Stories from Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Fern Bolding, 89, of Muncie,passed away on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008 at the Willow Bend Living Center in Muncie. She was born on Oct. 14, 1918 in Linton, the daughter of Israel and Ursula "Sula" Ann (Taylor) Williams, both of Martin County. She moved to Muncie with her husband James R. Bolding in 1948 where they owned and operated J & J Welding. James preceded her in death in 1978...

The Indiana Department of Transportation announces that State Road 59 will be closing in Linton. Working in conjunction with Indiana Railroad officials, INDOT will be closing S.R. 59 from the junction of State Road 67 in Sandborn to the junction of State Road 54 in downtown Linton. ...

The Greene County Solid Waste Management District Board plans to hire a full-time district supervisor after the top three applicants are interviewed Oct. 21. The SWMD Board will meet in an executive session at 10:30 a.m. -- or following the regular meeting of the county commissioners -- and will interview the consensus top three applicants...

Joseph Arthur Greenwood (Joe), 49, of Atlanta, GA passed away on Thursday, October 2, 2008, at Piedmont Hospital. He was born in Dowagiac, Michigan. He was a graduate of Gainesville High School and received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. ...

Sherry L. Hay, 46, of Sullivan, passed away at 3:45 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008 at Sullivan County Community Hospital in Sullivan. She was born in Jacksonville, Fl. on June 15, 1962. She was a member of the First Christian Church in Sullivan. Survivors include: one son, Greg Hay of Sullivan; one daughter, April Hay of Sullivan; her companion of 10 years Jim Williams; and three grandchildren, Zackary David Hay, Cameron Lee Moreland, and Page Lynn Hay...

Lorain "Ronnie" Harrison, 91, of Lyons, passed away 12:42 a.m. Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at Willow Manor in Vincennes. Born June 3, 1917 in Sullivan County, he was the son of Willis E. and Jennette (Payne) Harrison. He was a coal miner and a self-employed farmer. He was a member of the Pleasant Grove Church of God, the Hymera Masonic Lodge, and the Terre haute VFW...

The Greene County Commissioners passed a resolution Tuesday morning that paves the way for the county to deed a corner lot in downtown Worthington to the Worthington Town Council. The site of the old Williams Hotel building was cleared earlier this summer, and the resolution passed will deed all but 40 feet of the lot to the town of Worthington. That would come after a public hearing Oct. 21 at the next regular commissioner's meeting...

GREENE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT JAIL LOG LINTON POLICE DEPARTMENT ACTIVITY LOG The Linton Police Department's activity log for Monday included two fraud investigations, two requests for information only, one accident with property damage, three medical/illness, two animal complaints, one suspicious vehicle or person, one assist to another agency, two reckless drivers, six thefts-other, one theft-bicycle and two domestic disputes-neighbors...

The Bloomfield Fire Department will finally receive its new tanker truck. That was the word announced at the Bloomfield Town Council meeting on Tuesday. In 2006, the fire department received a community block grant totaling $150,000 for the purchase of a new fire engine. But, the company in which the truck was purchased--American LaFrance went bankrupt slowing up the delivery...

Greene County Emergency Management Director Roger Axe addressed the county commissioners Tuesday with some good news. Axe informed the commissioners that he has received confirmation that Greene County would be receiving a $228,000 Public Safety Interoperability Grant from the Indiana Department of Homeland Security. It will assist with the purchase of remote and console 800-megahertz radios that will be used by area law enforcement departments...

The beginning stages of establishing a city-wide yard sale in Linton are now under way. The idea was brought to the forefront by local resident Deidra Brumfield and Linton City Council Member Linda Bedwell during Monday's Linton City Council meeting...

The death of a six-month-old boy in Porter County that has some direct local connection is being called a homicide by police investigators. The death of Nicholas Munden, of Chesterton, has been ruled a homicide, according to a Cook County, Ill., medical examiner's report...

Tim Kirsch's cannon works. "It's very loud," said Kirsch after the cannon was fired for the first time in decades. After thousands of hours of labor, his project of restoring a rusty old cannon from the Spanish-American War era was completed this past summer...

Greene-Sullivan Education to meet The meeting of the executive board of the Greene-Sullivan Special Education Cooperative will meet in executive session to discuss confidential student records, information about prospective employees Oct. 14 at 8:30 a.m. with the regular meeting to follow at 10 a.m. in the conference room at 77 "A" St., N.E., Linton...

The Eastern Greene boys and the Bloomfield girls junior high cross country teams came away with team titles in the junior high Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference meet on Monday at Switz City. The Thunderbird and Cardinal harriers swapped spots in the boys and girls team standings, as Eastern Greene finished second in the girls standings while Bloomfield was runner-up in the boys meet...

The Linton-Stockton junior high football teams each picked up another win over the weekend against Owen Valley at Roy Williams Field. The Miner seventh graders shutout the Patriots 26-0 while the eighth grade team overpowered their opponents 48-6. With the wins, the seventh grade team improved to 4-1-1 while the eighth graders remain undefeated (6-0)...

The Linton-Stockton Lady Miner volleyball team went on the road and came away with a 25-23, 25-17, 25-21 victory at Edgewood Tuesday night. The victory was the 19th against only eight losses for the Lady Miners. Megan Barnes led with 18 kills while Bradlea Beard (19) and Izzy Carpenter (eight) combined for 27 assists...

Eastern Greene High School lost in four games at Clay City in a Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference volleyball match Tuesday night. The Lady Thunderbirds slipped to 7-18, 3-3 in the SWIAC. "We actually hung with Clay City at times and looked very solid. However, we came away tonight with the loss," said EGHS coach Gina Ingram...

A Dugger women will face a jury trial in Sullivan County court during February after police say she suffocated her infant son. April Monroe, 25, was arrested for reckless homicide in April after a grand jury returned an indictment in connection with the death of her three-month-old son, Bradley M. Wilson, that occurred on Nov. 15, 2007...