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A-2 Front Wednesday, June 6, 2018 The Press-Dispatch yeah, it's that fast! net edition Z M www.PressDispatch.net/Subscribe The Press-Dispatch. No matter where you live. COUNCIL Continued from page 1 Minimum balance to obtain the Annual Percentage Yield is $500. A penalty may be imposed for early withdrawal. Rates subject to change without notice. Conventional First-Time Homebuyer Refinance Jumbo Lot FHA, USDA and VA Construction – Single Close Home Equity Line of Credit Auto Loans Jessica Aldridge Your Loan Expert! 812-354-8713 jaldridge@fbei.net NMLS #855452 Kyle McCutchan Your Deposit Expert! 812-492-8193 kmccutchan@fbei.net NMLS #1568345 MAIN STREET • PETERSBURG CD SPECIALS 15 Month $500 MINIMUM 1.85% APY 23 Month $500 MINIMUM 1.95% APY 30 Month $500 MINIMUM 2.50% APY Loan Products AVAILABLE MILLER Continued from page 1 Cannon injured in Saturday crash A rural Petersburg woman was injured Saturday afternoon when she crashed an SUV down an embank- ment. Jaccie Cannon, 21, was driving on Highway 57, about two miles south of Petersburg, near Wyatt Seed Company. Pike County Sheriff's Sgt. Dallas Killian said a witness driving behind Cannon said she went off the right side of the road and overcorrected, swerved left and then overcorrected again, causing the 2001 Ford SUV to start rolling over. It then went down an embankment into a field. Cannon was taken from the accident by ambulance complaining of back pain, according to Sgt. Killian. to serve a one-year term so that the positions would be re-elected in alternating years. Fort subsequently moved that the school board begin accepting resumes from in- dividuals interested in serv- ing as a parent/guardian representative with a dead- line of July 2, the date of the board's next regular meet- ing. The motion, which was selected by Willis, passed unanimously. Willis said that anyone in- terested in the position can e-mail their resume to ot- wellmilleracademy@gmail. com or by mailing it direct- ly to the school at 9958 East County Road 150 North, Ot- well, IN 47564. A public vote was sched- uled for Wednesday, July 18, during a public meeting of the Friends of Otwell Ele- mentary, Ltd., at the Otwell Community Center. In other business: • The school board voted to advertise for a fuel suppli- er for its buses for the 2018 - 19 school year. Fears, who suggested at last month's meeting that the school look into acquiring its own fuel tank to refuel its bus- es, estimated that doing so would save the school 40 to 50 cents per gallon on diesel fuel "if we can find a place for the tank and do this. Over the course of the year, that adds up." • The school board vot- ed to advertise for bids for juice and milk for the 2018 - 19 school year. • The school board vot- ed to advertise for bids for food vendors for the 2018 -19 school year. Fears also told the board that he would have a pro- posal for textbook rentals for the 2018 -19 school year at its July meeting. In addition, Fears said that he thought that Friends of Otwell Elementary offi- cials were making progress on the installation of carpet- ing in the building. "I know there's discussion of the floors being done," Fears said. "I don't know if that's proceeded to the point of actually having it done, but it is being discussed. That's the last major thing inside that we have as far as from when the building was occupied in August. And it will certainly make things look better once that's do- ne. So, hopefully, before too long, we'll see some of that taking place." Fears also told the board that the school's first-ever fifth grade graduation cere- mony "went very well." "It wasn't a long ceremo- ny, but for six graduating students, we probably had 30 or more people in atten- dance," Fears said. "So we felt like that was very good support for those students." By Andy Heuring Three teens from Wash- ington and Vincennes were arrested on marijuana charges when police did a trespass check at an Augus- ta area pit. Dalton L. Moore, 19, of 1001 E. Van Trees St., Washington, was arrested on charges of illegal pos- session of alcohol and pos- session of marijuana charg- es, while Connor Eller, 18, of 1000 S. Meridian St., Wash- ington, and Hunter Clark, 18, of 720 N. 12th St., Vin- cennes, were arrested on a charge of possession of mar- ijuana. Pike County Deputy Sher- iff Buck Seger said he was driving east on Highway 64 at about 7:30 p.m. when he saw some vehicles parked off the roadway, in an area where people often park to swim in a pit on the south side of Highway 64, near Augusta. He said the sher- iff's department has been asked by the property own- ers to warn anyone swim- ming in the pit that they are trespassing. Deputy Seger said he stopped to check on them and heard people talking as he walked down the path to the pit. He located three teens there and asked them if they had permission to be on the property. The teens said they didn't. Deputy Seger said while he talked with one of the teens, he could smell the odor of burnt marijuana. Seger said each of the teens denied having smoked mar- ijuana. He then searched a bag Moore said was his and lo- cated an empty alcohol container and two partial- ly burned hand-rolled ciga- rettes that field tested pos- itive for marijuana. Deputy Seger's report states Moore initially said they found the bottle there and were just removing trash from the area. Howev- er, when Seger told them he would run portable breath tests on them, they all admit- ted they had been drinking. However, Eller and Clark said they only had a few sips. According to Seger's re- port, Eller and Clark tested negative for alcohol, while Moore tested positive, but well