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Greene County Court News
(Court News ~ 06/27/13)
GREENE CIRCUIT COURT CIVIL CASES Carl Whaley vs. Melissa Watson, Geneva Insurance Company, collection Capital One USA NA vs. Daniel Allen, collection LVNV Funding LLC vs. Angela Astleford, collection In Re the Marriage of Lindsay Yake and Joshua Yake, domestic relation...
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Man fails to appear for jail time
(Local News ~ 06/27/13)
A 35-year-old Jasonville man was expected to arrive at the Greene County Jail on a Friday evening for a weekend stay - part of his sentence on a domestic battery conviction. He didn't show up. So, Greene County Sheriff's Deputy Jordan Gooding gave him a ride...
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Greene County Jail Log
(Police Reports ~ 06/27/13)
GREENE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT JAIL LOG May 26 - Chase Thomas Ames, 18, Terre Haute, was arrested on a preliminary charge of theft, a class D felony. Bond was set at $4,000 surety or 10 percent cash. Deputy Marshal Randy Raney of the Worthington Police Department was the arresting officer...
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Boil order for Coalmont
(Local News ~ 06/27/13)
Water customers in Coalmont and north of the area are under a boil order until further notice.
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Warrant issued for Felker
(Local News ~ 06/27/13)
A warrant is out for the arrest of Jeremy R. Felker. He's accused of violating a protective order. An Ex Parte Protective Order was issued in Greene Superior Court on Jan. 17, 2012 to protect a woman who has a child with Felker. He is not supposed to contact her. The order does not expire until Jan. 17, 2014...
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A lighthouse was almost needed to navigate near the Lighthouse Junction
(Local News ~ 06/27/13)
These shots were taken about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday approaching the "Lighthouse Junction" -- the intersection of State Road 54 and U.S.231/State Road 57.
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Humphreys Park will be ready for Freedom Festival events
(Local News ~ 06/27/13)
Linton Mayor John Wilkes said the flooding in Humphreys Park shouldn't delay any Linton Freedom Festival activities. Wilkes said he was at the park Thursday morning, the after the area received more than 7 inches of rain. "They (street department) are getting the shelterhouses cleaned up. ...
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Some farmland underwater; flooding expected to be short term
(Local News ~ 06/27/13)
A drive along State Road 57 between County Roads 100 South and 200 South on Thursday took on the appearance of a newly formed wetlands area. Water covered the fields on both the east and west sides of the roadway and small corn stalks barely emerged from the surface of the water. Chris Cornelius, co-owner of S&C Cornelius Farms, of Switz City, has a lot riding on the success of this year's planting, and some of the ground that is underwater either belongs to him or his company is farming it. S&C Cornelius Farms farms and custom farms about 9,500 acres ---- mostly planted in corn and soybeans. Cornelius hasn't had a chance to take a look at the damage from the latest storm yet, but understands there is a lot of water in the fields. One of his business colleagues did speak with National Weather Service hydrologist Al Shipe, a leading authority on Indiana rivers, and he said the White River should be about at its max now and will start going down later today, Cornelius said. "He (Shipe) says we clearly dodged the bullet. Praise the Lord," Cornelius commented. Cornelius realizes that farming is a profession that is controlled largely by weather and sometimes it will slap you pretty hard. "The success or failure of our business is in Mother Nature's hand. We can manage and work our tails off, and we are still in God's hand. Just pure proof He's in total control," Cornelius commented to the Greene County Daily World. The quickly rising waters have caused some anxious moments for other area farmers, according Lindy Miller, who is the Purdue Extension Service Greene County Educator in charge of agriculture. The rains on Wednesday to him reinforces the need for crop insurance in those flood-vulnerable areas of the county. "Really it's very late for corn replant, so herbicide and anhydrous won't be as profitable. Most areas will plant soybeans and take the reduced yields associated with double crop behind wheat getting any wheat cut and beans in behind will be delayed," he said. Farms in the most heavily affected areas likely do have crop insurance, Miller noted. "However, the long-term fertility of flooded and washed ground is substantially reduced due to topsoil loss and physical repair," Miller stated. The National Weather Service advises that low-land flooding will develop along portions of the White River in central and southern Indiana starting Thursday night, but this will be a quick-flood event. Heavy rainfall Wednesday and Wednesday evening south of a line from approximately Terre Haute to Bedford amounted to 3 to 5 inches in some locations with possibly higher amounts in other locales. However, significant flooding is not expected with this storm and the river is predicted to fall