The Tribune-Star
December 28, 2008 09:44 pm
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July 1 — Federal Emergency Management Agency representatives brief city and county government, township fire departments and rural utilities on how to seek up to 75 percent reimbursement on losses incurred from the June flooding.
July 3 — A state grant along with matching funds from Vigo County will allows West Terre Haute to proceed with a $1.2 million stormwater construction project aimed at reducing recurring flooding.
The 79th Annual Vigo County Fair begins with a 4-H Fashion Revue, and the fair will include a Military Day on July 10 for children of deployed soldiers.
Louise’s Restaurant, a staple of fine dining locally at its former location on South Third Street, announces it will reopen late in summer at Terre Haute International Airport-Hulman Field, says co-owner
Rick Lundstrom.
July 5 — Wabash Valley residents celebrate July 4 with the Frontier Day Parade in Terre Haute and a bell-ringing ceremony in Rockville, among other festivities.
July 6 —Soaring food and gas prices have resulted in more people gardening and fewer people driving, experts say, and the trends are being seen locally.
July 7 — A man tried to strangle a woman inside a car in the parking lot of the Garden Quarter apartment complex. The would-be victim, an Iraq War veteran, stabbed her assailant before he escaped. The unknown man is being sought by police.
July 8 — Tim Browning, Ricky Johnson and other Toad Hop residents talk about their experiences during and since June 7 flood left much of the town in ruins.
July 9 — Terre Haute Rotary Club honors two men for their community contributions: David Patterson, executive director of the Terre Haute Convention and Visitors Bureau; and Bill Tennis, executive director of Goodwill Industries.
July 10 — The public says it wants restaurants and hiking and biking trails in public input offered Riverscape, a project by county officials to transform the Wabash riverfront area in Terre Haute.
July 11 — Catholic Charities of Terre Haute is running low on food after passing out 180,000 pounds in June, double that for May. The increase is attributable to flood victims and children out of school for the summer.
The city of Terre Haute will bid out a $7.5 million loan within the next few weeks to cover a shortfall caused by the state’s late property tax disbursements.
July 12 — A Vigo County jury finds Kevin Mark Weeks not guilty of the murder of Loretta Keith in a homicide from 1984. Weeks is found guilty of robbery resulting in serious bodily injury.
July 13 — Gas prices at $3.98 to $4.20 a gallon for most of the summer are believed to be a factor that resulted in record-breaking crowds at last week’s Vigo County Fair. People are traveling less and taking advantage of local entertainment, it was speculated.
July 15 — Mick Newport’s promotion from principal at Terre Haute North Vigo High School to executive director of secondary education is among the personnel changes for the upcoming school year in Vigo County.
July 16 — Clara Walton of Terre Haute, president of the Vigo County Minority Health Coalition, is among 28 people statewide honored with the Governor’s Award for Achievement in ceremonies in Indianapolis.
A newly formed Wabash Valley Long-Term Disaster Recovery Coalition intends to help flood victims for up to two years, using the United Way as a funding source.
July 17 — Diane Cargile, principal at Rio Grande Elementary, is elected as president of the National Association of Elementary School Principals, a group that advocates for elementary and middle-school principals.
July 19 — John P. Harpold of Phenix City, Ala., is arrested for the alleged abduction attempt in the Garden Quarter apartments parking lot July 6. The allegations include kidnapping, a class-A felony.
“The Dark Knight” playing in ShowPlace 12 in Terre Haute, packs theaters across the nation in special midnight showings and posts one of the strongest opening days in film industry history.
July 20 — After three years, destruction of VX nerve agent is 97 percent complete near Newport, where employees, former employees and members of the community reflect on 40 years of living and working near the deadly substance.
July 23 — Storms pound the Wabash Valley, leaving 9,000 people without power in Vigo County, 4,000 in Clinton and 2,000 in Brazil.
July 24 — Many residents of Vigo and Vermillion counties remain without power after wind gusts measured at up to 85 mph downed power lines and felled trees onto lines.
July 25 — NFL’s Indianapolis Colts arrive in Terre Haute for their summer training camp minus star quarterback Peyton Manning, out with a knee injury; Colts Coach Tony Dungy does 30-second public service announcement for United Way of the Wabash Valley.
July 26 — SG Solutions, a coal gasification plant north of Terre Haute, is cited by the Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration for safety violations related to an April explosion that killed Danny Turner of Marshall, Ill., and David Shoemaker of Rosedale.
Alan Maroska, coach of the only team from Terre Haute ever to win a high-school state basketball championship (South Vigo girls in 2002) resigns as coach of the Braves, saying he wants to spend more time with his family.
July 28 — The story of Seth Presnell, 17 months, is an example of a positive outcome in a case in which a home with lead-based paint led to increased levels of lead in a child’s blood. The combined efforts of his parents, their landlord and the Vigo County Health Department have brought the child’s levels down 50 percent in three weeks.
July 29 — Emil Garver of Terre Haute, on trial for murder in the death of Kieran Flanagan, 2, on Aug. 15, is found guilty of the lesser offense of battery resulting in death, a class-A felony.
July 31 — Teresa Walker and Kim Norris of Terre Haute and Yvette Setzer of Brazil are among about 150 people who crowd into Chauncey Rose Middle School to voice concerns about the state’s new telephone-computer process for handling welfare renewals and applications.
