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A juvenile and his grandfather were hospitalized following an accident shooting at a Greencastle home on Friday. At the request of the Putnam County Department of Child Services requested that the Indiana State Police Putnamville District to conduct an investigation into the incident...

MANSFIELD -- The historic Mansfield Roller Mill will participate in the Mansfield Mushroom Festival Saturday and Sunday, April 27-28, staying open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Visiors can shop, tour the mill or buy or sell bags of morels during the mushroom auction on both days of the festival or view the car show on April 28...

Putnam County schools are sending five teams to the 2019 Indiana Academic Super Bowl state finals Saturday, May 4 at Purdue University. The quintet is led by the Greencastle High School Math Team, which posted the top score in Class 3 competition, answering 23 of the 25 questions correctly in area competition earlier this week at GHS. The math team will be defending its 2018 state title...

It might be a little difficult to gift-wrap, but the Greencastle Fire Department’s new pumper/rescue truck is expected to arrive in time for Christmas. Fire Chief John Burgess, fresh from a visit to the Sutphen Fire Apparatus Co. plant in Dublin, Ohio, told the Greencastle Board of Works and Safety Wednesday that the truck is “still on track” for delivery in mid-November or December...

Another major hurdle has been cleared as the proposed Greencastle community center project gains momentum. The City of Greencastle and its Redevelopment Commission closed earlier this week on the purchase of 73.26 acres of vacant property on the city’s East Side that is proposed as the location for the long-sought community center...

The DePauw Jazz Ensemble will take the stage in Moore Theatre one more time before the end of the School of Music’s 2018-19 concert season. The performance, directed by Professor Steve Snyder, will be given at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 23 in the Judson and Joyce Green Center for the Performing Arts, 605 S. College Ave...

Putnam County Hospital staged its second annual Women’s Tea at The Inn at DePauw on Wednesday, April 17 with more than 90 women -- ranging in age from 17 to 90 -- in attendance to learn more about skin cancer prevention and awareness. “The goal of our Women’s Tea is to help further educate women in our community about preventative methods of different types of cancer and signs and symptoms to look for,” PCH Director of Marketing and Community Relations Brooke Trissel said. ...

The Putnam County Council and Putnam County Commissioners will meet in a joint session at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 24. Set to take place in the Commissioners Room on the first floor of the Putnam County Courthouse, the meeting will include discussion of the county employee handbook and job descriptions as well as Putnam County Operation Life...

Splashes of color are everywhere Friday afternoon on the first day of the annual two-day Fiber Event (nee Fleece Fair) as dozens of exhibitors fill the Community Building at the Putnam County Fairgrounds.

BAINBRIDGE -- Among other rather straight-forward items on their agendas, school officials took another step in the continually moving process toward beginning North Putnam’s million-dollar, corporation-wide renovation project. During its regular meeting Thursday evening, the North Putnam School Board approved its design-build contract with Shambaugh & Son, the firm which will complete the repairs over approximately the next 18 months...

MARSHALL -- Turkey Run State Park is inviting people to explore the wonders of space with six space exhibits until June 22 at the park’s nature center. On the last day the exhibits will be at the park, the Wabash Valley Astronomical Society will have a special telescope that allows for safe viewing of the sun from 3-5 p.m...

A number of local students were named to the DePauw University dean’s list for the fall 2018 semester. Centerpoint: MORGAN STEARLEY Cloverdale: ABEL BATES and TRINITY RAIRDON Coatesville: DAVID FLANNELLY Greencastle: MEGAN HALTOM, JONAH JONES-STEVENS, ISABEL MARKHAM, QUINCI MILLER, WHITNEY WEINSCHENK, BRAYDEN WHITE, ZACH WILKERSON and SYED MUHAMMAD RAZA ZAIDA...

ROACHDALE — Phyllis Riggle, vice president and mortgage loan officer, has announced that after 34 years of service, she will be retiring from Tri-County Bank on Thursday, April 25. An open house in her honor will be take place at the Tri-County Branch in Roachdale, 18 E. Washington St., from 2-6 p.m. on April 25...

