Stories from Monday, May 15, 2017

A mother-daughter duo in Linton have a lot in common, from their love of teaching to now planning celebrations for events that happened 30 years apart. Sara Correll and her daughter, Laura (Correll) Cross, have a long history of doing just about everything together, from shopping to leading bible school classes, and even both pursued a career in teaching. Correll retired from teaching in 2014 after 30 years, while Cross started teaching a few years ago...

Opening day for the fifth annual Linton Farmers Market will be Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Humphreys City Park The market will operate every Saturday through September. Market Manager Mark Stacy said for the last several months, the market has been gearing up for another bountiful season of fresh, local fruits, vegetables and other homemade goods. Every year the Linton Farmers Market continues to grow in size and popularity and this year is expected to be the best season yet, Stacy said...

Friends of Goose Pond will be sponsoring a roadside cleanup event next week. Peggy Wolfe, Vice-President of Friends of Goose Pond, said the annual event has been taking place since 2005. “It helps beautify Goosepond Fish and Wildlife area, to keep it more natural and to get rid of all the debris people throw out of their windows or even once they’ve visited here,” she said...

Joshua Tobias Cox, 33, Linton, was arrested on a warrant for failure to register as a sex offender and theft. Bond is set at $5,000. Donna Michelle Sullivan, 63, Bloomfield, was arrested on preliminary charges of operating while intoxicated. Bond is set at $4,000...

The Greene County Sheriff’s Department responded to 47 incidents for service Friday to Sunday, including three property damage accidents, two personal injury accidents, six alarms, seven animal complaints, one assist to other departments, one assist to the public, one civil dispute, three domestic disputes, one fraud, three reckless drivers, one sex offense, three suspicious activities, three thefts, six traffic stops, five transports and one welfare check...

A Bloomfield High School student has brought a scale model of the solar system to Spring Street in Bloomfield. Seamas Jarman, a junior with the school system, began working on the project in the fall. “I saw Bill Nye on YouTube and he demonstrated the size of the solar system on a bike,” Jarman said...

Linton VFW Post 7118 held its annual Parking Lot Party Saturday, and Post Quartermaster Roger James, along with wife and Auxiliary Secretary Tammy James, were pleased with the turnout. Local television station WTWO was on hand, filming the events and speaking with both Roger and Tammy James...

The White River Valley School Board approved of the purchase of three classroom sets of iPads for the elementary school. According to WRV superintendent Bob Hacker, the purchase will cost $32,759 from the referendum fund and will purchase a total of 90 iPads for student use with carts...

The Linton boys and girls both triumphed Saturday in the Southwest Indiana Athletic Conference junior high meet. Linton easily won the boys’ meet with 167 points, followed by North Daviess, 109; Bloomfield, 74; Eastern, 60; White River Valley, 51; Shakamak, 49; Clay City, 47; and Northeast, 27...

JASONVILLE - For the second straight outing the Shakamak Lakers found themselves locked into a back-and-forth, one-run struggle. Saturday at Washington the Dubois Jeeps scored four runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to overtake the Lakers 9-8...

This story has been corrected. The original gave the wrong opponent for White River Valley.