Stories from Sunday, December 2, 2018

The Linton man accused of stabbing his girlfriend multiple times last week appeared in Greene Superior Court Friday morning. Derrick Harper, 33, was booked into Greene County Jail just before 1 a.m. on Nov. 29 after his girlfriend reportedly ran to a neighbors house, stating Harper had stabbed her...

Margaret M. Cook, 88, of Bloomfield, passed away on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018 at her residence. Born May 14, 1930 in Bloomington, she was the daughter of Dewey Leonard and Eva Minerva (Sizemore) Sparks. She was a homemaker and a member of Allen Chapel Methodist Church...

Pressure defense, transition offense and sharing the basketball generously led to victory for the Linton-Stockton Miners and spelled trouble for the visiting Vincennes Lincoln Alices. The Miners used full-court pressure to turn defense into offense building a 17-point lead late in the second quarter. Linton withstood a brief third-quarter run by the Alices and finished off the visitors 65-53 Saturday...

Rebecca S. “Beckie” (Kerr) Grounds, 75, of Bloomington, passed away on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018 at Mitchell Manor in Mitchell. Beckie was born Dec. 10, 1942 in Bloomington, and was the daughter of the late James and Margie (Eaton) Kerr. Beckie worked at Master Rental in Bloomington and had also worked as a loan originator at Old National Bank. She loved to travel and was a member of Smithville Christian Church...

Synthia Sue Maden, 60, of Bloomfield, passed away Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018. Born Jan. 7, 1958 in Linton, she was the daughter of James and Marilyn (Greene) Sparks. She was a department manager at Kohls in Bloomington. Surviving relatives include three sons, Levi Carmichael (Amanda) of Sellersburg, Dane Carmichael (Tiffo) of Austin, Texas, and Nikolas Maden of Bloomington; her father, James Sparks of Indianapolis; her siblings, Jennifer Hamilton and Mandy McIntosh of Bloomfield and J.B. ...

Monday, December 3 The Linton-Stockton Board of School Trustees will have a work session at 6 p.m. in the Administration office, located at 801 1st St. in Linton Tuesday, December 4 K-5 Make a Gift for Mom Event at Linton Public Library from 4-5 p.m. Make and wrap a secret present for your mom or another special lady...

The Shakamak Lakers came close but fell short by eight, 55-47 to the Sullivan Golden Arrows Saturday at home. Sullivan led 28-20 at the half The Lakers responded with an 18-point third quarter. Levi Webb and Brevin Fulford each connected twice from deep and Devin Stienstra dealt a deuce and a trey...

Virginia Lucille ‘Betty’ Hale, 91, of Linton, passed away on Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018 at her residence with her family by her bedside. She was born on July 1, 1927 in Linton, to Earl Ervin and Mary Alice (Miller) Weaver. She was the last survivor of 13 children. She married to Bobby B. Hale on Dec. 2, 1946 and enjoyed a life with him for 56 years...

JUNIOR HIGH Bloomfield Junior High’s boys basketball teams saw early leads result in different outcomes Thursday night against visiting South Knox. The seventh graders started out slowly, said coach Cameron Gilmore, and led just 6-5 after one period. He said they “picked up the intensity” in the other three stanzas and posted a 42-30 win...