Stories from Monday, March 27, 2017

A seven-hit performance was not enough Thursday evening as the Lady Miners fell 9-3 to visiting Loogootee. The Lionesses won their season opener by striking for three runs in the first inning and one in the second to take a 4-0 lead before Linton could get on the board. The Lady Miners collected seven hits as they scored one run in the third and two in the fifth...

Aaron Alan Weber, 23, Worthington, was arrested on a warrant for resisting law enforcement and writ of attachment. No bond is set. Denny Vincent Berry-York, 28, Greencastle, was arrested on preliminary charges of criminal recklessness and resisting law enforcement. Bond is set at $4,500...

The Greene County Sheriff’s Department responded to 69 incidents for service Friday to Sunday, including two abandoned vehicles, four property damage accidents, three personal injury accidents, four alarms, four animal complaints, five assists to other dep

The Linton Police Department responded to 47 incidents for service Friday to Monday, including one property damage accident, two animal complaints, two assists to other departments, one battery, one child custody, one domestic dispute, one EMS, two fights in progress, one fingerprinting, one fraud, one harassment, one property, one property damage not accident, five special details, four reckless drivers, one attempted suicide, five suspicious activities, three title checks and 13 traffic stops...

Bloomfield residents can apply for housing rehabilitation funds mid-April By Kelly Slaven staff writer Residents of Bloomfield will have the opportunity to apply for owner occupied housing rehabiliation funds from the Indiana Housing Rehabilitation and Community Development Authority at two different open application times in mid-April, according to project specialist, Audrey Conlon...

Indiana Football Digest Magazine honored the best of 2016 and previewed the 2017 Indiana high school football season during its 10th annual Griddy Awards program Sunday in Indianapolis. The Indiana Football Digest team welcomed 400 guests to the Indiana Farm Bureau Football Center - which serves as the Indianapolis Colts practice facility - to celebrate the noteworthy achievements of the 2016 Indiana high school football season. ...

The Alzheimer Association will be hosting an upcoming meeting for caregivers of those with Alzheimer’s or other dementias. According to program director Denise Saxman, the local Switz City group has been meeting since at least 2011. “Two locals, Betty Phigley and Linda Drew, are the facilitators,” Saxman said. “It’s a well attended group, there are usually eight to 12 in attendance.”...

Caleb ‘Wain Train’ Wainman, a former Linton Miner offensive lineman and current builder of log homes, took to the ring Saturday evening to defend his championship belt against Wade ‘The White Beast’ Collins of Vincennes. Coming out of an eight-year retirement, his coach, former junior welterweight champion Travis Coleman, fought against Eddie Cox, winning his bout with a knockout near the end of the first round...

This week, Andrew and Patti discuss a Jasonville fire and much more.

courtesy Kay Moore Five generations recently posed for a family photo in Greene County. (Clockwise from left) Great-grandmother Kaye Moore, grandmother Traci Foglesong, mother Katie Baker and great-great-grandmother Thelma Turpen holding Jesse Lloyd Baker...

Bloomfield’s Barbara Hanauer is known countywide as the ‘Cookie Lady.’ For years, Hanauer has baked and delivered thousands upon thousands of cookies to classrooms, sports teams and other lucky recipients all over Greene County, including every school, Greene County 4-H members and just plain strangers. According to records she has kept for the last five years, over 25,000 cookies have been baked and distributed from the oven in her rural Bloomfield home...

The Friday Night Jam Sessions, long a Linton tradition, were for years played at Studio A on Main Street. When, in 2015, the event’s popularity exceeded the parking spaces available, the honored tradition moved to the Carnegie Heritage and Arts Center, formerly the site of the Margaret Cooper Public Library...

On Friday, March 10, as the musicians played and sang at Autumn Trace, a new life was born. To Ron and Carolyn Bland, the evening began with the Autumn Trace performance, and as time ticked by, they began to receive text messages from grandson Drew Bland, who was busy coaching wife Brianna through the birth of their second child. ...

The Greene County Council has to reschedule its meeting monthly meeting, which was supposed to include the final proposal of the Innkeeper’s Tax. Council attorney Marvin Abshire apologized for the need to postpone the meeting due to unforeseen circumstances causing the County Council to reschedule due to lack of a quorum...