below the legal limit in Indiana. However, all three were younger than 21. All three were taken into custody. Three teens arrested on marijuana, alcohol charges By Andy Heuring A stop for speeding near Campbelltown led to a Vin- cennes man being arrested for drunken driving, and two separate vehicles crashes led to the arrest of two oth- ers last week. Jason Deffendoll, 40, of 1424 Broadway St., Vin- cennes, was arrested after police saw him driving north on Highway 61 at 71 mph in a 45 zone near Pike Central. Pike County Sheriff's Sgt. Dallas Killian said at about 8 p.m. Sunday, he was on the way to a report of a per- son walking along Highway 61 when he saw Deffendoll. He pulled Deffendoll over at CR 100 E. Sgt. Killian said when he talked with Def- fendoll, he noticed slurred speech, the odor of alcohol and glassy eyes. Deffendoll gave Sgt. Killian a hardship license and said he had a couple of beers earlier in the day. He failed field sobriety tests and was taken to the Daviess Community Hos- pital, where he tested 0.21 percent for blood alcohol content, which is more than twice the legal limit in Indi- ana. He also tested positive for marijuana. Killian said a criminal his- tory showed Deffendoll had a prior OV WI arrest in 2016. He was preliminarily charged with operating a ve- hicle while intoxicated, with a prior conviction in the last five years. A Huntingburg man was arrested on charges of disor- derly conduct, reckless driv- ing, resisting law enforce- ment and operating a vehi- cle while intoxicated. Elmis G. Ayala Lopez, 24, of Huntingburg, was arrest- ed at about 9 p.m. Friday af- ter police were called to the scene of an accident at CR 625 E. and Highway 56. A caller reported the accident, saying he had talked to the male that was driving, and that person appeared intox- icated but not injured and was running from the scene. Sheriff's Sgt. Dallas Killian said when he arrived, he found a Nissan passenger car in a field with a woman standing near it. She told po- lice her boyfriend, Lopez, was driving and had fled in- to the field because he didn't have a driver's license and had been drinking. Sgt. Killian said Deputy Sheriff Buck Seger and Pe- tersburg Police Cpl. Jared Simmons arrived and they located Lopez in a field, where he had tried to cover himself with grass. Accord- ing to Sgt. Killian's report, Lopez refused to comply with the officers' command to roll onto his stomach and put his hands behind his back. They were able to place him in handcuffs but he continued to resist and tried to spit on them. Killian's report states Lopez "began telling officers that we would regret this and he would knock our teeth out and find our families." He was taken to the Pike County Jail. A rural Petersburg man was arrested after police re- sponded to the report of a ve- hicle in the ditch along Me- ridian Road, about two miles north of Highway 64. Pike County Deputy Sher- iff Paul Collier said when he arrived, he found Jeremy Lough standing by a maroon Buick that was in the ditch. Lough told Deputy Collier a deer ran out in front of him and he swerved to miss the deer. Deputy Collier said he could smell odor of alco- hol while talking to Lough. Lough failed field sobriety tests, including a portable breath test. He was taken to the Pike County Jail. According to Deputy Collier's report, af- ter numerous attempts by Lough to provide a breath sample, he was arrested on a preliminary charge of op- erating a vehicle while intox- icated (refusal). Crashes, speeding stop lead to multiple arrests cess. Baumgart encouraged people to be especially care- ful driving in town now that school is out. "Kids are go- ing to be out riding their bi- cycles, skateboarding and whatever later in the eve- nings. So people need to be careful and pay attention to the speed limits and stop signs, as well as watching out for kids." Baumgart also asked peo- ple to police their residenc- es for anything that pools water. He said with all the rain, anything pooling wa- ter would cause mosqui- toes. "Just a small cup of wa- ter will generate more than 100 mosquitoes." Councilman Gary Leavitt reported problems at two lo- cations. "Eighth and Maple sts. is still a mess." "Kyle is on it," said May- or Klipsch of Code Enforce- ment Officer Kyle Mills. Leavitt also reported a tent garage on Maple St. "I get a complaint every Sun- day about Eighth and Maple sts." said Leavitt. The next Petersburg City Council meeting is set for 6:30 p.m. Monday, June 18. By 2:30 p.m., they had re- ceived more than 30 calls about trees, limbs or power lines being down. According to the Nation- al Weather Service, Pike County has received be- tween three to five inches of rain over the last week. The most was five inches in an area around Clay Town- ship. The northern fourth of the county got four inch- es and the rest of Pike Coun- ty at least three. Byrd said on Monday they had all of the trees off the roads and fixed the worst washouts, but they still had a lot of smaller things on which to work. A State Highway crew that was cutting up a tree on Highway 61 at the north edge of Winslow said that was the fourth tree they had removed from the highways in Pike County. Cinda Knight, with the Pike County Solid Waste Management District, said the storm and straight line winds hit their set up at the Advanced Disposal Landfill, near Augusta, for the Spring Clean-Up. She said the wind blew their tents away they had set up and slammed them into vehicles nearby. And the heavy rains hit, but shortly after, people taking advantage of the free trash started arriving again. Fol- lowing a few localized power outages, life was back to nor- mal a few hours later. STORMS Continued from page 1