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From a field of 10 competitors, 18-year-old Hannah Cunningham (seated) was chosen as Miss Putnam County Fair Queen 2017 at the end of Saturday evening’s contest at the Putnam County Fairgrounds Community Building. Cunningham’s court includes (standing from left) Miss Congeniality and First Runner-Up Kaelynn Abner, Second Runner-Up Bronwyn Spencer and Third Runner-Up Michayla Sanders...

The pungent sulfur smell of fireworks has finally faded from our nostrils. The clouds of smoke have long disappeared. And even the post-July 4 fireworks mega-sales seem to have finally evaporated. Yet the annual Greencastle fireworks celebration continues to live in infamy. The 2017 event may have gone out with a bang but it refuses to die...

A 52-year-old woman is in police custody after she allegedly fire a shot at a person then barricaded herself in a camper late Friday afternoon. Despite claims that she had access to more weapons, Irma Sheppard was taken into custody without incident about 45 minutes after the initial dispatch...

There’s a new school in town. Now enrolling just in time for the back-to-school ruckus, Journey is opening its doors to students in preschool through 12th grade. The non-denominational private school “partners with families through life educational journeys with affordable tuition, personalized instruction, as well as a challenging curriculum with Bible-based teaching for our students to grow in the Word of God.”...

In a rare split vote on final reading -- quite possibly the first since the Greencastle City Council grew to seven members -- the Council has adopted a municipal motor vehicle license excise surtax and municipal wheel tax. By a 4-2 vote with one abstention (with Councilors Stacie Langdon and Tyler Wade dissenting and Steve Fields abstaining), the Council adopted Ordinance 2017-6 on the second of two readings. ...

A new city ordinance, adopted at the July City Council meeting, is aimed at halting a keep-on-trucking presence by heavy trucks within residential areas. Ordinance 2017-5, unanimously adopted on second reading by the City Council, repeals a section of city code that had offered a list of streets where heavy truck traffic was not allowed but in doing so, listed only eight city streets...

Blue Ribbon Memories ... that’s the theme of the 2017 Putnam County Fair Parade. And Parade Grand Marshal Kenny Torr can certainly draw upon his many blue-ribbon memories when the floats and wagons and trucks and VW Beetles begin to roll down Washington Street Friday, starting at the “Y” intersection at 6:30 p.m. and reaching the reviewing stand downtown at approximately 7 p.m...

CLOVERDALE — The Cloverdale Community School Corporation Board of School Trustees appointed Tom Winders as the new high school varsity football coach at its regularly-scheduled meeting on Monday night. Winders replaces Tony Meyer, who resigned earlier this year in a mutual decision with administration after two seasons...

Not many undertakings or announcements ever elicit applause at Greencastle City Council meetings, especially among Council members themselves. But Thursday night at City Hall, at least a smattering of applause broke out among the Council after Mayor Bill Dory announced that a long-sought stoplight for the State Road 240-Percy Julian Drive/Zinc Mill Road intersection is scheduled to become a reality in 2018...

BAINBRIDGE -- As in most small towns, Bainbridge can supply its residents with services such as electricity, natural gas, water and sewage, most typically the latter. What is unique about Bainbridge, though, is that it only seeks financial restitution against the resident in whose name the bill was originally signed, leaving property owners who let rooms and landlords free of any fiscal responsibility in the event a renter skips town...

The pungent sulfur smell of fireworks has finally faded from our nostrils. The clouds of smoke have long disappeared. And even the post-July 4 fireworks mega-sales seem to have finally evaporated. Yet the annual Greencastle fireworks celebration continues to live in infamy. The 2017 event may have gone out with a bang but it refuses to die...

In a rare split vote on final reading -- quite possibly the first since the Greencastle City Council grew to seven members -- the Council has adopted a municipal motor vehicle license excise surtax and municipal wheel tax. By a 4-2 vote with one abstention (with Councilors Stacie Langdon and Tyler Wade dissenting and Steve Fields abstaining), the Council adopted Ordinance 2017-6 on the second of two readings. ...

TERRE HAUTE — A three-vehicle accident in the westbound lanes of Interstate 70 Tuesday afternoon claimed the lives of two young children and injured four others. The accident occurred about 2:45 p.m. near the 16-mile marker in Vigo County, Indiana State Police at Putnamville reported...

BAINBRIDGE -- As in most small towns, Bainbridge can supply its residents with services such as electricity, natural gas, water and sewage, most typically the latter. What is unique about Bainbridge, though, is that it only seeks financial restitution against the resident in whose name the bill was originally signed, leaving property owners who let rooms and landlords free of any fiscal responsibility in the event a renter skips town...

As Bridges Craft Pizza and Wine Bar prepares for its late August opening, community members will have advance opportunities to experience its cuisine while also supporting Beyond Homeless Inc. and Friends of the Park. Bridges will serve dinner on Aug. 5 and 12 at Myers’ 5 East Event & Catering Co. at 5 East Franklin Street...

A new city ordinance, adopted at the July City Council meeting, is aimed at halting a keep-on-trucking presence by heavy trucks within residential areas. Ordinance 2017-5, unanimously adopted on second reading by the City Council, repeals a section of city code that had offered a list of streets where heavy truck traffic was not allowed but in doing so, listed only eight city streets...

Suffice it to say, numerologists would have had a field day with the latest Greencastle City Police swearing-in ceremony. For on the 17th day of the seventh month of a year ending in 17, Luke Brown became the city’s new 17th police officer, a position addition provided for in the 2017 city budget...