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(Police Logs ~ 01/04/14)
One person was booked into the Putnam County Jail on Thursday. At 8:45 p.m. Dustin Eugene Henry, 32, Roachdale, was charged with battery with bodily injury, resisting law enforcement and probation violation. An 18-year-old Greencastle man is facing theft charges following an incident at Shoe Sensation, 27 Putnam Plaza, City Police report...
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Weather-related calls keep state troopers busy
(Local News ~ 01/04/14)
PUTNAMVILLE -- Indiana State Police troopers from the Putnamville Post report responding to various weather-related calls for service since Thursday morning. Troopers have responded to 39 reported slide-offs within the district along with three personal-injury accidents (all believed minor) and nine property-damage mishaps...
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'100 Women Who Care' comes to Putnam County
(Local News ~ 01/04/14)
The organization "100 Women Who Care, Putnam County" is a group of women who share a common desire to give back to the community. The group is open to all women -- the more women who get involved, the greater the impact will be. The group is modeled after similar organizations located throughout the country...
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Putnam County residents urged to prepare for below-zero temperatures
(Local News ~ 01/04/14)
With temperatures expected to dip below zero, along with an expected 7 to 10 inches of snow, Putnam County residents are reminded to stay fire safe this winter. Greencastle Fire Safety Prevention Officer Christy Glass along with the U.S. Fire Administration remind residents that they should be prepared to stay inside and observe safe heating practices...
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Fillmore clears way for fire station grant
(Local News ~ 01/04/14)
With the Fillmore Volunteer Fire Department desperately needing a new fire station, the Town of Fillmore cleared another hurdle on its way to federal grant funding Thursday night. As the sponsor entity on the fire department's grant application, the Fillmore Town Council passed an updated fair housing ordinance at the January meeting...
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Williams child molesting sentence gets upheld
(Local News ~ 01/04/14)
The Court of Appeals of Indiana recently upheld the 99-year sentence given to a Coatesville man for molesting a young female relative. In February 2013, Putnam Circuit Court Judge Matthew Headley sentenced 39-year-old David L. Williams to 99 years, with 90 to be executed with the Indiana Department of Correction...
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Look out below, Hoosiers, frigid weather on the way
(Local News ~ 01/04/14)
Central Indiana is expected to see its coldest weather in 20 years in the coming week. How cold is it ... It is expected to be the coldest day since Lorena Bobbitt shortcut her way to being a household name or ice skater Nancy Kerrigan was kneecapped by Tonya Harding's bodyguard or a 6.6 magnitude earthquake killed 30 in Los Angeles -- all in January 1994...
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Tuning Out the Cold
(Local News ~ 01/04/14)
While most stay out of the cold some brave it.
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Tiger Cubs trounced by Warriors 68-31
(High School Sports ~ 01/04/14)
DANVILLE -- The Greencastle boys' basketball team traveled to Danville to take on the Warriors Friday night and came back to Greencastle with a loss, 68-31. Greencastle (3-3, 0-1 West Central) could not match the Warriors (8-1) speed or size and on defense it was slow and allowed easy buckets in the paint...
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Clovers top South Newton at tournament
(High School Sports ~ 01/04/14)
FRANKFORT -- The Cloverdale girls' basketball team used a two-week break from games to help reconstruct its identity and flashed its new, more active philosophy to get a win against South Newton on Friday 44-24. The Clovers (4-8, 0-2 West Central) played the Rebels in the second round of the Clinton Prairie Tournament after losing to Eastern (Greentown) in game one 52-39...
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Spencer thriving at Mount Union
(Community Sports ~ 01/04/14)
ALLIANCE, Ohio -- North Putnam graduate Hank Spencer has a lot going on. He just finished playing his second college national championship game with Mount Union a few weeks ago. Although the outcome wasn't what the team wanted, a loss to Wisc.-Whitewater, Spencer said he thinks they have a good chance of going again...
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Nauert's 31 carries N. Putnam past North Montgomery 47-36
(High School Sports ~ 01/04/14)
ROACHDALE -- Senior Jordan Nauert scored the first 18 points of the game for North Putnam and the host basketball Cougars beat North Montgomery on Friday 47-36. Nauert finished with 31, including each of North Putnam's 12 first-half points. "Coach (Lukas Haworth) just said, 'Keep shooting.'" Nauert said. "I had a bad game against Crawfordsville that really bit me in the butt, but I got in the gym the last few days and worked on some things and we started coming together as a team...
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No. 1 DPU tops Allegheny 73-56
(College Sports ~ 01/04/14)
MEADVILLE, Pa. -- The No. 1-ranked DePauw women's basketball team improved to 11-0 with its 45th straight win overall and 64th consecutive regular-season victory at Allegheny on Friday. The 45-game win streak is now the fourth-longest in NCAA Division III history. The win was also the Tigers' 42nd straight North Coast Athletic Conference victory...
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Hirt-Kowalcyzk Engagement
(Engagement ~ 01/04/14)
Mace and Janna Hirt of Katy, Texas, would like to announce the engagement of their daughter Mallory Anne Hirt to John Robert Kowalcyzk, the son of Gary and Linda Kowalcyzk of Cypress, Texas. The bride-to-be is the granddaughter of Mary L. Hirt of Greencastle and John and Daisy Masch of Denton, Texas...
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Phillips -- 50th Anniversary
(Anniversary ~ 01/04/14)
Doug and Connie Phillips are excited to announce their golden wedding anniversary. They were married Jan. 11, 1964, at the First Christian Church in Greencastle by Rev. Maxwell J. Webb. Doug retired from banking in 1998 and operated Phillips Commercial Sewing until 2010. Connie retired from Rolls-Royce/General Motors in 2000...
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