Stories from Tuesday, June 4, 2019

GREENE COUNTY - The Indiana Department of Transportation announces an emergency closure on State Road 54 near the Ridgeport Community east of Bloomfield. Beginning immediately, INDOT maintenance crews will close S.R. 54 at Crowe Road due to complications from a slide. ...

Robert Holaway, 86, of Bloomfield, passed away on Monday, June 3, 2019. Born Nov. 16, 1932 in Cincinnati, Ohio, he was the son of Robert Owen and Elsie May (Smith) Holaway. Robert served his country in the United States Army during the Korean war. He was a machine operator for Bahrs Tool and Die in Cincinnati, Ohio retiring in 1997...

Eastern Greene track athlete Farrah Young will have a chance to continue her track career at the next level. The Lady Thunderbird senior recently signed her letter of intent to run for the Franklin College Grizzlies. And she is grateful for the opportunity. “My dad never got the chance to run in college so I figured I’d run for him.”...

From Montenegro to Bloomfield to Missouri. Aleksa Markovic will play basketball at Missouri Southern next fall. A transfer student from Montenegro, Markovic helped the Bloomfield Cardinals make their run to the Washington Semistate last season. Missouri Southern is in Joplin, Mo., located in southwestern Missouri, right on the Missouri-Oklahoma state line. Last season, the Lions finished with a 25-8 mark and a trip to the NCAA Division II Sweet Sixteen...

A former Thunderbird is returning to the nest. Jamie Hudson, a 1995 Eastern Greene graduate who most recently coached at Bloomfield has been hired as the new varsity boys basketball coach at Eastern. When Jon Neill stepped down last month after six seasons at the Thunderbird helm Eastern Greene didn’t have to look very far to find its next coach. He was already in the building...

For 2019 White River Valley graduate Abigail (Abby) Rose Davenport-Mikusak, it all began when she was about five years old and she received her first musical instrument, a mini-guitar. Mikusak’s father, Paul, played the guitar and the youngster would do her best to play along, emulating her dad...

Wednesday, June 5 Wagler Motorsports Park in Lyons will host the Summit Racing Midwest Drags Drag-n-Drive event. 12 classes, only 300 entries and 24 payouts of $18,000. Diesel classes, too. For more information call the park at 812-636-0391. The Worthington-Jefferson Township Public Library 2019 Summer Reading Program presents crafts from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Grades preschool through six...