Stories from Tuesday, March 4, 2008

We recently traveled to Charleston, S.C., for eight days. One evening we stopped in a mom and pop restaurant that specializes in ice cream, soups and sandwiches in Mt. Pleasant. Above the cash register a sign stated "Walk outs will be prosecuted." I like to find the humor in signs so I asked, "If I run out will you not prosecute me?" His brow became corduroy-like. ...

It is important to know your child's gross motor, or large motor, milestones. The following are the milestones you child should be reaching from the end of year one to the end of year 3. By the end of your child's first year, she reaches sitting position without assistance, crawls forward on belly, assumes hands-and-knees position, creeps on hands and knees, gets from sitting to crawling or prone (lying on stomach) position, pulls self up to stand, walks holding on to furniture, stands momentarily without support, and may walk two or three steps without support.. ...

The children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Morris and Delores Sparks will host a luncheon open house on March 15 at the Worthington Community Building from 2-5 p.m. as the couple celebrates their 50th wedding anniversary. Please come and share stories and make memories for the family. If you have pictures or stories of Morris and Delores please bring them. The family would like to make a scrapbook for them to keep...

Happy New Year. It's a little late for that, you may be thinking, but March 1 was the anniversary date of my contract with Greene County Economic Development Corporation. New Year is typically a time of reflections and resolutions, so here are mine. First the reflections:...

JASONVILLE -- After putting together a 13-10 season in 2006-07, Shakamak boys basketball coach Ernie Maesch envisioned this year's team being one of the best in Class A, especially since he was going to have Billy Newton, Ethan Stanifer, Justin Cox and Jaret May likely making up four-fifths of his starting line-up...

Regional tickets available Tickets for the boys basketball Class A Martinsville Regional are on sale in the Shakamak Jr./Senior High School athletic office until 2 p.m. Friday. Season tickets, good for both sessions, are $9. Individual session tickets will only be available at Martinsville before the start of each round...

Peggy Ann Smith, 43, Bloomington, was arrested Monday on preliminary charges two class A misdemeanors for criminal mischief and battery with injury. In the probable cause affidavit filed in Greene Superior Court, Greene County Sheriff's Deputy Dured Townsend wrote that on Sunday, Smith drove to a Lawrence Hollow residence in eastern Greene County, walked into the house without consent and slapped a woman on the side of the head. ...

SWITZ CITY -- Joan Bethell, who serves as executive director of Greene County Economic Development Corporation, visited the Switz City Town Council meeting Monday evening to further explain the vision for Greene County and to ask that the council reconsider a donation of $466 to her not-for-profit agency...

Greene County has been awarded $20,474 to supplement food and shelter programs throughout the area. Vonda Smith, chairman of the Local Emergency Food and Shelter Board, explained, "It's national money ... allocated into low-income areas. We have received it for several years."...

The Greene County Commissioners have approved a request to establish two satellite voting locations for the upcoming Primary Election. The request from county clerk Jackie Winstead -- made Tuesday morning -- sets up pre-election voting locations April 12 at the National Guard Armory in Linton and April 19 at the Center Township Fire Department in Little Cincinnati...

The Greene County Commissioners discussed fueling and storage tank concerns at the eastside county highway garage during Tuesday morning's regular meeting. County Highway Superintendent Basil Shepherd reported that there is currently not enough room at the eastside garage, located on State Road 54 east of Bloomfield, for a 10,000-gallon capacity tank like is used at the westside location...

No decisions were made on computer purchases or contracting for computer technical support during Tuesday morning's meeting of the Greene County Commissioners. The topic has been extensively discussed the last several meetings, but both commissioner's president Bart Beard and Commissioner Kathy Crouch said Tuesday they needed more time to study revised quotations received from two contractors before making a decision...

Steven B. Kristler, 20, Jasonville, was arrested late Monday after police received an anonymous tip that he could be located in a motel room in Linton with a female juvenile. A no-contact order was in force which ordered him to have no contact with the juvenile. The order was issued in connection with an earlier incident...

Forrest Games Burright, 51, of Bloomington, passed away April of 2005 in Greene County. His identification was recently confirmed after lab analysis by the Indiana State Police and a University of Indianapolis anthropologist. Burright's skeletal remains were found by timber harvest employees on Jan. 17, 2007 in a remote wooded area northeast of Bloomfield near the intersection of county roads 325N and 455E about three miles from Tulip...

Robert Lee Corwin, 88, of Shelbyville, passed away Sunday, March 2, 2008 at Spring Hurst Health Campus. Born Dec. 3, 1919 in Bloomfield, he was the son of Hurberrt Lee and Martha Corwin. He married Lonzie Burnette and she preceded him in death in 2003...

GREENE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT JAIL LOG LINTON POLICE DEPARTMENT ACTIVIYT LOG The Linton Police Department's activity report for Monday included one identity theft investigation, two follow-up investigations, seven requests for information only, one assist to the utility department after hours, one protective order violation, two accidents with personal injury, four medical/illness, one alarm, two animal complaints, one suspicious vehicle/person, one assist to another agency, two welfare checks/concerns, two fingerprints for gun permits, one arrest-wanted on warrant, one animal/canine removed and one traffic stop.. ...

GREENE CIRCUIT COURT CIVIL CASES Candra Lynn Brunson v. Randall Ray Brunson, dissolution Unifund CCR Partners of Palisades Acquisitions XVI, LLC v. Stacy M. Goodall, collection Wells Fargo Bank NA v. Michael L. Haldeman, mortgage foreclosure Capital One Bank v. Ronald J. Payton, collection...

Emergency Food and Shelter funding Public or private voluntary agencies interested in applying for emergency food and shelter program funds must contact Vonda Smith at (812) 699-2002 for instructions on how to apply. The deadline for applications is March 13...

About 120 Bloomfield residents turned out to support the proposed $500,000 downtown revitalization project and grant application during a public hearing conducted by the Bloomfield Town Council on Tuesday night. The project would fund sidewalk and lighting renovations on the north, east and west sides of the courthouse square as well as pay for installation of electrical outlets for seasonal decorations and do minor storm drainage improvements. ...