Stories from Tuesday, May 9, 2006

The Linton City Council approved a lease for Carrie Taylor of Taylor's Mini Golf at Monday night's council meeting. The lease for the miniature golf course, located in Humphreys Park, is for $500. Councilman Kelly Foglesong suggested striking a phrase from the original agreement. According to city attorney Tim Shonk, the phrase Foglesong suggested striking said the one leasing the property could not place any signs on posts, fences or trees...

Carolina Chickadee House Wren Carolina Wren Gray Catbird American Robin Starling Bell's Vireo Yellow Warbler Common Yellowthroat Yellow-breasted Chat Eastern Meadowlark Orchard Oriole Northern Oriole Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Indigo Bunting...

Regina Kramer, 66, of Linton, passed away at 5 a.m. on Sunday, May 7, 2006 at her residence, after a battle with cancer. Born May 8, 1939 in Linton, she was the daughter of Oscar H. and Ruth E. (Swaby) Kramer. She spent her life on the family farm, which she had managed in later years. ...

Charles W. Stevenson, 80, of Wilfred, passed away at 3 p.m. on Monday, May 8, 2006 at Terre Haute Regional Hospital. Arrangements are pending at McClanahan-Lee Funeral Home in Jasonville.

LINCOLN, NE -- Tim Fish, a senior golfer at Franklin College, shot a 74 Monday at the NCAA Division III National Championship in Lincoln, Neb. Fish, a graduate of Linton High School, is tied for sixth place and two strokes behind leader Nathan Logan...

Jordan Maryfield had a nine-hole total of 37 to earn low medalist honors and lead the Bloomfield boys golf team to a 183-191 victory over Shakamak Monday in a match at Phil Harris in Linton. Also for the Cardinals, Jordan Dayhoff had a 44, Travis Inman 47, Derek Aydt 55, Scott Todd 58 and Justin Bennett 60...

Linton shot a 146, North Knox 164 and White River Valley had a season-best 168 in a triangular high school match at the Phil Harris Golf Course Monday. Linton's Caleb Fischer and Caleb Dunkerly each shot 35, tying for low medalist honors and helping the Miners to two wins...

Billy Buckallew of Linton took first in the four-cylinder feature and Johnny Stewart, also from Greene County, won the 600 sidewinder feature event during racing at Bakersfield Raceway Park in Linton Friday night. Austin Woodham (restrictor), Rick Risinger (dwarfs) and Jerimy Cunningham (600 upright) were the other feature winners...

In a last-minute change to the schedule, Bloomfield defeated host White River Valley 5-0 in a high school girls tennis match at Switz City Monday. "We were supposed to make up the (Vincennes) Rivet match Monday but decided it was more important to make up the Bloomfield match first," said WRV coach Rebecca English. "We are still going to play the Rivet match Tuesday (May 16)...

HYMERA -- It was a meeting many patrons felt was unnecessary, but several parents of Union girls basketball players were in attendance at the Northeast School Board of Trustee's monthly meeting as the status of head coach Steve Meurer was made public for the first time...

Union (Dugger) right-hander Arica Marcotte tossed a one-hitter as the Lady Bulldog softball team defeated visiting Lawrenceville, Ill. 3-0 Monday. Marcotte allowed just one single to Ashley Lynch. Union (Dugger) touched up Lawrenceville pitcher Alycia Lynch for 10 hits...

The Greene County Sheriff's Department worked a one-vehicle wreck early today near the intersection of County Road 475 West and County Road 325 North in Fairplay Township. Robert Clifft, 29, of St. Louis, was driving south on CR 475W when he failed to stop at the intersection with CR. 375N and hit an embankment head-on about 12:30 a.m., according to a report filed by GCSD deputy Dured Townsend...

A Bloomfield woman was treated for injuries sustained in a two-vehicle wreck early Monday afternoon in a construction zone on State Road 54 -- about one mile east of the State Road 57 intersection. Anna L. Sims, 82, of Bloomfield, was transported by ambulance to Greene County General Hospital for treatment of unknown injuries. She complained of chest pain and a right foot injury, according to Greene County Sheriff's Department Deputy Dale Nicholson...

