Gaston News

The fact that actor Eric Estrada wasn't on hand for the annual Shop with a Cop meant very little to six-year-old Kayla Hollingsworth.

Wheelchair-users will no longer be tied to the city bus schedule to visit friends, family or to do a little shopping.

MUNCIE - Driving the wrong way down a one-way street and without a license spelled trouble for Mandolin Mattson and her friend on Tuesday.

GASTON - Hilda Delight Dewees, 92, of Gaston, IN, passed away Sunday, October 25, 2009 at Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie.

Brooke Delee Gary of Gaston and Kyle Thomas Wagner of Muncie, were married on July 18, 2009 at First Church of the Nazarene in Muncie.

A rural Gaston resident was arrested this week, accused of supplying the OxyContin that was used in a botched drug deal-turned-robbery. Tracy D. Marlow, 51, was preliminarily charged with dealing in a controlled substance.

The Delaware County commissioners have acquired the land they need to build a new EMS station to serve Yorktown, Gaston and Interstate 69.

Ron and Shelva Lackey recently celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary. They were married at the Selma E.U.B. Church on September 18, 1959 by the late Paul Hill.

MUNCIE - Dr. Gene S. McCreery, 97, passed away Monday, September 7, 2009, at Ball Memorial Hospital after a sudden and severe illness.

AIR NATIONAL GUARD Airman 1st Class Jarrod Davis recently graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.

MUNCIE - Brian L. Goodwin, 57, a former USAF veteran, lost his courageous and tenacious five-year battle with cancer on September 3, 2009 at Golden Living Center, Richmond.

SHIDELER - Louis V. Wright, 68, went home to his Lord, Sunday, August 30, 2009 in Ball Memorial Hospital, Muncie.

A local farmer escaped injury Thursday when he was trapped in a grain silo. Dale Rinker was taking corn out of a bin when he became trapped, and had to be rescued by emergency fire and rescue crews.

The current EMS station on Ind. 32/Smith Street in Yorktown might be replaced by one on Ind.

YORKTOWN -- The current EMS station on Ind. 32/Smith Street in Yorktown might be replaced by one on Ind.

Delaware County officials are considering building a new EMS station somewhere along Ind.

AIR FORCE AIRMAN First Class Marisa Scheetz recently graduated from basic military training with honors at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.

Sydney, the runaway wallaby is back home in Gaston, Indiana. The missing animal had been missing for two months after it escaped its enclosure at the home of Carolyn Buck.

GASTON -- Sidney the runaway wallaby is back in her rightful home. Uh, that's Gaston, not Australia.

A wayward wallaby is back home in eastern Indiana after two months on the run, er, hop.