Stories from Thursday, December 13, 2007

After a vote recount, Thomas Schaefer was declared the winner of a seat on the Dugger Town Council. Schaefer will replace long-time Council Member Sam Landis in January, explained Dugger Town Clerk/Treasurer Nikki McCoy. "There was a two vote spread. The recount was done and declared Schaefer the winner over Herbert Gillespie," Mccoy said. "We introduced Thomas as the town council member (during the December council meeting)."...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Bloomfield Junior-Senior High School is among 136 schools in Indiana that were named to the Indiana Chamber of Commerce's list of "busy buy" schools for 2007. Hoosier high schools that have excelled academically while providing good value for Hoosier tax dollars were recognized this week by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce with the release of the ninth edition of the Indiana's Best Buys report...

Linton-Stockton will be looking for its first win of the season when the Miners entertain Class A No. 12 Shakamak in the back half of a girls-boys varsity doubleheader Friday night. The girls game will tip-off at 6 p.m. with the boys game set to follow...

SWITZ CITY -- The Greene County Foundation is hosting a countywide scholarship fair on Thursday, Jan. 10 from 6-9 p.m. at the 4-H Fairgrounds. Colleges and university representatives will be on hand to answer questions from Greene County high school students and their parents about programs and financial aid...

LINTON POLICE DEPARTMENT ACTIVITY LOG The Linton Police Department's activity log for Wednesday included one follow-up investigation, four information only, two juvenile/delinquent, one school/foot patrol, two accidents with property damage, two medical/illness, one animal complaint, one theft-other, one assist to the utility department, one fingerprint for a gun permit, one domestic dispute, one community relations and one traffic stop...

Linton student collecting items The Linton-Stockton Elementary Student Council is sponsoring a sock and underwear drive through Dec. 20. The school is asking students and anyone else to donate a pair or package of new socks and/or underwear. The school nurse's supply is running low. If anyone would like to help out the Student Council and donate, please bring the items to the elementary office...

JASONVILLE -- Cheri Slover, supervisor for Greene County Child Services, adddressed the Metropolitan School District of Shakamak Board of School Trustees Thursday evening to explain a $20,000 grant that was recently awarded to Shakamak School. She also presented a grant agreement with specifications as to how the money could be used to assist students...

The agenda for the White River Valley School Board of Trustees meeting on Thursday evening was filled with a number of personnel items including the acceptance of a retirement resignation of a veteran guidance counselor. After a long career in the WRV system, Bowers, the guidance counselor at WRV High School, has decided to retire at the end of the current school year...

The public is invited to attend the open house and dedication of the seventh Greene County Habitat house Sunday. Guests are welcome to tour the Jasonville Homecoming House between 1-1:30 p.m. and meet the new owners, Deb Cox and her children, Melinda and Merry. The home is located on Harvey Street behind the baseball field...

DUGGER -- It was nip-and-tuck the entire night in Dugger, but when it was all said and done, the Clay City Lady Eels came away with a 63-60 victory over Union to all but secure at least a tie for the Tri-River Conference for Keith Jones and the Lady Eels...

BLOOMFIELD -- After suffering its first loss in the SWIAC in the past 22 games, the Bloomfield girls basketball team went out of conference to get back in the winning column and they did so with a 49-30 victory over Springs Valley Thursday night at Guy Glover Gymnasium...

For the third consecutive week, the Bloomfield Cardinals will be involved in a double weekend affair when they travel to Owen Valley Friday night and then hit the road for the short drive down State Road 54 to Switz City where they take on White River Valley in an effort to remain perfect in the Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference...

SWITZ CITY -- Artistic it wasn't, but effective it was. The White River Valley Lady Wolverines retained possession of the Greene County Keg and stayed undefeated with a 61-55 victory over Eastern Greene in a Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference girls basketball game Thursday night in Switz City...

Two bus loads of Army National Guard troops from Indiana and Illinois pulled out of the Linton Armory early Thursday morning. The immediate destination is Camp Atterbury located near Edinburgh, where the members of Alpha Company of the 1st Battalion, 151st Infantry Regiment C of the Indiana National Guard will train until Dec. 22.

Members of Alpha Company of the 1st Battalion, 151st Infantry Regiment C of the Indiana National Guard based in Linton lined up Thursday to sign a special photograph that was published in their honor. The Guardsmen were featured in a color group photo that appeared on the back page in the Thursday edition of the Greene County Daily World...