rapidly, according to reports from the National Weather Service. The White River at Elliston ---- located about a mile west of Bloomfield ---- is included in the flood warning until Saturday afternoon. At 8 a.m. on Wednesday the stage was 13.6 feet with a flood stage at 18.0 feet. Minor flooding is forecast with the river rising above flood stage to near 19.3 feet by early Friday morning and then the river will fall below flood stage by Saturday morning. Newberry is also included in the flood warning to late Friday night. At 9 p.m. on Wednesday the stage was 12.7 feet with a flood stage of 13.0 feet. Only minor flooding is forecast and the river is expected to rise above flood stage at 13.6 feet by early Friday morning. Then, the river will fall below flood stage by Friday afternoon. WTWO-TV meteorologist Anne Elise Parks says Greene County was in the area of the Wabash Valley that picked up the most rain on Wednesday. Around Bloomfield 3.65 inches of rainfall was measured. Northwest portions of Greene County exceeded the 4 inch mark. "The monthly average is just over this amount around 4.20," so many places got almost more rain in the 24 hour time frame than is expected for the entire month of June. With these large amounts of rainfall in such a short amount of time, it's no surprise that widespread flash flooding was a significant issue for parts of the Valley on Wednesday," she said. "Yesterday's storms were well-developed and widespread so heavy downpours were common. This made for a treacherous evening commute as flash flooding developed across much of the Valley."
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Police Logs
(Police Reports ~ 06/27/13)
GREENE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT JAIL LOG May 26 - Chase Thomas Ames, 18, Terre Haute, was arrested on a preliminary charge of theft, a class D felony. Bond was set at $4,000 surety or 10 percent cash. Deputy Marshal Randy Raney of the Worthington Police Department was the arresting officer...
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Court News
(Court News ~ 06/27/13)
GREENE CIRCUIT COURT CIVIL CASES Carl Whaley vs. Melissa Watson, Geneva Insurance Company, collection Capital One USA NA vs. Daniel Allen, collection LVNV Funding LLC vs. Angela Astleford, collection In Re the Marriage of Lindsay Yake and Joshua Yake, domestic relation...
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Area communities coping with plenty of water following big storms
(Local News ~ 06/27/13)
To say the water was freely flowing during Wednesday's two significant thunderstorms that barreled through Greene County ---- dumping from 3 to 7 inches of rain in some areas ---- is an understatement. Linton Utilities Superintendent Brent Slover reported that the Linton wastewater treatment plant was strained and registered a total inflow Wednesday of 6.2 million gallons. A normal day of flow is about 1 million gallons for the plant, which is rated and actually designed to handle about 1.3 million gallons a day, Slover pointed out. The flow peaked sometime between 7 and 8 p.m. at a rate of 4,874 gallons a minute, Slover said. Slover said his crews are still assessing any possible damage. "The night before (Tuesday) we had issues of a power outage and we've had lightning damage out there (at the wastewater treatment plant). Yesterday, when the first storm came through we had another power outage so we were without power for a few hours," Slover said Thursday morning. "Right now things are rolling and we've got things going, but we are in the midst of checking all of our electrical breakers and panels and everything to make sure we are back up to snuff." Slover predicted the plant will have some elevated flow rates for the next few days. "It's because the ground is so soaked with water. It (the water) finds the cracks and the opening in the pipe. That is where we have issues with the infiltration at our inflow with groundwater getting into our sanitary sewer system," Slover explained. Bloomfield Town Council President Doug Frye said there was some water damage in Bloomfield, but nothing significant. "We've got some sewer problems with a lot of sewer back-up, the water flooded the sewer line and storm sewers. We've got water that got underneath some of the streets and popped up some of the blacktop (on Spring Street). Water got under it (the street) and popped it up," Frye said. "It was a bunch of water. When you get three inches in an hour or two, it's a bunch." Frye said a portion of dirt bank washed into the street at the corner of Davis and Seminary streets. "The whole wall caved in and it's laying out in the street," Frye said Thursday morning. Frye said the area around the Richland Township Fire Station and Shawnee Theatre was also heavily flooded. "I mean it (the water) came up in a hurry," he said. "We had water on the road down on South Seminary and had the fire trucks out to direct traffic to one lane. There was a lot of water." City of Jasonville Utilities Superintendent Troy Fougerousse said he's never seen so much water flowing in the streets of Jasonville as he did on Wednesday night. But the overall volume of rain and water doesn't compare with the flood of 2008. There are a couple of water lines north of town that got washed out in creeks Wednesday night. "We are kind of running around here and there and yonder trying to throw everything