Cleveland Dietz

In some springs, the White River filled the streets with enough water to launch boats carrying young men and goods toward New Orleans. Others, the Bean Blossom Creek watershed was enough. Each year, men prepared temporary wooden, rectangular boats called flatboats for the trip. They spent two to three months on the White, Wabash, Ohio … Read more

Citizen reports helped the Ellettsville Police Department arrest an alleged serial thief last week. Police began receiving complaints of unlocked vehicles being broken into on Ritter Street, Dewey Drive and Seneca Street on July 9, according to a press release issued by EPD Public Information Officer Tony Bowlen. On the afternoon of July 13, police … Read more

The Ellettsville Plan Commission rejected a petition from Quality Realty & Development to build apartments bordering the Litten Estates subdivision at its July 7 meeting. All members of the commission were present, except for Don Calvert. Since first coming before the commission in April, and after a neighborhood meeting with Litten Estates residents, Ellettsville Planning … Read more

The Richland-Bean Blossom Community School Corp. school board is expected to vote on the hire of J.B. Neill as Edgewood High School’s new boys basketball coach at its next meeting. He would replace former EHS boys basketball coach David Mahurin, who resigned in June after a May arrest for operating a vehicle while intoxicated and … Read more

The Indiana Department of Local Government Finance may invalidate Monroe County’s new public safety tax due to a timing conflict. State legislation passed last year that consolidated several local option income tax categories into a single local option income tax replaced the existing code on July 1. “The state did not want the counties to … Read more

A suspect in the robbery of the Peoples State Bank at 601 E. Temperance St. on June 30 is still on the loose. According to an Ellettsville Police Department press release, the man entered the bank at 2:10 p.m. and handed a bank employee a note demanding money. He retrieved the note after receiving the … Read more

The Stinesville Town Council adopted a resolution committing to new financial control requirements at its July 5 meeting. All council members and Stinesville Clerk-Treasurer Lois Pursell were present. New rules established by the Indiana State Board of Accounts late last year require that more than one person in every local government statewide be responsible for … Read more

A man who posed as a Comcast employee to cash a fraudulent check in Ellettsville last August was sentenced to two years in jail in Morgan County on June 20. Ohio resident Robert Yontz, 42, asked to purchase two packs of cigarettes with a Comcast paycheck and cash the remainder at the Westside General Store … Read more

Ellettsville Police Department Deputy Marshal Zachary Michael was recently assigned a new police cruiser, a 2016 Dodge Charger sporting the new police department decals. The new cruiser replaced a 2010 vehicle. Michael will be its sole driver. EPD purchased the car as part of a developmental plan to replace two patrol vehicles each year. Once … Read more

When Old Towne Coins opened in 2002, the clock was already ticking on owner Jim Mullikin’s life. He was three years into the nine years that the doctors gave him after diagnosing him with lupus. Doctors again told him he was going to die after delivering a diagnosis of histoplasmosis, also known as spelunker’s lung, in 2011. They said, … Read more