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Support growing for push to reunite Holt with his K-9 Jjackson
(Local News ~ 09/21/12)
Efforts to return Harvey Holt's K-9 comrade in arms Jjackson from the War in Iraq have run into a potential minefield all their own -- enduring paperwork and problems which could slow the adoption process. Still, help could be on the way, thanks to at least one U.S. senator who's promised to review the case and a grassroots effort designed to reunite Holt and his Belgian Malnois...
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Bloomfield mother arrested after toddler was found unattended
(Local News ~ 09/21/12)
A 27-year-old Bloomfield woman was arrested Thursday in connection with a late August incident where her 2-year-old child was found wandering around naked and unattended in a mobile home park. Amanda Jean Carter, was arrested by Bloomfield Deputy Town Marshal Harvey Holt on a warrant charging her with neglect of dependent-dependent put in situation endangering dependent's life/health ---- a class D felony...
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Dugger Elementary students learn about coal
(Local News ~ 09/21/12)
A Dugger Elementary School class learned about coal mining from an employee at Bear Run Coal Mine. June Mack, accounting manager at Bear Run Mine, visited Sonnie Strahle's third grade art class. The class created coal mine shadow boxes as the Dugger Coal Festival takes place at the park...
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LSHS volleyball raise money for Glenburn Memory Garden
(Local News ~ 09/21/12)
Linton-Stockton High School volleyball coach Jill Fougerousse wanted to get her players more involved this year by reaching out to the community and raising money for a few different causes close to their hearts. The freshman and sophomore girls teamed up to raise money for the Glenburn Memory Garden, with the help of parents, coaches, and community members. ...
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Yer Studio will help "Turn the World Upside Down"
(Local News ~ 09/21/12)
Yer Studio, in Bloomfield, will help "Turn the World Upside Down" on Saturday to help raise money for the Children's Miracle Network. Yer Studio Owner Sammie Sparks said the Bloomfield Junior High gym will be open to all ages from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. on Saturday...
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Greene County Court News
(Court News ~ 09/21/12)
GREENE CIRCUIT COURT Civil Filings LVNW Funding LLC vs. Britt Waggoner, civil collection. Stephen Sutton, Jennifer Sutton vs. Brent Sear, civil tort. GREENE SUPERIOR COURT Civil Filings LVNV Funding LLC vs. Debra Ockerman, civil collection. LVNV Funding LLC vs. Michael Halderman, civil collection...
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Police Logs
(Police Reports ~ 09/21/12)
GREENE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT JAIL LOG Sept. 20 ---- Amanda J. Carter, 27, of Bloomfield, was arrested by the Bloomfield Police Department on a warrant charging her with neglect of a dependent. Bond set at $4,000. Sept. 20 ---- Robert J. Henderson, 47, of Bloomfield, was arrested by the Greene County Sheriff's Department on a warrant charging him with intimidation. He was released after posting $4,000 bond. Court date set for 1 p.m. on Oct. 1...
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On the Road to Recovery: 'I made a mistake. I made a bad choice.'
(Local News ~ 09/21/12)
This is the final installment in a three-part series --- Melissa Dyal missed two Christmas celebrations and two sets of her children's birthdays while she was in jail serving her sentence for a single methamphetamine possession conviction. "I think I was gone a total of two years and six weeks," she said in explaining that she served time in jails in Daviess, Pike and Knox counties awaiting her sentencing hearing. She was eventually sent to Rockville Correctional Facility, and she immediately enrolled in the CLIFF program, which stands for Clean Living Is Freedom Forever. Dyal did well in the program and served as a director for five of the nine months she was in the program. The focus of the CLIFF program is learn what it is that causes a person to go to drugs. "If you keep targeting the drugs, you are never going to fix the problem," she said. "You have to learn to change your thoughts and behavior ... with me it was all of the shame and guilt." She then entered the Daviess County Work Release program where she was employed at Perdue turkey processing plant in Washington. She was released to probation in late August 2010, just in time to celebrate her daughter's eighth birthday. She's now had time to recollect the impact drugs and her arrest in 2008 had on her life and the lives of her children, parents, siblings and grandparents. "I look back at what I did to my family and that is really hard. I withdrew from them. I didn't want to have to look them in the eye and lie to them so I just didn't want to come around them ... my sisters tell me it was just like you were gone. We didn't know where you were at, what you were doing. I just isolated myself." She didn't even associate with any of her old friends from high school or college who weren't doing drugs. "You quit hanging out with anybody who isn't doing what you are doing," Melissa said. Melissa said she needed the time in jail to find herself and pointed out, "The best thing my parents ever did was not bail me out. I needed that time. The best thing they did was call Dick Smith from the church here in Odon (Odon First Christian Church). My grandparents called him and he started ministering to me. He's an absolute angel of a man ... he was the one who led me to the Lord. He would talk through things to me so I could understand." For Dyal, her life today at age 34 is like getting a second chance. "I just thank God that I am where I am at today and that I didn't die and all of that. I feel like I was close to it before," she said. These days, Dyal is settled in to a good job as an administrative assistant at Stimulus Engineering, a government-contracting firm located in the WestGate at Crane Technology Park. She's active in her church, teaches a youth class and has shared her testimony with the church congregation. Her daughter, Makayla, is now 10 and her son, Caleb, is 6. Melissa has hopes of continuing her education. She plans to apply to the School of Environment and Public Affairs (SPEA) program at Indiana University in Bloomington in pursuit of Master of Public Administration degree. Melissa says there is plenty of help out there in the area for "users" who want to change. Her church, Odon Christian Church, sponsors a women's-only Celebrate Recovery Program that's conducted at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesdays. There's a general Celebration Recovery meeting for anyone at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday's at The Barn on Main