Chesterfield News

YORKTOWN -- If the Muncie Fire Department can use Tax Increment Financing district funds to buy a fire truck, then Yorktown fire officials figure their department can do the same.

Omer and Ann Rita Frame of Farmland were married June 22, 1979 at the home of Robert and Phyllis Murphy, sister of Ann Rita, in Chesterfield, IN.

Chesterfield is taking entries in the town's annual Independence Day Parade, and seeking sponsors for the fireworks.

Traditional native customs, clairvoyance and crystal healing all meet this weekend at the 123rd Celebration Weekend at Camp Chesterfield.

YORKTOWN -- The Yorktown Mount Pleasant Township Historical Alliance will meet at 7 p.m. June 23 to hear Gary McManus, pastor of the Daleville Christian Church, talk about Daleville history.

An Anderson man who pleaded guilty to Medicaid fraud killed himself on Tuesday, hours before he was to report to a federal prison.

When my wife, Nancy, and I decided to return to Indiana in 1979, part of our inspiration was to launch a new business in our home state, which we'd missed while living in Iowa, Kentucky and Michigan.

DALEVILLE - Walter Mills, passed away Monday at his residence unexpectedly. He was born in Delaware County, January 21, 1930, the son of Jessie and Grace Stout Mills.

CHESTERFIELD -- Nursing home residents sometimes can't get to the store to buy the things they need or want, so Karen Penticuff brings the store to them.

DALEVILLE -- Richie Detling has stayed in the same business, but his current used car lot is smaller than his old one -- to match the current economy.

ANDERSON - An Alexandria man has been accused of sexually abusing a girl under the age of 5. Sean Douglas Beckstrom, 44, is charged with two counts of child molesting, a Class A felony carrying a standard 30-year prison term.

It's 6:40 a.m. Monday and the staff at The Herald Bulletin is getting down to work.

Sheriff's deputies arrested a Madison County man on a warrant Thursday after the county prosecutor found enough evidence to charge him with molesting a 3-year-old girl in his home.

It took about an hour and 40 minutes, but Altairnano employee Bruce Lasley finally made it to work Friday morning from his Fishers home.

The Friends of the Yorktown Library Book Sale will be 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, May 16, in the library parking lot.

Anderson Costumes Inc. at 4 E. Main St. in Chesterfield sells and rents costumes for just about every occasion.

YORKTOWN -- New Life Presbyterian Church will have a dedication service for its new building at 6 p.m. May 3. The special evening service will include music, prayer and a message from the Rev.

It costs less than a billboard placement and a television advertisement, but local organizers hope the latest community walk brings as much attention to their issue as any media blitz.

MUNCIE -- The city is getting the fire trucks it so desperately needs thanks to a last-minute gift from Delaware County's Redevelopment Commission.

Since 2000, the Chesterfield shop has been a full-time occupation for Mike Morgan, an Albany native who previously spent 21 years in the Navy.