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PRINCETON Looking for a Great Deal On Your Next Vehicle? Karan Thacker Owner THACKER TAX SERVICE 906 Blackfoot Drive Fort Branch, IN 47648 812-615-0071 (office) 812-789-3852 (cell) kthacker01@gmail.com The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, Januar y 5, 2022 A-5 football team beat Washington 24-12. It was their first win on the season and the first time they have beat Washington since 2004. • Clog the Patoka had about 150 people participate. Atten- dance was down due to the event being cancelled in Ju- ly due to storms and COVID numbers being high in the ar- ea. • Xavery Weisman won the girls' high school race with a time of 20 :13 in the 25 -team South Knox Cross Country In- vitational. • Pike Central's Lady's golf team advanced to the Wash- ington Golf Regional by plac- ing third in the North Knox Sectional. "I was ecstatic. . . That is the best we have played. I was really proud of them," said Charger Coach Jarrod Gideon. The Char- gers' number one player, So- phie Carnahan, placed second overall, individually shooting an 80. Gideon said it was a 17-stroke improvement from the previous season at the sec- tional. OCTOBER • A geo-fence warrant was issued in the investigation of Owen Delmar Garretson's death in June. Garretson was hit by a vehicle near his mail- box on a lightly traveled coun- ty road. The geo-fence war- rant of Google is for a 50 -yard by 10 -yard box near Garret- son's mailbox. It is expected to show every cellphone that passed through that area be- tween 6:55 p.m. and 8:02 p.m. on June 16, when police be- lieve Garretson was struck. • Pike County School Board vote 4-0 to approve a mask optional policy in their schools. It came after more than 100 parents attended a special board meeting, held at the Petersburg Elementary School gym to accommodate the crowd. Parents strongly urged the schools to consid- er not requiring masks. Most claimed the harm of the masks were greater than the benefits of the masks. A fter more than two hours of comments, the board voted to make masks optional and to only quaran- tine if there was contact with- in three feet without a mask for 15 minutes. It will require contact tracing for contact in- side six feet without a mask, but not quarantine. It also provided exemptions to the quarantine that includ- ed: proof of being fully vacci- nated or having COVID in the last six months, or having anti- bodies in the last six months. There will be no quarantine for those wearing a mask all day with no contact inside six feet and no quarantine for out- doors contact. • Xavery Weisman and Quinlan Teague were both named to the All-PAC Cross Country team. • Aleshia Kuebler, 30, and her eight-year-old son, Daxon Cates, were ejected from their vehicle and her one-year-old daughter was strapped in a carseat when their SUV over- turned as Keubler was having a seizure. Police said Daxon had unbuckled his seatbelt to help his mother, who was unconscious. It was believed they were gravely injured, but both were released from the hospital after a couple of days. • Lloyd Carpenter, 37, of Jas- per, and Emily Shelton, 24, of Birdseye, were arrested after police claimed they went into Chad and Cody Norris' resi- dence in Otwell and stabbed Chad Norris multiple times. Carpenter and Shelton were charged with attempted mur- der, a level 1 felony, and ag- gravated battery when the as- sault poses a substantial risk of death, a level 3 felony. Nor- ris' mother said he suffered a six-inch deep stab wound • Pike Central's Marching Brigade earned a gold rating and qualified for the Indiana State School Music Associa- tion's Scholastic Class state finals in Franklin. • "Our active cases are down to 49, that is fantas- tic," said Pike County Health Nurse Amy Gladish just weeks after Pike County had a surge of COVID cases, including 127 in one week and 37 on one day. • Xavery Weisman won the girls' South Knox cross coun- try sectional with a time of 19:23. • Corey Underhill, 48, of 3937 West River Road, Peters- burg, was injured in a drive- by shooting early Thursday morning when someone shot into his camper. • Former Pike Central wrestler Derek Lunsford won the title of Mr. Olympia on Oc- tober 9 in Orlando, Fla. • Three Pike Central cross country runners qualified for the semi-state individually. Peyton Chanley placed 20th in a time of 17:15 at the Pike Central hosted cross country regional. Xavery Weisman and Quinlan Teague both qualified for the semi-state in the girls' competition. Weisman fin- ished second in the regional with a time of 18:55. Teague placed 21st in a time of 20 :54. • The Petersburg Fire De- partment received a $489,256 grant to pay for two firemen a shift to be on duty, as well as training and recruitment of new members. • Taylor Deffendoll was hired as a police officer for Pe- tersburg. She will work as a re- serve until the end of the year and start full-time in January 2022. Deffendoll is the first female officer to be hired in Pike County. • Xavery Weisman placed 12th in the Brown County Cross Country Semi-State to be the first Pike Central ath- lete to qualify for the cross country state finals. She ran a time of 18:48. NOVEMBER • The City of Petersburg created a line item in their budget for the nearly $500,000 SAFER grant they received to fund paying two firefight- ers per shift. They also set up salary ordinances, setting the pay at $75 a shift. • The number of active COVID cases in Pike County dropped to 18 and there were only 17 new cases in the last seven days. • Joey Ridao was named first team All-PAC Soccer. Kendric Sorgius was named second team All-PAC. Kah- Chargers celebrate win against the Hatchets Sept. 22 — After the win against the Washington Hatchets on September 18, the student section came down from the stands. In their whiteout attire, they ran through a silly string tunnel to get to the football team and celebrate their win with them on the field. The Chargers won by a score of 24-12, winning them the elusive Bur- gundy and Gold Trophy back from Washington, after not having it since 2004. Fine art takes concentration Oct. 13 — Mitchell and Mackenzie Beach are locked in on their pumpkin paint- ing project Saturday morning. The siblings were some of the many youngsters to take part in the pumpkin painting at Prides Creek, that was part of the annual Hal- loween in the Park. Continued on page 6