Stories from Thursday, March 21, 2013

Shakamak High School 2012-2013 Term 2 Grading Period 1 All A -- 3.667 A-B -- 2.667 All A Grade 7 Rylee Austin Landry Elesa Louise McDonald Benjamin Joseph Waggoner All A-B Eric Douglas Daugherty Taylor Mae Fougerousse Lane Matthew Gilbert William Graham House...

While the Linton-Stockton High School basketball team has been tearing up the court in recent weeks, some of the people in charge of keeping up the school spirit are on the sidelines. Senior cheerleaders Kenzie Kendall, Haley Yung, and Ashley Cooper said the city has really stepped up to help as they try to get the community excited about Saturday's Class 2A state championship game in Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis starting at 12:45 p.m...

The Linton-Stockton High School office staff challenged teachers and students to show their support for the Linton Miners basketball team with a classroom decorating contest. High school secretary Dayna Firestone said the office staff decided to kick off the contest after the semistate win last Saturday...

The Greene County Plan Commission took its first look Wednesday at a proposed Public Nuisance Ordinance it is being asked by the county commissioners to be a part of the enforcement process. Only four of the nine Plan Commission members were present for the meeting ---- meaning no official business could be conducted because of a lack of a quorum...

The Class 2A boys basketball field has been narrowed down to just two teams, No. 10 Linton-Stockton (24-3) and No. 7 Bowman Academy (17-9). "They're super athletic, apply all kinds of pressure and they are a big, veteran team with state finals experience," Miner coach Joey Hart said. "Everything you look at on paper shows they're going to be the favorite, but we're not going to play the game on paper."...

The Shakamak girls softball game at home versus Turkey Run scheduled for Thursday has been postponed according to athletic director Steve Brett. The game will now be played at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 2 at Jasonville. The Eastern Greene at Bedford North Lawrence baseball game scheduled for Thursday has been moved to today at 5 p.m...

There's something that might be getting lost in all of the hoopla and excitement surrounding the Linton-Stockton Miners and their run to the state Class 2A basketball finals -- the other team lining up on the court on Saturday. The Eagles of Bowman Academy, who return to the title game for the second consecutive year, are coached by the school's athletic director Marvin Rea who brings a less experienced, but just as potent, team into the finals this year...

Not too long after the Linton-Stockton Miners finished off their first semistate title with a 76-74 overtime win over Speedway at Richmond Saturday, the team cut down the nets. That goes without saying. But for one player -- injured senior Sam Dyar -- it was a bittersweet moment...

With the exception of a track team in 1910, two Miner golf teams and some very talented individuals in golf and track and field, there's really only one other coach in Linton that's been through what boys basketball coach Joey Hart and his staff are going through now...

When the Linton-Stockton Miners wrapped up their first semistate title in boys basketball at Richmond on Saturday, for the moment at least, it put a recent sour memory on the back burner for fans. It wasn't all that long ago that the Miner football faced a fourth and goal at the 2-yard line against Indianapolis Scecina at Roy Williams Field...

When the Linton-Stockton Miners wrapped up their first semistate title in boys basketball at Richmond on Saturday, for the moment at least, it put a recent sour memory on the back burner for fans. It wasn't all that long ago that the Miner football faced a fourth and goal at the 2-yard line against Indianapolis Scecina at Roy Williams Field...

If anyone knows what Linton-Stockton boys basketball coach Joey Hart is going through this week as the No. 10 Miners prepare for an appearance in Saturday's Class 2A State Championship game against Bowman Academy, it would be his father. It was 13 years ago when Joe was head coach of Union when the Bulldogs advanced to the Class A title game...

The Linton-Stockton Miners will enter the Class 2A State Championship game Saturday afternoon against Bowman Academy on a nine-game winning streak. It has been over five weeks since the No. 10 Miners last lost. It was back on Feb. 12 at Linton when Clay City coach Vance Edmondson and his Eels defeated the Miners 53-50 in a Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference boys basketball battle...

There are defining moments for every team in every sport. The possibilities for those moments are seemingly endless. Just how well a team adapts to those moments -- whether they are positive or negative -- in turn can define the team itself. For the Linton-Stockton Miners this Saturday's Class 2A championship game against Bowman Academy will likely be the final moment in a year filled with many...

SOLSBERRY -- Gov. Mike Pence licked on a fresh-dipped ice cream cone and mingled around the newly renovated Yoho's General Store for about an hour Thursday. The Republican governor, who took office in January, was all smiles as he was greeted by a standing-room-only crowd inside the store that has operated on the same northeast corner of the town square since the 1930s...

JAIL LOG March 20 -- Nathan S. Mills, 30, Solsberry, was arrested on a warrant issued on a petition to revoke probation and preliminary methamphetamine-related charges. He was being held without bond. March 20 -- Myca M. Sanders, 29, Bloomington, was arrested on a preliminary charge of visiting a common nuisance, a class A misdemeanor. Bond was set at $1,000 surety or ten percent cash...

ACTIVITY LOG The Linton Police Department's activity log for Wednesday included one medical/extraction, one follow-up investigation, one custody dispute or exchange, one report of animal cruelty, one civil complaint, one transport of documentation, one loitering, one funeral escort, two alarms, one animal complaint, one harassment complaint, one animal/debris in a roadway, one welfare check or concern, one arrest - wanted on a warrant and 21 traffic stops...

GREENE CIRCUIT COURT CIVIL CASES IU Credit Union vs. Michael Allen, Amanda Allen, collection Bloomfield State Bank vs. The Estate of Cheryl "Chery" L. Wilson, deceased, all known heirs and devisees of Cheryl "Cherry" L. Wilson known and unknown, Douglas Lambermont, Razor Capitol II LLC, United States of America Department of Treasury Internal Revenue Service and Treasurer of Greene County, Indiana, mortgage foreclosure...

Friday The Linton Public Library Board of Trustees will meet at 6 p.m. in the library. Soul's Harbor Christian Church in Shelburn will be hosting a 3 piece catfish dinner from 4 to 8 p.m. The cost is $8 for adults and a child's one piece dinner is $6. Take home pickled tomatoes, a pint for $5 and a quart $10. Call 812-397-2661 to order...

LYONS -- The Lyons Town Council met in a special session Tuesday evening to go over information about maintenance issues at the town's sewage treatment plant and water system. Only one decision was made -- to hire Provo to clean out a tank at the water plant. There is a system set up to remove excess iron out of the water and a tank where this process takes place. Occasionally the tank has to be cleaned out to remove the build-up of iron...

SWITZ CITY ---- Two representatives from the White River Valley Community Football League made a brief, but impassioned presentation to the school board Thursday night calling for their reconsideration of adding football as a school sanctioned sport.....

The recommendation for the Bloomfield School District Board of Trustees to approve the creation of a high school football team died for lack of a seconded motion. Board member Dwayne Hostetter made the motion, but none of the other board members made a second.....

"Therefore with joy shall you draw water out of the wells of salvation." Isaiah 12:3 In today's world where so much emphasis is placed on oil, there should be a much stronger emphasis on another natural resource -- water. Ninety-seven percent of the world's water is salt water with only three percent fresh. Two thirds of that is frozen in glaciers or polar ice caps......

Ryan Woodward has played many different roles from the Linton-Stockton boys basketball team during the 2012-13 season, which will culminate with an appearance in the Class 2A State Championship game at 12:45 p.m. Saturday at Banker's Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis...