Stories from Wednesday, May 10, 2006

When it comes to Linton-Stockton High School and Sullivan High School football, the rivalry could be compared favorably to the feud waged for years by the Hatfields and McCoys. Anybody who watched Charlie Karazsia's Miners and Rene Foli's Golden Arrows battle on the gridiron during the1980s would have gotten the distinct impression that the two coaches did not like each other...

Jeff Bond, a former head coach at North Central, was named the varsity football coach at Eastern Greene Tuesday night by the school board of trustees. "I don't think I can convey how excited I am about this opportunity," said Bond, who is currently in his first year as assistant superintendent at Eastern Greene Schools. "I enjoy working with students...

LINCOLN, Neb -- Tim Fish is currently tied for 15th-place after posting a second round score of 77 at the NCAA Division III National Championships played at the Firethorn Golf Club in Lincoln, Nebraska. After Monday's first round, Fish was tied for 6th place, but fell into some bad luck on Tuesday to fall out of the top 10...

The Linton Miners dropped their third straight game since being named class 2A's No. 1 team last week, a ranking they lost this week after dropping all the way to eighth, this time to Hutsonville (Ill), 5-0, at Roy Herndon Field in Linton Tuesday night...

The Linton boys golf team shot a 164 at Stonecrest on Tuesday, which was 27 strokes better than host Eastern Greene, who finished with a total of 191 in a high school boys golf match. Caleb Dunkerly paced the Miners as he was low medalist with a nine-hole total of 37, which was 1-over par...

Linton rallied for three runs in the fifth inning to defeat visiting Cloverdale 4-2 Tuesday. "We got off to a very slow start," said Linton softball coach Jill Flater. "It took us a few innings to get going. "It is really not the kind of thing you want to see going into the sectional. But we had not played in five days and the girls are not used to that. We usually don't have more than two days off. But they have to be able to adjust to that."...

The Linton tennis team dropped a 5-0 match to North Daviess on Tuesday at Humphreys Park in Linton in preparation for the SouthWestern Indiana Athletic Conference meet Friday and Saturday in Elnora. "Not much to say about this one," said Linton coach Brad McKinney. "They handed it to us last night. After having all these close matches as of late, I thought we had a pretty good chance last night."...

BEDFORD -- The Bloomfield Cardinals lost to Bedford North Lawrence on the road Tuesday evening, 10-0, in a five inning softball contest. Stephanie Barker was the losing pitcher, she is now 3-10. The Lady Cardinals managed just one hit, while committing six costly errors...

Pairings for the 22nd annual IHSAA softball state tournament were drawing Wednesday morning in Indianapolis. The tournament is scheduled to run between May 22-27, with each site to announce the exact times. At the Class 2A South Knox Sectional, Linton (14-8) drew a first-round bye and will not play until the second round when they will face Paoli...

BLOOMFIELD -- In spite of a rain delay that postponed the start of Bloomfield's home tennis match with Loogootee until 7 p.m., the two teams managed to get on the courts where the Lions knocked off the Cardinals, 4-1. "The match was closer than a 4-1 defeat sounds," said Bloomfield coach Mike Canty. "Overall, I thought that everyone played as well as they have all season and the individual matches were closer than the score would indicate."...

Bloomfield lost 12-2 at Washington on Tuesday in baseball action. "We didn't even show up," said Bloomfield baseball coach Jason Pegg. "It took us an hour to get there and an hour to get home and the game lasted one hour and 10 minutes. "They got off the bus and had no life in them. We went out and got smoked."...

Charles W. "Chuck" Stevenson, 80, of Wilfred, passed away at 3 p.m. on Monday, May 8, 2006 at Regional Hospital in Terre Haute. Born Aug. 1, 1925 in Shepherdsville, he was the son of William W. Stevenson and Laverna (Payne) Stevenson. On Jan. 25, 1947, he married Vivian L. (McDaniel) Stevenson...

A Linton native, who's been paying her dues and waiting for her big break with the music industry in Nashville, Tenn., might receive that opportunity at about noon Sunday. It will be in front of a large Hoosier-based crowd that is expected to number more than 100,000 and before a national cable television audience...

EASTERN HEIGHTS-- The current public participation policy was once again a topic of discussion during the Eastern Greene School Board meeting Tuesday night. School board President Andrew Brough explained that the current policy may be changed in the near future...

EASTERN HEIGHTS -- The Eastern Greene Board of School Trustees listened Tuesday night as two patrons expressed concern about current school policies. Selena Thompson, mother of an Eastern Greene High School student, expressed her concern about an incident that recently occurred to her son while on a field trip...

One Bloomfield woman literally has her hands full of fittings, alterations, make-up and costume design. Toni Scroggins -- who is the resident costume designer and wardrobe head at the Shawnee Theatre -- is in her second season at the theatre. "I was awarded a miraculous opportunity with this," she explained. "It's like playing dress-up ... it's a dream job. A lot of it is creative work that I get to put into it myself."...

WORTHINGTON -- The Worthington downtown revitalization project moved forward Tuesday night with the signing of a contract with an Indianapolis design firm and agreeing to seek an additional $500,000 state grant to expand the scope of the planned improvements...

WORTHINGTON -- The Worthington Town Council is taking a Kentucky computer company to court in an effort to recover part of the money it lost which it spent for software and training that the town alleges was never completed. Meeting Tuesday night, the council directed town attorney Jacob Fish to proceed with a civil suit against Data Design, Inc., located in Richmond, Ky. Fish said the town spent about $15,000 with the firm for software, installation and training services...

Greene County health personnel are taking the possible bird flu pandemic serious. Some county officials have been preparing for months to meet the challenge the pandemic could bring, said Greene County Health Coordinator Andrea Alltop "We are planning public meetings for education and working to get the word out in several different ways. ...

Brenda Joyce Arney, 59, of Loogootee, passed away at 2 p.m. on Monday, May 8, 2006 at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. Born Sept. 24, 1946 in Greene County, she was the son of Richard Paul Sparks and Margie Riggle. She was married to Michael Arney...

DUGGER -- Union (Dugger) came up with 12 hits and capitalized on six errors by White River Valley as the host Lady Bulldogs came away with a 12-2 victory in a Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference softball game Tuesday. Arica Marcotte hit a three-run home run over the left field fence with no outs in the bottom of the fifth inning to end the contest via the 10-run rule...