The Press-Dispatch
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Also, in each year from now, he will al- so get six percent. Continued from page 1 INTERSTATE 69 corridor and complete the much-vaunted connec- tion between Martinsville and Indianapolis. "We're working on both (Sections 5 and 6) already," Wingfield said. "Section 5 began in earnest this spring and is on an aggressive schedule to open to traffic next year. We're also work- ing on the environmental study for the final section, Section 6. We're expecting to have a recommendation for one route (for Section 6 to follow) in 2017, which will then go out for public com- ment." You can track the prog- ress of all the I-69 contract work on the I-69 project web- site, i69indyevn.org. Continued from page 1 ISTEP will result in lower scores. "It's going to be a lit- tle challenging to take the score from this year and look at last year's," Blake said. "If the projections are right and if the scores are down, I would encourage parents not to assume that their child just did poorly. I think you need to be able to see the whole group's results. If every student scored 10 points lower, then use that information to put your child's score in per- spective." "Maybe the projections are wrong," Blake added. "Maybe the students did about the same as they have in the past. But early indica- tors have been that it was a different test, it was going to be a more difficult test, so they expected lower re- sults." Blake encouraged parents to focus on particular areas where their child may have struggled. "Is it sentence structure? " Blake said. "Is it work- ing with fractions? Look at the concept they need help with and try to work with the teacher and the school to get additional support in those areas." Blake added that parents who have questions about their child's ISTEP scores to contact their child's teacher and/or school. "Basically, our thought is to either help talk them through the process on the phone while they're looking at their child's scores, or see if there's a time they can come in to the building and we'll take them to the com- puter lab and go through it with them," Blake said. "As we all become more and more familiar with the piec- es of it, we're trying to take those steps to help parents be able to look at it and find the information they need." Blake encouraged any parent who is having diffi- culty accessing their child's scores, or who does not have Internet access, to contact their child's school as well. "We'll start from there," Blake said. According to Blake, it was uncertain when the official ISTEP results would be an- nounced, noting that she had heard release dates in both December and Febru- ary. "Usually, we would have had the ISTEP scores back by the time we start school, or, roughly, August, so that we can use them as we're working with the students through the year," Blake said. "If the idea is to look at the areas that are needed for the student to improve on, it's pretty tough to ad- dress the issues when you don't have the results." By Andy Heuring Three people were arrest- ed recently in Pike County on charges of drunken driv- ing. Sunday evening, a Peters- burg woman was arrested after police got a call that she had been drinking and left a residence with a man's truck. Shaunta K. Gish, of 14 W. Locust St., Petersburg, was arrested by Petersburg Cpl. Kyle Mills at about 5:30 p.m. Sunday on First St. in Pe- tersburg. Cpl. Mills said Pike Coun- ty got a 911 call about Gish having been drinking and leaving the caller's resi- dence in his truck. Mills said he located the truck on First St. driving south at a slow speed. When he pulled behind the truck, it turned into a parking lot at First and Illinois sts. Mills said the truck didn't signal and had a taillight out. Then when he pulled into the parking lot, he no- ticed Gish moved from the driver's side to the passen- ger's side. Gish told Cpl. Mills she moved to the passenger's side to get her cigarettes. He said while talking to Gish, he noticed the strong odor of alcohol. Gish failed field sobriety tests and was transported to the Pike County Jail, where she tested 0. 17 percent for blood alcohol content, ac- cording to Mills. The legal limit in Indiana is 0.08 percent. She was preliminarily charged with operating a ve- hicle while intoxicated. A Petersburg man was ar- rested near Algiers on Hal- loween. Ronald Arvin, 65, of 2338 North CR 500 East, Petersburg, was driving a 2003 Volkswagen. He was stopped by Trooper John Davis for driving left of cen- ter. Further investigation re- vealed he had a blood alco- hol content of .08 percent. Arvin was arrested on pre- liminary charges of operat- ing a vehicle while intoxi- cated. An Oakland City man was arrested following an acci- dent south of Spurgeon at about 10 p.m. Friday. Clayton Hartwell, 62, of Oakland City, was arrested by Trooper Brock Buchan- an. Trooper Buchanan and the sheriff's department responded to a crash and found Hartwell had driven off the roadway. It appeared that the driver missed the corner and ran off the edge of the roadway. The driver appeared to be under the in- fluence of alcohol. Hartwell refused to submit to a chem- ical test and was arrested for operating a vehicle while in- toxicated, according to the Indiana State Police. Due to a previous drunken driving conviction in 2015, he was arrested for operating a ve- hicle while intoxicated with a prior conviction, a level 6 felony. Three arrested for DWI in separate incidents Solar donates culvert to county John Stachura of Solar Sources uses a bulldozer to move a large pipe into place for the Pike County Highway Department. Josh Byrd, Assistant Superintendent of the Pike County Highway Department, said when Highway 61 was closed, a coal truck damaged a bridge at the intersection of Division and Meridian Roads. He said it tore the guard rail off the bridge and broke about a three-foot section of the bridge. Solar donated the large metal pipe to be used as a culvert. The project was completed last week.