Hut Wabash Valley Classic tickets are on sale at Shakamak High School athletic office. Price for a season ticket is $20. These tickets are good for each session of the four day tourney. There will be 28 games involving 16 Wabash Valley Teams. Daily passes will be sold at the door for $6.00. Tournament dates are Dec. 27-30...

The Bloomfield community-wide Christmas celebration, sponsored by the Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce, is going to feature two heated locations for patrons to buy items from local vendors on Sunday from 2-7 p.m. "We wanted to do as much as we could to attract people to downtown Bloomfield for our Christmas celebration, so the (Promotion) Committee worked to find an indoor location for local vendors to set up," committee member Melinda Hendrix explained, noting this is the first time this has been done.. ...

A Solsberry man who walked away from the Greene County Community Corrections Center in Bloomfield earlier this month has been charged with escape, a class C felony. Allen Eugene Dixon, Jr. is being sought by police after he left the center, located just north of the Greene County Jail, about 3:45 p.m. without permission through an emergency fire escape door on Nov. 26, according to a probable cause affidavit filed in Greene Circuit Court on Tuesday...