Stories from Monday, March 25, 2019

LITTLE CINCINNATI – Both Eastern-Greene track coaches look forward to this season, one because of good numbers, the other because of overall strength. The Lady Thunderbirds will feature plenty of new faces this season. Fourteen newcomers, three of them juniors, came out for the team this spring, which is a good thing since only six girls return from last year's squad...

Hamilton Center, Inc. has been awarded a grant from the Local Coordinating Council (LCC) of Greene County and the Greene County Substance Abuse Taskforce. The grant will fund addictions services for individuals without a third-party payer. This project is aimed at providing consumers in Greene County access to outpatient behavioral health and substance abuse services by removing the financial barrier some people experience in seeking services...

Indiana State University has announced its dean’s list for the fall semester of 2018. To be eligible for the list, students must maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale. Area students making the dean’s list are Judy Adams, Meaghan Bond, Felicity Graf, Sierra Kirkley, Kylee Moody, Elizabeth Tarr and Alli Workman, all of Bloomfield; Sydney Field, Lane Gilbert, Kaitlyn Jones, Corbin Marshall, Elesa McDonald, Clay Reynolds, Cameron West and Brett Yeryar, all of Jasonville; Maggie Booe, Kaylee Buckallew, Madison Cliver, Cassidy Clothier, Eli Cooksey, Benjamin Cox, Ashlyn Cruise, Avaree Dunn, Ryan Figg, Taylor Franklin, Alea Gambill, Peyton Goodwin, Rebecca Jerrell, Jaskamal Khangura, Rylee Landry, Rylie Mayfield, Shelsie, Kiera Mossburger, Stevie Nash, Dane Rupska, Danae Vest and Kayleigh Wiesmann, all of Linton; Madilyn Botkin-Whitfield, Lydia Coons, Sydney Lady, Emma Morguson and Christopher Shelton, all of Solsberry; Alysa Woodall of Switz City.. ...

The National Active and Retired Federal Employees (NARFE) Bloomfield Chapter 0847 met Tuesday, March 12, 2019 at the Casa Sevilla Restaurant in Bloomfield with 14 present. President Larry Dent welcomed all followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. Mr. George Butz gave the invocation before lunch was served...

The Battery Innovation Center (BIC), a testing and evaluation lab for energy storage systems in Greene County, has announced its commitment in becoming the first commercially accredited test laboratory for grid devices, systems, and applications to certify interoperability conformance to the Open Field Message Bus (OpenFMB) framework standard...

LaDeena J. Cantrell, 72, of Linton, went to Heaven on Friday, March 22, 2019 at her residence. She was born on September 17, 1946 in Linton to Garlan M. Moody and Vera Deane (Alkire) Barnard. LaDeena became the wife of Jack R. Cantrell on February 29, 1964...

The Linton Police Department responded to 77 incidents and calls for service March 22-24, including one property damage accident, one bank/residential alarm, 10 animal complaints, two assists to other departments, one battery, one civil dispute, one EMS, two extra patrols, six fingerprintings, one harassment, four special details, two reckless drivers, three suspicious, one theft, two title checks, 35 traffic stops, one trash, one unruly subject and two warrant services...

CRIMINAL CASES Shayla Lynn Bowling, 35, Perrysville, Class A misdemeanor OVI endangering a person; Level 6 felony OVI endangering a person; Class C misdemeanor OVI; Level 6 felony OVI with prior conviction; Class A misdemeanor OVI with alcohol concentration of .15 or more; Level 6 felony OVI with alcohol concentration of .08 or more with prior conviction...

Born on Oct. 7, 1849, in Indiana, James Whitcomb Riley was known as the “Hoosier Poet” and sometimes as the “Children’s Poet”. His whimsical way of writing endeared him to many and his most famous poems were “Little Orphant Annie” and “The Raggedy Man”...