Stories from Tuesday, January 14, 2014

The Eastern Greene Board of School Trustees voted Monday night to hire an interim superintendent. Jerrill Vandeventer will begin serving as interim superintendent Tuesday, and work three days a week -- or as needed. Director of Learning Ted Baechtold has been serving as acting superintendent since former Superintendent Ty Mungle signed a Separation Agreement and Release...

Jan. 13 -- Jessica Marie Carter, 25, Bloomfield, was arrested on a warrant issued for a preliminary charge of theft. Her bond was set at $4,000 surety with ten percent cash allowed. Greene County Sheriff's Special Deputy Karen Oliphant was the arresting officer...

The Linton Police Department's activity log for Monday, Jan. 13, includes two follow-up investigations, one request for information, one for lifting assistance, one assist to the utility department after hours, two custody disputes or exchanges, one mental case, five medical runs, two complaints about animals, five suspicious vehicles or persons, one extra patrol, one theft, one welfare check or concern, one arrest -- wanted on warrant, one domestic dispute and three traffic stops...

The deadline is near to submit a decorated piece of furniture to help raise money for an ongoing construction project at The Carnegie Heritage and Arts Center in Linton. Specifically, an artistic-style chair is requested to be submitted in order to continue with the ADA compliant entryway work for the 110 E. Vincennes St. center...

The Northeast School Board heard a presentation on school accountability at their regular meeting Monday night. Shelburn Elementary Principal Lisa Hollingsworth discussed with the board the accountability grades given by the state for the 2012-13 school year. She said three Northeast schools are in improvement status with D grades...

Northeast School Board will move forward in 2014 with a new president. The board elected Norm Santus as board president, a position formerly presided over by board member Ron Frye. The board also elected Marcia Childs as vice president of the board and Jennifer Pinkston as board secretary...

Local youth workers, parents, community leaders, faith-based leaders, youth ministers, educators, counselors, and others who work with area youth are invited to a free luncheon in Linton on Thursday to talk about youth well-being in Greene County. The luncheon at LaFiesta Mexican Restaurant will be conducted from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event is sponsored by the Indiana Youth Institute and the Greene County Alliance...

The Linton Board of Works moved forward Monday night with blighted property enforcement against several property owners who have been given notice that their sites need cleaned up, or the city will do the clean up for them. The board voted to pursue the clean up of property owned by Joseph Hart, of Jasonville, located at 710 1/2 North Main Street and two lots and a house owned by Ricky Bunch, Jr. at 209 NW J Street...

The White River Valley-Worthington Elementary School finished off the 2013 portion of their schedule with a pair of wins on Dec. 12 at Carlisle. In the fifth grade game, WRV allowed just one point in the second half on their way to a 20-4 win. Jaden Rogers led WRV with nine points while David Gamble added five, Johnny Egenolf, Clayton Sluder and Vedder Rogers all finished with two points...

The Linton-Stockton Elementary School fifth grade boys basketball team improved to 2-2 on the year following a 33-18 win over host Clay City Monday night. Trey Goodman led the Miners with 10 points while Gavin House, Jonathan Hayden and Kole Smith added four each...

White River Valley High School will be hosting a varsity girls-boys basketball doubleheader on Tuesday. The girls game will begin at 6 p.m. with the boys game to follow.

The Eastern Greene at Mitchell high school boys basketball game has been rescheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 5. The junior varsity contest will start at 6 p.m. The game was postponed in December.

A major downtown senior housing development received the approval Monday night from the Linton City Council to move ahead with the vacating of an alley way near the Cine' Apartment Complex on North Main Street to make way for the capping of an unneeded natural gas line...

The Town of Lyons will be doing work to clean the water wells. Clerk-treasurer Kim Flynn told the Lyons Town Council at the regular meeting Tuesday the low bidder was Mumma Brothers for the project. Flynn gave a report from Water Superintendent Cliff Pemberton Jr., who suggested the wells be cleaned on a regular basis...

