Stories from Monday, January 29, 2018

The first season is finished and now it’s time for the second season to begin. High school girls basketball teams around the state just wrapped up the regular season. Sectional play commences Tuesday at 64 sectional sites across the four classes. Locally, Linton-Stockton and Eastern Greene will compete in Class 2A Sectional 47 at North Daviess, along with Mitchell, North Knox and South Knox...

Alan Kent Plummer, 62, Odon, was arrested on preliminary charges of Level 6 felony OWI and habitual traffic offender. Bond set at $17,000 with 10 percent allowed. Dustin Edwin Wallace, 36, Bloomington, was arrested on a preliminary charge of Class A misdemeanor driving while suspended. Bond set at $1,000 with 10 percent allowed...

The Greene County Sheriff’s Department responded to 60 incidents and calls for service from Jan. 26 to 28, including eight property damage accidents, two personal injury accidents, three alarms, seven animal complaints, six assists to other departments, one assist to the public, two civil disputes, one drug investigation, one fire, one interview, four reckless drivers, three road hazards, one shooting complaint, eight suspicious investigations, three thefts, one threat, three traffic stops, one transport, one unruly subject and two welfare checks.. ...

Joel R. Leaman, 76, of Indianapolis, passed away on Jan. 25, 2018. Joel was born on Oct. 21, 1941 in Sullivan, to the late Thomas Reid Leaman and Myra Evans Leaman Joel graduated from Butler University in 1965 and was a member of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. ...

Jarrod D. Holtsclaw is excited to announce that he will seek re-election as Greene County Prosecutor in 2018. Holtsclaw, a lifelong citizen of Greene County, has served as the county’s Prosecuting Attorney since 2007. He served eight years as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in Greene County prior to that. Holtsclaw, his wife, Jessica, and his son, Boone, reside in Bloomfield...

A former local youth pastor is accused of having inappropriate contact with a juvenile. Matthew Joel Jacobson, 30, Linton, was arrested on a warrant for Level 6 felony child seduction. According to a probable cause affidavit filed by Indiana State Police Richard Klun with Greene Superior Court, Jacobson served as an assistant youth pastor at Bethel Baptist Church, north of Linton...

The residents of the two apartments damaged in a fire in downtown Linton last week are in need of assistance. Heather Reeves and her three sons lived in the upstairs apartment that caught fire at 82 S. Main Street last Wednesday morning just before 7 a.m., and her parents, Mashelle Reeves and Riley Padgett, lived in the neighboring apartment. Due to the damage, both families were able to escape the fire without injury, but were displaced...

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gravemier of Linton will celebrate 65 years of marriage. Mary Margaret Gillette, the daughter of William Gillette and Myrtle Hart Gillette and Frank Andrew Gravemier, the son of Edith Byers Gravemier and Carroll Gravemier, were married in Linton Feb. 6, 1953...

CRIMINAL CASES William P. Hendrix, 52, Bloomfield, Class A misdemeanor domestic battery Kenneth Kieffer Fielder, 23, Bloomfield, Class A misdemeanor driving while suspended with prior conviction Shane A. Stephens, 45, Linton, Class A misdemeanor invasion of privacy, violating protective order...

The Linton Police Department responded to 38 incidents and calls for service Friday through Sunday, including two property damage accidents, three bank or residential alarms, one animal complaint, three assists to other departments, three criminal mischief, one domestic dispute, two extra patrols, one fight in progress, five finger printings, one fraud, one harassment, one property, one special detail, one reckless driver, one road hazard, one attempted suicide, four suspicious circumstances, four traffic stops, one trespass and one unruly subject.. ...

The Greene County Council met in regular session on Monday, Jan. 29 at the Bloomfield Court House to discuss an elongated agenda for the first meeting of 2018. County Commissioner Nathan Abrams approached the board, informing them that County Attorney Marilyn Hartman would eventually like to retire. ...