The Press-Dispatch
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A-2 Wednesday, August 8, 2012 The Press-Dispatch Man arrested for battery after wreck charge of domestic battery after police claim he slapped his girlfriend with the back of his hand and slammed on his brakes suddenly and was hit from behind by a pickup truck last Thursday near Bowman. Mark B. Timberlake, 44, A man was arrested on a By Andy Heuring cles on the Pike Central parking lot last Thursday. Jordan Blocker and Ken- dra Manning were driving in the noon crash. A passenger in Manning's vehi- cle, Sylvan Henson, had a bump on her head. Minor injuries were reported in a two vehicle crash that totaled both vehi- Minor injury in PC parking lot wreck Sheriff Todd Meadors said Jordan Blocker, 19, of 1301 N. Kennedy Court was driv- ing her 2004 Ford Escape into the high school main parking lot headed south, when Kendra Manning, 17, of 1823 E. Main St., Peters- burg, driving a 1998 Pon- tiac Firebird drove across a two lanes of parked cars to pull into the main lane of the parking lot. Depu- ty Meadors said Blocker's 2004 Ford Escape crashed into Manning's Firebird. He said Blocker had three ries except a bump on the head when they were in a two-vehicle crash in Pike Central's parking lot last Thursday at noon that to- taled both vehicles. It was one of several crashes over the last week. Pike County Chief Deputy Two teens escaped inju- passengers and all refused treatment at the scene. How- ever, he said Sylvan Henson, 13, was riding the back seat and hit her head on the front passenger seat belt assem- bly. "She has a pretty good goose egg on her forehead," said Meadors. TUESDAY HWY. 64 ACCIDENT ary J. Shoemann of Under- wood escaped injury after he went left of center and off the left side of Highway 64 about a mile west of the Pike-Dubois County line, according to Pike Coun- ty Deputy Mike Willis. He said Underwood's was driv- ing an unloaded dump truck that overturned after it went down about a 15 foot em- bankment at about 5:40 a.m. Tuesday morning Zach- FRIDAY CRASH CELLPHONE USE CAUSES Last Friday, August 3 at 7:35 a.m. a northern Indiana man escaped injury when he ran off the road and hit a tree head-on while using his cell- phone. Kenneth Howard, 41, of Rochester was driving north on Highway 61 near CR75E, about 1.5 miles south of Pe- tersburg, when the crash oc- curred. It caused an estimated $5,000 to $10,000 damage to the 2011 F250 Ford pick- up truck owned by E and B Paving. THURSDAY DEER ACCIDENT a Huntingburg man hit a deer on CR300E just south of the State Forest Road. Aaron J. Craig, 27, of Hunt- ingburg was driving south at 3 a.m. when he hit a deer in his 2002 Chevrolet Track- er, according to Pike Coun- ty Deputy Sheriff Brad Jen- kins. Early Thursday morning of 2873 N. CR875W, Hazle- ton was arrested following an accident on Highway 56 near CR475W. Pike County Chief Deputy Todd Meadors said he was sent to an acci- dent with slight injuries. While enroute, he was told to hurry because the drivers had been in an argument. Meadors said he talked with Dennis A. Knight, 60, of 840 Fawn Creek Drive, Evansville who was driv- Clarifications: • In a story about a fire ing the pickup truck that hit Timberlake. Knight told Meadors he thought the peo- ple in the vehicle in front of him were having some type of argument, and then for no reason, the car just slammed on its brakes and stopped abruptly. Knight said he tried he couldn't get stopped before hitting Timberlake's vehi- cle. Timberlake told him he stopped abruptly because a couple of trucks passed him and then turned off on a road suddenly. But Meadors said he looked for the road Tim- berlake was talking about and couldn't find anything but a lane to a farmer's house. Meadors then talked to Timberlake's passenger, Deputy Meadors said Jackie Lesieur. He said he noticed she was crying. She told Meadors she and Timberlake had been fight- ing for a couple of days and they were in an argument before the wreck. She said Timberlake got mad at her and slammed on the brakes then slapped her in the face with the back of his hand. Meadors then talked with complained of neck pain from the accident. Damage to Timberlake's Timberlake, who denied hit- ting Lesieur. He was taken into custody on a prelim- inary charge of domestic battery. Daizee Timberlake, 13, 1997 Buick and the 2008 Chevrolet Silverado were es- timated at between $5,000 and $10,000. at Mike and Autumn Nich- olson's near Winslow on Ju- ly 26, Autumn Nicholson said she was lying on the couch resting, but was not asleep as the article stated. She said her son tipped over a candle and ran outside to tell his father. The story stat- ed he went outside to play. was cited for leaving the scene of an accident by State Trooper Paul Bastin. H Commissioners consider new ambulance barn bay facility with increased office, living and storage space. He said Solar Sources had needs to be fixed? At what point do we decide we are beyond that?" Asked Young. He proposed a seven- heat the building last winter, which was a mild winter. "How much of this stuff Continued from page 1 to stay in a facility that is not safe for them. They are the ones providing health and life for other people. We are asking them to do a lot. We need to provide them with a safe living environment. I'm sure if you saw it in person, you would not want to stay there. Sun Energy wants already agreed to donate five acres across from Pike Central for a building site. He also said Jasper Engines agreed to donate a geother- mal system that should greatly cut their heating and cooling costs. Young said he has been in contact with oth- er companies that are con- sidering significant dona- tions to the project. "We definitely