together. I know we did have over 5 1/2 inches of rain." There is no major damage other than a couple of two-inch water lines that had to be repaired.We do have a boil order for water customers in Coalmont and north," Fougerouse said. "We've got a couple of lift stations where we have motors that we'll have to pull and see what's going on. "We did have a couple of lift stations that we did have overflow that we will have to send some reports into IDEM (Indiana Department of Environmental Management) on that. There's probably no a community around here that didn't have an overflow of some type. The systems aren't designed to handle that kind of (water) load in a short period of time. As far as the sewer plant we didn't overflow any of the lagoons at all, but did have some lift stations that overflowed." The boiler order affects an estimated 200 to 250 customers and it will continue until further notice. Fougerousse said he will have to pull some water samples and send them to the lab and get two days of "bacteria free" status before the boiler order can be lifted. Fougerousse said there were some comparisons with the Big Flood of 2008. "I don't think we had quite the volume of rain that we did in 2008, but in the short amount of time we had more rain last night than we did in 2008," he said. "In 2008, it was over a 36-hour period, but as far as last night that rain that we got, I've not seen that much rain on the streets in Jasonville since I can remember. I'm not an old timer or anything, but we had a lot of rain." The water superintendent said the area needs a few rain-free days in order to bring down the water levels. "We just hope the rain that is supposed to be here Saturday, we hope it waits until next Saturday," Fougerousse added with a laugh.
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Linton mayor says rains won't delay any of the Freedom Festival events
(Local News ~ 06/27/13)
Linton Mayor John Wilkes said the flooding in Humphreys Park shouldn't delay any Linton Freedom Festival activities. Wilkes said he was at the park Thursday morning, the after the area received more than 7 inches of rain. "They (street department) are getting the shelterhouses cleaned up. ...
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Linton City Council calls off sale of Ameritech Building for now
(Local News ~ 06/27/13)
The City of Linton's upcoming sale of the Ameritech Building is not going to happen -- at least not right now. They're taking a step back, but still plan to sell it sometime in the near future. During a special session of the Linton City Council late Thursday afternoon, council members voted unanimously to rescind the resolution they passed earlier this month to move forward with the sale...
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Lana Rayne Metzger
(Obituary ~ 06/27/13)
Lana Rayne Metzger, 59, of Cloverland, passed away unexpectedly, June 25, 2013. She was born July 28, 1953, in Terre Haute, Ind., the daughter of Bill and Betty (Hoskins) Rodgers. Lana graduated from Staunton High School with the class of 1971. After taking a trip to Israel she attended Indiana State University. She had worked at the Putnamville Correctional Facility for the past 18 years and was planning on retiring in July...
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No objections voiced during hearing on Eastern-Greene superintendent's contract
(Local News ~ 06/27/13)
EASTERN HEIGHTS -- For the second time, the Eastern Greene Board of School Trustees conducted a state-mandated public hearing reviewing the proposed superintendent's contract and very few people showed up to voice any concerns. There were no objections aired Thursday night about the contract by the half dozen individuals who attended the hearing...
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Bloomfield School Board considering construction project, including athletic facilities on 22-acre site
(Local News ~ 06/27/13)
BLOOMFIELD - The Bloomfield School District Board of Trustees discussed starting $4 million worth of construction projects in a public work session Thursday evening. Superintendent Dan Sichting brought the project ideas before the board to gather input on if they would like to start the projects and if they would like to see the projects done as a single or separate bond issuance...
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WRV School Board: New superintendent to hold evening office hours; Board member Mark Downey resigns
(Local News ~ 06/27/13)
SWITZ CITY -- White River Valley's new Superintendent Robert "Bob" Hacker is starting a new tradition. His office is going to open for some evening hours in order to accommodate patrons who can't come in during regular daytime hours. "I always operate with an open door policy and I want folks to feel welcome to come for discussion and questions," said Hacker...
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Community Notes
(Community News ~ 06/27/13)
Friday Logan Wade Solo Show to be on exhibit at Carnegie Heritage & Arts Center beginning June 25th through July 20th. Opening reception for this vibrant show will be today from 5 to 8 p.m. with refreshments and an opportunity to meet the artist in person. ...
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Storm photos submitted by readers
(Local News ~ 06/27/13)
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