Stories from Thursday, January 17, 2019

The Wabash Valley Football Coaches Association has announced the selection of coaches and players for the 2019 WVFC All-Star game. Greene County will be represented by three Linton Miners and a trio of Eastern Greene Thunderbirds. Ben Burris, Drake Cunningham and Kole Padgett from Linton along with Eastern’s Gage Baker, Blayne Campbell and Jaden Evans were chosen to participate in the annual summer showcase...

Community Notes Thursday, January 17 Free Diabetes Empowerment Education Program offered at Greene County General Hospital’s White House (just north of Greene County General Hospital). Classes begin from 2-4 p.m. and continue every Thursday until February 21, 2019. Call 812-562-0006 to register...

Dugger-Union Elementary School in Dugger has added a new class for all students which has everybody talking, but not with their voices. Held every Thursday, the new class is in American Sign Language, or ASL, providing Little Bulldogs a chance to learn a second language...

Jackilyn ‘Jackie’ Strong Jones, 58, of Linton, passed away peacefully at 6:26 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 26 at St Rita’s Medical Center in Lima, OH after many years of battling multiple illnesses. She was born Jan. 18, 1960 in Linton, to Carolyn and Jack Strong...

BLOOMFIELD – Sometimes it comes down to who gets the last shot. The Linton-Stockton Lady Miners and Bloomfield Lady Cardinals had battled back and forth for most of Thursday’s Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference clash on the court at Guy Glover Gymnasium...

This story has been edited to correct an error about which team led after one quarter and at the break.