SWITZ CITY -- Greene County Republican Party precinct committeemen will gather May 20 to select an interim county clerk to fill out the unexpired term of Tom Franklin, who resigned effective May 31 to accept the job as Bloomfield Town Marshal. Greene County Republican Central Committee Chairman Lee May said 32 precinct committee chairmen --- one from each of the county's precincts -- will be able to cast a vote in the 9 a.m. ...

Elizabeth Ochoa, executive director of Greene County Circuit Court Alcohol and Drug Services, said possessing a passion to make a difference in the lives of the hundreds of local residents in her caseload is essential to being successful. Ochoa, a Bedford native who came back to Indiana after working law enforcement related jobs in much larger urban areas of Corpus Christi, Texas, and Indianapolis, has been on the job locally since August. ...

JASONVILLE -- The Jasonville City Council met in a short regular session Monday night. Mayor Dorman Clark read a resolution stating that the City of Jasonville is interested in purchasing the land and structures at 251 West Main Street from David Ross. Two appraisals of the fair market value of the property will be acquired, according to the resolution. Councilman Kent May made a motion to approve the resolution, and Council President Peggy Sluder seconded it. The motion carried...

The friends of Linton hometown favorite son Phil Harris lost one of their own "best friends" and most loyal supporters Sunday with the death of rural Linton resident Regina Kramer. The 66-year-old Kramer lost a valiant battle with cancer, but her impact on the community will live on declared her friends and the people she worked with since 1979 in the planning, organizing and staging of the annual Phil Harris Weekend, which has now transformed to the Greene County Foundation Festival...

Letter carriers in Linton and Bloomfield will join their counterparts across America as they collect non-perishable food donations from postal customers along their routes Saturday. The 14th Annual Letter Carriers' Food Drive is sponsored by the National Association of Letter Carriers, in conjunction with the U.S. ...

Several sixth grade students at Linton-Stockton Elementary School recently participated in an essay contest sponsored by the Indiana Association of Cities and Towns. The essay contest, titled "If I were mayor I would ..." is geared at engaging students to think about municipal government and issues that affect them and their community...

HYMERA -- The Northeast Sullivan School Corporation adopted the new wellness policy Monday night. "We are given federal and state guidelines, and the state really came down very strict with the wellness regulations. Beginning July 1, 2006 elementary students will have no access to vending machines, and fruit drinks cannot have added sweetness, no soda in lunchboxes, there are regulations on the calories in the students' lunch plates and regulating the size of snacks at a bake sale," explained superintendent Rick Walters.. ...

A recent spate of deaths statewide from house fires has prompted Linton Fire Department Chief Lonnie Eberhardt to remind citizens to have smoke detectors in their homes and make sure they're operational. "Back in mid-March there had already been 19 fire-related fatalities in the state," said Andy Zirkle, senior public information officer for the Indiana Department of Homeland Security, which includes the state fire marshal's office. ...

Turning Point Education Centers -- in both Greene and Sullivan Counties -- will host summer classes from May 30 to July 14. "The adult basic education program is for students who may already have a GED or high school diploma and want to brush up on basic skills for college or vocational school or for students who want to help their child with homework," explained TPEC deputy administrator Misty Hunt...

A Dugger man has been arrested after he allegedly pumped $43.05 worth of gasoline at a local convenience store and then drove off without paying for the fuel. Thomas Jeffrey Stoner, who lives at 7866 East State Street in Dugger, faces a class D felony theft charge in connection with the alleged theft of fuel from Petro Plus at 525 West Main Street in Bloomfield on May 2...

I was teasing a friend of mine the other day about the tough luck his Milwaukee Bucks had in facing the Detroit Pistons, the team with the best record in the league, in the first round of the NBA playoffs. He shot right back at me and said that the Indiana Pacers, my team, was going to have a fire sale at the end of the season...