Stories from Thursday, February 9, 2023

When Bloomfield tips off against Eminence Saturday at Southwestern High School the Cardinals will know the coach of the Eels pretty well. Coach Greg Burton has the Eels ready after coaching four years at Eastern Greene. “If you don’t get excited for a regional game then something is wrong with you,” Burton said. “It will be cool to see some Bloomfield people just because of my experience at Eastern and playing those guys for four years.”...

Miles Oral Skinner, 98, of Bloomfield, passed away on Tuesday, February 7, 2023 at Ketcham Memorial Center in Odon. Born March 23, 1924 in Bloomfield, he was the son of Harvey Roscoe and Caroline (Hash) Skinner. He was a United States Navy veteran who served his country in World War II. He worked for the Farm Bureau Co-op, Westinghouse and NSWC Crane. He was a member of the Sharkey Church and attended Mineral United Methodist Church...

N. Franklin Street in Bloomfield will remain closed overnight due to a tree limb falling down and blocking the road. The road will remain closed until AT&T can get the tree removed from the fiber optic lines without damage to the utility.

Donald “Paco” Wayne Howell, 69, of Linton, passed away on Wednesday, February 8, 2023, at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis. He was born on June 10, 1953, in Vincennes, the son of Rebert Howell Sr. and Kathy Wibert. Paco graduated from North Knox High School and Louisville College with a degree in electronics. ...

Friday, February 10 Bloomfield Eastern Greene County Public Library will host Library Game Day from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.. There will be board games, multiplayer card games and puzzles for all ages, 125 S. Franklin Street, Bloomfield. Linton Public Library will host Creative Crafternoon from 1-2 p.m.. This month’s craft will be decorating rocks with positive messages and hiding them to be found throughout the town...

The Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce held its first after-hours event of 2023 on Tuesday, Feb. 7 at the Feed Store Beer Co. in Bloomfield. The after-hours event included a pizza contest between locally owned pizzerias Belly and Kecky’s Pizzeria and Mill Street Pizza. Both pizzerias are located in Bloomfield and are run by local community members. Each pizzeria provided the chamber bits of their story towards becoming a business...

BLOOMFIELD – A key construction project was completed just before the start of the season at Bloomfield and the basketball teams were happy to have it. A new auxiliary gym on the west side of the school has made practice more convenient for the teams...

Linton Elementary second-graders are about to have their dreams come true. Through an international program administered locally by Indiana University’s Comprehensive Design Program in the School of Art, Architecture and Design and aided by engineering and technology students led by Teacher Quincy Miller at Middleton High School in Wisconsin, all five of Linton’s second-grade classes, led by Teachers Crystal Hazelwood, Melissa Fry, Kate Erdman, Jerrica Landis and Laura Rose, were presented with the question, “If you could build any kind of machine, what would you build?”. ...