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Boys and Girls Club needs support
(Local News ~ 06/27/06)
With the future of the Greene County Boys and Girls Club uncertain, there is hope that an upcoming appeal meeting will overturn the recent decision that denied the club a $35,000 grant. A grant committee will look over the appeal on July 17 in Indianapolis, explained Carol Byers, executive director of the club. The grant that was recently lost is the club's main funding...
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Linton cheer squad brings spirit to football game
(High School Sports ~ 06/27/06)
TERRE HAUTE -- A long debate in the sports world has been: Is cheerleading a sport? According to the most common definition of the word sport, a physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively, cheerleading would have to be categorized as a sport...
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Crane hopes to make impression at All-Star Game
(High School Sports ~ 06/27/06)
Bloomfield High School graduate Michael Crane knows that he will be attending Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology as a mechanical engineering major in the fall. What he doesn't know if he will be playing basketball for the Engineers or not. He is still hoping to impress Rose-Hulman coach Jim Shaw when he appears in the first of four East-West All-Star games Saturday, July 8 at Chrysler Fieldhouse in New Castle...
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Alice Tincher
(Obituary ~ 06/27/06)
Alice Tincher, 71, of Linton, passed away this morning, June 27, 2006, at her residence. Arrangements are pending at Anderson-Poindexter Memory Chapel Linton. Final arrangements will be available later today at www.andersonpoindexter.com
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Evelyn G. Preble
(Obituary ~ 06/27/06)
Evelyn G. Preble, 88, of Linton, passed away this morning, June 27, 2006, at Greene County General Hospital in Linton. Arrangements are pending at Anderson-Poindexter Memory Chapel Linton. Final arrangements can be viewed later today at www.andersonpoindexter.com...
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Karen Joyce (Pfaff) Loesch
(Obituary ~ 06/27/06)
Karen Joyce (Pfaff) Loesch, 56, of Bloomington, passed away Friday evening, June 23, 2006, at Bloomington Hospital. Born May 4, 1950 in Monroe County, she was the daughter of Delmar O. and Mary A. Pfaff. She was a mother and grandmother and will be greatly missed. She believed in Jesus Christ and prayer...
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Dugger teen extricated after weekend accident
(Local News ~ 06/27/06)
A Dugger teen had to be extricated from a vehicle after an accident in the early hours of Saturday morning. Daniel T. Page, 18, and Brian W. Boyd, 19, both of Dugger, were northbound on State Road 54 near County Road 250 West around 3:46 a.m. when Page, who was driving, swerved to miss a deer. ...
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Solsberry man sentenced in child molestation case
(Local News ~ 06/27/06)
A 19-year-old Solsberry man, who was found guilty of one count of child molestation by a jury earlier this month, was sentenced Monday in Greene Circuit Court to four years in prison with two of the years suspended. James M. Uland will also have to serve two years on probation after his release from the Indiana Department of Correction, undergo psychological treatment and register as a convicted sex offender, according to the sentencing order handed down by Greene Circuit Judge David Johnson...
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Toon proposes idea of building gated community
(Local News ~ 06/27/06)
Pulling a page out of the "Field of Dreams" book that inspired a movie and adhering to the belief -- "If you build it, they will come" -- Greene County Redevelopment Commission member Ron Toon, of rural Bloomfield, shared some of his dream ideas Monday night for the development of a gated residential community near the West Gate at Crane Technology Park...
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Linton woman accepts negotiated plea agreement
(Local News ~ 06/27/06)
A 46-year-old Linton woman who faced a possible prison sentence of more than 30 years on her two original felony counts -- involving sexual misconduct charges pertaining to the parenting of her teenage daughter -- accepted a negotiated plea agreement and was sentenced on Monday in Greene Circuit Court...
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Humane Society's delimma adverted
(Local News ~ 06/27/06)
Andrea McCann, who serves as president of the Greene County Humane Society's board of directors, came to the Greene County Council on Monday afternoon concerned that funding was running seriously low for the remainder of the year. However, she learned that $10,000 the council had previously appropriated when the 2006 budget was approved, but that has not yet been allocated, is available to the society...
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County council hears requests for additional appropriations
(Local News ~ 06/27/06)
The Greene County Council heard a series of requests for additional budget appropriations from several county-funded office representatives on Monday afternoon who detailed that unless the appropriations were advertised and approved, services would have to be curtailed and tasks not met...
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Crane Federal Credit Union breaks ground at West Gate Tech Park
(Local News ~ 06/27/06)
CRANE -- Crane Federal Credit Union held groundbreaking ceremonies Monday morning for a new corporate office at the West Gate at Crane Technology Park that is expected to be completed in the spring of 2007. Crane Federal Credit Union is the second tenant to break ground at the new tri-county tech park -- a cooperative effort of Greene, Daviess and Martin counties...
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AfterCare offering physicals
(High School Sports ~ 06/27/06)
High School physicals for Linton, WRV and Bloomfield will be performed at AfterCare Clinic at 141 Main Street from 6 to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday and Sunday from noon to 3 p.m. Cost is $15.00 and no appointment necessary. Girls hoop camp at WRV...
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