{"id":1655,"date":"2021-12-14T01:15:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T01:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloomingtonnews.online\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2021-12-14T01:27:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T01:27:24","slug":"local-news-headlines-december-14-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloomingtonnews.online\/?p=1655","title":{"rendered":"Local News Headlines: December 14, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Greenwood teacher arrested on child seduction charges<br><\/strong>40 year-old Matthew Hockersmith, a teacher at Greenwood High School, was preliminarily arrested on 3 charges of child seduction, with formal charges expected today. Hockersmith is the head cross country coach, as well as an assistant track coach for Greenwood High School. No additional information is available at this time regarding the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>*All criminal defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bloomingtonnews.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Local-News-Headlines.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1277\" width=\"261\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bloomingtonnews.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Local-News-Headlines.png 374w, https:\/\/bloomingtonnews.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Local-News-Headlines-300x248.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mackenzie Holmes becomes the Big Ten Women\u2019s Basketball Player of the Week<br><\/strong>Indiana University Junior Forward Mackenzie Holmes has been named the Big Ten Women\u2019s Basketball Player of the Week. During the week, Holmes averaged 26.5 points, 6.0 rebounds, 5.0 blocks, and shot 75.9 percent from the floor in a pair of wins over Fairfield and #20 Ohio State. This is her third career Big Ten Player of the Week award and second of the season. She was previously honored for the week of November 15<sup>th<\/sup>. Holmes set a new career high with 30 points against the Buckeyes on 68% shooting to go along with seven rebounds and five blocks. Additionally, she amassed her 1,000<sup>th<\/sup> career point during the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Third-Party Report finds area affected by Bloomington controlled burn below level of concern for Lead<\/strong><br>A detailed third-party report concluded that samples of air, surface dust, surface soil and leaf litter collected in the vicinity of a recent controlled burn exhibited no lead contamination in excess of state and federal standards, and recommended that no further action is warranted. The report was published by VET Environmental Engineering (VET), with whom the City contracted to provide lead abatement oversight, confirmatory investigations, and reporting, including coordination of abatement activities with clean-up contractor Environmental Assurance Company, Inc. (EACI), area air sampling during abatement activities, and confirmatory post-abatement soil sampling analyzed by an independent laboratory. Activities responded to areas where debris was dispersed after the Bloomington Fire Department\u2019s (BFD) November 5<sup>th<\/sup> controlled burn of a residence on South High Street conducted to provide training to firefighters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VET\u2019s report stated: \u201cAll lead abatement and confirmatory sampling was conducted in accordance with applicable published guidelines\u2026.It is VET&#8217;s professional opinion that further investigation of lead contamination at the site is not warranted.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the Monroe County Health Department confirmed that blood samples collected from firefighters who operated at the burn and from residents who sought testing at a voluntary, free site on December 4<sup>th<\/sup>, did not indicate any elevated levels of lead. <a href=\"https:\/\/data.bloomington.in.gov\/dataset\/lead-abatement-oversight-confirmatory-investigation-and-reporting\">The VET report is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This Week in Hoosier History<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bloomingtonnews.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-15.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1656\" width=\"98\" height=\"103\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>1950 &#8211; 19-year-old James Dean got his first paid acting job in a commercial for Pepsi-Cola.\u00a0 He had recently moved to California after graduation from high school in Fairmount, Indiana.\u00a0 He went on to a short but legendary career in Hollywood movies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For\u00a0more local news . . .<br><a href=\"https:\/\/bloomingtonnews.online\/?page_id=2\">Check out our archived episodes of\u00a0<em>What\u2019s Happenin\u2019<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Talkin\u2019 Sports with Nick Jenkinson<\/em>\u00a0here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenwood teacher arrested on child seduction charges40 year-old Matthew Hockersmith, a teacher at Greenwood High School, was preliminarily arrested on 3 charges of child seduction, with formal charges expected today. Hockersmith is the head cross country coach, as well as an assistant track coach for Greenwood High School. No additional information is available at this &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomingtonnews.online\/?p=1655\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Local News Headlines: December 14, 2021<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-headlines"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Local News Headlines: December 14, 2021 - Bloomington News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomingtonnews.online\/?p=1655\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Local News Headlines: December 14, 2021 - Bloomington News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Greenwood teacher arrested on child seduction charges40 year-old Matthew Hockersmith, a teacher at Greenwood High School, was preliminarily arrested on 3 charges of child seduction, with formal charges expected today. 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