A Princeton woman was hurt late Friday night when a car hit a deer on Highway 65 north of Spickard. 61-year-old Janet Goodin of Princeton was taken by private vehicle to Wright Memorial Hospital in Trenton with minor injuries. Ms. Goodin was a passenger in a car driven by 64-year old Jack Goodin of Princeton, […]
Three unrelated arrests are in the report from Grundy county sheriff’s office. 33-year-old Juan Gallegos Junior of Spickard is charged with stealing by deceit with a bond of $15,000 on the felony charge. Gallegos is accused in October 2015 of appropriating money by selling timber to the Spickard saw mill when, investigators say, the oak […]
The Spickard R-2 School District will hold preschool and kindergarten screenings at the school Friday, April 21st from 8 o’clock in the morning to 2 o’clock in the afternoon. Children ages three through five residing in the Spickard School District are eligible to be screened and children who will be four years old by August […]
The Spickard R-2 School Board of Education approved to switch from contracted transportation to in-house transportation at its meeting Monday evening. The school district will switch from Durham School Services to buying and using its own buses. It will co-op bus maintenance services with Princeton.
As many as 25 entities in Grundy county did not have to have ballots printed for the April 4 election because they obtained the exact number of candidates filing as the number of positions to be filled. In these instances, persons who did file, automatically assume office after the election date. County Clerk / Election […]
A Spickard man, 45-year-old Richard Allen Cornwell, was arrested Sunday on four warrants – each of which accuses him of alleged failure to appear in circuit court and/or failure to pay the balance due of fines and court costs. Bond is set at $800 dollars cash with Cornwell to appear in the associate division of the Grundy […]
A grass fire burned an estimated 50 to 60 acres in extreme southern Mercer County on Saturday afternoon. The location was just north of the intersection of Routes Y and JJ the Spickard Fire Protection District used around two-thousand gallons of water in extinguishing the fire. The cause of the fire was unknown and no […]
After appearing in Grundy County Circuit Court Thursday for sentencing, a Spickard woman was arrested for an alleged violation of probation. 58-year-old Linda Sue Wilcox had pleaded guilty to amended information on a charge involving unlawful possession of a firearm stemming from an arrest in October of last year. In court Thursday, she received a seven-year prison sentence […]
The Spickard City Council heard a presentation and discussed insurance coverage for 2017 at its meeting Monday evening. Council member Maggie George moved to hold off on insuring two vehicles with the possibility of selling them at a later date. Member Betty Lee moved to find out the cost to get the backhoe to work. […]
The Spickard Fire Protection District provided mutual aid for Grundy County Rural Fire Protection District Monday night before the storms. Spickard Training Officer Jesse Richmond reports firefighters responded to a grass and timber fire east of Route Y near its junction with O. Richmond says the burn ban for Spickard is still in effect.
Chillicothe’s’ burn ban and the Livingston county burn advisory has been extended until 9 o’clock tonight. That information came in this morning from the Fire Chief, Darrell Wright. Continuing with burn bans until further notice are the cities of Trenton and Spickard plus Putnam county. Rural areas of Grundy County remain under a burn advisory […]
Mayor of Spickard, Jesse Richmond, has announced a burn ban for the town of Spickard. The ban is due to expected warm and windy weather coupled with the very dry conditions. Richmond said anyone at Spickard caught burning will be subject to being ticketed or charged a fee if the fire department has to come […]
Spickard resident Phillip Galvan was injured in an all-terrain vehicle accident Thursday afternoon in Spickard. The 49-year-old was taken by emergency services to Wright Memorial Hospital in Trenton for the treatment of moderate injuries. The highway patrol reports Galvan was northbound on 5th street when an ATV failed to yield at the intersection with Jefferson, […]
The Spickard Fire Protection District was called out early Monday morning to a fire confined to a small shed at 107 North 5th Street in Spickard. Training officer for the department, Jesse Richmond, said it’s property belonging to Clint Frazier. Richmond noted the fire was extinguished with an approximate loss of about $500. He said […]
The Spickard Fire Department responded to two calls Friday. Training Officer Jesse Richmond reports the department responded to a small grass fire on Highway 65 about a mile outside of Spickard around 4:30 Friday morning. The fire was so small that three personnel stomped out the fire with their feet. Richmond reports the department also […]
A representative of the U.S. Department of Agriculture attended the latest Spickard City Council meeting. Information provided by the city clerk says Stan Wolfe presented a USDA grant to help Spickard pay for a preliminary engineering report as the town moves forward with its sewer project. Wolfe is an area rural development specialist with the […]
All water customers at Spickard are under a precautionary boil water advisory following repairs made last night to a break in a four inch main. The advisory, to boil water used for cooking and drinking, will be in effect at Spickard until late Saturday night. Mayor Jesse Richmond reports the water line that blew yesterday […]
The Spickard Fire Department responded to a grass fire about a half mile south of Modena Tuesday afternoon. Training Officer Jesse Richmond says about half an acre was on fire and that a tanker and a brush truck were used in fighting the fire. Richmond says believes the fire started from a garbage fire in […]
The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest of two people. Thirty-four-year-old Brandon Brewer of Spickard was arrested yesterday on a charge of a class C felony of second-degree burglary. Bond is $10,000 cash or corporate surety. Court documents accuse Brewer of entering unlawfully into 1025 Northwest 25 Avenue in Spickard owned and/or possessed by Kevin […]
Four arrests are in the Monday morning report provided by the Grundy County Sheriff’s Department. Twenty-four year old Nicholas Martin, formerly of Trenton, faces two counts of second-degree burglary of properties in Spickard. Martin is accused of break-in’s for the alleged purpose of stealing on July 20, 2016 at Route C and 2nd Street and […]
