Stories from Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Terry and Debbie Collins of Carmel and Steve and Darlene Holtsclaw of Lyons would like to announce the upcoming wedding of their children, Jill Collins and Dustin Holtsclaw. Collins is a 2002 graduate of Carmel High School and received her Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education from Indiana University in 2006. She is currently employed as a first-grade teacher in the Carmel School District...

The subject turned to global warming and climate change legislation during the monthly meeting of the Linton City Council on Monday. Utility Supervisor Brent Slover provided more details on the matter in a Tuesday morning interview with the Greene County Daily World...

JASONVILLE -- The Jasonville City Council prepared the town for the summer months at its Monday evening meeting. The council voted to hire Quality Lawn Care to take care of the city's lawns for the season and for City Pest Control to spray for mosquitoes during the months of May through October if needed...

The Linton City Council agreed to move forward with the utility round-up program which was proposed during last month's meeting. In a 5-0 vote, the council moved to proceed with the program -- which will round up monthly utility bills to the nearest dollar with the collected money going into a fund administered by an outside party to help locals with energy assistance...

A 27-year-old Linton woman in an intoxicated state was taken to jail early Tuesday after she wandered onto someone's front porch then told officers she was on her way to church. Fawn K. Dove was arrested by Linton Police Cpl. Chad Crynes after police received a call around 2:30 a.m. from a resident on E. Vincennes St. who said an unknown intoxicated woman was on his porch...

The suspect in an unusual road rage incident last week was arrested Tuesday, but his stay in the Greene County Jail was a short one. David Roy Holmes, 38, Route 6, Bloomfield was arrested at 11:42 a.m. on a warrant issued a day earlier by Greene Circuit Court Judge Erik Allen...

GREENE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT JAIL LOG LINTON POLICE DEPARTMENT ACTIVITY LOG The Linton Police Department's activity log for Monday included one fraud, one utility repair, one accident with property damage, one medical/illness, one prowler, one assist to another agency, one harassment complaint, one reckless driver, one attempted burglary, one welfare check/concern, one fingerprint for a gun permit, one misc. fingerprint and one traffic stop...

GREENE CIRCUIT COURT CIVIL CASES Capital One Bank (USA) NA v. Rod McClure, collection Wells Fargo Bank NA v. Jacob E. Robison, State of Indiana Unemployment Insurance, mortgage foreclosure GREENE SUPERIOR COURT CRIMINAL CASES State v. Fawn K. Dove, resisting law enforcement with force, public intoxication...

WRV to present Country Revue The White River Valley High School Choir will present a Country Revue on Friday at 7 p.m. in the cafeteria. Tickets are $3 and includes drinks and desserts. Doors will open at 6:15. Lyons Senior Center breakfast A biscuit, gravy, egg, sausage and pancake breakfast will be held from 7 - 10 a.m. ...

Action on a proposed increase of the sewer rates in Worthington was tabled on a motion made by council member Malcolm Stahl during the Worthington Town Council's Utility Department meeting on Tuesday evening. Council President Hal Harp proposed an across-the-board increase of $5 on the basic residential rate of $35 per month...

DUGGER -- For the first time this season, the Union (Dugger) High School softball team was competitive and had a chance to win, but the Lady Bulldogs came up on the short end of a 5-3 loss to visiting Sullivan here Tuesday night. "This is by far our best effort of the season," said Union (Dugger) coach Rick Swan, whose Lady Bulldogs slipped to 0-6. "We had a few mental errors that cost us, but this was our best game so far."...

The Sixth Annual Linton-Stockton baseball Hall of Fame Introduction and alumni game will be Sunday, May 3 at Roy Williams Field starting at 1 p.m. Former players can register at the field starting at 11:30 a.m. and there will be no player cost this year. Players can also use the new indoor facility at the field following registration...

ELNORA -- Bloomfield girls' tennis team dropped only six games to beat the host North Daviess Cougars 5-0 on a cold, windy afternoon on the Tony Steele Courts Tuesday, The Lady Cardinals now stand 3-1 for the season. The most competitive match of the day came at the No. ...

The surname Wright has long been associated with Indiana, 8th District and Greene County Democrat Party politics. And, there's another Wright involved in politics these days. Jathan Wright, a 2008 Linton-Stockton High graduate and freshman political science major at Vincennes University, is the newly elected 8th District Chairman of the Young Democrats organization...