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B-2 Wednesday, March 2, 2022 The Press-Dispatch yeah, it's that fast! net edition Z M www.PressDispatch.net/Subscribe The Press-Dispatch. No matter where you live. show of hands and with voice. At the close of the Febru- ary 22 meeting, John Melhis- er made a motion to approve a resolution for the indebted- ness, seconded by Council- man Gary Leavitt and passed by voice vote. Revenue re- quirements under Alternate II would increase the annual re- placements and improvements from $75,000 to $122,100, which all agreed was needed to maintain the system. Deen Rogers, with Baker Tilly Municipal Advisors, ex- plained at the February 22 council meeting how the in- creases on the new rates were developed. The water system improvement project for the city includes two wells, well field improvements, a new wa- ter treatment plant, a 20 -inch raw water transmission main, rehab of two water towers, a new water tower on SR61, the Main Street water main, the new Alford water main and Riverwood Drive Subdivision. The Baker Tilly Municipal Advisors said the total project costs came to $21.4 million, with $10.5 million the cost of construction of the new wa- ter treatment plant. The new raw water main and distri- bution system is set at near- ly $2.7 million, and the new water storage tank and tow- er rehab costing $ 3.8 Million. Wells five and six would cost $ 939,000, and non construc- tion costs for the entire proj- ect are at $2.6 million. Funding comes from $ 9.23 million in series A bonds, $7.9 million in series B bonds and $4.28 million in grants and cash on hand. In the Petersburg Board of Works meeting, Petersburg Police Chief Kyle Mills intro- duced some changes to the rank and function guidelines and clothing descriptions for the policy handbook. Klipsch made a motion and Melhiser seconded the updates, and it passed by a voice vote. The no parking signs for the detour on Seventh street from the railroad tracks north, are to stay in place for the time being. Discussions by Mayor Klipsch, Chief Mills and the council ended in a wait and see decision. Klipsch said he would take another look at the area up to the curve on the hill, near the new bait shop. Both Ross Elmore and Chief Mills suggested leaving the signs in place for now. The is- sue was tabled until the next meeting for a final decision. The next meeting is sched- uled for 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 7. 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WE OFFER BOTH. 6.875X5_Newspaper_Zach Holt_2-22.indd 1 6.875X5_Newspaper_Zach Holt_2-22.indd 1 2/11/22 10:21 AM 2/11/22 10:21 AM Winslow mother has daughter arrested for stealing her car By Sherri Sebella A Winslow mother had her daughter arrested on Friday, February 18 for allegedly stealing her car. Pike County Sheriff Depu- ty Cody Jones responded to a 911 call about a stolen vehicle. The caller ssaid her daughter had come into her house and stole her Nissan Versa. Brenda Sharp, 76, of Winslow, said her daughter, Keeja Lee, 53, also of Winslow, had somehow come into Sharp's residence after Sharp had locked all of her doors. Sharp claimed that Lee had been acting strangely and was wanting to take Sharp's car to town. Sharp told Lee that she was not allowed to take her car and she informed her daugh- ter that she did not have a val- id driver's license. Lee became angry and left the residence. Sharp later noticed that her car was not parked in front of her house. Sharp believed that her daugh- ter (Lee) had taken the vehi- cle, because Lee was the last person to be at her residence. Sharp told police that she wanted to press charges and was tired of Lee messing up all of her stuff. Police at another location advised that they saw a blue Nissan parked at the Dollar General store in Petersburg. The plate number on the car matached Sharp's vehicle Police saw a woman ex- it Dollar General and leave in the car. They followed her southbound on State Road 61 and stopped her on County Road 75 North by State Road 61. Police identified the driv- er to be Lee. She told Depu- ty Jones that she climbed in- to her mother's residence through a window. Jones asked Lee if Sharp had giv- en her permission to take the car and Lee said that Sharp al- lowed her to take the car. Jones placed Lee under ar- rest and transported her to Pike County Jail. Sharp had a friend come pick up her vehi- cle at the scene. Huck's employee reports drunk driver By Sherri Sebella A Connersville man was ar- rested on Monday, February 21, after a Huck's employee notified police about a man who went through the drive through at the gas station and smelled of alcohol. Petersburg City Officer Scott Arnold conducted a traf- fic stop on the vehicle. Robert Beach, 54, of Con- nersville, was out of the vehi- cle with police when Indiana State Trooper Dustin Stein arrived. Police asked Beach how much he had to drink, and he stated he had eight beers "about two hours ago." Police told Beach they were going to conduct the Stan- dard Field Sobriety Tests and Beach said he was drunk and there was no need. Police administered the Standard Field Sobriety tests and Beach could not bal- ance himself during the in- structions and failed all tests. Beach stated to just take him to jail already, because he was drunk. A portable Breathalyzer test gave a reading of .263 per- cent. Beach agreed to submit to a chemical test. He also told police he did not have a driv- er's license. Central Dispatch advised that Beach was a ha- bitual traffic violator for life. He was taken to Pike Coun- ty Jail and refused the chemi- cal test saying he was already a habitual traffic violator. Beach was taken to Daviess Community Hospital for med- ical clearance and then trans- ported back to Pike County jail without further incident. Beach was charged with op- erating a vehicle after being a habitual traffic offender and operating a vehicle while in- toxicated/MC. Minor injuries in major truck crash A Loogootee man suffered minor injuries when he crashed a 10-wheeler dump truck off Highway 57 onto AES property Tuesday at about noon. Benjamin C. Mason, 44, of Loogootee was driving the 2018 dump truck north on Highway 