The monthly Dine with a Doc program, sponsored by Senior Education Ministries, will feature Dr. Keith Thomae of the Putnam County Hospital Surgery Center on Monday, April 22. The event is scheduled from 10 a.m. to noon at The Waters of Greencastle, 1601 Hospital Drive, in a location change for this month...

RUSSELLVILLE -- The Russellville Town Council had more on its plate than usual Tuesday evening as it tackled a varied agenda during its regular April meeting. The council put its attention to the town’s capital assets, which include buildings, equipment and investments such as bonds. Clerk-Treasurer Martha Mandleco said the town had an incomplete record of assets going back to 2017, and that a review, but not an audit, would have to be done to comply with the Indiana State Board of Accounts...

The Luke Brown Story, already worthy of a Hollywood script, got its own epilogue Thursday when the Greencastle City Police Officer received the Congressional Badge of Bravery Award. In a ceremony Thursday afternoon at City Hall Indiana Sen. Todd Young presented Brown with just the third Congressional Badge of Bravery honor awarded in Indiana since Congress created the medal in 2008 to recognize law enforcement officers who have exhibited “extreme acts of heroism...

DePauw University invites the public to attend the formal dedication of the Ullem Campus Farm and Center for Sustainability on Thursday, May 9. The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. and is open to all. The original DePauw campus farm was founded in 2013 on a one-acre property adjacent to the Prindle Institute for Ethics with financial support from James R. Gates (Class of 1978) and Roberta P. Gates and Richard S. Neville (Class of 1976) and Janet Asp Neville...

MARSHALL — It’s a homecoming of sorts for Mike Schimpf. The outgoing principal of South Putnam High School has been named the new superintendent of North Central Parke Schools, the corporation announced via its Facebook page on Thursday. Even as he leaves his home county for a new job, Schimpf returns to the area where he had his first principal’s post, spending 2014-15 as the principal at Turkey Run High School...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch has announced the finalists for the 2019 Stellar Communities Program. After a thorough review of the letters of intent by the Stellar partner agencies, the following regions have been chosen as finalists: -- Constellation of Starke, which consists of Hamlet, Knox, North Judson and Starke County...

In a special meeting in which rollcall and the “Pledge of Allegiance” probably lasted about as long as the evening’s business, the Greencastle City Council nonetheless enacted a historic decision. By a vote of 5-1, the Council adopted on second and final reading Ordinance 2019-2, permanently vacating a portion of South College Avenue between Hanna and Olive streets for improvements to the DePauw University campus...

While the fate of a bridge along the Putnam-Hendricks county line remains in limbo, the two counties will share the cost of overhauling the surfaces of two roads. On Monday, the Putnam County Commissioners signed an interlocal agreement in which Hendricks County will pay up to $42,000 to have a pair of roads shared by the counties ground and double chipped and sealed...

Whether it’s spelling out YMCA to the popular Village People song by the same name or just shaking their groove thing to other disco era hits, about 50 people danced the night away Saturday at the annual Cloverdale High School Senior Citizen Prom, sponsored by the CHS Student Council and Family Careers and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA).

Congressman Jim Baird (R-Greencastle) encourages high school students from Indiana’s 4th Congressional District to submit artwork for the 2019 Congressional Art Competition sponsored by the U.S. House of Representatives. Entries will be accepted until Wednesday, May 1...

RUSSELLVILLE -- An Easter Bake Sale is slated for 11:30 a.m. Saturday, April 20 at the Russellville Community Center. Homemade noodles, decorated Easter cakes, homemade pies, candy, cookies and more will be available. Promptly at 1 p.m. the annual Easter egg hunt, sponsored by the Russellville Community Church, will begin. A visit with the Easter Bunny is included...

The DePauw University Hartman Center for Civic Engagement and the Purdue Extension Office of Putnam County invite the public to take part in their inaugural Supermarket Sweep. Supermarket Sweep is a philanthropy event where teams (or individual shoppers) shop for and donate needed items to local food pantries. The event will take place on Monday, April 22 from 10 a.m.-11 p.m. at the Greencastle Kroger store, 821 Indianapolis Rd. All are welcome to participate and make a donation...