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Volume 140 Edition 15
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
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New principals hired in MV By Lois Mittino Gray Even though they had to deal with COVID-19 issues in the present, the Mount Vernon School Board put a positive spin on the future by approving the hire of two elementary school principals at the April 6, meeting. Katie Bushard will take over administration at Marrs Elementary School, filling the position vacated by reBruner tiring Greg DeWeese. Natosha Bruner will fill the bill at Farmersville Elementary School, replacing Dr. Beth Johns, who moved into the position of Director of Curriculum and Technology. Both educators were selected from a large pool of applicants. For Bushard’s position, 27 applications were reviewed, with 14 persons receiving a follow-up interview. “This large Spring is in the air at Compton’s Flower Patch in Griffin. The popular plant store is now pool of applicants speaks well of our schools,” open for business with the outdoors providing room for social distancing. Here, Pat Comp- School Board Trustee Beth McFadin Higgins ton examines the plants. Spring brings the hope of better days ahead. Photo by Dave Pearce observed.
School Superintendent Matt Thompson presented a short biography of the new hires. Katie Bushard is currently teaching sixth grade Language Arts at Mount Vernon Junior High School. She began her career in Education at Marrs Elementary, where she worked as an assistant and remediation teacher in 2012. She moved on to teach High School English at Mount Bushard Vernon Senior High School from 20132018. During her time at Mount Vernon High School, she was a member of the School Improvement Team and Curriculum Development Committee. She also provided tech support for the building as a Certified Technology Leader for the district. Katie is a community member of Mount Vernon and has a two year old son, Huck. Her husband, Eric Bushard, works at SABIC for
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Work on NP school projects continues despite obstacles By Dave Pearce Anyone driving down high school road this week could plainly see that progress was being made on the field house, which North Posey School Supt. Dr. Todd Camp hopes will be ready for use by the coming school year. The synthetic grass football field was put into place last year in
time for the football season. This year, football and softball will be using the new locker rooms located in the field house while the old football locker room, built by Expressway’s Bob Bulkley for North Posey several years ago, will now become the football visitor’s locker room. So no longer will there be visi-
tors football teams coming into the school and into the PE locker rooms and tearing things up. There will be no reason for visiting football teams, fans or coaches to be inside the school building itself. The new school track is nearly complete and work has now resumed on the field house. A sewer situa-
NP schools are safer, more sanitary By Dave Pearce With a myriad of projects already completed and many more already underway in the district, North Posey School Superintendent Todd Camp is pulled in many directions in an effort to keep the school district in compliance and the school projects going. As far as projects, the school district has made huge strides in safety features at all the buildings over the past few months. Parents and students alike can now feel better knowing that accessibility to the inside of the buildings is not near as easy as it has been in the past. “We did a $7.5 million bond issue and added about $800,000 of school corporation money with that,” Camp explained. “In the past year, we have more than doubled the number of cameras that we in the corporation and we have also gone from analog to digital, which has improved the quality of the pictures.” What that means is that if someone is anywhere on
school property, there is a very good chance that they are already on camera. So by the time they reach the school doors, someone already knows they are approaching the building. “We have completed the process of having double vestibules where people must go through the school office to get into the building,” Camp explained. “We have that in every building now. The last two buildings to complete that were North Elementary and the junior high.” Even employees are finding it a bit more strenuous to get into the buildings. There is a motion sensor system and a card reader system employees must use for admittance. Several doors have been replaced to help with building security. The board and administration is still going on with the safety committee and doing the things they are requesting. Both school system and county-wide school
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Feud over tree limb leads to shooting Special to the News and neighbor, Dixon had been in an ongoing dispute perA disagreement over a tree limb hanging over a neigh- taining to a tree limb from Dixon’s property. The morning bor’s property led to a shooting and a felony of the shooting, the dispute became violent arrest in Cynthiana. when Hooker allegedly shot Folsom, DixPosey County Sheriff Tom Latham reporton’s daughter’s boyfriend, twice in the leg. ed that on April 9, 2020, at about 1:30 a.m. During the dispute Hooker picked up an axe Posey County Dispatch received a complaint and swung at the head of Dixon, in an atof two shots having been fired in Cynthiana. tempt to protect himself, raised his hand to A very short time later dispatch received a deflect the blow to the head only to receive a call stating the complainant’s boyfriend had laceration to his hand. been shot twice in the leg and the same susFolsom was transported to Deaconess pect had swung an axe. Emergency Room, while Dixon refused Once deputies arrived, they found the gunmedical treatment on scene. shot victim, 39-year-old Austin Folsom of At this time Hooker has been arrested and Corey Hooker Francisco, Ind. Deputies also found, Ricky booked into the Posey County Jail and has Dixon, 69 years old, of Cynthiana, who had suffered a been charged with Aggravated Battery, a level 3 felony. minor, defensive, wound. The wound was the result being A level 3 felony is punishable up to 16 years in prison. struck by an axe that was alledgedly swung by the suspect, “Violence resolves nothing, but creates additional Corey Hooker 30 years old of Cynthiana. problems,” said an obviously distraught Latham. “DurDeputies were able to locate and detain Hooker and his ing this challenging time we face in our nation and what girlfriend during the initial phase of the call. Continued on Page A7 During the investigation Deputies discovered Hooker
