The Press-Dispatch
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Locally Owned & Operated | Dr. Clint Shoultz 715 S. 9th Street, Petersburg | 812-354-9400 Mon. 8-7 | Tues. 8-noon | Wed. 10-7 | Thurs. 8-5 | Fri. 8-5 SAVE 25% on all non-prescription designer sunglasses SUNGLASSES SALE SUNGLASSES SALE Need prescription sunglasses? These frames take prescrip- tion lenses, too! Need prescription sunglasses? These frames take prescrip- tion lenses, too! Buy 1 pair prescription sunglasses, get the second at HALF PRICE! * *Insurance accepted. 2nd pair doesn't have to be prescription. COACH EYEWEAR Hydrants to be flushed in Spurgeon The Spurgeon Water Cor- poration will be flushing hy- drants on June 14, 15 and 16. Customers could experience water discoloration while the hydrants are being flushed. Spurgeon recommends not washing light-colored cloth- ing on these days. COVID testing site to close two days The Pike County Health Department's COVID test- ing site at Petersburg Moose Lodge will be closed on Thursday, June 10 and again on Saturday, July 17. The test- ing site hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Mondays, 3 to 6 p.m. on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and 9 a.m. to noon on Thurs- day and Saturday. It is locat- ed on the Petersburg Moose Lodge's parking lot. The project is going to be done in phases. The first phase includes the area from Main St. to where Seventh St. intersects with Highway 61, near Abigail St. It was sup- posed to start on June 1, but has been delayed, likely until June 14. It is expected to last until mid-October 2021. The local detour for Phase I is Seventh St. to Main St. Be- cause of the increased traf- fic expected, parking is be- ing banned from Poplar St. to Highway 61, and within 30 feet of Main St. "This is being done for pub- lic safety. We hope people will reduce their speed and obey the parking signs. We don't want people getting run over trying to cross the street." Phase II of the project will run from Abigail St. to Har- vest Lane. It is expected to last from mid-October until Ju- ly 2022. The local detour for this phase is White River Ave. The detour for through traf- fic is State Road 57 to US 50 to State Road 241. City Services Manager Ross Elmore said they are down to only about 200 wa- ter meters left to install. The new meters have a transmit- ter that sends real-time wa- ter usage and monthly meter readings to the clerk-treasur- er directly, instead of requir- ing city workers to get read- ings from the meters. Elmore said most of the me- ters left need structural work on the meter well. Bob Mason, who lives on north Main St., complained that a water line that burst about a year ago on the cor- ner of his lot is still leaking. He built a new house there and said he wants to do landscap- ing, but can't because of the waterline leak. Elmore said the patch they put on the line has been leak- ing, but it is going to be time consuming and expensive to fix it. He said they will have to install a new valve to iso- late the leak before they can make the repair. "We had an estimate of about $21,000 to install a valve near Cox Trailer Court," said Elmore. He add- ed city crews could not install that type of valve. Klipsch suggested they go ahead and hire a contractor to do the work on replacing the valve. Norman Dillion asked the city to help him fill a deep ditch in front of a property he owns at 17th and Maple sts. He said the city, years ago, dug a deep ditch with the intention of installing culverts, but nev- er did. He said the deep ditch was a danger and hard to mow. He said he would supply cul- vert pipe if the city would cov- er it with dirt. Klipsch agreed to that. "We now have a cemetery, so we have lots of dirt," said Klipsch. The next Petersburg meet- ing is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Monday, June 21. By Andy Heuring Pike County has not report- ed a new COVID case since June 2. "We are in a really good place," said Pike Coun- ty Health Nurse Amy Gladish. She said there are five ac- tive cases in the county and she doesn't know of any hos- pitalizations due to COVID. In the last week, there has only been two new cases re- ported in Pike County. Both were on June 2. They brought the total number of cases in Pike County to 1,373. This time last year, Pike County had only recorded six COVID cases, with the first one being reported on April 11. Gladish said the state map had Pike County as