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(Police Logs ~ 08/07/13)
County Jail Several people were booked into the Putnam County Jail recently. At 8:50 p.m. on Friday, Mark Anthony Sadler, 34, Fillmore, was arrested for violation of home detention. At 11:28 p.m. Chance Edward Hammond, 24, Spencer, was charged with possession of marijuana and possession of a handgun without a permit...
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Blacksmith metalwork exhibit at Putnam County Museum
(Local News ~ 08/07/13)
Daughter of two parents in the U.S. Air Force, international traveler from an early age, Fort Hays State University graduate, and now a featured artist at the Putnam County Museum, Ellen Dreyer has had a life bountiful with inspiration and experience...
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'Drowsy Chaperone' musical opening on Playhouse stage
(Local News ~ 08/07/13)
The 52nd season of Putnam County Playhouse continues with the musical "The Drowsy Chaperone." It will be staged this Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Aug. 8-10 and again Aug. 14-17. All performances begin at 8 p.m. in the Hazel Day Longden Barn Theatre in Greencastle. All seats are reserved and priced at $10...
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Sports injury clinics to be held in Hendricks for youth
(High School Sports ~ 08/07/13)
DANVILLE -- Hendricks Orthopedics and Sports Medicine will host Saturday morning sports injury clinics for high school athletes. The walk-in clinics will take place from 8-9 a.m. Aug. 17 through Oct. 26, at 100 Hospital Lane, Suite 300, Danville. On-site physicians will be able to treat new and chronic injuries in high school athletes. To learn more, call (317) 718-4676...
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SP football to hold season kickoff Friday
(High School Sports ~ 08/07/13)
The South Putnam Quarterback Club is hosing a season kickoff banquet starting at 6 p.m. on Friday. Guests will meet at the shelter house behind Central Elementary and watch the varsity team practice before a pitch-in dinner. Fans, family, youth league players and junior high players are invited to come...
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Tiger Cubs top Bulldogs in girls' golf
(High School Sports ~ 08/07/13)
The Greencastle girls' golf team beat visiting Monrovia on Monday, 225-227. The Tiger Cubs were led by junior Lauren Bridgewater who fired a 49 at the nine-hole dual meet. "She played very well today until the seventh hole, where she ran into some trouble," GHS coach Bob Hedge said. "Haley Cash had her personal best...
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4-Wheelin' and dealin'
(Community Sports ~ 08/07/13)
Joshua Graham, a fourth-grader at Tzouanakis, competes in an ATV race earlier this summer. Josh won two different state titles last weekend at the GLMX Indiana State Championship hosted by Wildcat MX in Lafayette. He won both races in the 90cc class and took a first- and second-place finish in the 70cc class. It was his third-straight state title in the 70cc division. He will compete this weekend in the Mountain Dew ATV MX National Championships at Loretta Lynn which will be held in Hurricane Mills, Tenn. Josh has been racing four-wheelers since he was four years old. (Courtesy photo)
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Fun times at National Night Out
(Local News ~ 08/07/13)
On Tuesday evening students and families made their way to Robe-Ann Park for National Night Out. Local law enforcement and community organizations came together to bring school supplies to kids. With a fun-filled night of activities and food participants were encouraged to participate in Zumba, a bike rodeo and a very popular dunk tank, which housed North Putnam Middle School Principal Terry Tippin...
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Persistent party school listing rankles university officials
(Local News ~ 08/07/13)
Think about the nation's biggest party schools and some of the country's largest institutions of higher learning immediately come to mind. The University of Florida? Certainly. No painsville, no Gainesville. The University of Mississippi? Southern comfort both in person and by the bottle...
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New principal hired at GMS
(Local News ~ 08/07/13)
Greencastle Middle School has a new principal in Shawn Wooden. Wooden succeeds Tamra Walker after her July announcement that she would be leaving for a position in Georgia. Walker had served as GMS principal since July 2011. Her resignation announcement left the Greencastle School Corporation scrambling to find a new principal...
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Shop with a Cop helps local children
(Local News ~ 08/07/13)
Officers representing five local law enforcement agencies descended on the Greencastle Walmart on Monday morning for the 15th annual Shop with a Cop event, which is put on by the Fraternal Order of Police. Nineteen officers from the Greencastle Police Department, Indiana Excise Police, Putnam County Sheriff's Department, Cloverdale Police Department and the Indiana State Police helped children in need of school supplies and clothes pick out a variety of essentials...
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Moving Wall comes close to home
(Local News ~ 08/07/13)
By SHANNON HALL Staff Intern SPENCER -- The Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C., is a long drive to go and see. While each name etched in the stone is worth is the gas mileage, a half-scale replica of the wall -- called the Moving Wall -- will come to Spencer this week...
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