57 near Twin Oaks Church Road when witnesses said his front left tire blew out. Mason lost control and veered left of center, cross- ing two lanes of traffic and running into a ditch, then through AES's fence and began rolling over before com- ing to rest in the field. Petersburg Officer Scott Arnold was first on scene and said Mason was standing up in the overturned truck cab and was talking with him. Emergency crews were able to get Mason out of the truck. He complained of pain and abrasions and was taken to the hospital by Pike County EMS. The accident is being investigated by Pike County Deputy Sheriff Cody Jones. ordinances need updated," Popp said. Board members approved to consider the up- dates for the first reading. A second reading will take place at the next town coun- cil meeting. "The Ordinance for Fire Lanes are only affect- ed at the school," Popp said. "We need to put a fire lane in at the schools." Popp has also been work- ing on a policy that addresses residents who fall behind on utility bills. Council member Debbie Lamb was on board with the policy Popp suggest- ed that would create boundar- ies and limits on what the town would be willing to do to help people who are not paying their utility bills. Council member Dick Brewster opposed the idea and said it was not fair to help people who do not pay their bills but are out buying new vehicles and taking vacations, while everyone else is paying their bills. The policy idea was dropped when the members could not agree. The members then dis- cussed repairs to the Commu- nity Center, and Popp asked the members how they want- ed to proceed on the repairs. Brewster apologized and said he had not gotten the quote he promised at the last meet- ing, but that the roof can be repaired and does not need to be replaced entirely. Lamb re- marked that all of the quotes regarding the roof have been extremely high and that they all want to replace the en- tire roof. Lamb also submit- ted a quote of $2,782.50 for a new awning on the Commu- nity Center that is torn and sun-faded. Brewster said that the awning could also be re- paired to where you would not even see the patches. Popp let council members know that they could get the roof and floor done and be fine fi- nancially and that a new aw- ning would be a nice finish- ing touch. All discussion re- garding the Community Cen- ter repairs was tabled to the next meeting. The town had placed a le- gal notice in the newspaper to accept bids for the old bar- ber shop building in Winslow and they only received one of- fer for $500. The council ap- proved the offer unanimous- ly and said that they hoped the person buying the build- ing would clean it up as they had stated when they made the offer. The council wanted to give special recognition to Animal Control Officer Bill Marshall who handled finding homes or re-home 33 cats that were liv- ing in a home in Winslow. "He has gone beyond the call of du- ty," Lamb said. The council also heard from Jon Craig, an engineer, who wants to help the town re- ceive grant money and fund- ing for the waste-water im- provement projects that are needed in Winslow. Craig spoke to the council about what steps need to be taken to qualify for certain grants and federal loans to fund the projects. Lamb said they had applied for grant money last year to help fund improvements, but did not re- ceive anything due to the low number of grants accepted, and they are trying to do ev- erything they can to quali- fy for grant money again this year. Craig said qualifying for grant money consisted of four key elements, which were poverty rate for the Town of Winslow, regionalism, rates, and readiness to proceed with projects. Popp said they would explore other grants if they want to fund a $4 million project. The next Winslow Town Council meeting will be Mon- day, March 14, beginning at 6 p.m. at the Winslow Town Hall. WINSLOW Continued from page 1 Death notice leads to methamphetamine arrest By Sherri Sebella While Pike County Sheriff's police were asked to go to a residence in Petersburg, after Golden Living Center nursing home contacted Central Dis- patch about the death of a res- ident there, police arrested Ja- son Brewster, 45, of Washing- ton on charges of possession of methamphetamine and pos- session of paraphernalia. Central Dispatch received a call on Saturday, February 19, at 3:24 a.m. about the death of a resident at Golden Living Center whose husband they had been trying to reach, to notify him that his wife had passed away. The caller asked if police could send someone contact the husband and have him contact Golden Living Center. Petersburg Patrol Offi- cer Taylor Deffendoll, Depu- ty Kane Osgatharp and Ser- geant Jared Simmons went to the residence to wake the hus- band. A fter several knocks, police were able to wake the husband. Police asked if they could enter the residence and speak with him. A fter the hus- band said yes, they observed another person lying on the lo- veseat in the living room. Police recognized the man as Jason Brewster, 45. They told the husband of his wife's passing and gave him the number to contact the nursing home. While there, police ob- served a small glasses case on the end table, near where Brewster was lying, along with a torch-style lighter. Po- lice asked the husband if he could show what was in the glasses case. A fter the hus- band picked up the case, he exposed a glass smoking de- vice with a round end, with white and burnt residue in it, which police recognized as a methamphetamine smok- ing device. It later field-test- ed positive for methamphet- amine. Police had been to the hus- band's residence multiple times on previous calls and had never noticed the hus- band to be a methamphet- amine user. Police observed uncon- trolled movement with Brew- ster's hands and uncontrolled exaggerated movements in his jaw when speaking, along with rapid and mut- tered speech. Brewster's pu- pils were also unresponsive to light stimulus. They recognized signs of methamphetamine intoxica- tion. Brewster denied know- ing anything about the glass- es case. Brewster was taken to Pike County jail on charges of pos- session of meth and posses- sion of paraphernalia.