tion caused a delay in the project. The field house will allow the boys a home football locker room and a girls softball home locker room as well as additional restroom facilities for the public during events. Baseball has elected to continue using the current facility. But the indoor practice facility will allow all athletes to come in and do work that will benefit their health, fitness and general wellbeing. It can also serve as a training area for the cross-fit program that has been instituted in the past two or three years. It will also contain an improved concession area on the side of the building facing the baseball field. Just as with any large project, the
fieldhouse has had a share of problems, especially early-on. “There were two things that happened that delayed the track and the building,” Camp explained. “The track was supposed to have been done last fall but the builder’s equipment broke down and the track did not get finished. It was first on the list for this year. It will be finished next week.” The other problem involved the school’s sewer system, which is a large and complicated septic system. “Basically, the septic system out there was flat and the reason we
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One dead, others injured in tragic week’s accidents By Dave Pearce A North Posey Junior High School student is dead and four other students lives have been changed forever as the result of an automobile accident on Saturday afternoon. Cameron Born, a 14-year-old eighth grader at North Posey Junior High School, and the son of Eric and Mallory Born was killed in the single-vehicle accident. According to Posey County Sheriff Tom Latham, at approximately 3:30 Posey County Dispatch received a call pertaining to the single-vehicle crash with injuries outside Wadesville. It was reported there were at least five people involved. The crash occurred on Blake Road, between Spahn and Winery roads. According to information provided by the Sheriff’s Office, the crash involved a 2008 Pontiac Grand Prix which had been traveling east on Blake Road. The juvenile driver lost control on the curve. The vehicle rolled an unknown number of times into field where it came to a rest. There were five occupants in vehicle, two or possibly 3three passengers were ejected, including the deceased passenger. Three of the vehicle’s occupants
Cameron Born were transported by Posey County EMS to Deaconess Midtown Emergency Room. The driver of the vehicle was transported to Deaconess by the father. The Indiana State Police is assisting Posey County officers with the crash in doing the crash reconstruction. The crash is still under investigation. Sheriff Latham stated, “Fatal
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I’ll get by with a little help from my friends... Sew Sly Alterations helps keep chemo buddies in masks Cynthiana’s Susan Yarber spends one of many hours at her sewing machine. Her business, combined with her and her friends helping make masks for chemo buddies, keeps her busy at the shop.
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By Lynda Baker Susan Yarbor was born with a servant’s heart. When she first learned of the COVID-19 epidemic, she considered volunteering to shelve products in a couple of local stores, but her family expressed serious concerns. Upon learning from the Chemo Buddies Facebook page of the shortage of face masks, she immediately recognized her calling. As the owner of Sew Sly Alterations in Cynthiana, Susan had all of the equipment she needed to begin making masks, along with her friends, Tammy Mobley and Sharon Bechtel. Susan organized her sewing room and immediately learned from Facebook how the masks were made. She and her friends then began sewing masks and encouraging others to do the same. Each of the ladies has her own task to perform. Some measure and cut materials, while the others sew. Rex Yarbor, Susan’s husband, delivers the masks and picks up materials for the crew. “It takes about five minutes to sew each mask. We can get three masks from one yard of elastic. So far, we have
gone through around 1,000 yards of elastic and have made around 600-700 masks. We are presently working on an order for 160 masks. The Vanderburgh County Jail has requested 400 masks,” Susan explained. Susan and her team are providing the masks free of charge. She said that some of her friends are charging just enough to cover expenses, but she is not comfortable with charging for her masks. Susan has always been interested in sewing. She purchased her first sewing machine just after she and Rex were married. While wondering what she might be able to do after retiring from teaching fourth grade at Cynthia Heights Elementary School in 2015, a friend told Susan that a shop in Evansville was looking for someone to assist with alterations. She interviewed for the position and was hired on the spot. “I learned so much in my year and a half at the shop. Initially, the lady I worked with specialized in formal
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