Stories from Thursday, March 31, 2011

A Linton minister opened Thursday morning's session of the Indiana House of Representatives in prayer. Archie Ellett, lead minister at the Linton First Christian Church, addressed the House members in Indianapolis and talked about unity in his opening prayer. Ellett said the invitation to be the legislature's "Minister of the Day" came from District 62 State Rep. Matt Ubelhor (R-Bloomfield)...

Larry and Patsy Waggoner of Lyons (right) will celebrate 50 years of marriage on April 21, 2011. Their children would like all friends and family to join them for an open house on Sunday, April 17 from 2-5 p.m. at the Lyons Community Building. Patsy (Mullis) and Larry were married April 21, 1961 at the First Christian Church in Lyons with the Rev. Robert Richards officiating...

The show in June will go on -- maybe. That's the decision of the committee that puts on the annual Greene County Foundation Festival concert event slated this year for the weekend of June 3-5. The benefit show has featured Country Music Hall of Fame member Roy Clark or the late Phil Harris since its founding 32 years ago...

Greene County is not a real healthy place to live, ranking 80th among the state's 92 counties. Sullivan County is even worse with a 87th ranking in the state. Primary care providers are woefully lacking in both counties. Those results are from the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation second annual County Health Rankings report released Wednesday morning...

Robert Lee Ferry, 86 of Linton, passed away at 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at St. Vincent's Heart Center in Indianapolis. He was born in Linton on Aug. 28, 1924, the son of Harry R. and Rose B. (Kuper) Ferry. Bob attended St. Peter's Parochial School in Linton, and graduated from Linton High School in 1943. ...

David Lee Duncan, 60 of Linton, died at 11:05 a.m. on Thursday, March 31, 2011 at Glenburn Home in Linton. He was born in Linton on July 31, 1950 the son of Charles and Virginia Rose (Curnutt) Duncan. David earned a Master's Degree from Indiana State University. He taught history and social studies at North Daviess High School for 32 years. He was a member of the Indiana State Teachers Association and National Education Association...

Since Washington Catholic does not have a baseball team this spring, today's game against Linton-Stockton has been canceled. The Miners will open the season with a single game at 5 p.m. Saturday at Roy Herndon Field against visiting Shoals. Linton-Stockton has added a varsity baseball game at Northeast Dubois on 6 p.m. Thursday, May 5...

After Wednesday's heightened security alert, it was mostly business as usual for Linton-Stockton students and staff Thursday. L-S Superintendent Nick Karazsia shared details on the incident -- that came after the Linton Police Department received information Tuesday regarding some students allegedly talking about injuring some junior high students...

The Greene County Daily World takes an in-depth look at the Linton mayoral primary race between Democrats Mike Hennette and John Wilkes. This is the first of three stories. John Wilkes and Mike Hennette are the Democrat Party candidates for Linton Mayor in the May 3 primary election...

DUGGER -- Josh LeDune begins his second season in charge of the Union (Dugger) High School boys golf program with a roster of eight players, including several experienced golfers. "Selby (Shott) and Tyler (Talpas) are two returning scorers from last season," said the Union (Dugger) graduate. "They are both pretty consistent...

SWITZ CITY -- White River Valley baseball coach Justin English thinks he's got a pretty good group to build the Wolverines baseball hopes around this year. Led by returning seniors Cade Herndon, Michael White and Brandon Engler along with transfer Shane Kollar, English believes things are starting to come together...

JASONVILLE -- B.A. Shipman has taken over the reigns of the Shakamak Lady Lakers softball team and he's decided to make a few changes to a lineup that was fairly consistent offensively, but struggled defensively a year ago. But that doesn't the mean the former junior varsity coach is any less enthusiastic about the team that former coach Brent Anderson left him...

JASONVILLE -- With just nine runners on the roster, you would think Shakamak boys track coach Mark Messmer would at the very least be apprehensive about the upcoming season -- not so. "We'll be goal-oriented definitely," Messmer said. "We've got a couple of guys we hope to get out to the regional and maybe a little further, we'll see."...

