The Vinegar Mill site is even older, as it quarried limestone for the area as early as 1830. The Jennings County Preservation Association and other residents responded by voicing their opinions concerning the plan to park board members. Ruth Skelton, president of the Preservation Association, spoke against replacing the steps with concrete. She faces theft charges. The case was initiated after officials from the Borchers St. Paul Lutheran Church discovered discrepancies in the payment schedules from church fund accounts.
Police say that most of the money has been repaid to the church.
Hoene faces a class D felony theft charge that is punishable by up to 3 years in prison, if convicted. Wednesday units from Monroe and Vienna Township Volunteer Fire Departments were called to a field fire just north of the Henryville Forestry entrance on Highway 31. It took over an hour for the fire departments to put out the burning trees and brush. There were no houses or structures burned as a result of that fire. No one was injured fighting the fire.