Stories from Thursday, February 6, 2020

The Eastern Greene Lady Thunderbirds looked to use the home crowd boost to make a possible run at Sectional. The Sectional 47 hosts drew back-to-back Class A State runner-up Vincennes Rivet, in the Lady Patriots first season after being moved up to Class 2A this season...

Janice Kay (Allen) Vaughn, 81, of Lyons, passed away Saturday Feb. 1, 2020 at her residence. She was born May 11, 1938 in Bedford, the daughter of Steven Lee Allen and Virginia (Ritchison) Pace. Janice grew up in Lawrence County before moving to Lyons, where she met and married the love of her life, Floyd Gene Vaughn...

The dream of many basketball players in the state of Indiana at all levels is to one day get to play on the hallowed floor at Indiana University’s Assembly Hall. This weekend, several young athletes within Greene County will get to achieve this dream, as the junior high boys and girls teams from White River Valley and the junior high girls team from Bloomfield will take part in the 2020 Hawks in the Hall tournament Sunday, Feb. 9...

The Eastern Greene Thunderbirds hosted Greene County rival White River Valley in a Thursday night addition of SWIAC-conference basketball. The abnormal schedule of playing on Thursday because of the ongoing girls basketball Sectionals along with no junior varsity game being played due to an overwhelming amount of injuries Eastern Greene is currently dealing with, it would be understandable if the game got off to a slow start...

Shakamak MSD announced the arrival of eLearning days to the school district. According to a press release, the eLearning days will be used to make up days lost due to weather or other reasons. The first eLearning day is scheduled for Sat. Feb. 29, and will be used to make up for school being cancelled on Dec. 16, 2019...