Street in Odon. In Bloomfield, there is a 12-Step Overcomers Recovery Support meeting at 7:30 p.m. every Wednesday at the Family Life Center on the east side of the square. "People are willing to help and accept you for who you are." Melissa said. "You can walk into any of those places with no questions asked and somebody will talk to you ... or you can walk into a church and ask for help. People are willing to help you. Just know there is hope and people are willing to help you ... the message behind this is hope and anyone can change." Melissa doesn't hesitate to say that God changed her life. "The Lord literally saved me. He just picked me up and carried me," she said. "I learned that it wasn't about what I did. It was about what Jesus did. He died on that cross knowing that I was going to have a drug problem. ...The stuff just started coming out. I had more peace and serenity when I was locked up than I ever had in my life," Melissa said. "I mean I just felt like I could relax ... it was the Lord that got me through -- growing in that knowledge, fellowship and prayer and for the first time taking that time and learning who I was." Melissa has a favorite Bible passage -- Psalm 32 from the Living Word translation -- that speaks clearly to her. It reads: "Oh what joy for those whose rebellion is forgiven. Whose sin is put out of sight. Yes, what joy for those whose record the Lord has cleared of sin and whose lives are lead by honesty." Coming back home from prison has been a long, slow, humbling journey of adjustment for Melissa, but it's a road that's been filled with more happiness and peace than she ever imagined. "I made a mistake. I made a bad choice. There's not anybody that can tell me that they haven't made a mistake in their life. However, some of ours are in worst forms than others. But the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. So I had to change all of that stuff," she said. "You don't want to be around people that you used to hang out with. It's not that I think I'm better than anyone else, it's just that I have to worry about me and my children and I will not go back. I won't do it (drugs) again. I know that I won't."
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New carpet, soundproofing likely for Roy Clark Community Center
(Local News ~ 09/21/12)
The Roy Clark Community Building could soon be ready for an upgrade, courtesy the installation of new carpet squares and sound reducing baffles along the walls and ceilings. City Councilman Fred Markle told the Linton Parks Board Thursday evening it's expected enough money will remain in the city Park Fund to cover the costs of the two projects...
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City of Linton receives $500,000 grant for wastewater plant refit
(Local News ~ 09/21/12)
Consider it a long trip for a short speech and a big reward: A quartet of Linton officials travelled to Indianapolis Friday afternoon to accept a half-million dollar grant for improvements to the wastewater treatment plant. An expected State Revolving Fund Loan of around $3.5 million, potentially as early as this fall, could also help fund the effort...
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Community Notes
(Community News ~ 09/21/12)
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Cardinals win on senior night
(High School Sports ~ 09/21/12)
The Bloomfield boys tennis team defeated North Daviess 4-1 Friday afternoon in the last regular season match of the season for the Cardinals. Seniors Andrew Dawson and Drew Haywood were honored in a brief ceremony prior to the start of the match. In singles action, Del Carter squeezed out a first set tie break win and then breezed through the second set to defeat Evan Hawk 7-6(5), 6-1 at the No. ...
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WRV falls in three
(High School Sports ~ 09/21/12)
The White River Valley varsity volleyball team dropped a 15-25, 22-25, 14-25 decision to visiting Vincennes Rivet Thursday night in a non-conference high school match. The Lady Wolverines fell to 8-10. "The girls really worked hard tonight," said WRV coach Kristi Graves. "This is a great group of girls and I'm proud of all of them for their hard work...
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Miners remain undefeated
(High School Sports ~ 09/21/12)
ELNORA -- After two straight regular-season meetings which had North Daviess and Linton-Stockton splitting the Southwest Seven Conference games and both teams combining for over 100 points, Linton-Stockton had its lowest offense total of the season, but still led from start to finish in defeating the Cougars 35-12 here Friday night...
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Eastern Greene stymied at North Central
(High School Sports ~ 09/21/12)
FARMERSBURG -- After a delay of over an hour at halftime due to deteriorating weather conditions, the Eastern Greene Thunderbirds decided they had enough of the North Central offense and conceded rather than continue in a 27-0 Southwest Seven Conference game here Friday night...
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George T. Peavey
(Obituary ~ 09/21/12)
George T. Peavey, 96, of Jasonville, Ind. passed away at 6:08 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012 in Greene County General Hospital Linton, Ind. He was born Dec. 18, 1915 in Clay County, IN to Frank Peavey and Gladys (Cooprider) Peavey. Survivors include his spouse, Iris R. ...
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Greene County Health to build clinic at WestGate at Crane Technology Park
(Local News ~ 09/21/12)
Greene County Health -- a wholly owned subsidiary of Greene County General Hospital -- has announced plans to open a clinic in the Greene County portion of the WestGate at Crane Technology Park. "Ground breaking is anticipated in early November with construction to be completed late first quarter of 2013," said Dan Zuerner of Garmong Construction Services...
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WRV superintendent says complaint is "null and void issue"
(Local News ~ 09/21/12)
The White River Valley Board of School Trustees addressed a complaint that had been filed to the Indiana Public Access Counsel by an incoming school board member, who alleged the administration was taking too much time to comply with a public record's request...
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UPDATED: Ground broken for DNR office complex/visitor's center at Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area
(Local News ~ 09/21/12)
It was heralded as a 'big, historic day' for Greene County as Gov. Mitch Daniels and state and local elected officials turned the first shovels of dirt on a picturesque knoll, the site of a soon to be built Indiana Department of Natural Resources Southwest Regional Office/Visitor's Center at Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area Friday morning...
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