Thursday, March 12, 2024 - Capsule reports

Patriot fourth

Jay County High School’s Patriot Edition show choir finished fourth Saturday at the Columbia City Cup.

The school’s co-ed group placed fourth in the finals, trailing Huntington North’s Varsity Singers, Northridge’s Northern Lights and Homestead’s Class Royale. JCHS won the award for best crew.

Jay County’s Just Treble was third in the preliminaries of Treble Division – Tier II.

JCHS sixth in division

The Jay County High School winter guard closed its season by placing sixth in its division Saturday in the Indiana High School Color Guard Association Regional A State Finals at Franklin Central.

JCHS scored 74.24 points for sixth in the Hagen Division. (Centerville won with 83.88.) It finished 26th overall.

Winning division state championships were Anderson, Westfield, Greenwood, Brownsburg, Centerville and Carroll. Brownsburg posted the highest score of 86.36.

Off road

Damage was estimated between $5,000 and $10,000 after a Dunkirk man lost control of the vehicle he was driving and went off Industrial Park Drive in Portland about 7:06 p.m. Sunday.

Normal Moles, 53, was driving a 2016 Jeep Cherokee when he experienced a medical emergency, according to a Portland police report. The vehicle left the west side of the road and continued into a ditch.

Moles complained of chest pain. The vehicle he was driving was towed.