Stories from Thursday, September 11, 2008

Thomas R. "Tom" Schulz, 69, of Bloomfield, passed away Monday, Sept. 8, 2008. Born in Bloomington on Aug. 9, 1939, to Roy and Mable Hartman Schulz. After graduating From Bloomington High School, he served in the United States Air Force before spending his professional career as an iron worker with Local 22 of the Iron Workers Union...

The Linton Police Department's activity log for Tuesday included four requests for information only, one custody dispute/exchange, one protective order violation, one school/foot patrol, two accidents with property damage, three medical/illness, one animal complaint, one attempted burglary, three thefts-other, one ordinance violation and one traffic stop...

GREENE CIRCUIT COURT CIVIL CASES Tracy Diane Keen v. Andrew Earnest Keen, dissolution Fred and Maxine Harper v. Sarah L. Kindred, grandparent visitation GMAC Mortgage LLC v. Ben Ray Lacer aka Ben Lacer, Carla Sue Lacer aka Carla S. Lacer, US Bank, mortgage foreclosure...

Maxine Wright, 82, of Linton, passed away Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008, at her residence. She was born Nov. 2, 1925, in Bicknell to Dr. Marion and Fanny Thayer. She married Harold R. Wright on June 29, 1941. She was a bookkeeper for Rice's Home Building Supply for 25 years, retiring in 1988. Her hobbies included clothing, jewelry, shoes and working in her flower gardens. She was a member of the Linton First Christian Church and taught Sunday School for over 40 years at various churches...

BRAZIL -- A former Clay County and Bloomfield teacher is suing to get her job back. Anita M. Miller is petitioning the Clay County Civil Court for a judicial review of her March dismissal by Clay Community School Board of Trustees. According to court documents filed by Miller's attorney Darrel E. ...

Geneva Maxine Roach, 85, of Kokomo, passed away at 3:25 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008 at the Golden Living Center. She was born December 9, 1923 to Frank and Allene (Hord) Sherrow in a log cabin near Little Cincinnati in Greene County. On April 16, 1944, she married John Junior Roach in Hopkinsville, KY...

Russell H. Hester, 60, of Paoli, passed away Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008 at his residence. He was an electrician and a U.S. Navy veteran of the Vietnam War. Survivors include his wife, Brenda Hester; one son, Guy Hester of Jasonville; one daughter, Regina Hester of French Lick; and three sisters, Marcia Babcock of Columbia City, and Carolyn Thompson and Audrey Babcock, both of Fort Wayne...

GREENE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT JAIL LOG LINTON POLICE DEPARTMENT ACTIVITY LOG The Linton Police Department's activity log for Wednesday included three follow-up investigations, two requests for information only, one school/foot patrol, one robbery, one lost and found, one medical/illness, one animal complaint, one burglary, one harassment complaint, one theft-other, one disabled/stranded vehicle, one message delivery, one domestic dispute-neighbor and five traffic stops...

GREENE SUPERIOR COURT INFRACTIONS Jeffrey S. Bays, expired driver's license Kendra L. Bohnert, driving on wrong side of road Ricky L. Bowman, no seat belt fastened Lisa M. Bradley, no registration plate or license Chad D. Bruner, expired driver's license...

Hymera Independent Community Church homecoming The Hymera Independent Community Church will hold its homecoming Sept. 21. Worship at 10:30 a.m., carry-in dinner at noon, special singing at 2 p.m. Church is located at 238 S. State Street in Hymera. Apple Festival art and photography show...

Megan Barnes made 12 consecutive serves to end game one and Samantha Butt connected on 16 straight to close out game two, helping Linton-Stockton High School to a 25-12, 25-9, 25-21 victory over visiting South Knox Thursday night. Overall, the Lady Miners were 69 of 73, 95 percent. Barnes finished 23 of 24 with 20 points and one ace. She also had 11 kills, two blocks, 10 digs and one assist...

BLOOMFIELD -- Bloomfield freshman phenom cross country runner Julie Riggins continued to make the 3.1 mile race look like just another walk in the park as she crossed the finish line nearly two minutes ahead of the second place finisher here in a dual meet with Sullivan Thursday. The Cardinal boys also coasted to a team victory over the Golden Arrows and Union (Dugger) by placing their first five runners in the top five...

The White River Valley junior high volleyball teams have had a successful start to their season. After defeating Owen Valley Wednesday night, the eighth graders improved to 3-0 on the season. The seventh grade team experienced their first loss of the season the same night against the Patriots, falling to 2-1 on the year...

BLOOMFIELD -- The Bloomfield Lady Cardinals volleyball team played the best match they have played in over a week against Bloomington South here Thursday night, according to their coach Jennifer Heaton, but the effort still fell short of victory. The Lady Cards fell to 4-9 on the season with the 25-22, 25-12, 25-16 loss to the visiting Panthers...

Despite not having enough runners to score team points in either cross country race at the Clay City Invitational Thursday afternoon, White River Valley did not go away disappointed. In the girls' 5K race, Jennifer Hughes recorded a course-record time of 21 minutes and one second to place first overall. Hughes was 23 seconds faster than the previous record time of 21:24, which was set by Shakamak's Casey Fougerousse, who finished second in Thursday's race, in 2007...

The Bloomfield Junior High School boys and girls cross country teams remained undefeated with two wins Tuesday. In the girls competition, Bloomfield had a winning score of 17 points. North Knox was second with 52 and Sullivan ran third with a 109. In the boys race, the Cardinals took the top five spots and put up a perfect score of 15. Sullivan had 58 points and North Knox had 65...

Discussion turned to final plans for the annual awards dinner during the Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce's monthly meeting Thursday. Chamber President Cynthia Ferguson announced Nov. 6 as the date for the event with the location being the Bloomfield First Baptist Church...

BATON ROUGE, LA. - Four linemen from the Utilities District of Western Indiana REMC at Bloomfield are working long hours in the hurricane-battered region of Louisiana to get electrical power restored. On September 4, 60 linemen representing Indiana electric cooperatives departed for Greenwell, Louisiana to assist with storm cleanup in the wake of Gustav. ...

Candidates for county, state and federal elected offices will have a "last chance" opportunity to introduce themselves to voters and talk about the issues in an Election Forum planned for Oct. 21. The event, sponsored by Farm Bureau, Inc., will begin at 7 p.m. in the community room of the Greene County Cooperative Extensive Office at the fairgrounds...

The Worthington Town Council did not have anything about golf carts on its agenda this week, but a handful of citizens concerned about the issue got a bit of advice from Town Attorney Jacob Fish. "If you want to get this law changed, contact your state legislator," said Fish...