The Press-Dispatch
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Red Wing & Timberland Work Shoes, entier stock .. $20 OFF FOR WOMEN Tops & Bottoms, large group, reg. from $29.99 ...½ Price Police searching for older pickup after log splitter theft, pursuit through Prides Creek By Andy Heuring Area police are looking for a dark older model truck with lots of scratch- es. Police believe it was involved in an attempted theft of a log splitter early Monday morning from Pe- tersburg Hardware. Indiana State Troop- er C. J. Boeckman said he was driving north on Highway 61 past Prides Creek when he noticed a pickup truck at 3 a.m. pulling from the Peters- burg Hardware Store's parking lot with a wood splitter hitched to the truck. "I thought, there is something not right about this." So he turned around to investigate, and the truck that was going south on Highway 61 had accelerated away as he was turning around. Trooper Boeckman said the truck, with log split- ter in tow, turned onto CR400N and then turned into Prides Creek. He said as the truck headed toward the campground, the log splitter broke loose from the trailer. Boeckman said be- cause there was on- ly one way into the park he decided not to pur- sue through the camp- ground and park at 3 a.m. He called for backup to watch the back gate and he stayed at the front gate, However the older model single cab truck, which he said might have been ca- mo, apparently drove on- to the golf course. It then drove through the border fence of the golf course near holes three and four, into the large field behind Petersburg Hardware, at- tempting to get back onto Highway 61, but couldn't because of a large ditch. So it then went back east to Highway 356 through the field and came out on 356 near Lakeview Drive. Boeckman said anyone with information about the truck can call either the Pike County Sheriff's Office at 812-354-6024 or the State Police at 800 - 867-2079. They recovered the wood splitter, but Boeck- man said it was damaged. Helsley earlier in the meet- ing was complaining about people in town not taking care of their property and not paying their water bills. She said being poor didn't mean they had to let their places be a mess. She also said in some of the instances the "church people need to get outside the walls of their church and help people in town." Councilman Brewster, at the end of the meeting said, "I like this concept of getting along instead of fighting. Fighting isn't go- ing to do anything. But get- ting along is going to get this person's property tak- en care of." Brewster started the meeting with an opening monologue about his con- cerns on delinquent water and sewer bills. "They are progressive- ly in my opinion going up, up, up. I haven't tallied cur- rently, but as of May 31 we had $ 64,000 totally owed." He said the town bills about $ 35,000 to $ 36,000 a month in water/sewer bills and they are carry- ing about $25,000 of un- paid bills from month to month. "A lot of money we gen- erate is used to pay month- ly expenses. Our tax dol- lars don't do it." He said Pike-Gibson Water Corp., who supplies Winslow's water, had notified them of a 16.7 percent increase coming in August 2018. "We aren't looking good. We seem to have the same mentality with our bills. Customers are saying it is our meters (malfunction- ing), not their responsibil- ity. I had a gentleman who has a bad leak in his base- ment. I spent 45 minutes to an hour listening to him say it is our meters that are defective causing his us- age to go up. I don't real- ly appreciate him wasting my time when he knows he has a leak in his basement. We can't keep everyone's water line repaired. One of our employees volunteered to repair his leak in the basement, if he would furnish the fixtures. His reply was he wasn't worrying about the leak and we shouldn't be wor- rying about the leak." Brewster made that statement shortly before he approved two water ad- justment requests. He also warned if peo- ple continued failing to pay their water bills, it might get to the point of the state forcing a water rate in- crease on the town to cov- er the difference. Brewster said the big problem is Winslow had about 500 water custom- ers, but they are now down to about 375 water custom- ers so it generated less rev- enue. Mike Head told the council he knows of sev- eral people who have left Winslow. He said the high water rate wasn't the rea- son they left, but they told him they were glad they didn't have to pay it any- more. In other business, the council decided to get bids on doing maintenance to its main water tower. The next Winslow meet- ing is schedule for 7 p.m. Monday, August 13 at the Winslow Community Cen- ter. WINSLOW Continued from page 1