Stories from Tuesday, December 26, 2017

VINCENNES — The wildly wacky Watermelon Drop returns on New Year’s Eve to downtown Vincennes. Located near the riverfront at First and Main Street, the celebration will feature music by The Coatney’s, led by Casey James Coatney, beginning at 9 p.m. in a giant heated tent, which will also include a beer and wine sales area...

The Linton Police Department responded to 38 incidents for service Friday to Tuesday, including one abandoned vehicle, three personal injury accidents, four alarms, one animal complaint, four assists to other departments, one child custody, three civil disputes, one domestic dispute, one drive off, four extra patrols, one fingerprinting, one mental health issue, one special detail, four suspicious activities, two thefts, one threat, two title checks and two traffic stops...

The Greene County Sheriff’s Department responded to 67 incidents for service Friday to Sunday, including two abandoned vehicles, 17 property damage accidents, four personal injury accidents, three alarms, six animal complaints, two assists to other departments, one battery, four burglaries, two civil disputes, one criminal mischief, two domestic disputes, one extra patrol, one intimidation, one property, one mental health issue, one reckless driver, three road hazards, one security, one shooting complaint, two suspicious activities, three thefts, three traffic stops, two transports and one trespass.. ...

The Greene County Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) board hosted its first meeting last week to prepare for the implementation of the Innkeeper’s Tax. The volunteer group of board members appointed by the county council, commissioners and Linton mayor will oversee the distribution of funds brought in by the Innkeeper’s Tax, which will be implemented Jan. 1...

A one-vehicle accident occurring Saturday morning resulted in a fatality. According to an accident release from Greene County Sheriff’s Department Deputy James Carpenter, Anthony Artibee, 24 of Jasonville, was traveling southbound on County Road 900 West from State Road 54 before leaving the road for reportedly unknown reasons, striking a tree head-on...

Thursday, December 28 The Switz City Town Council will conduct a year-end meeting at 6:30 p.m. at the Switz City Town Hall located at 220 Charlotte Ave., Switz City. Saturday, December 30 Please join for an 80th birthday celebration open house for Jim Resler from 2-5 p.m. in the Bloomfield First Baptist Church Fellowship Hall, 500 Lincoln Dr., Bloomfield, Indiana. No gifts please...

Byron Millard Halfhill, 82, passed away Monday, Dec. 25, 2017 at Regional Hospital in Terre Haute following an accident at home. He was born in Bowling Green on Feb. 10, 1935 to the late Carl and Florence (Greenwood) Halfhill. Byron graduated from Bowling Green High School and served his country in the United States Army. He married Florence Dickison on Aug. 12, 1961, and they were members of the Community Missionary Church. Mr. Halfhill retired from IBM after 31 years of service...

TERRE HAUTE - The Shakamak Lakers were simply overmatched Tuesday afternoon. The Lakers could not match up with the superior size, depth and athleticism of Terre Haute South. While Shakamak struggled to get good looks early on, the South Braves had no such trouble...

“We have a lot of fun in building trades class as well as working hard,” said Jim Morrison, Twin Rivers Building Trades instructor at Linton-Stockton High School. Twenty-nine pieces of pizza, seven breadsticks and a plate of pudding--that’s how much Ryan Figg devoured to break the record for most pizza eaten for Building Trades’ annual Christmas party, which took place Thursday, Dec. ...

Frederick L. Gouckenour, age 98, of Linton, passed away peacefully at 3:10 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2017, at Greene County General Hospital. He was born in Bicknell on Dec. 24, 1919, the son of the late Fred Gouckenour and Helen (McGrew) Gouckenour...

Seamas Jarman, a senior at Bloomfield High, won first place in a recent competition held by HANDS in Autism Interdisciplinary Training and Resource Center for his banner design, titled Unique-Creative-Talented-Complex-Determined-Amazing. The banner will be the official design for the upcoming state-wide 2018 Autism Art Expo, for which the theme is “Worth a Thousand Words”...

Around 3:57 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 26, a white male in a dark blue hoodie entered the First Financial Bank in Farmersburg and robbed the bank, leaving with an undisclosed amount of money. According to a press release from Sullivan County Sheriff Clark Cottom, Sullivan County Sheriff’s Department, Farmersburg Town Marshall, and Indiana State Police are investigating the scene of the bank robbery, and need help to identify the assailant. ...