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Lady Knights’ lead off hitter Tara Bailey slides into home for the first run of South Dearborn’s 3A regional matchup vs. the Charlestown Pirates Tuesday night, June 3. The Lady Knights blanked Charlestown 5-0, and will take on the Gibson Southern Titans Saturday, June 7. For game details and more photos see SPORTS, Page 1B.
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of Florida. Unfamiliar with the school, Peters said she was a little “panicked” about newsroom@registerpublications.com how she was going to make a connecAt around 10 a.m. Monday, June 2, a tion. That is when she accidently haphelicopter darted across the sky above pened upon a man in Alabama who Manchester Elementary School. turned out to be more than happy to A group of second-graders sitting on the edge of the back parking lot looked help. up, as teachers guided students from other classes to join them. A short time later the helicopter flew by again before circling around and landing in the grass near the playground. It is not every day someone arranges a surprise helicopter visit for a class of elementary school kids. But that is exactly what Alabama resident Don Green did for the students in teacher Brenda Peters’ second grade class of “Gators.” His connection with the school began on a whim in 2012 when Peters was preparing for the school’s No Excuses University. In an effort to get kids thinking about college and the imporSUBMITTED PHOTO tance of education to their future, each class “adopted” a college or university. Don Green visits Brenda Peters’ Peters’ class would be the University classroom at the end of the 2012-13 school year. By Denise Freitag Burdette Assistant Editor
After she did not receive a response from the University, she contacted the Alabama Gator Club (University of Florida) in Montgomery, Ala. Green was president at the time. “She explained that her principal had directed each teacher in the school to choose a university and to develop a theme centered around that school for their respective classes. The district wide theme was/is called “no excuses university” and is designed to promote higher education starting in the first grade. The idea is to encourage the children to start thinking beyond high school which I personally found brilliant,” said Green, a retired Air Force senior NCO from Florida. From there Green started communicating with the kids in Peters’ class, writing letters and sending items from the University of Florida for the classroom. “I sent her a 20-pound box of Florida beads, pom-poms, Gator coloring books, signs, banners and a few embroidered flags. I also sent Spanish moss and suggested she hang it in the class and then call her class “The Swamp” which is the name of our sta-
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A helicopter crew from St. Vincent StatFlight visited the kids at Manchester Elementary Monday, June 2.
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Durbin Plaza, on Front Street, will have an unsafe building hearing at 5 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 7, said Lawrenceburg Building Inspector Carl Fryman. He requested the hearing at the Lawrenceburg Board of Works meeting Monday, June 2, after reports on the building’s condition were finalized as well as legal documents for the unsafe building order which was posted Tuesday, June 3. Copies of the report were
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No bond for ex-wife charged with murder
By Chandra L. Mattingly said, “You need to die, not me,” lunging toward her. She Staff Reporter then reloaded and shot him cmattingly@registerpublications.com five more times and he fell to No bond was set at an ini- the floor. tial hearing Tuesday, June 3, An investigation showed for Danielle Green, there were Inter42, of 9893 Hartnet searches on .38 ford Pike, Ohio caliber head shots, County, charged including to “Let's with the murder Talk Terminal Balof her ex-husband listic Headshots” Raymond Green. and “Headshot and Green was ar38 at Close Range” rested June 3 in sites in March, said connection with the Negangard. A .38 death of Raymond caliber was used in Green, 62, of 9893 Danielle Green the murder. Hartford Pike, Ohio Danielle Green County, according to Indiana told police she shot her exState Police. husband “out of fear for her Dearborn-Ohio Circuit life,” but the evidence is conCourt Judge James Hum- trary to the facts, said Neganphrey denied bail after Dear- gard. born-Ohio County Prosecutor Her attorney David Zerbe, Aaron Negangard read details however, said there is other from the probable cause af- evidence to be considered. fidavit and requested that bail “We do anticipate raising not be set. the battered spouse defense,” “She admitted shooting the he said. victim five times, going to Noting Danielle Green the opposite end of the trailer was the breadwinner for the and putting five more rounds family, has a master's degree, in her gun … and shooting local ties and raises horses and the victim again,” said Ne- cattle, he requested bail be set. gangard. Raymond Green's body was That was after Danielle located in a padlocked silver Green initially told police she box on the Hartford Pike propdid not know where he could erty, according to the affidavit. be when the Ohio County Danielle Green had given poSheriff's Department con- lice permission to search the ducted a welfare check on property, but not the box, sayhim Wednesday, May 28, at ing it was her ex-husband's and the residence, said Indiana opening it would anger him. State Police. Police, however, noted the box That was at the request emitted an odor of decay and of his mother Betty Green, was covered with flies, accordFlorida, wrote ISP Det. Peter ing to the affidavit. Tressler in the affidavit. When police obtained a Green also originally at- search warrant and opened tributed her ex-husband's the box, they found the body, death to her dog, said Negan- a pillow-top mattress cover, gard. According to the affida- comforter and a sheet, which vit, she later told police she indicated Raymond Green saw a loaded handgun on the may have died in bed, said nightstand next to Raymond Tressler's affidavit. Green sleeping in bed about An autopsy at the Ham6 a.m. Monday, May 26. He ilton County, Ohio, morgue woke, grabbed her and said indicated Green died from he was going to kill her, she gunshot wounds as a result of told police. a homicide, according to the She pushed him away, affidavit. grabbed the gun and shot, The gunshot wounds inshe said, according to the af- cluded one to the left temple, fidavit. four to the back of the head After she shot him five and five to the upper left side times, he got up, she told See EX-WIFE, Page 5a police. He sat on the bed and
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