Malcolm "Macky" Stahl will serve as president of the Worthington Town Council in 2014. Stahl was president last year and was reappointed by the council during a reorganizational meeting on Jan. 1 During the same meeting, the council also approved the annual salary ordinance for town employees...

During the month of December, the Jasonville Police Department made 34 arrests. They responded to several calls, including: six calls about suspicious persons, two harassment calls, two complaints about animals, two domestic complaints, one fight, two vandalisms, three road hazards, and one protective order violation. ...

The Worthington Police Department's activity report during the past month included one report of harassment, one identity theft, one prescription theft, one dog bite, three battery cases, one burglary investigation and one report of criminal mischief...

2014 Greene County Invitational At White River Valley High School Saturday Linton-Stockton 58, White River Valley 56 2 OT Eastern Greene 68, North Central 55 Bloomfield 61, Union 42 Clay City 55, Shakamak 41 Monday Semifinals Linton-Stockton 64, Eastern Greene 42...

Greene County Invitational Championship games 1971 -- Worthington 61, Eastern Greene 56 1972 -- Eastern Greene 66, Worthington 60 1973 -- Eastern Greene 81, Central (Switz City) 78 1974 -- Shakamak 79, Worthington 72 1975 -- Central (Switz City) 67, Worthington 63...

Eastern Greene Acting Superintendent Ted Baechtold praised students and faculty for working hard to be an "A" school at the school board's regular meeting Monday night. According to information provided by the Indiana Department of Education (DOE), Eastern Greene had an overall A through F Accountability Grade of A for 2013...

Union did not let a little thing like 24 days between games effect them as the Lady Bulldogs defeated host Sullivan 43-26 in a high school girls basketball contest Tuesday night. "It had been three weeks and three days since we last played," said UHS coach Benji Boyd. "Sullivan had played five games since we played last and I was worried about that."...

Wednesday, Jan. 15 The Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library Board of Finance meeting has been rescheduled. The meeting will take place Wednesday, Jan. 15 at 5 p.m. at the main library community room. Saturday, Jan. 18 The Linton Moose will host a Pork Roast Dinner from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 18 followed by karaoke at 8 p.m. Members and guests are welcome...

SWITZ CITY -- With third-place in the Team Raydar Greene County Invitational on the line, Clay City never trailed as the Eels defeated Eastern Greene 56-48 in the consolation game here Tuesday night. The Eels improved to 7-4 while Eastern Greene slipped to 6-4...

Despite jumping off to a quick start on the road, the Bloomfield Lady Cardinals dropped a 75-54 decision to Class 3A No. 11 Washington at the Hatchet House on Tuesday night. "Washington is an excellent transition basketball team and we knew the game would be physical and they would challenge us in several areas," Bloomfield coach Chris Hitchcock said. "We played some great basketball and some careless basketball in the same half."...

Shoals defeated visiting Linton-Stockton 49-34 in a high school girls basketball game in Martin County Tuesday night. The Lady Miners slipped to 0-15 with the loss. There was no junior varsity contest. Linton-Stockton will play a varsity-only contest at Union Thursday, starting at 6:30 p.m...

Brown County made one free throw with no time remaining as the visiting Eagles pulled out a 50-49 victory at Eastern Greene in a non-conference high school girls basketball game Tuesday night. BC, who had defeated the Lady Thunderbirds 10 out of the past 12 meetings, improved to 9-3 while Eastern Greene slipped to 4-9...

SWITZ CITY -- It took an extra four minutes, but the Bloomfield Cardinals secured their first Greene County Invitational title with a 40-38 overtime win over Linton-Stockton here Tuesday night. "Great ballgame between two really good teams and a gutsy effort," Bloomfield (8-3) coach Matt Britton said. "We had some seniors that really wanted it -- Jared Myers, Kyle Robinson and Jared Bond -- they gave everything they had out there...