Stories from Friday, March 21, 2014

A Bloomfield Junior-Senior High School student addressed the school board Thursday night asking for better access to school athletic facilities with limited supervision and allotted times for use set up. Jacob Carmichael presented a petition to the board that contained names of 137 students, faculty, staff and adults -- including school board president Steve Dowden...

Adverse weather has taken its toll on school scheduling this winter and Thursday night the Bloomfield Board of School Trustees adopted a resolution that calls for an additional 50 minutes at the end of the regular school day to make up for an instructional day missed on March 3...

March 20 - Erica D. Gilstrap, 43, Bloomfield, was arrested on a warrant issued out of another county for failure to appear. She was being held without bond. Bloomfield Deputy Marshal Marvin Holt was the arresting officer. March 20 - Thomas W. Cody, Sr., 54, Jasonville, was arrested on a warrant issued for failure to appear. ...

Her name might have graced the record books in high school, in fact, Savannah Turner is forever ingrained in the Shakamak Lady Lakers record book. But at the college level she has begun to make her mark as well. The Greene County runner is now a member of the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis track and cross country teams...

The Linton Police Department's activity log for Thursday, March 20 included six requests for information, two civil complaints, two transports of documentation, one suspicious vehicle or person, one assist to another agency, one complaint of harassment, one reckless driver, one theft, one fingerprint, two domestic disputes, two community relations details, one battery and 15 traffic stops...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Logan Foster from Eastern Greene High School was recognized at the 2014 Jobs for America's Graduates (JAG) Career Development Conference, the final state competition that challenges participants to demonstrate employability skills that took place on March 14, at Ivy Tech's main campus near downtown Indianapolis...

Students at White River Valley will have more opportunities in science, technologyengineering, technology and math next year. The WRV school board approved new programs in their regular meeting Thursday night that will allow students at the elementary and junior/senior high schools the opportunity to participate in programs offered by Westgate at Crane Technology Park...

Bloomfield students qualified for national competition in a competition sponsored by the Department of Defense. Two Bloomfield teams scored second and third over all in the state qualifying event on Feb. 8 for the National SeaPerch Competition scheduled for May 17...

Mary Ruth Colbert, 87, of Linton, IN, went to Heaven on Thursday, March 20, 2014 while at home. She was born on April 1, 1926 in Greene County, IN to Charles 'C.R.' and Edith (Bledsoe) Bales. Mary became the wife of William B. Colbert on April 28, 1945...

Wanda Jane Farren, 92, of Bloomfield, passed away at 8:20 a.m. on Monday, March 20, 2014 at her residence. Born February 28, 1922 in Bicknell, she was the daughter of Ray Enos and Flora Ann (Barton) Wonder. She was a homemaker and a member of the Bloomfield First Christian Church...

A warrant was issued this week for the arrest of Dane Anthony Dvorak, a 35-year-old man who was convicted of rape and sodomy in 2000 in the Linn County Circuit Court in Oregon. In Greene County, Dvorak is accused of failure to register as a sex offender, a class D felony...

Richard Speas, age 79, of Worthington, passed away Friday, March 21, 2014, in Bloomington. Arrangements are pending at Welch & Cornett Funeral Home in Worthington, and will be posted when available.

Saturday, March 22 An Evening of Gospel and Praise music is planned at the Concord General Baptist Church starting at 6 p.m. on Saturday, March 22. Doug Harrington and the Silent Power Quartet will be featured along with others. This free event is being hosted by Terry Crites. Concord General Baptist Church is located at 2340 Calvertville Road, in rural Bloomfield. For information call the church at 875-3838...

240 band students from across Greene County gathered for a day to rehearse and then perform as a whole Thursday, March 20. The students were conducted by each band director from Greene County schools as well as guest conductor Ishbah Cox, the assistant professor of bands at Purdue University. Cox serves as a festival adjudicator, a clinician and a conductor on top of his work at Purdue.....