having a seven-day positivity rate of five percent. However, she said they are appealing that number. "We don't think it is nearly that high," Gladish told the county council on Tuesday. Tuesday afternoon, the In- diana Department of Health updated that number to 1.93 percent. So far, 5,243 people have been fully vaccinated in Pike County and 5,336 have got- ten the first shot of a two-dose vaccine. Gladish said they are on- ly vaccinating about 50 to 60 people a week now instead of the 100 to 200 per clinic day. Statewide, 12,568 people were vaccinated on Monday and a total of 2.6 million peo- ple have been fully vaccinat- ed. The last death reported in Pike County was on March 10. The first death was re- corded on August 21, 2020. In all, Pike County has had 34 deaths attributed to COVID. Statewide, the numbers are trending down as well. Over the last week, new cases being reported have dropped from 1,169 on June 2 to 389 on June 4 and 275 on June 6. It jumped slightly on June 7 to 302 new cases. However, there were no new deaths reported for June 7 in Indiana. It was the second day in a row no deaths were reported in the state. On the previous days this week, there were four, five, four and one deaths recorded. Hospitalizations also dropped steadily from 705 on May 31 to 614 on June 7. This is the lowest number hospital- ized in Indiana since 617 were hospitalized on June 27, 2020. No COVID cases since June 2 Lane restrictions starting soon in area Highway 61 is scheduled to have lane restrictions any day. A project to make drainage im- provements between McCoy and Goodlet sts. was sched- uled to begin on or about June 3. It will cause lane re- strictions, with flaggers being used to control traffic during daytime hours. INDOT said one lane of traffic will always be open during the project. It is expected to last until early August. Highway 61, north of Pe- tersburg, is expected to be closed starting June 14. It was originally scheduled to closed on June 1, but that has been delayed due to a delay in a waterline relocation project in progress on the same sec- tion of road. Phase I of the INDOT High- way 61 project will run from Main St. north to Seventh St., with the detour being Seventh St. to Main St. It is expected to last until mid-October. Phase II will run from Abigail St. to Harvest Lane. It is expected to run from mid-October 2021 to July 2022. The local detour will be White River Ave. HIGHWAY 168 Highway 168, near Fort Branch, will have lane restric- tions for a bridge rehab proj- ect. The Indiana Department of Transportation announced that beginning on or around Thursday, June 10, contrac- tors will close one lane of the S.R. 168 bridge spanning Troops Creek, about a mile west of U.S. 41. Workers will be performing a bridge reha- bilitation, including demoli- tion, patching and resurfac- ing. During the project, restric- tions will be in place around the clock and traffic will be controlled by temporary sig- nal. The open lane will be re- stricted to 15 feet. Wider loads should seek an alternate route using the nearest numbered state, U.S. or interstate routes. Work is expected to last until about mid-July, depending up- on weather conditions. Smith said Welp told them he was upstairs, and they be- gan looking upstairs, but did not locate him. They eventu- ally located Walburn still alive in a ground floor hallway. "We immediately transported him to Memorial Hospital." He said they continued with CPR efforts all the way to the hos- pital. "They worked on him for several hours," said Smith. An autopsy was conducted, but Smith said the results of that autopsy have not been fi- nalized. See obituary on page A-11. WALBURN Continued from page 1 COUNCIL Continued from page 1 Highway 57 crash on Monday No one was injured in a crash Monday at 1:49 p.m. on Highway 57, near Glezen, when a passenger car slammed into the back of a dump truck. Pike County Deputy Sheriff Jason McKinney said Jordan Hunt, 30, of 3928 E. SR 56, Hazelton, stated he had pulled out of Division Road, driving north on Highway 57, and had shifted from third gear to fourth gear when he saw a white car approaching quickly. McKinney said Kolbi King, 20, of 116 E. Second St., Oakland City, was attempting to pass Hunt, but there was oncoming traffic and she had to swerve back into her lane and hit Hunt's dump truck in the back. King's 2013 Chevrolet Cruze had an estimated $5,000 to $10,000. The dump truck had no visible damage.