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CR 75 W., Petersburg, was arrested Friday morning on charges of burglary, a level 5 felony, criminal mischief, criminal trespass, theft and conversion. Mallory was arrested after po- lice reviewed videos from the liquor store, including one of him giving the surveillance camera the finger. Winslow Deputy Town Marshal James Harrington went to the store after Lonnie Higgins called police at 12:32 a.m. Wednesday to report the front glass door had been shattered. Higgins told police he was deliver- ing The Press-Dispatch newspapers to the closed store and saw the bro- Petersburg man arrested for Winslow liquor store burglary By Andy Heuring A naked intruder at a Winslow ar- ea home led to the arrest of two peo- ple on meth charges late last Tues- day night. Shelia Cash, 24, of 4915 E. SR 64, Winslow, was arrested on charges of residential entry breaking and en- tering, a level 6 felony; possession of meth, a level 6 felony; and pos- session of paraphernalia, a class C misdemeanor. James Tapp, 52, of the same ad- dress, was arrested on charges of maintaining a common nuisance (controlled substance), a level 6 fel- ony; possession of marijuana; and possession of paraphernalia. It started at 10 :17 p.m. when Pike County's 911 center got a call about a possible residential entry at Phillip McCrary's located at 4817 E. State Road 364. Pike County Deputy Sher- iff Jared Simmons said he started that way and Indiana State Troop- er C.J. Boeckman was in the area. On his way, Deputy Simmons said the caller told central dispatch they had found a woman in Phillip Mc- Crary's residence. Deputy Simmons said McCrary heard a noise in his house and when he investigated, he realized some- one was breaking into his residence, so he left and went to the neighbors' and called 911. He and the neighbors then returned and found Cash inside the house completely naked. Troop- er Boeckman arrived and detained Cash. Deputy Simmons said they gave Cash clothes. "She was pretty out of it," said Simmons. He said after she broke into the residence, she had gotten into the refrigerator and gotten a soft drink can and cut it in half. He said it ap- peared she was trying to heat meth in the bottom of the can and had bit- ten ink pens in half. She was using them to inhale smoke off the heat- ed meth. She had ink from the pens on her face. McCrary told police he found a pair of shoes and a Halloween bun- ny mask near his barn. Sheriff's Deputy Cody Jones told Simmons they found another bag of meth on Cash. When Simmons talk- ed to Cash, she said Tapp was giv- ing her meth and there was more at the residence they shared nearby. Deputy Simmons, in his report, said while he was talking to the witnesses, Tapp arrived at the res- idence. He got permission from Tapp to search his residence. During the search, according to Deputy Sim- mons' report, police found different pill bottles, some with Tapp's name on them and others with Cash's name on them. Other items includ- ed three glass devices, commonly used for smoking meth, found on a nightstand, a partially burnt mari- juana cigarette and marijuana grind- er. Tapp and Cash were taken into custody. Naked intrusion leads to arrest of two in Winslow Rachel Hoffman, owner of Winslow Package Liquors, stands in front of the door a burglar broke late last Tuesday night. Colton Mallory, 25, of rural Petersburg, was arrested Friday morning for the burglary. Hoffman said she used her children's slip-n'- slide to cover the broken door. Fire damages Hornady Park house Quick action by Hornady Park manager Dave Parker and the Petersburg Fire Department limited damage from a lighting strike last Thursday. Parker said he had just finished mowing at about 4:45 p.m. Thursday before a strong thunderstorm hit the Petersburg area. "I was just walking through the door when a big bang of lighting hit. There was no flash, just a big boom," said Parker. "I thought it had hit a tree nearby." He went on inside and found that his television had been dam- aged by the lighting strike. "I smelled some smoke, but I just thought it was the TV." He said he didn't go outside at the time because it was still storming. About five hours later, at 9:30 p.m., he was in the other part of the house. He said he was viewing social media on his phone because his TV was out. "I looked up and in the kitchen there was now smoke." He went outside and found a small hole in the exterior of the house where he could see fire. Parker said he called Petersburg Fire Chief Ross Elmore and asked him about putting a hose on it. Parker got a hose and started spraying it and called 911. Firemen showed up and were able to extinguish the fire in a few minutes. "Dave deserves a lot of credit. He was able to slow it down with the hose. If he hadn't done that, we would have had a much bigger working fire," said Petersburg Assistant Fire Chief Jon Craig. By Andy Heuring Pike County's COVID