Stories from Friday, September 23, 2016

The Bulldogs will try to tame the Tigers as Union hosts Charles A. Tindley Accelerated School at 2 pm Saturday in football. Union (1-3) has never beaten the Tigers (1-4) in four football games in as many years and Union coach Kyle Foli very much wants to change that...

DUGGER -- The Lady Bulldogs staged a tremendous rally Thursday night to win the third set, but it didn’t prove enough as they fell to visiting Martinsville, IL, in volleyball. Union fell 10-25, 15-25, 25-21. 15-25 to the Lady Bluestreaks (8-7). Union coach Tiffany Sanders said the Lady Bulldogs continue to learn and improve...

Motorists in Greene County will see a new traffic pattern at the intersection of State Road 54/57 beginning Monday, Oct. 3. An Indiana Department of Transportation press release states the current four-way stop configuration will be converted to a two-way stop allowing east and west traffic on S.R. 54 to flow freely...

The Linton Police Department responded to 12 incidents for service Friday, including one property damage accident, one bank/residential alarm, two assists to the public, one extra patrol, one noise complaint, two suspicious and four traffic stops.

--- In this week's episode of Greene Gab, Patti Danner and Andrew Christman discuss the Bicentennial Torch Relay, a special edition of the paper for Friday, local sports and more...

Ryan Wayne Botkin, 36, Worthington, was arrested on preliminary charges of OWI. Bond is set at $4,500.

Two torchbearers held a close family connection Wednesday afternoon during the Bicentennial Torch Relay. Larry Schute, 74, passed the torch off to BJ Yoho. Schute was the best friend of Yoho’s grandfather, Jim Yoho, who passed away July 10, 2014. “I’ve known the Yoho family 70 years,” Schute said. “I grew up with BJ’s grandfather and we were best friends. We were together for a long time.”...

Congratulations to Greene County on the opening of the new Goose Pond Visitor Center! For nearly two centuries, early inhabitants of Greene County worked to figure out how to turn an 8,000-acre swampy patch of wetland, known only as Black Water Marsh, into productive farmland...

What constitutes making a difference? It does not have to mean raking in money or bringing jobs to the area. Those objectives are important, but what about the “little guy” who often does good deeds behind the scenes and doesn’t ask for recognition or pose for photos? Sometimes it may take a little convincing, but those people also deserve a moment in the spotlight...

In order to raise funds to enable the non-profit RWF to help veterans and others, the Romans Warrior Foundation will hold its inaugural ‘Romans Warrior Foundation Benefit Concert’ on Friday, Sept. 23 at the Goose Pond Lodge and Retreat, located at 1557 South State Road 59 in Linton. The site is the former location of the Triple H Gun Club...

Lisa A. Stinson, age 48, of Linton, passed away after a three year battle with cancer on Thursday, September 22, at the IU Health Hospice House in Bloomington. She was born June 19, 1968 in Linton, the daughter of Paul L. and Judy A. (Sherman) Woods...

Thursday, September 22 The Eastern Greene School Board will hold a Special Meeting of the Board at 7 p.m. in the Eastern Greene Schools’ Central Office Board Room. Discussion will be about contract ratification. The DUCSC board of trustees will have an executive session at 6:30 p.m...

Crane Army and Navy joined together Thursday to host a POW/MIA Recognition ceremony at Naval Support Activity Crane’s Club Lakeview. The luncheon featured the recognition of three former Prisoners of War, Frank Alexander, Gene Saucerman and John Bowling. The widows of two former Prisoners of War were also recognized, B.J. Howard in honor of her late husband Edward Howard and Naomi Summerlot in honor of the late Raymond Summerlot...

The Grand Café hosted a grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony with the Jasonville Chamber of Commerce Friday. Opened by cook, Richard Simon and manager, Chelsea Carmichael, the Grand Café promises high quality food at small town prices. The establishment will feature all you can eat items, Sunday buffets and tons of variety...

ELNORA - For the second week in a row, it didn’t take the Linton-Stockton Miners long to overpower an undermanned opponent. In a dominant performance, the Miners put up 35 first-quarter points en route to a 68-7 drubbing of the winless North Daviess Cougars in Cougar Valley...

Larry Murdock, a native of Linton, has lived a colorful and distinguished life so far. Murdock was recently featured in the Greene County Daily World, in a story detailing his return of a library book to the Margaret Cooper Library. A book he had checked out during the summer of 1956, and returned during the summer of 2016. Murdock paid the associated fees, and left the library guilt-free...