Stories from Tuesday, December 11, 2012

The first local Hunts for Heroes event, conducted in late November, is being termed a great success. Three days of deer hunts ---- Nov. 24-26 ---- resulted in four hunters bagging six deer, one buck and five does, on the farm of Jack and Helena Benham, located north of Worthington...

EASTERN HEIGHTS -- Outgoing Eastern Greene School Board member Rob Hudson, in his parting words to his fellow board members and school administrators Monday night, told them think big and don't be afraid to do something outside the box Monday night was Hudson's final meeting after serving eight years...

Linton Firefighter Kent "Opie" Wall has been taken off the City of Linton's payroll. Mayor John Wilkes asked the city's Board of Public Works to make the decision when they met Monday evening prior to the regular monthly meeting of the city council...

The Greene County Council bid farewell Monday to members William "Butch" Brown, Rae Della Cravens, and Ed Michael. Council president Ed Cullison read a resignation letter from Michael, who will take a seat on the Greene County Board of Commissioners effective Jan. 1, 2013...

MEROM ---- Indiana State Police detectives and the Sullivan County Sheriff's Office continue to investigate the death of 85-year-old Lowell R. Badger rural Merom The body was found by a son on the floor of his bedroom at 9:23 on Saturday morning. Cause of death has been determined to be a gunshot wound...

Members of the community were stunned to learned Parkview Lanes, the last bowling alley in the Greene County, was set to shut the doors for good Monday. "It's just a sad situation that this happened. There are so many people and different age groups it effects," Dennis Hancock, president of the Linton-based United States Bowling Congress Association, said...

Tournament Formats Approved for Class 5A, 6A Football Two format recommendations for the new Class 5A and 6A football state tournaments were approved today at the monthly meeting of the IHSAA Executive Committee. Those provisions included the creation of eight, four-team sectionals in each class along with a bye week for the two teams competing in each state championship game during the traditional semi-state week. Both were unanimously passed by the 16-member committee...

WRV-Worthington defeated host Eastern Greene 30-7 in a fifth grade boys basketball game Wednesday. Trey Carpenter and Clayton Hoover each scored six points for the winners. John Clevenger scored four points, Tanner Denham three, Eli Byarley, Trever Dyer, Lance Dyer, Layne Baker and Braden Jackson each scored two and Blaine Gilstrap added one...

The WRV-Lyons fifth grade boys basketball team lost a 56-17 decision to Bloomfield. Joe Records scored nine points, Christian Moreno had six points and Noah Walton added two. In the sixth grade game, WRV-Lyons fell to Bloomfield 48-20. Addison Wall scored 13 points for WRV...

The Dugger Junior High girls basketball home game against North Daviess will now be played at 6 p.m. Thursday.

Girls varsity-only game The Loogootee at White River Valley girls basketball game on Saturday will be a varsity-only high school contest. Start time will be at 1 p.m.

Wabash Valley Classic boys basketball tickets are on sale at the Shakamak High School athletic office. Price for a season ticket is $20. These tickets are good for each session of the four-day tourney -- Dec. 26-29. There will be 28 games involving 16 Wabash Valley Teams. Daily passes will be sold at the door for $7...

Tickets for the Pizza Hut Wabash Valley Classic boys basketball tournament at Terre Haute South will be available at Linton-Stockton High School. A regular tourney pass is good for all 28 games on Dec. 26-29 at South. Linton-Stockton athletic director Charlie Karazsia said that Miner fans can purchase tickets for $20...

The Shakamak eighth grade boys basketball squad defeated visiting Eastern Greene 42-38 Monday night. The Lakers (3-3) were led in scoring by Parker Green with 18 points. Also contributing to a balanced attack was Cameron West and Tanner Yeryar with seven each, Logan Kinnett with six and Caleb Collier with four...

Wednesday There will be a Painting Class featuring Acrylic Snow Scene at Carnegie Heritage and Arts Center at 6:30 p.m. The cost is $12 per person for ages 10 and over. Call 812-910-0472 to register or for more information. The Orange, Lawrence, Jackson, Martin and Greene Joint Services Superintendent's Governing Board meeting will be held in the Joint Service conference room, located at 1401 Fifteenth St., Bedford, Ind. ...

