Stories from Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Ruth B. Field, 93, of Plainfield and formerly of Bloomfield, passed away at 10:25 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012 at Hendricks Regional Health in Danville. Born July 4, 1919 in Bloomfield, she was the daughter of Emery and Clovie M. (Flake) Cook. She was a dietitian for the Bloomfield Nursing Home and attended Pleasant Ridge Church...

The Southwest Seven football conference had its annual banquet Monday at the Linton-Stockton High School auditeria. Union had five players named to the Academic All-Conference team while, Eastern Greene had one and Linton-Stockton had three, including Offensive Player of the Year Austin Karazsia, who won that award for the second straight season...

A Terre Haute pharmacist, who lives in Greene County, was arrested Monday night on preliminary charges of drug dealing and theft. John T. Webb, 68, of Bloomfield, faces one count of theft ---- a D felony ---- and one count of dealing in controlled substance ---- a class B felony...

Ed Michael will be wearing a different public servant hat Jan. 1, 2013. Michael, a Republican and current member of the Greene County Council, was a winner in Tuesday's General Election race for District 1 Greene County Commissioner over Democrat James Crabb...

The Greene County Treasurer's Office will see new leadership in 2013 as Republican challenger Kelly Zimmerly defeated Democrat incumbent Shelby Meurer in Tuesday's General Election. Zimmerly tallied 6,742 votes (53.01 percent), while Meurer collected 5,977 votes (46.99 percent)...

It was a close race, but challenger Chris Cornelius defeated incumbent Andrew Graves to win a seat on the White River Valley School Board. The outcome of this race was determined by voters in just two townships. The contested seat represents District 3, covering Smith and Grant Townships...

For Nathan Abrams, Sr., the Republican candidate for District 2 Greene County Commissioner, the result couldn't have been a better 51st birthday present. The race had a familiar look to it. The same two candidates battled in the 2008 General Election in which Democrat Steve Lindsey emerged a 780-vote winner in county-wide balloting over Abrams...

The sole contested Linton-Stockton Board of School Trustees race saw two-term Trustee John D. Preble defeated by former assistant principal Les Newman. Newman drew 1,689 votes -- 56.39 percent of the vote -- to the incumbent Preble's 1,330 votes, amounting to 43.61 percent of the ballots cast...

Incumbent Jerry Frye, Patti Jones and Gregg Roudebush were voted into the three Greene County Council at-large seats Tuesday. Frye, a Republican who will be serving his second term on the County Council, led the way Tuesday with 19.28 percent of the votes -- bringing in a total of 6,937 votes...

Shakamak did not reach double figures in any quarter as the Lady Lakers opened the high school girls basketball season with a 79-25 loss to Class A No. 3 Vincennes Rivet at Ralph Holscher Gymnasium Tuesday night. Lauren Herman (18) and Allyson Wehrheim (16) combined for 34 points to pace the winners...

White River Valley jumped out to a 16-point halftime lead and cruised to a 36-24 victory over North Central in a Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference girls basketball game Tuesday night at Switz City. It was the season-opener for both teams. The Lady Wolverines led 28-12 at intermission and still won by double figures despite only making two baskets and scoring eight points in the second half...

While there's never a good time to have the worst case scenario happen to a basketball team, it might be better to get it out of the way early. That's just what happened to the Linton-Stockton Lady Miners in their opening night 61-22 loss to visiting Monrovia Tuesday night...

Republican Ira T. "Butch" Wright is going to keep his position as Greene County Surveyor. He bested his opponent, Democrat Jess A. Gwinn, by a comfortable margin in Tuesday's election. Wright received 5,979 votes, 60.81 percent of the total. Gwinn received 3,668 votes, 39.19 percent of the total...

Two incumbent candidates and two newcomers earned seats on the Eastern Greene Board of School Trustees in balloting on Tuesday. Incumbents Troy D. Fields and Shelly Patterson earned second terms by leading the race among seven candidates. Duane Long and Donald Roberts finished third and fourth in the seven-person field in the district-wide non-partisan race...

Election Day was a busy one for anyone who works with politics or for those who went out to vote. Signs were placed all around the area, and lines were often formed outside of nearly every voting location. Friends, family, and supporters of those running could be seen sporting campaign T-shirts...

House District 45, the only Indiana race which pitted two incumbent state representatives against each other due to redistricting, saw Vincennes Democrat Kreg Battles unseat Jasonville Republican Bruce Borders by only 89 votes. "It's been a pleasant whirlwind but a whirlwind nonetheless," Battles said...

As expected Greene County had a decent voter turnout Tuesday for the general election. Out of the nearly 21,000 registered voters in Greene County, 64.64 percent made it out to the polls or voted early. The 32 precincts had an unusually high number of absentee and early voting ballots, with 3006 voters casting their vote before Tuesday...

With 98 percent of the vote tallied, Republican incumbent Matt Ubelhor has defeated Democratic challenger Jeff Sparks in the District 62 state representative race. As of 11 p.m. on Tuesday, with 51 of 52 precincts reporting, provisional results suggest Ubelhor had drawn 11,776 votes -- 55 percent of those cast -- to 9,455 ballots cast for Sparks, amounting to 45 percent of the vote...

Greene County voters go to the polls today to select a slate of county, state and federal officials. It was a chilly start in the early morning vote with the thermometer hover around the freezing mark when the polling locations opened at 6 a.m.