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B-2 Wednesday, Februar y 24, 2021 The Press-Dispatch age 50. The IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance ( VITA) and the Tax Counseling for the Elderly (TCE) programs of- fer free tax help for taxpay- ers who qualify including in- dividuals who generally make $57,000 or less, persons with disabilities and limited En- glish-speaking taxpayers. The Indiana Legal Services Low Income Taxpayer Clinic serves the community by pro- viding free legal assistance to Indiana taxpayers involved in disputes with the IRS. Going to need more time to file a return? Individuals who are not able to file by the April 15 deadline can file an exten- sion directly with DOR or with the IRS. If the IRS extension is granted, the Indiana exten- sion is automatically granted. A timely filed extension moves the federal tax filing deadline to October 15, 2021, and the Indiana filing deadline to No- vember 15, 2021. It is important to note that the extension only shifts the filing deadline and not the payment deadline. Ninety per- cent of the taxes owed are still required to be paid by April 15 to avoid penalties and interest. For more helpful informa- tion including tax tips, the lat- est forms and who needs to file can be found on DOR's web- site at dor.in.gov. For questions on individu- al income taxes, customers may email DOR at Individual- Tax Assistance@dor.in.gtov or call Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST at 317- 232-2240. term health care facilities and found two more recently that are just now being added to the list. Pike County's advisory rate is still in orange range, but the positivity rate for the last sev- en days has dropped to 3.3 and the seven-day positivity for all tests is down to 0.9 percent. Pike County on Wednesday is expected to drop at least one level. Their positivity rate has been at or near six percent for several weeks. It could move to the yellow or even blue. Each week those ratings are announced on Wednesday. Hospitalizations are also dropping statewide. On Feb- ruary 22 they were at 873. On January 22 that number was 2,134 and on December 22 it was 2,811. Pike County has given 2,495 first shots of the double-shot vaccinations and 1,194 people in Pike County have received both shots. Gladish said Pike County was lucky last week and did not have to cancel any of their vaccination clinics due to a lack of vaccines. Indiana re- ceived less vaccines last week because of the weather. On Tuesday, Pike County's vac- cine clinic was cancelled due to nine inches of new snow. However Gladish said they were able to move those ap- pointments to Sunday. Pike County's free testing site remains open. Pam Cos- by said the site now has rapid tests which gives a result in a few minutes. She said a person must meet certain criteria to receive those tests. She said they are only giv- ing about 10 tests a week. Last week some days there were no tests given during the snow- storm. When it first opened in Oc- tober and November, about 100 people a day were being tested. The hours for the test- ing site located on the Pe- tersburg Moose parking lot are Monday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Tuesday and Wednesday 3 to 6 p.m.; Thursday and Saturday 9 a.m. to noon. COVID-19 Continued from page 1 See the Business Box for special services See page B-11 TAXES Continued from page 1 INTRODUCING OUR NEWEST PHYSICIAN Bradly Vo, MD General Surgery Now accepting new patients! 520 S. Seventh Street Vincennes, IN 47591 812-885-3280 | gshvin.org SOUP SOUP at the O C C 2310 N. Spring St., Otwell, IN 47564 HOW TO ORDER $ 20 $ 20 MAIL FORM AND PAYMENT TO: BY FEBRUARY 26 SATURDAY, MARCH 6 at NOON Checks should be made payable to: Je erson Township Ruritan Club P.O. Box 58, Otwell, IN 47564 ORDER FORM Name: Chili (# of Gallons): Chicken Noodle (# of Gallons): TOTAL ($20 per Gallon): CALL 812-354-2137 or 812-582-2938 Leave message, if no answer. ROBITICS Continued from page 1 takes the field to score as ma- ny points as possible. These matches consist of Driving Skills Matches, which will be entirely driver controlled, and Programming Skills Match- es, which will be autonomous with limited human interac- tion. The game this year is called "Rise Above" in which there are of 27 total Risers on the field. The object of the game is to score as many points as possible by scoring Risers in Goals, completing Rows and completing Stacks. The virtual state compe- tition will be March 6. PES teams will be doing driver skills and autonomous match- es to try to qualify for VEX Worlds. Teams also have to submit videos to state in which they describe their robot and tell about their experiences in robotics. By Andy Heuring Two men were arrested for drunken driving in separate incidents over the weekend in Pike County. A rural Petersburg man was arrested after a motorist called 911 to report a pickup truck headed north on High- way 57 toward Petersburg was driving across the center line several times and that it looked like the