Cleveland Dietz

Quality Realty & Development, the owner of a property zoned commercial on the outskirts of the Litten Estates subdivision, filed a lawsuit against the Ellettsville Plan Commission on Aug. 5. The lawsuit comes after the commission denied the company the right to build Litten Estates Apartments, a 68-unit apartment complex, at its July 7 meeting. … Read more

With the help of her family, Kai Bookwalter has achieved her dream of opening a catering business of her own after spending more than 15 years in the industry. Board + Blade has been in the works since June 2015, when Kai and her husband, George, bought the house at 120 W. Temperance St. “We … Read more

A solar array, or solar farm, developing west of Ellettsville on the corner of State Road 46 and Flatwoods Road is projected to be completed in October. The project is part of a Hoosier Energy initiative to build 10 large-scale solar arrays in southern Indiana and southeastern Illinois. This one will provide energy for SCI … Read more

RBB Family Thrift Store Board President Shirley Willingham has announced her resignation from the board of directors effective immediately. “I have not been able to keep the store up as I had planned, nor do I have the energy to continue,” Willingham said. “I am turning management over to the board in hopes they can … Read more

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