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$1.00 24 PAGES Four SECTIoNS oNE INSErT PETErSBurG, IN 47567-0068 WEdNESdAy, SEPTEmBEr 7, 2022 PIKE PUBLISHING VoLumE 152, NumBEr 35 See NEW ER A on page 2 See FALL FESTIVAL on page 2 See WOODS on page 2 See TR ACTOR on page 2 See BUST on page 2 SPORTS B1 LADY CHARGERS SOCCER IMPROVES TO 4-1 NEWS TIPS Phone: ���������������������812-354-8500 Email ����� editor@pressdispatch�net INSIDE Local ����������������� A1-8 Obituaries ���������������A6 School �������������������� A7 Sports �����������������B1-3 Home Life ������������C1-2 East Gibson������������ C2 Opinion ������������� C4-5 Classifieds ���������� C5-8 Legals �����������������C6-7 Church �������������� D1-3 History �������������������D4 uSPS 604-34012 Monroe City Fall Festival bigger and better than ever By Sherri Sebella News Editor sherri@pressdispatch.net The Monroe City Fall Festival, which starts Thursday, September 15, at 5 p.m., with food trucks and the King and Queen Pageant in the Gym, hopes to be the best festival yet for the town according to Marl- is Day, who helps organize the festival each year. "This year we will be starting on Thurs- day (September 15), with some food trucks that will be bringing burgers, fries, Mexican food, ice cream and other things," Day said. "That starts at 5 p.m. and then at 7 p.m. we will have the King and Queen Pageant in the gymnasium of the Blue Jeans Com- munity Center, which we do every year. We do that on Thursday so the King and Queen can rule over the festivities that take place throughout the weekend." On Friday, something new this year will be a Chicken Noodle or Beef Manhattan dinner sponsored by the South Knox Parent Teacher Organization (P TO). Outside, there will be additional food ven- dors and tents set up for the whole weekend that will offer hamburgers, brats and home- made ice cream by Walnut Grove Church and coneys, hot dogs and funnel cakes by the Reed Family. "Everyone loves the ice cream," Day said. "No matter what food I get, I always leave room for ice cream because it's so good. We will have a half pot drawing each night starting Friday and going through Sunday. There will also be vendors and inflatables set up every day, starting Friday. Music will be going in the covered outside pavilion by the band Ricochet, that will be a variety of music for everyone to enjoy." On Saturday morning, get to the festival early if you want to get some of Cow Muck Cookers, Beech Hills Bar-B-Que. Accord- 15th Annual Tractor Drive heading our way By Sherri Sebella News Editor sherri@pressdispatch.net Do you have a tractor and you are not busy Saturday, September 24, or do you want to take a free tour ride on a trailer transport of the annual tractor drive held in Pike County that day? This year marks the 15th year of the An- nual Pike County Tractor Drive, sponsored by the Winslow Lions Club. According to Ross Elmore, Petersburg Fire Chief and member of the Pike County Indiana Trac- tor Group, anyone can participate. There is a $15 entry fee per tractor and all tractor drivers must be a licensed driver. Registration for the event begins at 9:30 a.m. (Eastern Time), and the drive begins at 10 :30 a.m. (Eastern Time). The drive will depart from the Glezen Revival Center, located East of State Highway 57, approxi- mately five miles South of Petersburg and approximately seven miles North of Oak- land City (turn East at sign across from the Village Inn Restaurant). This is an approx- imately 30 mile drive. There will also be a trailer transport for those who do not own a tractor but want to ride along the path with the tractors in- volved in the drive. "This is for people who want to ride along and see what we see on the tractors," Elmore said. The larger Fall Drive started with the Winslow Festival, so we could do a little history along the way. We got away from that weekend, but the Winslow Lions Club still sponsors us by helping with the Woods found guilty on all counts By Sherri Sebella News Editor sherri@pressdispatch.net The fate of Bradley Woods,1 42, of Washington, was decided on Wednesday, August 31 by a jury of 12 in the Pike County Circuit Court. Woods was found guilty on all counts as charged, which were Burglary with Serious Bodily Injury, Burglary Re- sulting in Bodily Injury, and Battery by Means of a Deadly Weapon. On November 3, 2021, Central Dispatch received a 911 call from a Dennis Clark of Winslow, who had told police that two men broke into his house and beat him with a baseball bat. When Police arrived, they located Clark on the back porch, sitting on a swing, bleeding from the top of his head. Clark had blood covering his entire face and blood on his hands and clothing. Don Hurd, president of Heartland Communications, stands with Press-Dispatch co-publishers Andy (l) and John (r) Heuring of Pike County Publishing Corp. The brothers, who have been involved with publishing for more than 40 years, recently sold the The Press-Dispatch and South Gibson Star-Times in Fort Branch, to Heartland on Sept. 1. For the first time in 124 years, this newspaper will not be pub- lished under ownership of the Heuring family. John and Andy Heuring have sold the ownership of The Press-Dispatch and the South Gib- son Star-Times to Don L. Hurd of Heartland Media Group as of September 1. Hurd is president and owner of 20 other newspapers in Indiana. According to Hurd, he is very protective of his newspapers and he considers them as his babies. Hurd operates newspapers in Benton, White, Lake, Wabash, Huntington, Miami, Grant, La- Grange and Pulaski counties. Each publication is dedicated to providing solid local news to its readers each and every week. Hurd's publications reach more than 250,000 readers each week. "We are very happy and ex- cited to have purchased The Press-Dispatch and South Gibson Star-Times," said Hurd, founder and CEO of Heartland Media Group. "The Heuring family has done an outstanding job of providing local news to Pike and Gibson Counties. Heartland Media Group will continue to provide hyper-local news to our subscrib- ers." "My only job since graduation college has been to cover news and sports in Pike and Gibson Counties," said Andy Heuring, co-publisher and editor. "Over the last 40 years I think I have taken a picture or covered a news story on nearly every road and neighborhood in Pike County." He added, "During my time of covering people and happenings in Pike County since 1984 and Gibson County since 1991, I have been privileged to work with and meet many great people and sev- eral elite athletes along the way, and made lots of lasting relation- ships." " We look forward to working with residents of Pike and Gibson Counties to provide an all-local community newspaper. We want our readers to be proud of their hometown newspaper." Don L. Hurd, Heartland Media Group Heurings sell newspapers to Heartland Media Group Police find 400+ marijuana plants during eviction By Sherri Sebella News Editor sherri@pressdispatch.net Petersburg Police Chief Kyle Mills and Pike County Sheriff's Department K9 Deputy Buck Seger got a call for assistance with an eviction on Wednesday, August 31. During the call, officers located around 400 -500 marijuana plants growing in a walled-off garage with no roof, according to Mills. "Some of the plants were fully grown and reached 8 to 10 feet tall," Mills said. Mills and Seger cut down and pulled all of the plants and loaded them into the back of a Pike County Sheriff's Depart- Dave Yager, with his antique Farmall tractor, is a regular participant in the Annual Pike County Tractor drive. This year marks the 15th year of the event, sponsored by the Winslow Lions Club. According to Ross Elmore of the Pike County Indiana Tractor Group, anyone can participate. There is a $15 entry fee per tractor and all tractor drivers must be a licensed driver.