Stories from Monday, January 14, 2013

EDWARDSPORT -- Police from several agencies are looking for a man who fled during a traffic stop and may be armed. On Friday night, Edwardsport Marshal's Office Deputies Kevin Abrams and Kent Van Wey stopped a car at State Road 67 and Jackson St. after noticing the license plate was obstructed...

WRV Worthington Elementary Honor Roll 2012-13 Second Nine Weeks 1st Grade - Gilmore All A's Trenton Fox Max Hostetter Destiny Porter Cynthia Sells Keynan Gorby Ande Martin Hannah Rogers All A's and B's Caleb Bixler Kaden Collis Charlie Shumar Syndee Sullivan...

Linton-Stockton High School 2012-13 Term 1 Grading Period Final Distinguished -- 3.667 High Honor Roll -- 2.667 Grade 9 Distinguished Cole M Anderson Emma E Brewer High Honor Roll Tia M Bixler Jacob L Clothier Riley D Cobble Devin R Collenbaugh Eli R Cooksey...

Greene County residents are warned to be cautious in the aftermath of the storms and flooding from this past weekend. According to Crystal Pettet, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, the Greene County area received anywhere from 2-and-a-half to 3-and-a-half inches of rain Saturday and Sunday...

A Linton family lost their home to fire early Saturday morning and a local firefighter suffered smoke inhalation while attempting to extinguish the blaze. The fire was reported at 2:59 a.m. at 810 NE F St. near 8th St. in a two-story home owned by "Paco" and Shandra Howell...

The Friends of Shakamak started 2013 with an incredibly well attended hike at the park on New Year's Day. Labeled First Day Hike, the day began and ended at the log cabin in the park. The cabin was alive with as many as 40 people who came out to enjoy the park in the winter time as well as wind up their holiday celebrations...

BICKNELL -- The White River Valley Wolverines got 14 points from Michael Fisher and 12 from Cade Hill as they outlasted host North Knox 47-45 here Saturday night. The Wolverines improve to 8-3 on the year while the Warriors fell to 5-9. "It's a win," WRV coach J.B. ...

JASONVILLE -- The game Saturday night between the Shakamak Lakers and the Marshall Lions got off to a slow start, but ended with a crazy second half that saw the visiting Lions prevail 68-61. The score was tied 9-9 at the end of the first quarter and stayed that way until halfway through the second quarter. A Brodie Crowe three broke the deadlock with just under four minutes left in the second quarter, but the Lions would fight back to take a 21-20 lead into halftime...

The Linton-Stockton Lady Miners got a dozen points from Mercedes Shafford and 10 from Joie Gadberry as they defeated Washington Catholic 39-35 at the Birdcage on Saturday afternoon. It was the second win of the year -- and the first road win -- for Linton-Stockton against 14 losses...

The Bloomfield Elementary School fifth grade boys basketball team won a tournament hosted by WRV-Lyons on Saturday. The field consisted of the Cardinals, Eastern Greene, the hosts and North Knox. In the early morning game Bloomfield bested Eastern Greene by a score of 37-9...

The Bloomfield Elementary School fifth grade boys basketball team won a tournament hosted by WRV-Lyons on Saturday. The field consisted of the Cardinals, Eastern Greene, the hosts and North Knox. In the early morning game Bloomfield bested Eastern Greene by a score of 37-9...

The Bloomfield Junior High School boys basketball teams were back in action for the first time in 2013 on Thursday evening at White River Valley. The seventh grade started off the evening with a solid defensive performance and a good first half offensively in a 27-19 win...

The WRV-Worthington sixth grade girls basketball team have started their season with a 3-0 record. In their first outing at Loogootee they posted a 17-14 win. Addi Graves led the winners with 13 points while Mallory Frye and Autumn Miller added two points each...

The fifth and sixth grade Shakamak boys basketball game home games, scheduled for Tuesday, has been moved to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12.

Annabelle Mary Lovelace, 84, of Jasonville, passed away at 12:45 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 14, 2013 in Regional Hospital, Terre Haute. She was born April 29, 1928 in Marion County, Ind., to Clarence E. Reed and Martha A. (Perry) Reed. Annabelle married Harold Raymond Lovelace on Dec. 31, 1949 and he passed away on Feb. 13, 2007...

The Linton City Council selected Councilman Fred Markle to serve as their president for the year 2013 during their regular monthly meeting Monday evening. Other appointments included naming City Controller David Sisk to serve as the city's representative on the Greene County Economic Development Commission; and appointing Harry Lehman to serve on the Greene County Alcohol Beverage Board...

JASONVILLE -- A short agenda came before the Jasonville City Council at Monday's council meeting. Although it is still winter, the city is now accepting mowing bids for the city park. Mayor Roy Terrell, Sr., announced bids are being accepted for the park's mowing contract. He anticipates a bid being awarded at the March 11 meeting...

Two people were arrested Friday afternoon after officers from the Linton Police Department reported seeing what they believed was a hand-to-hand narcotics transaction in the parking lot of the old Swifty gas station on 2nd Street NW. Melissa Ann Shepard, 45, Linton, was taken into custody and booked in to the Greene County Jail on a preliminary charge of dealing in a controlled substance, a class B felony...

EASTERN HEIGHTS ---- The Eastern Greene Board of School Trustees selected rural Solsberry resident Mike Adams to lead the board in 2013. Adams, an Indiana State Police trooper and two-year board member, was unanimously selected president during Monday night's re-organizational meeting...

JAIL LOG Jan. 11 -- Gearld Leroy Thompson, 45, Linton, was arrested on preliminary charges of possession of a controlled substance, a class D felony, and driving while suspended with a prior, a class A misdemeanor, and was being held without bond...

ACTIVITY LOG The Linton Police Department's activity log for Friday through Sunday included two medical/extractions, five follow-up investigations, one request for information, one for lifting assistance, 10 assists to the utility department after hours, one drug investigation, one criminal mischief, one utility repair, five structure fires, four accidents with property damage, one funeral escort, one lost and found, six medical/illness, four alarms, one animal complaint, four assists to other agencies, one complaint of harassment, one possibly intoxicated driver, one theft, one disabled or stranded vehicle, one welfare check or concern, one domestic dispute and 20 traffic stops.. ...

Tuesday The County Travellers Band will be at the Lyons Senior Center from 5 to 8 p.m. There will be homemade potato soup and dessert by donation only. The Greene County Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board will hold its first regular meeting at 10:30 a.m., or immediately following the Greene County Board of Commissioners. They will meet in executive session at 11:30 a.m...