Once There Were Eight Following Decision by CLAIRE GALOFARO and KIM CHANDLER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky
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Saturday, June 27, 2015 The Commercial Review Portland, Indiana 47371 www.thecr.com 75 cents Couples marry Once there were eight following decision By CLAIRE GALOFARO and KIM CHANDLER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Ben - jamin Moore and Tadd Roberts wore matching tuxedos to the county clerk’s office in Louisville to get married Friday, and the mayor greeted them with a bottle of cham - pagne. They were among a rush of gay couples across the South and Midwest who celebrated the Supreme Court’s ruling legalizing same-sex marriage with Before Bryant, Dunkirk, Pennville, Portland and Redkey high schools consolidated into Jay County High School, spontaneous weddings. three others closed their doors in the 1960s. Madison, Gray and Poling were all shuttered in a span of five years between They were young and old, 1963 and 1968, sending students mostly to Portland and Redkey. they wore gowns and suits or T-shirts and jeans, they kissed and waved flags that read “love wins.” Gray, Madison and Poling closed in 1960s “It’s just been incredible Editor’s note: This is the Before Portland, Red - schools merged with Port - Like all three of the Poling became Jackson and historic and amazing to live this moment,” fourth in a series of stories key, Dunkirk, Bryant and land High School, Poling early consolidated Township’s official high Moore said. The mayor about Jay County’s consol - Pennville high schools for the 1964-65 school year schools and Bryant, Pol - school. were consolidated and and Madison during the ing was part of the ‘Little A three-year program took commemorative pho - idation to a single high tos of him and Roberts get - school. The series will a became Jay County High 1967-68 school year. Four,’ and its basketball was set up and, at first, School in 1975, Governor When Poling became games with Bryant High the upper classes graduat - ting their license. look at each of the five But the reaction wasn’t high schools that merged, I.P. Gray, Madison Town - the first to close its doors, School, fighting for the ed from Pennville High ship and Poling schools it sent its high school stu - Little Brown Jug, were School, since four years as welcoming in some of the teachers, athletics and each faced consolidation dents to Portland High legendary. of high school was the 14 states that had been the first graduating class issues of their own. School and its grade Before Poling High required for graduation. the last holdouts against at JCHS. It will run on Gray closed its doors in schoolers to the new School, though, there According to information same-sex marriage, creat - Saturdays through mid- 1965, sending its remain - Bloomfield Elementary were no high schools in at the Jay County Histori - ing confusion as some offi - August. ing students to Redkey School. Jackson Township. cal Museum, Arta Alber - cials embraced the ruling By MASON SHREVE and Portland high Before shutting down, The township had son is the first known and others rebuffed it. The Commercial Review schools for the 1965-66 Poling School, which was about 10 common schools, graduate of Poling, earn - Alabama Chief Justice Before there was one, school year. located about 5 miles west but no high school. Even - ing her diploma in 1906 Roy Moore, who has long there were five. But before Poling shut down in of Bryant in Jackson tually demand for one after transferring from fought against same-sex there were five, there 1963 and Madison had its Township, had a storied became so great that one Petroleum High School. marriage, said states can were eight. final year in 1967. Both history. was implemented, and See Once page 2 fight the ruling, as they have decisions allowing slavery or abortion, and predicted that it would spark a national backlash from Christian conserva - tives. Prison escapee shot by agent “They’ve just disregard - ed everything that prece - By JOHN KEKIS on Friday, and the other is on the The shooting of the camper led officers heard coughs and detected dent holds, and they’ve and MICHAEL VIRTANEN run, authorities said. officers to a cabin Friday afternoon movement, and tactical teams destroyed the foundation Associated Press Authorities tracked down and in Malone, where they discovered came upon Matt in the woods. of our country which is MALONE, N.Y. — One of two killed Richard Matt after a person the smell of gunpowder, said “They verbally challenged him, family,” Moore said. convicted murderers who staged a towing a camper reported that Joseph D’Amico, superintendent told him to put up his hands. And In