Stories from Monday, May 10, 2004

On Friday night, the Linton Miners swept to a Tri-River Conference track meet with the Clay City Eels placing second as a team in both the girls and boys events. For the Clay City boys who scored 152 points to the Miners 191, Roger Harden was the shotput winner with a throw of 47-4 and placed second to teammate Kyle Booe in the discus. Booe was fourth in the shotput...

Nick Wells struggled early in the championship game of the Big Four Classic but rebounded to get the complete game victory for the Knights. - Softball team drops pair of contests The Northview Knights capped off perhaps the toughest stretch of games this season to date by winning certainly their biggest contests in Saturday's Big 4 Tournament...

- North Clay splits track meets Northview's doubles teams enjoyed an undefeated week despite a 1-2 team record versus West Vigo, Brown County and Sullivan. On Saturday, the No. 1 doubles team of Heather Palmer and Megan Love defeated Kaylan McKain and Ashley Pierce of Sullivan, 6-2, 6-2 and downed Brown County's Sarah Warburton and Mara Freshour, 6-3, 3-6, 10-7 in a tiebreaker. The two also won on Thursday night versus the Vikings pair of Courtney Biberstine and Brittney Brown, 6-2, 6-0...

Northview's Matt McClellan (near) was second in the 200 meters and tied for third in the 100 meters during Saturday's Big Four classic Northview's Justin Scherb has run in the IHSAA Cross Country State Championship meet each of the last three fall seasons. It might be distance running, but Scherb has never reached the IHSAA Track and Field Championship Meet in the spring...

Myron D. Nicoson, 75, of Brazil, died Saturday, May 8, 2004, at 9:48 a.m. in the emergency room of St. Vincent Clay Hospital. Born April 29, 1929, in Bowling Green, Ind., he was the son of Wayne Sandford Nicoson and Iona Youngblood Nicoson. He graduated from Bowling Green High School in 1947...

David Godsey, 68, of Rosedale, Ind., died May 8, 2004, in the emergency room of St. Vincent Clay Hospital. Born Oct. 1, 1935, in Freedom, Ind., he was the son of Edward and Elizabeth Crabb Godsey. Following high school, he entered the Army. On Feb. 18, 1958, he married Dorothy Clegg. She survives...

Ida Mildred McCann, 80, of Evansville and formerly of Clay County, died Friday, May 7, 2004, at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville. She was born Feb. 19, 1924, in Cloverland, Ind. She was the daughter of Reuben and Hallie Ringo Swearingen. Following graduation from Staunton High School in 1942 she attended and graduated from Union Hospital School of Nursing as a Registered Nurse. She worked for many years as a nurse at Union Hospital...

Dustin Stevenson makes some cotton candy while Cody Stevenson looks on.

Traditional advertising it isn't. Instead of buying an ad or renting a billboard, Jeff Michalic, owner and vice president of Tonus Home Sales of Brazil, will be taking the David Blaine route. His plan? To climb a 45-foot pole and live in a house attached to the top of it for seven days. The house, which is being manufactured by Tonus, is a mere 8 by 8 feet and will contain a single room...

Spring must be here. Robins are flying. Trees are leafing. And the Women of Vision are at work adorning the streets of Brazil with fragrant flowering florets. Jan Stapp and Vickie Mace, with other volunteer helpers, decorated the downtown business area, the mini park at the internsection of SR 59 and US 40 and around the light posts and gazebo at Forest Park...