Stories from Thursday, March 9, 2023

The Bright Beginnings Preschool at Bloomfield First Baptist Church is now enrolling and will have an open house on Friday, March 10 from 5:30-7 p.m.. All children must be potty trained and must be three-years-old by May 1 to attend. Registration fee is $35 which covers school supplies for the year. ...

Greene County Sheriff’s Department Activity Log The Greene County Sheriff’s Department responded to 68 incidents and calls for service Mar. 6-10, including two abandoned vehicles, four alarms, three animal complaints, two assists to other departments, one battery, two burglaries, one child custody, two civil disputes, one civil paper service, two domestic disputes, two EMS, one extra patrol, one fire, one fraud, one juvenile complaint, one missing person, two P.O. ...

The Bloomfield Town Council met Tuesday, March 7 minus member Dave Harding. The council met with members of the Bloomfield Park Board to discuss maintenance of the park. Park Board member Brenda Hughes asked whether the board would pay to have five 4’ x 6’ horse rubber mats placed under the “big kid” swings...

Friday, March 10 The Bloomfield Public Library will host a game day from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.. Saturday, March 11 The Bloomfield Public Library will host Craft Swap at the Annex from 12-3 p.m.. There will be a Dugger Gun and Knife show at the Dugger Community Building, 834 S. Hicum Street, Dugger...

CRIMINAL CASES James H. Harkrader, no birth date given, Jasonville, three counts Class B misdemeanor improper temporary transportation tag for white-tailed deer; three counts Class C misdemeanor use of private land without consent knowing or intentional violation; three counts Class B misdemeanor hunting deer with the aid of bait, but def. takes a deer...

Staff Report Dugger Union basketball players were honored by the Little Okaw Valley Conference. Senior Carter Hall and sophomore Andy Colvin were selected to the LOVC first team. Ryley Cobb is an honorable mention. The Dugger Union Lady Bulldogs were honored by the LOVC as well in senior Jackie Smith and sophomore Jordyn Smith. Brae Simpson was honored as an honorable mention...

Carl “Bruce” Osbon, from Lyons, went home to be with his Lord and Savior on March 3, 2023. Bruce was born on May 31, 1939 in Greene County. In 1965, Bruce packed his family and guitar and headed down to Nashville to live his dream of playing on the Grand Ole Opry...

Bloomfield senior Peter Combs is one of 36 boys selected to the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association First-Team Academic All-State. Players nominated for the Academic All-State team must be a senior and have at least a 3.5 grade point average. Nominees must also be in the top 25 percent of his or her class with score over 1,100 on the SAT for the reading and math sections or and ACT composite score of 24...

It’s been three years since the 2020 IHSAA Basketball Tournament was canceled just before regionals. For Bloomfield and Linton, teams with great chances at advancing, it is still a sore subject. “Very, very disappointing. Yeah, I’ll never forget that,” Bloomfield Coach J.B. Neill said. “We went up to practice at Martinsville and we got shutdown the next day. We felt pretty confident in that first game that we had. It was a two-game regional back then.”...