Stories from Tuesday, March 31, 2020

According to a press release issued by Linton Deputy Chief of Police Debbie McDonald, the Linton Police Department (LPD) has decided to postpone the current registration deadline on golf carts driven on city streets. Under current Linton City Ordinance, all golf carts driven on city streets are required to be registered through the LPD. The current registration period is defined by the ordinance as April 1 through March 31 of each consecutive year...

Linton's senior third baseman Kip Fougerousse has had quite the start to the baseball season, despite not having played a game this season for the Miners. Back in the winter, Fougerousse was invited to the Prep Baseball Report (PBR) Super 60 workout and was invited to a workout with a pro team around the same time...

The Greene County Sheriff’s Department responded to 50 incidents and calls for service March 27 - 29, including two abandoned vehicles, eight property damage accidents, two personal injury accidents, three alarms, five animal complaints, one assist to the public, one domestic dispute, one drug investigation, one extra patrol, two fires, one harassment, one missing person, one noise complaint, one property damage, one residential entry, three road hazards, three sex offenses, two shooting complaints, one suspicious, three thefts, two threats, three traffic stops, one trespass and one traffic stop.. ...

Andrew Michael Mullis (Andy), of Niceville, Fla., died unexpectedly on Tuesday, March 10 in a car accident at the age of 37. Andy was born on September 30, 1982 in Bedford. He graduated from Linton-Stockton High School in 2001 and received a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 2005. ...

Jasonville City Council met March 26 at 6:30 p.m. to discuss the operation of city departments during the COVID-19 outbreak and to pass related ordinances. One ordinance dealt with salaries; another gave the clerk-treasurer the ability to make payments and two concerned formal procedures of the council and Board of Utilities during the duration of the pandemic...

Robert ‘Bob’ Paul Mattingly, 75, of Washington, passed away peacefully, in the comfort of his home, on Tuesday, March 31, 2020, with his loving wife by his side. He was born in Jeffersonville on July 26, 1944 to Herman and Josephine Alberta (Moore) Mattingly. Bob married his loving wife, Marlene K. (Stremming), on June 2, 1990...

Brody Dwayne Weddle went to join his family in Heaven at 8:41 p.m. on Friday, March 27, 2020. He was delivered at IU Health Bloomington Hospital along with his twin sister, Bella Kay Noel Weddle, who survives him. Survivors also include his parents, Ron and Mariah (Edelman) Weddle of Lyons; his maternal grandparents, Tim and Lisa Edelman of Spencer and Shelly Edelman of Lyons; paternal grandmother, Laura Faulk (Edward McDaniels) of Linton; maternal great-grandma, Wilma Edelman; siblings, Trevor Sparks, Taylor Weddle, Elesabeth Weddle, Jaxon Crane, Carson Weddle and Elijah Weddle, and his twin sister, Bella Kay Noel Weddle; aunts, Christy Johnson and Miranda Rhynd; an uncle, Travis Jerrell; several great-aunts, great-uncles, and cousins.. ...

Norma “Jean” (McHenry) Borders left our earth to be with her Lord Tuesday, March 31, 2020 and will be greatly missed by Carl, her children, grandchildren and friends. She was born March 18, 1943 in Jackson. Miss. to Walter McHenry and Mildred (Barnard) McHenry...

UPDATE: John Prine is in stable condition after being placed on a ventilator for COVID-19-type symptoms, his wife, Fiona Whelan Prine, said Monday. The singer/songwriter's family said Sunday that Prine was critically ill. Fiona Prine's message Monday on social media suggested his condition had improved overnight. Prine remains hospitalized...

Jan Howard, country singer and songwriter, longtime member of the Grand Ole Opry and member of “Roy Clark and Friends,” a group of talented country music performers who traveled to Linton every June for 17 years with Clark to perform a benefit show for the Greene County Foundation to raise funds for college scholarships for area youth died on Saturday, March 28 in Gallatin, Tenn., at the age of 91...

Brenda Scott, age 75, of Linton, passed away peacefully at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 31, 2020, at Glenburn Home in Linton. Arrangements are pending at Welch & Cornett Funeral Home in Linton and your be posted when available. Online condolences may be shared with Brenda’s family at www.welchcornett.com. If you would like to send a “Hug from Home”, leave an online condolence or call our office at 812-847-2986 and we will attach your words of sympathy to a balloon...

Bloomfield senior Turner Royal was one of 13 seniors students-athletes to receive the 2020 C. Eugene Cato Memorial Scholarship. A press release sent out by the IHSAA added, “Each individual will receive a $2,500 scholarship for their prep accomplishments and be recognized at this year’s Thomas A. ...

AP — Dig. Plant. Breathe. As spring’s arrival in the Northern Hemisphere coincides with government stay-at-home orders, the itch to get outside has turned backyard gardens into a getaway for the mind in chaotic times. Gardeners who already know that working with soil is a way to connect with nature say it helps take away their worries, at least temporarily...

AP — Bill Purdue waterproofs basements for a living, but he has spent the past few days in his buddy’s Washington, Indiana, auto trim and upholstery shop cutting rectangles of cotton fabric that his friend sews into face masks. Fashion designer Briana Danyele left Italy last month to return to her mother’s Greer, South Carolina, home, where she has turned the living room into a mini sewing factory, making masks that she embroiders with the words, “We Got This!”...