Stories from Saturday, April 4, 2009

Putnam County Jail Nicolas Owens, 18, Bainbridge, was booked into the Putnam County Jail at 6:03 p.m. Wednesday for possessing alcohol as a minor, public intoxication and possession of marijuana. Ryan Romandine, 26, Greencastle, was booked at 11:51 p.m. Wednesday for failure to appear...

Floretta Eilar, 93, Stilesville, died Thursday, April 2, 2009. She was born Sept. 27, 1915 in Lebanon to Ross and Amanda Klinger Smith. She married Lloyd F. Eilar and he preceded her in death Oct. 6, 1966. She worked in accounting at Farm Bureau Insurance for 15 years. She also previously worked for the state of Indiana for 10 years. She had been a homemaker and farm helper to her husband...

Roy Stewart, 86, Greencastle, died Friday, April 3, 2009 at the Asbury Towers Healthcare Center. Born Jan. 5, 1923 in Cory, he was the son of Harley W. and Edith Modesitt Stewart. He was a graduate of Cory High School. He married Marcella "Sally" Patterson on May 13, 1944 and she survives...

Beverly S. Jones, 76, Winchester, died on Thursday, April 2, 2009 at Randolph Nursing Home in Winchester. She was born on Jan. 25, 1933, in Delaware County to Harry H. and Meribah (Anderson) Haney. She was a 1951 graduate of Selma High School and was a member of the Desoto United Methodist Church...

Cloverdale High School drama club will present its spring play "Little Women" April 10 and 11 in the cafeteria. Both performances will be presented at 7 p.m. Based on the American classic by Louisa May Alcott, the play chronicles the lives of the March family during and after the Civil War. The four daughters are very close-knit, but with drastically different personalities...

Twelve Putnam County Celebrities will take to the dance floor Saturday as part of the inaugural Dancing With the Putnam County Stars, a fundraiser for the Putnam County Youth Development Commission. The event will closely resemble "Dancing With the Stars," the popular ABC television show...

Kayla Broadstreet, left, and Clair Perry, both 13, take stock of their hauls during EggFest '09, an egg hunt event for sixth- through 12-graders at Robe-Ann Park in Greencastle Friday Night.

COATESVILLE -- It has arrived. Indiana's first and only shrimp boat reached Eddy-Lynn Shrimp Farm Wednesday morning. American Boat Haulers, Florida, brought the 30-foot Gulf shrimp boat to the farm owned by Keith and Katrina Henderson from Panama City, Fla...

Greencastle has once again been named a Tree City USA by the Arbor Day Foundation to honor its commitment to community forestry. It is the 10th year Greencastle has received this national recognition. The Tree City USA program is sponsored by the Arbor Day Foundation in Cooperation with the National Association of State Foresters and the USDA Forest Service...