need to look at moving forward, with I-69 coming," said Commis- sioner Brian Davis. "This is something that is much-needed, as we can see. I know we owe it to taxpay- ers to save whatever mon- ey we can, but the money is there," said Commissioner President Mark Flint. Commissioner Dale Nal- Superintendent Bobby Joe Morton told commission- ers he had been in contact with Sun Energy. They are proposing a road crossing of Old State Road 64 about one mile west of the Pike-Dubois county line. He said they want 10 inch- Pike County Highway to build road across Old State Road 64 ley asked Young if they would use the old ambu- lance barn for storage. Young said he hoped to be That is what they are propos- ing, We are going to get ev- erything in writing and get it to (county attorney) Val (Fleig) and then they will come to the meeting to pres- ent it," said Morton. Commissioner Nalley able to use it for storage as they can. Davis said he thought asked to be included in the meeting with Sun Energy. DNR warns they may close CR1300s they should get bids before they get a set amount of funding in place. "My big hope in this is we can progress in this. We are asking these people (EMTs) Let MYERS HTG & AC keep you cool this summer. Let MYERS HTG & AC keep you cool this summer. Fleig asked the commis- sioners if they received his letter about Department of Natural Resources. He told them the dept. of Natural Re- sources (DNR) had contact- ed him and said they want- ed to work out a deal with County Attorney Val es of concrete and six inches of gravel. It is going to have stoplights and caution lights starting 1,500 feet away. "It is all in the planning. the county on CR1300S, which runs through the DNR-owned off-roading ar- ea known as Interlake. In- terlake is located between CR1200 S. in Pike County and Highway 68 in Warrick County. The DNR, in late 2011 and early 2012, tried to ne- gotiate a deal to close a sec- tion of CR1300S within the borders of Interlake. How- ever, a group of residents said they wanted the previ- ously impassable road to be reopened instead of closed. They said years ago it pro- vided access to a cemetery and even though the ceme- tery can be accessed by an- other route, they would like that route reopened. The DNR had brokered a deal that would provide half the funding to replace a nearby bridge. Fleig said his understanding of the DNR's letter was they would rath- have to fall into the defini- tion of a state statute that allows this, and they would have to prove they owned all the ground on both sides of the road. Fleig said he could find er negotiate an agreement, but if they had to, they would close the road. He said the road would said he thought the DNR probably owned both sides of the road. Fleig said the DNR prob- McCrary being indicted by a grand jury on a charge of leaving the scene of a per- sonal injury accident, a class A misdemeanor, it stated he was arrested fol- lowing an incident on May 23, and accused of hitting County Highway Depart- ment Superintendent Bob- by Joe Morton with a truck in a work zone. He was not arrested; he • In a story about Ronnie Council to revew '13 budget By Andy Heuring will take comments from the public on the 2013 proposed budgets next Tuesday morn- ing following their regular meeting that starts at 8:30 a.m. in the courthouse base- ment. The proposed budget re- Pike County Councilmen which is funded by property taxes, is $6.78 million. This is about $120,000 less than was requested in the gener- al fund last year. However, the overall budget request is about $200,000 more than was requested last year. The county council will quests from governmental units throughout the coun- ty totals $10.69 million. The amount for all departments in the county general fund, review the budget and vote on what changes to make immediately following their September 11 meeting, which starts at 8:30 a.m. H I-69 may open Nov. 13 The mayor also said the state is encouraging cities all along the I-69 route to have a community festival before the opening of the highway. The festival in Petersburg would likely be Oct. 20 or 21 and it would be held on the interstate highway. There would be Continued from page 1 no case law precedent on the state statute. Commissioner Nalley ably wouldn't have threat- ened to take action if they weren't confident that the property met all the criteria to allow them to close it. No action was taken. The next commissioner meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday, August 20 in the courthouse auditorium. value and a huge conve- nience for busy families too! Breakfast is $1.25 a day, El- ementary lunch is $1.80 per day and Middle-High lunch is $2.05 per day. In the up- coming months, Pike Coun- ty School cafeterias are hop- ing to have a new website where you will be able to view your child/children ac- lines to our menus will help provide your children a high quality, nutritious lunch. We're always working to of- fer Pike County students healthier and delicious choices. You and your chil- dren/child may have noticed that Pike County school caf- eterias started working to- ward these new mandates last school year. School meals are a great Continued from page 1 be announced in the near future. An old time car show, old time tractor drive and other events could be part of that festival. H New school menus tivity and account balance. Now is the perfect time to encourage your children to choose school lunch! We look forward to welcoming your children to the cafete- ria this fall. To find out more about Pike County healthy school meals visit www.pc- sc.k12.in.us; and to get the facts about school meals vis- it www.TrayTalk.org. 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