One man was taken to the hospital Friday after he was involved in a head-on collision -- with a tree, in eastern Greene County. Jeremy Bowers, 25, Bloomfield, was eastbound, on Dec. 7, in a 1996 black Toyota on McVille Rd. near 11992 E. McVille Rd. when the crash occurred around 3:30 pm...

JAIL LOG No new bookings.

ACTIVITY LOG The Linton Police Department's activity log for Monday included one incident of breaking and entering, one title check, one follow-up investigation, one request for lifting assistance, one vehicle repossession, two medical/illness, one assist to another agency, one reckless driver, one theft of a bicycle, one welfare check/concern, one 911 prank/false call, one ordinance violation and two traffic stops...

The Lyons Town Council voted to hire two new employees to manage sewage operations in an effort to save the town money. Effective Jan. 1, Cliff Pemberton Jr. will be working for the city at $14,000 per year and Cliff Pemberton Sr. will be on a salary of $25,000......

It's finally official. The Linton-Stockton Miner football team is dropping out of the Southwest Seven Conference. According to Miner athletic director Charlie Karazsia, the Miners will be dropping Union in week eight as part of the move to improve their schedule...

The Linton-Stockton freshmen boys basketball team will host Owen Valley at 6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 17.

Class 2A No. 9 Sullivan jumped out to a 22-5 lead and cruised to a 72-31 victory over visiting Shakamak in a non-conference high school girls basketball game Tuesday night. The Lady Arrows improved to 7-2 while the Lady Lakers slipped to 2-8. "Those four seniors have been at Sullivan for a while and that is a pretty special group," said Shakamak coach Troy Fougerousse. "We just got a good old fashioned butt kicking from them tonight...

Union limited visiting Palestine-Hutsonville (Ill.) to just five points over the final eight minutes as the host Lady Bulldogs rallied for a 47-43 victory in a high school girls basketball game at Dugger Tuesday night. "I thought we won the game with our defense in the fourth quarter," said Union coach Benji Boyd. "We were down five (38-33) going to the last quarter and I told the girls, "It was now over never and that we had to win it on the defense end.'...

Hutsonville-Palestine outscored Union 17-12 in the fourth quarter to hold on for a 45-42 victory in a non-conference high school boys basketball game in Illinois Tuesday night. The loss was the fifth in as many games for the Bulldogs., who got 12 points from Ian Hamburg, 11 from Austin Robertson and a team-high 13 from Sterling Langley...

BLOOMFIELD -- There's just no easier way to put it than Tuesday's Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference girls basketball clash between host Bloomfield and White River was ugly. The two teams combined for 61 turnovers, shot a combined 25 percent (17 of 39) from the field, connected on just 19 of 56 total free throws (.339) and scored a total of six points in the third quarter...

GREENE CIRCUIT COURT CIVIL CASES LVNV Funding LLC vs. Kim Thomas, collection GREENE SUPERIOR COURT CRIMINAL CASES State vs. Meissa Hendricks, operating a vehicle while intoxicated endangering a person, operating a vehicle while intoxicated, operating a vehicle with an alcohol concentration equivalent to at least .08 grams but less than .15 grams of alcohol in blood or breath, possession of marijuana. hash oil or hashish...

The town of Worthington plans to glean information from the much-discussed and revised Greene County Employee Policy Handbook and adapt it the needs of its employees. Town Council President Gregg Roudebush, who will resign his town position on Dec. 31 and take a seat on the Greene County Council Jan. 1, told his fellow council members Tuesday night that he has talked with the County Council Attorney Marvin Abshire about obtaining an electronic copy of the county's handbook document......

A woman who went to the police station Saturday evening, claiming she had been battered by her ex-husband, was the one who ended up in jail after she allegedly battered a Linton police officer outside the Linton Police Department building. Amanda M. Stahl, 31, was arrested on the scene and transported to the Greene County Jail where she was held without bond...