man was hit- ting someone. James R. Jones, 52, of 210 S. SR 57, Petersburg was arrest- ed on a charge of operating a vehicle with a prior conviction in the last seven years. Indiana State Trooper Hunt- er Manning said he was driv- ing south on Highway 57 when he heard the report of a tan truck crossing the center line and eventually pulling into the Sunoco Station in Petersburg. Manning said he saw the truck sitting in the drive-th- ru lane at the Sunoco Station with a dog in the passenger seat but didn't see anyone else in the truck. Manning then drove around the block and pulled into the adjacent park- ing lot. He saw Jones walk out of the station and get into his vehicle. Manning said he got out of his vehicle and Jones pulled up to him and stopped and start- ed talking to him. Jones said he was the only one in the ve- hicle. While talking to Jones, Trooper Manning said he no- ticed the odor of alcohol and Jones admitted he had drank earlier that day. Trooper Manning then told Jones he would have to take field sobriety tests and Jones complied. But said he his leg had been amputated below the knee. So they only did an HGN and por- table breath test. Manning said Jones failed both. He was then taken to the Pike County Jail, where he tested 0.086 percent for blood alcohol content. The legal lim- it in Indiana is 0.08 percent. Jones was taken into cus- tody. During a search of his vehicle, Manning said police located a plastic bag with sy- ringes and a white crystal-like substance that appeared to be meth. Jones was preliminarily charged with operating a ve- hicle while intoxicated with a prior conviction in the last sev- en years, possession of meth and possession of a syringe. A rural Winslow man was arrested early Sunday morn- ing on Highway 64 after police saw him driving left of center and over the fog line. Levi Jacob King, 24, of 2676 E. SR364, Winslow was arrest- ed on a preliminary charge of operating a vehicle while in- toxicated. Pike County Deputy Sher- iff Cody Jones said he was driving west on Highway 64 near CR550S, when he saw a dark colored Chevrolet SUV swerving back and forth in its lane. Deputy Jones said near CR50E he saw the vehi- cle go over the fog line at the side of the road and then near CR100W, go across the center- line before he stopped it. When he talked with King, Deputy Jones said he noticed the odor of alcohol and King said he had drank in the a cou- ple of hours earlier. King failed field sobriety tests and was taken to the Pike County Jail, where he tested 0.134 percent for blood alco- hol content. Two arrested separately for OVWI OMA board to meet Otwell Miller Academy has scheduled a school board meeting for 6 p.m. Monday, March 15 at the school. Agenda items include dona- tions, consent agenda, person- nel, old business, new busi- ness, public participation, di- rector comments and board comments. ment, we will send you a re- ceipt. We check this box at 3:30 p.m. everyday. Mobile homes and land are taxed separately if the mobile home has not been attached to the ground (wheels and tongue removed and under- pinning in place). TREASURER Continued from page 1 A Winslow area man had a minor scare Saturday when he partially fell through ice behind his house south of Winslow. Central Dispatch received a 911 call about a man fall- ing through the ice south of Winslow while area firemen were already in their suits, practicing ice rescues at Prides Creek when the call was made. Mark Wedekinz said he was carrying a calf on a small brook near his house, search- ing for a place he could get up a bank with the calf when and fell through up to about his knee. "It was no real issue, it was more an issue of trying to keep the calf from getting loose," said Wedekinz. He said a neighbor helped get him and the calf out of the stream. The 911 call was cancelled. Sheriff Kent Johnson said peo- ple should be extremely care- ful when going onto ice-cov- ered water. The Department of Natural Resources recom- mends a minimum of five inch- es of ice before venturing on the ice. Many pits, lakes and ponds in this area have springs in that cause small areas to not freeze as thick as other areas in the body of water, making it unsafe. Johnson recommended not going alone, and make sure someone knows exactly where you are going to be, and when you will return home. "It wouldn't hurt to call and check in occasionally while you are there," said Johnson. Winslow man helped after falling through ice while rescuing calf Petersburg Elementary's three robotics teams have all qualified for the VEX Robotics state finals on March 6. From left to right they are Team Hogwarts Espresso: Keira Blaize, Channing Sorgius and Loralei Hoskins. They are currently ranked 45th in Indiana. Team Watermelon Squad: Jackson Burkhart and Eli Keeker, is currently in 51st place in Indiana. Team GOAT Brains: Joshua Smith, Kade Benner and Llinkyn Knust is currently in 22nd place in Indiana. Jackson Burkhart and Eli Keeker make adjust- ments to their robot. Kade Benner checks the height of his robot's claw.