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Nobody has been injured following a house fire that called area fire departments to Greencastle’s west side Monday morning. The Greencastle Fire Department was toned out at approximately 8:50 a.m. for a structure fire at 208 W. Walnut St...

The DePauw University Police Department is investigating an incident involving assault at the DePauw Nature Park Thursday evening. DePauw police shared with the campus community Friday morning that a non-campus visitor to the park had reported being assaulted by who has been described as a non-campus suspect...

CLOVERDALE ­— Area fire crews were hard at work Monday afternoon and into the evening putting down a large fire in the state forest north of Lieber State Park. A local resident initially alerted Putnam County Dispatch reporting a large amount of smoke along State Road 243 and County Road 1050 South...

DePauw University is among top 10 liberal arts colleges in the country, according to a new ranking by BestValueSchools.org. The website, which has a target audience of college-bound high school students looking for the right fit, published a list of the best 12 liberal arts schools in the nation, with DePauw at No. 10...

A man is back in Putnam County on a 13-year-old warrant for failure to pay child support and theft. Matthew Finley, 39, was booked in the Putnam County Jail last week, extradited from Appleton, Wis. According to a Putnam County Sheriff’s Office social media post, Sheriff Scott Stockton delivered Finley, who owes more than $30,000 in back child support, to the jail from the custody of the Outagamie County (Wis.) Sheriff’s Office...

In recently lifting the statewide mask mandate he instituted last spring in response to COVID-19, Gov. Eric Holcomb left the requirement in place for state offices. On Monday, the Putnam County Commissioners followed suit for county offices, keeping the mask requirement in place in county buildings and offices until at least Monday, April 19...

After two straight years of receiving only one bid each year for Community Crossings road projects — bids that were well over the projected budget — the Putnam County Commissioners got some good news Monday. Not only were four bids submitted for the matching funds grant projects, but three of the four came in with dollar amounts below the projected $1.38 million budget...

I am excited to see the results of so much work by so many people as cases of COVID-19 have trended down over the last few weeks. As the Indiana state mask mandate is nearing its end, we appreciate that the governor has now elected to look to the local health department for guidance about continuation of measures to stop the spread of the Sars-Cov-2 virus...

A little more than a year since his last visit to Greencastle, U.S. Sen. Mike Braun (R-Jasper) made another stop in town Wednesday afternoon. The focus this time was more on local establishments. The senator was given a tour of both the Tenzer Hub for Entrepreneurship and BreadWorks by dignitaries representing Greencastle and DePauw University. He also checked out the rooftop dining space above Bridges Craft Pizza & Wine Bar...

Keeping their fingers crossed, the Greencastle Park Department officials are proceeding toward what is hoped will be a normal pool season this summer. Dealing with a couple of change-order approvals at a special meeting last week, the Park Board also reviewed a timetable that suggests April 15 as the date on which the pool can be filled in anticipation of a Memorial Day weekend opening...

DePauw University is among top 10 liberal arts colleges in the country, according to a new ranking by BestValueSchools.org. The website, which has a target audience of college-bound high school students looking for the right fit, published a list of the best 12 liberal arts schools in the nation, with DePauw at No. 10...

WASHINGTON — Starting Monday, April 12, the Federal Emergency Management Agenty (FEMA) will begin providing financial assistance for funeral expenses incurred after Jan. 20, 2020 for deaths related to coronavirus (COVID-19) to help ease some of the financial stress and burden caused by the pandemic...

A man is back in Putnam County on a 13-year-old warrant for failure to pay child support and theft. Matthew Finley, 39, was booked in the Putnam County Jail last week, extradited from Appleton, Wis. According to a Putnam County Sheriff’s Office social media post, Sheriff Scott Stockton delivered Finley, who owes more than $30,000 in back child support, to the jail from the custody of the Outagamie County (Wis.) Sheriff’s Office...

After two straight years of receiving only one bid each year for Community Crossings road projects — bids that were well over the projected budget — the Putnam County Commissioners got some good news Monday. Not only were four bids submitted for the matching funds grant projects, but three of the four came in with dollar amounts below the projected $1.38 million budget...

Keeping their fingers crossed, the Greencastle Park Department officials are proceeding toward what is hoped will be a normal pool season this summer. Dealing with a couple of change-order approvals at a special meeting last week, the Park Board also reviewed a timetable that suggests April 15 as the date on which the pool can be filled in anticipation of a Memorial Day weekend opening...

Grammy-winning violinist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Mark O’Connor and his wife Maggie, performing and speaking from their home in North Carolina, will be the performers in this week’s Greencastle Virtual Music Festival event. The music festival and the DePauw Performing Arts Series are co-presenting the special livestreamed event at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at http://gvmf.live with...

I am excited to see the results of so much work by so many people as cases of COVID-19 have trended down over the last few weeks. As the Indiana state mask mandate is nearing its end, we appreciate that the governor has now elected to look to the local health department for guidance about continuation of measures to stop the spread of the Sars-Cov-2 virus...