Stories from Wednesday, August 30, 2017

It was a game for the ages. A playoff-like atmosphere - and a playoff-sized crowd - filled Roy Williams Field Friday, September 2, 2016. And with a pair of heavyweights going at it the play on the field resembled a semistate tilt. In the end, the 2016 Class A state champion Linton-Stockton Miners prevailed, 24-21 over the 2015 Class 2A state champion Monrovia Bulldogs...

The White River Valley volleyball team had been on a bit of a roll of late, winning two of three matches in Saturday's Mitchell Invitational. The Lady Wolverines suffered a temporary setback, being swept Monday by a strong Class 4A Bedford North Lawrence squad. But WRV rebounded nicely, winning in five sets 25-18, 25-20, 21-25, 7-25, 15-12 over visiting Wood Memorial Tuesday at Switz City...

Eastern Greene picked up its fourth straight win on the volleyball court, sweeping the Orleans Lady Bulldogs in straight sets 26-24, 25-17, 25-11 Tuesday at Orleans. Lady Thunderbirds coach Whitney Russell remarked tonight was the best she'd seen the girls play all season...

The Greene County Council heard a proposal Monday to potentially implement a Public Safety Tax to help pay for the prospective jail expansion and the personnel needed to staff it. The Greene County Commissioners went before the County Council last December to discuss jail overcrowding concerns brought forth by Sheriff Mike Hasler. With a maximum capacity of 84 inmates -- and operational capacity of 69 -- the jail was seeing inmate numbers far surpassing the 90-inmate mark and up into the 100s...

Wednesday, August 30 The Bloomfield Public Library will have Family Time Life Size Games. Come play games together as a family from 6-7:30 p.m. in Bloomfield Public Library Community Room. Thursday, August 31 Memory Makers Quilt Club will be meeting at 6:30 p.m. ...

Editor’s note: This is part two of a three-part series. Part one focused on the path of WestGate Technology Park and its counterparts. Part three will focus on economic impact. WestGate Academy and Conferencing Center and the surrounding area has recently been the center of many changes seen in eastern Greene County in recent years...

Dhyanna Maat Webster, 35, Worthington, was arrested on a warrant for resisting law enforcement using a deadly weapon and reckless driving. No bond set. James Kelley, 51, Bloomington, was arrested on a warrant for habitual traffic offense. Bond set at $4,000 with 10 percent allowed...

The Linton Police Department responded to 14 incidents for service Wednesday, including one bank/residential alarm, three animal complaints, one child neglect, one extra patrol, three fingerprintings, one reckless driver, one suspicious activity, one unruly subject, one warrant service and one welfare check...

A group of four from Greene County is leaving this weekend with box trucks and boats headed for Texas. Thomas and Amber Gilreath, Justin Coleman and Lacey Fender will head out of Worthington Saturday, Sept. 2 at noon with supplies to help under-served communities in Texas and Louisiana in the path of Hurricane Harvey...

The Linton-Stockton Chamber of Commerce’s monthly meeting was hosted by Glenburn Home in Linton Aug. 24, and featured special guest, Congressman Larry Bucshon. Bucshon spoke briefly to the gathered crowd about several issues, beginning with national security, in the wake of recent tensions with North Korea...

BLOOMFIELD - The North Central Ladybirds swooped into Bloomfield’s Guy Glover Gym Wednesday and were swept away by the Bloomfield Lady Cardinals. Bloomfield nearly led wire-to-wire, trailing briefly by two points early in the second set en route to dispatching the Ladybirds in straight sets 25-16, 25-18 and 25-13 in Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference volleyball action...

This story has been edited to give the correct winner at No. 3 singles and identify Northview's No. 2 doubles team.

Margaret Ann Simon’s training began at 6 a.m. every morning this summer. She would walk her dogs, return to her home to eat a power-packed breakfast and hop on her bike by a quarter past seven, riding an average of eight or nine miles a day. Now that the “beastly heat” of summer has left, 59-year-old Simon won’t get up that early if she can help it...