Yorktown News

Adam Alexander, a senior at Yorktown High School, is the 2012 recipient of the Carolyn A. Lucas Scholarship, the Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County announced recently.

The Yorktown High School tennis program will offer summer camps for all ages, from kindergartners through adults, June 11-15 and July 9-13. "Tennis is a sport that can be played and enjoyed by all ages long into the senior years.

Monday, May 21 7:30 a.m.: Wee Wisdom, vehicle breaking and entering; 'nothing was stolen but they used a rock to bust the window.' 8:15 a.m.: Delaware County Road 500-W and Jackson Street, report of a deer that had been hit a few days ago in the ditch; contacted the street department and they took care of it.

Mary Ann Ross pulls weeds from her garden. The 2012 Delaware County Master Gardener Garden Walk will be 1-6 p.m. on June 10.

Joel Demaree, 14, and the rest of the students in his math class work on their laptops.

Those reports of $5 a gallon gas last winter were greatly exaggerated by industry analysts as Hoosiers can expect an average of $3.65 a gallon prices this summer.

Spoke with one of the drivers and told him to slow it down and to tell the other driver as well.

Those growing pains of the new consolidated community of Yorktown spilled over this week as the one party Republican rule that created it seemed to be divided.

She was born on April 17, 1938 in Zanesville, OH the daughter of Newell and Pauline Harvey, graduated from Zanesville High School and Bethesda School of Nursing, and moved to Muncie in 1967.

Tickets for the Great Yorktown Duck Race are on sale now. The race will be at 8 p.m. June 30 at Morrow's Meadow as part of the Yorktown Fireworks Festival.

Complainant did not want to press battery charges but wanted it documented. 11:45 p.m.: Marsh Warehouse, complainant upset because subject "allowed his 13-year-old nephew to drive his car and he picked up both his 13- and 14 -year-old kids while he was at work." Incident report taken.

Other schools in Delaware County that ranked on the list are Burris Laboratory School at six, and Wapahani High School at 16.

Headlines across the state this week painted a gloomy picture for the next governor -- likely to be either Mike Pence or John Gregg -- who won't have much in the way of leftover Indiana Toll Road money to spend.

They stood in line all day Thursday to pay their taxes in the Delaware County treasurer's office with Treasurer John And it was Republicans who run the Muncie Sanitary District and Yorktown Town Council that raised your taxes more than any school or other local government.

DISTRICT 1 Democratic Jason Scarberry 357 Rick Yencer 387 DISTRICT 2 Republican Larry Crouch 599 Dixie Quakenbush 209 Laura Vise 712 DISTRICT 3 Republican Rick Glaub 746 Beau Mendenhall 651 DISTRICT 4 Democratic Mike Blanch 656 Republican Bob Ratchford 1,313 DISTRICT 5 Republican Robert Flanagan 1,281 AT-LARGE Democratic John M. Miller Jr.

Brad Bookout chats with Mike Quirk on Tuesday evening. Bookout won the Democratic primary; he will face Republican Luke Messer, who won the Republican primary.

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