rural Alabama, Pike brazen escape from an upstate there was a bullet hole through the of New York State Police. There at that time, he was shot when he County Probate Judge Wes maximum-security prison three back of it, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and were indications someone had didn’t comply,” D’Amico said. Allen said he would stop weeks ago was shot and killed by a state police said at a news confer - recently been there and fled out the A 20-gauge shotgun was found on issuing all marriage licens - Border Patrol agent in a wooded ence. David Sweat hasn’t been spot - back door, he said. Matt, who didn’t fire the weapon, es to avoid having to give area about 30 miles from the prison ted, Cuomo said. While searching the property, D’Amico said. them to gay couples. Crops could see a big hit By TOM DAVIES “We’re just in the midst Associated Press of this now,” Hurt said. INDIANAPOLIS — This “We don’t know how much month’s heavy rains and total damage there will flooding across much of be.” Indiana have already Some of the financial reduced the state’s corn losses from crop damage and soybean crop by nearly could be offset by higher $300 million, agriculture per-bushel prices, govern - experts estimated Friday, ment assistance programs adding that the damage and crop insurance, he The Commercial Review/Jack Ronald could escalate with more said. wet weather. Indiana has had only The projected harvest for four days this month dur - It’s raining ... again both crops has dropped ing which it didn’t rain Jay County was being doused with water again Friday as heavy rain began falling just about 5 percent since the somewhere in the state, before 4 p.m. and continued into the evening. More rain is in the forecast for today. heavy rainfall began in and long-range forecasts early June, Purdue Univer - project above-average rain - sity agricultural economist fall for much of the Mid - Chris Hurt said. west through the summer, But the damage isn’t associate state climatolo - evenly spread. The worst is gist Ken Scheeringa said. Attacks leave dozens dead in northern Indiana, which This year’s crop damage has seen a foot or more of is still far short of what SOUSSE, Tunisia (AP) Tunisian resort of Sousse assailants killed at least again mostly tourists, and rainfall so far during June, Indiana saw during the — A young man pulled a happened at about the 65 people. has called into question the leading to swamped farm 2012 drought, which result - Kalashnikov from a beach same time as a bombing The SITE Intelligence newly elected govern - fields. Lowland flooding ed in nearly $1.5 billion umbrella and sprayed at a Shiite mosque in Group reported later that ment’s ability to protect the continues along the crop insurance payments, gunfire at European sun - Kuwait and an attack on a the IS claimed credit for the country. Wabash and White rivers according to Hurt. bathers at a Tunisian U.S.-owned factory in Tunisia attack on its Twit - “Once again, cowardly and some tributaries in Counties must see a 30 resort, killing at least 38 France that included a ter account and identified and traitorous hands have southwestern Indiana. percent production loss for people — one of three beheading. It was unclear the gunman as Abu Yahya struck Tunisia, targeting More than a third of the at least one crop in order deadly attacks Friday if the violence was linked al-Qayrawani. its security and that of its fields in some counties are for farmers to qualify for from Europe to North but it came days after the The attack in Tunisia, children and visitors,” in bad shape, such as federal disaster programs Africa to the Middle East IS militants urged their the country’s worst ever, President Beji Caid Essebsi Adams County in north - and low-interest loans, said that followed a call to vio - followers “to make comes just months after the told reporters at the RIU eastern Indiana, where the Julia Wickard, state execu - lence by Islamic State Ramadan a month of March 18 massacre at the Imperial Marhaba hotel, St. Marys River had signifi - tive director of the federal extremists. calamities for the nonbe - national Bardo museum in near the beach rampage cant flooding last week. Farm Service Agency. The shootings in the lievers.” In all, the Tunis that killed 22 people, site. Deaths Weather In review Coming up Portland had a high tempera - ture of 74 degrees Friday with The Jay County Fair Asso - heavy rain falling in the after - Monday — Photos from ciation will hold a dedication noon and evening. Sunday’s Miss Jay County and open house Sunday for the Rain is likely to continue Fair Queen Pageant. Jack L. Blowers, 84, Bryant new Marion and Irene Bubp today with a high of 67. There is Details on page 2.