Stories from Friday, March 29, 2013

Top senior boys players from the 2012-2013 season have been invited to participate in the 26th annual Hoosier Basketball Magazine Top 60 Senior Boysπ Workout. They were selected from approximately 1,600 senior players statewide. Nine players who participated in the recent 2013 IHSAA State Finals highlight the list of invitees. ...

The Greene County Daily World is proud to announce the 2012-13 All-Area boys basketball team. There were 10 seniors and two juniors that made up the 12-PL roster. The players are listed below in alphabetical order. 2012-13 ALL-AREA BOYS BASKETBALL TEAM...

One of the largest youth groups in Greene County is seeking members and an open house is set for Wednesday night at the fairgrounds to explain the 4-H program. The open house will be conducted from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. and is open to parents/guardians and students in grades K-12...

The Greene County Foundation awarded several grants of endowment funds to local organizations in the first of three annual cycles. Foundation Executive Director Cam Trampke said the round of endowed funds totaled $50,144 in grants to support operations, activities or special programs...

Clarence E. Creager, 95, of Linton, passed away 3:25 a.m. Saturday, March 23, 2013 at Greene County Hospital in Linton. Clarence was born March 28, 1917, in Merom to Augustus B. and Margaret Ann (Pleasant) Creager. Clarence taught at Linton-Stockton High School for 41 years, retiring in 1980. ...

Robert F. Fulk, 53, of Linton, passed away on Saturday, March 23, 2013, at the Lyons Health and Living Center in Lyons. Robert was born on January 8, 1960, to Robert and Hilda (Buskirk) Fulk. Survivors include one daughter, December Fulk; one son, Robert Fulk Jr.; one brother, Paul Fulk, of Lyons; two sisters, Barbara Wilson, of Linton, and Darlene (Phillip) Burks, of Worthington...

JAIL LOG March 28 -- Stephen Andrew Rich, 34, Linton, was taken into custody on a Writ of Attachment and was being held in lieu of $2,000 cash. March 28 -- Thurman Eugene Goodman, 56, Bloomington, was taken into custody on a Writ of Attachment and was being held in lieu of $1,000 cash. The bond was paid and he was released the same day...

ACTIVITY LOG The Linton Police Department's activity log for Thursday included two follow-up investigations, one disorderly conduct, one accident with property damage, one funeral escort, one alarm and one domestic battery.

GREENE CIRCUIT COURT CIVIL CASES Damita Pedretti vs. Daniel Everett, Phyllis Everett, New State Mortgage LLC, The Chase Manhattan Bank, Dollar Mortgage Corp., Fifth Third Bank, Residential Funding Comp LLC, and Wilmington Trust, all their husbands, wives, widows, widowers, heirs, devisees, successors, assigns, and all other persons claiming any right, title or interest in the within described real estate by, through or under them or any other person or entity, the names of all who are unknown to Plaintiff, Defendants, civil plenary. ...

Saturday The annual Easter Egg hunt will be at Friendly Grove Baptist Church at 1 p.m. All children and parents in the community are invited to enjoy this special event. The youth group from Lawton Street Christian Church will also be with us on that day providing music and drama for the children. Visit www.friendlygrove.org for information or driving directions...

A warrant was issued this week for the arrest of Thomas V. Blackburn III, an Indianapolis man accused of sending harassing and threatening text messages to his ex-wife who lives in Greene County. Deputy Marshal Wayman JR Blazier of the Worthington Police Department began an investigation back in December when a woman reported she had received text messages from Blackburn...

Two men suspected of a drive-off theft of fuel from a gas station in Lyons were apprehended in Bloomfield despite having a license plate that had been smeared with mud. William N. Adams, 22, and Alexander Scott Sullivan, 18, both of Bloomfield, were arrested and booked into the Greene County Jail on preliminary charges of theft.....

Five employees at Crane Army Ammunition Activity on the NSA Crane base were injured in an explosion that took place in the pyrotechnics facility on Thursday evening. The incident took place about 5:40 p.m. during routine clean-up operations, according to CAAA spokesman Thomas Peske, Jr. "The chemicals are the ones we use in the production of pyrotechnic candles (for mortars). I know there was a radio report stating it involved white phosphorous production, but it happened at our Pyro facility with the chemicals used in the creation of those rounds," Peske told the Greene County Daily World..

Several local churches and organizations will be hosting Easter Egg Hunts and Easter services over the weekend to celebrate Sunday's Easter holiday. The Bloomfield Apple Festival Committee will be hosting the annual Easter Egg Hunt Saturday. Registration starts at 10 a.m., and the Easter Bunny will arrive at 10 a.m...