Stories from Monday, June 18, 2007

An Indiana Conservation officer has filed felony open burning charges against three eastern Greene County residents involved in two separate illegal blazes. John W. Fender and Curt Fender, both of Route 1, Springville, have been charged in Greene Circuit Court with Open Burning -- a class D felony - relating to an incident that took place on April 29...

A large scale fight at an eastern Greene County residence located on Whipperwill Lane on June 10 has resulted in multiple criminal charges filed against three suspects.

INDIANAPOLIS - Steven McNabb may not have left Victory Field in Indianapolis with a Class A state title with his teammates from Shakamak, but the two-sport athlete did receive some hardware. McNabb was named the L.V. Phillips Mental Attitude Award winner...

The local rock group Philpot will give a live performance at the Honey Creek Mall in Terre Haute on June 23. The free show - which will take place at 2 p.m. at the FYE (store) - is a promotional gig for the group's third album "Hate Writes Better than Love" which will be released by Universal Records on June 19, explained Pete Donald, manager of Philpot...

A former foreign exchange student from Hungary, who studied two years at White River Valley High School in Switz City, is waging a personal war on terror in Afghanistan using books and education as his weapons. Jozsef Marian, who is now an ordained minister living in Baltimore, Maryland, has enlisted help from his former high school principal and close friend, Roger Weaver, of rural Switz City, to assist with his unique missionary outreach project...

A public hearing originally slated for today (Monday) on a proposal to extend an economic development Tax Increment Finance (TIF) district to near the proposed WestGate Technology Park has been rescheduled to June 25. The 7 p.m. hearing will be held in the commissioner's room -- located on the third floor of the courthouse in Bloomfield. The purpose of the hearing is to hear remonstrances and objections from all persons interested in or affected by the proposed expansion of the TIF district...

Family of fallen WWII soldier Alfred Eugene Livingston, a former Worthington resident, is experiencing mixed emotions as the date of his bittersweet homecoming approaches. Until a recent identification through dental records, Livington's remains were buried as an unknown at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. Livington perished in 1941 while serving in the U.S. Navy on the USS Oklahoma during the attack on Pearl Harbor...

Adele Anderson, 87, passed away Friday, June 15, 2007. Born Dec. 6, 1919 in Dugger, she was the daughter of Lester and Grace (Fields) Heaton. She graduated from Marco High School in 1937. She married Ralph Anderson in 1938, and he preceded her in death in 1992 after 54 years of marriage. They were farmers and lifelong residents of Lyons. She attended the Lyons Christian Church...

Kathleen (Kate) King, 82, of Scotland, passed away at 6:18 p.m. on Saturday, June 16, 2007 at Bloomington Hospital. Born Oct. 18, 1924 in Greene County, she was the daughter of Jesse Brown and Emma Jane (Hamilton) Padgett. She was a homemaker and attended Scotland United Methodist Church...

William Earl Gabbard, 87 of rural Jasonville, passed away on Saturday, June 16, 2007 at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. He was born in Greene County on May 19, 1920, the son of Orval Floyd and Sarah Elizabeth (Moulden) Gabbard. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was a self-employed farmer and retired from Peabody Coal Company. He was a member of the Nine Mile Methodist Church and the American Legion Post No. 22, both of Linton...

Linda S. Holbert, 65, of Dugger, passed away at 8:45 a.m. on Sunday June 17, 2007 at Miller's Merry Manor in Sullivan. She was born in Greene County on April 23, 1942 to James O. Ashcraft and Minnie Mowery Ashcraft. She was a member of the Sullivan Church of Nazarene...

An interesting conversation with someone the other day got me thinking. Why are we so concerned with the little things in life? If a fast food order is messed up, some will go ballistic and act like they were just robbed of their life savings. If someone gives you the wrong directions to a yard sale, some might call out the National Guard to make sure that it doesn't happen again...