Stories from Monday, August 24, 2015

During three hours of tours of Greencastle Schools, Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz reads David Weisner's "Art and Max" to Kari Schimpf's pre-school class at Deer Meadow Primary School.

A Greencastle man was airlifted after a bicycle accident on West Walnut Street Monday afternoon. Putnam County Sheriff's Department Sgt. Gregg Slover said around 3:22 p.m. Jeffrey Tucker, 54, was traveling east on West Walnut Street on a mountain bike...

AgrIInstitute, a statewide organization that serves the Indiana agricultural industry (and the local farmer) announced the creation of its 14th Indiana Community Foundation endowment. AgrIInstitute is a people-capacity building organization that builds people networks for agriculture and rural Indiana. Its premier program is the Agricultural Leadership Program (ALP), a two-year leadership development program for adults engaged in agricultural and related industry careers...

Michael Everett "Mike" Carter Jr., 56, Spencer, was born on Friday, May 15, 1959 in Greencastle. He was a 1977 graduate of Greencastle High School. Mike was employed with Pools of Fun for 15 years, and he recently began his dream of owning and operating Tailgaters BBQ...

The Greencastle Police Department search for a man who vandalized three local churches has resulted in some more serious charges than originally believed. Since the Thursday, Aug. 13 discovery of anti-religion graffiti at three southside churches, GPD Officer Darrel Bunten and Detective Sgt. Michael Collins have been working on the case...

PARKE AND PUTNAM COUNTIES -- The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) will have lane restrictions on State Road 236 beginning Tuesday, weather permitting. S.R. 236 will be chip and sealed from State Road 59 to U.S.231. Motorists are encouraged to seek an alternate route...

SPENCER -- An Owen County man died in a single vehicle accident northeast of Spencer on Friday morning. At 1:52 a.m., a caller reported a single-vehicle accident to Owen County Dispatch off of Texas Pike, just north of Manhattan Road, the Spencer Evening World reported...

The annual meeting of the Putnam County 4-H Fair Association is set for 6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 3 at the York Automotive Family Community Building at the Putnam County Fairgrounds. The meeting will feature Fair Board member elections, a guest speaker and a pitch-in dinner...