numbers are holding steady, while several areas of the state are seeing some sharp increases. "We are staying re- ally good, " said Pike County Audi- tor Judy Gumbel during the coun- ty commissioners' meeting. Gumbel said she had talked to Pike Coun- ty Health Nurse Amy Gladish, who could not attend the meeting. Gumbel said there were six active cases in Pike County. Pike County had seven new cases reported in the last seven days to raise the to- tal number of cases to 1,393. Four of those were reported on July 9. There has not been a COVID-related death since March 10 in Pike County. Statewide, the deaths are also staying low, despite jumps in the number of new cases and hospital- izations. There have been no report- ed deaths statewide for the last three days and only one each the two days prior for a total of two from July 8 to July 12. It was a decline from six on July 6 and five on July 7. New cases in Indiana jumped drastically on July 12 to 571, after only 157 new cases being reported on July 11. Hospitalizations took a small jump as well on July 12. They had fallen to 271 on July 3, then took a small jump to 423 on July 6. That County COVID cases remain in check See BURGLARY on page 2 See BR AUN on page 5 See WINSLOW on page 4 See COVIDT on page 7 Winslow learns survey results, awards paving bid By Andrea Preston Attracting new industries and re- vitalizing the downtown area are just two of the top issues on the minds of Winslow residents, according to the community's recent survey. Debra Lamb, vice-president of the Winslow Town Council, presented the community-wide survey results during Monday's bi-monthly town council meeting. "We wanted to see if we were on track with what the issues are. We cannot know everything. This will help point us in the right direction," Lamb said after the meeting, add- ing the information will be invalu- able come budget time. The questionnaire was sent out earlier this year to all water cus- tomers. Less than 20 percent re- sponded. In the section regarding "things that could be done or are needed in Winslow," the responses receiving the highest markings were: • Downtown business develop- ment and revitalization; • Attraction and retention of ser- vice industry; • Attraction and retention of light industry; • Efforts to keep youth and young adults in town; • Downtown streetscape; and • Recreation programs for youth. The survey also included sec- tions rating Winslow's downtown in a number of areas; the quality of Winslow's services and amenities; and questions regarding the town's parks and recreation offerings. The full listing of questions and responses can be found on the town's website: http://townof- winslowin.thriftstorewebsites.net/. OTHER BUSINESS • The council also opened two sealed bids for the town's 2021 pav- ing program. On a 3-0 vote, the pav- ing contract was awarded to J.H. Ru- dolph & Co., Inc., of Tell City, with the lowest bid of $114,981. The oth- er bid, for $142,944.10, was submit- ted from E&B Paving, Inc., of An- derson. The bids priced out the require- ments for the town's Community Crossings grant. Winslow received $104,170.48 in state matching funds for local road projects from the Gov- ernor's Next Level Roads Program. To qualify for funding, local gov- ernments must provide local match- ing funds, 50 percent for larger com- munities or 25 percent for smaller communities, from a funding source approved for road and bridge con- Sen. Braun visits Buchta Tech Center on Wednesday By James Capozella The Elmer Buchta Entrepreneur and Technology Center was host to several local and out-of-county guests that included a special pre- sentation by Senator Mike Braun. The Wednesday morning get-to- gether featured Mick Hetman, who showed the group the various sec- tions of the Buchta Tech Center. Braun was accompanied by region- al director Jan Schuler-Hicks, of Da- viess County. Dubois County Cham- ber of Commerce director Becky Hickman, Denny Bishop, Robin Smith, Greg Willis and Tech Cen- ter receptionist Allison Bailey. The center is a unique co-working, maker and training space that offers prototyping capabilities and acts as a business incubator for any entre- preneur to launch their business. There are low rental and member- ship fees for office space and Braun said, "It looks like you have picked a sweet spot to have an effective place to nurture what places all across the state are doing." Braun said he was a state legislator for three years and on the education committee for one of those years. Because he was too vocal on career and technical edu- cation, he was taken off the commit- tee. He said we are doing well with STEM, relatively speaking. He said we have the highest levels of edu- cation not buying into careers and technical eduction. Braun stated, "We ship out twice as many degrees in this state as we keep. It's an export business. We are blessed with all kinds of higher ed- ucation institutions that we need to