Aug. 1 — Daniel J. Bradley spends his first-ever day as president of Indiana State University busy, by, among other tasks, attending a board of trustees meeting in which the board approved a two-year state budge request.
Terre Haute Fire Capt. Sam Lane is honored as John Osterloo Firefighter of the Year by the Breakfast Optimist Club.
Aug. 2 — Scores of people attend the grand reopening of the Vigo County Courthouse, refurbished in a four-year, $13 million project
Union Hospital employees of have pledged more than $1 million to the capital campaign for the hospital’s $178 expansion/renovation project.
Aug. 3 — A Democrat caucus in Clinton results in the election of Arthur J. Lindsey as mayor, replacing Jerry Hawkins, who resigned in July for health reasons and to spend more time with family.
Aug. 5 — Vigo County homeowners will see an average 39 percent reduction in their property taxes, a state official says.
Aug. 6 — Convicted murderer Sarah Pender has escaped from the Rockville Correctional Facility; correctional officer Scott A. Spitler is arrested on allegations he helped her hide her in a vehicle and drove her out.
The youth-oriented Terre Haute Police Department’s annual National Night Out draws thousands to Deming Park in a turnout Sgt. David Smith calls “unbelievable.”
Aug. 7 — Because of a calendar quirk, the Oktoberfest and Blues at the Crossroads festivals will run within 100 yards of each other downtown on the same weekend in September, it is discovered.
Aug. 8 — Former Terre Haute resident Greg Oden, the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft in 2007, returns to the city to participate in a charity golf tournament that honors his friend, the late Travis Smith.
Aug. 9 — Kevin Mark Weeks of LaGrange, Ky., is sentenced to 24 years in prison for robbery resulting in serious bodily injury, a lesser offense he was convicted of in a murder trial last month for the death of Loretta Keith in 1984 in West Terre Haute. He was acquitted of murder.
Camron James Love, born on 8/8/08 in Terre Haute Regional Hospital, weighed 8 pounds, 8 ounces.
Aug. 10 — Terre Haute officials and politicos talk about the alarming trend of thieves stealing copper wire from businesses and utilities.
Aug. 12 — After four years of the neutralization process, the last of 1,269 tons of VX nerve agent is eliminated at Newport.
Ebony Burt of Indianapolis was sentenced to 60 years in prison for the murder of Michael A. Wyatt in Terre Haute on April 12, 2007. Burt was found guilty in a trial in June.
Aug. 13 — Federal Emergency Management Agency figures show that 3,219 Vigo County residents signed up for aid from damage by the June 7 flood, the highest number of any county in Indiana. The deadline to apply has expired.
Aug. 14 — Gov. Mitch Daniels visits the campus of Ivy Tech Community College in Terre Haute, unveiling a proposal to make college more affordable for high-school graduates in a free tuition plan funded by either lottery money, or bonds.
Aug. 15 — About 75 demonstrators gather on the steps of the Vigo County Courthouse to urge the Terre Haute City Council to pass a resolution supporting statewide hate crimes legislation.
Aug. 18 — Fallen trees that created logjams in streams near Terre Haute continue to create flood problems and are among the lingering effects of the June 7 flooding.
Aug. 19 — Vigo County teachers receive a 2 1/2 percent pay increase under an agreement reached with the School Board.
Bryan P. Decker pleads guilty to a operating a vehicle while intoxicated endangering a person, a misdemeanor, in connection with the death of Cameron Langenfeld in June 2007, who was struck by a car near Fruitridge and Wallace avenues. Decker had been charged with a class-C felony.
Aug. 21 — Cheri Bradley, Indiana State University first lady, sets up a lemonade stand in front of husband/university president Daniel Bradley’s office, to greet students and get acquainted with the campus atmosphere.
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology’s Homework Hotline receives a $2.7 million grant that will allow it to operate for three more years.
Aug. 23 — The end of the filing period for fall election shows that the contested races for Vigo County School Board are District 1 members Mel Burks and Jackie Lower being opposed by challenger Larry Faulkner; and District 3 member Paul Lockhart being challenged by Don Gamble.
Aug. 24 — Wabash Valley delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Denver who will fly there today include John R. Gregg, Bionca Gambill, Lynn Hamilton and Bill Smock.
Aug. 26 — Vigo County School Corp. officials attribute an anticipated decline of about 100 students enrolled in the system this year to the community’s economy, which has been ravaged by industry closings and layoffs.
Aug. 27 — Tribune-Star officials say the newspaper will appeal a $1.5 million libel verdict by a Sullivan County jury from a lawsuit brought by Jeff Maynard, a Clay County police officer.
Aug. 28 — Citing their popularity, the Vigo County Election Board votes to provide satellite voting facilities again for the weeks leading up to the November election.
Aug. 29 — Clay County women Carol A. Allen and Jane A. Walters, volunteers for the American Red Cross, are headed to the Gulf of Mexico area to support relief efforts for victims of tropical storm Gustav.
Aug. 31 — Republican Party National Convention delegate James Bopp Jr., an attorney from Terre Haute, talks about his role as a member of the committee that develops the official platform for the party that is ratified at the convention.
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