JASONVILLE -- The numbers are down but the expectations are high for the 2011 Shakamak girls track team says coach Zac Whitkanack. "The numbers are down a little bit this year but we've got a good mixture in experience of upperclassmen." While the experience is equal to two seniors, three juniors and seven sophomores, there's also a good crop of four freshmen according to Whitkanack...

GREENE CIRCUIT COURT CIVIL CASES Citibank (South Dakota) NA vs. Pauline Gorby, collection Capital One Bank (USA) NA, formerly known as Capital ONe Bank vs. Kayla Wilgus, collection Carolyn Cummings vs. Martin & Bayley, Inc. dba Huck's Stores, tort In Re the Marriage of Jimmy Corlett, Sr. and Pamela Corlett, domestic relation...

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Due to a Saturday school session at Linton-Stockton High School on Saturday April 2, the Miners baseball game with Shoals will now be a single game only. First pitch is reset for 5 p.m. at Roy Williams Field. The Miner game with Washington Catholic Thursday was canceled because the Cardinals did not field a team this season...

The Terre Haute North at Shakamak High School varsity baseball game will start at 6 p.m. Monday, one hour earlier than previously schedule.

The White River Valley vs. Washington Catholic High School baseball game, scheduled for Saturday, and the WRV at Holy Cross baseball game, scheduled for Tuesday, have been canceled.

The Bloomfield Lady Cardinals opened the season with a disappointing 5-3 loss at the hands of visiting Cloverdale Thursday at Bloomfield. "I liked what I saw even though we lost," first-year head coach Nicole Peter said. "We only struck out two times and walked only once. We hit the ball well, just right at somebody."...

JAIL LOG * March 30 -- Samuel A. Robertson, 31, Spencer, was arrested on a preliminary charge of attempted dealing in methamphetamine and was being held in lieu of $38,000 bond. Greene County Sheriff's Deputy John Fowler was the arresting officer.

ACTIVITY LOG The Linton Police Department's activity log for Wednesday included two follow-up investigations, two requests for information, one juvenile/delinquent, one assist to the utility department after hours, one drug investigation, one accident with property damage, one complaint about an animal, one suspicious vehicle or person, two extra patrols, two thefts, two ordinance violations and one traffic stop...

The White River Valley High School girls tennis team features record numbers for new coach Roger Maryfield. "I have a great turnout for girls tennis this season. There is a total of 19 players -- eight seniors, four juniors and seven freshmen," said Maryfield. "I will do my best to teach these girls the skills and strategy they need to pick up some more wins...

Greene County Soccer is having a field day on Saturday, April 2nd from 9 am to 1 pm at the soccer complex.

Emily Ann Thompson (right) and Rae Anne Tyra (middle) were interviewed by Donna Kluesner (left) of the Carnegie Arts & Heritage Center of Greene County on Thursday. Thompson will be performing Celtic fiddle music tonight at 7 p.m. at the center in Linton. You can watch the interview on Channel 3 on the home page.

The White River Valley Lady Wolverines dropped a 15-5 decision to host Bloomington North Thursday night in a non-conference high school softball game stopped after five innings due to the 10-run rule. In its season opener, WRV jumped to a quick 2-0 lead in the first inning only to see it quickly evaporate...

The Linton Police Department issued the following alert at approximately 11:30 p.m. Thursday assuring the community that LPD officers will be present at Linton-Stockton schools throughout the day on Friday. The alert states: "The LPD is still currently investigating the school-related remarks of one of the Linton students...

Bloomfield Junior-Senior High School Varsity Basketball Coach John Bucher was placed on administrative leave with pay from his science teaching position in a vote by the Bloomfield Board of School Trustee on Thursday night. The board's unanimous vote (7-0), effective March 7, came without public comment......