Jan. 28
In 2002, Greenfield-Central School Board voted in favor of an elementary school redistricting plan, prompted because Lincoln Park Elementary School on North Street was about to be closed, and J.B. Stephens Elementary School was taking shape on Blue Road.
Jan. 29
In 1942, Hancock County Sheriff John Dent said so far no aliens had reported to him to turn in radios and cameras, as called for in emergency regulations from the department of justice. A registration a year before had showed eight reporting at the local post office, although three of them were from adjoining counties.
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In 2014, Nathan Slinkard landed at Indianapolis International Airport after 18 years missing in a custody battle between his parents. His father, Steven Slinkard, was there to meet him. Brother Andrew arrived in August.
Jan. 30
In 1947, school was canceled in Mt. Comfort after the basement of the building was flooded by a storm of near-tornado proportions, uprooting trees in the Mohawk area and littering the road between Mohawk and Mt. Comfort with telephone poles.
Jan. 31
In 1965, Bishop Kenneth E. Brown launched Apostolic Pentecostal Church in Greenfield with his family and eight other people.
In 1979, students and staff of Charlottesville Elementary and Wilkinson Elementary moved into the new Eastern Hancock Elementary.
Feb. 1
In 1988, portions of downtown Fortville remained blocked off after the second-story ceiling at 225 S. Main St. collapsed the night before, sending debris onto cars parked nearby.
Feb. 2
In 1958, a 22-year-old Greenfield woman was dragged from a car stopped at the northeast corner of State and Main streets and stabbed. Her 32-year-old estranged husband was charged with assault and battery with intent to kill.
Feb. 3
In 1936, Hancock County Commissioners awarded a contract to Conklin Lumber Co. to adapt the third floor of the courthouse to accommodate women jurors. Lack of quarters for female jurors was cited as the reason none had been called to serve on a grand or petit jury in the county; making the arrangements picked up speed after the Indiana Supreme Court reversed a ruling in a criminal case because no women were part of the jury.
