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Ex-SPHS teacher's mayoral bid falls one vote short
(Local News ~ 12/19/15)
Wayne Schuetter, who taught social studies at South Putnam High School for 32 years before retiring in 2006, has fallen one vote shy of being elected the mayor of Jasper. That was the result of a recount conducted in Jasper this week after the Nov. 3 election between incumbent Republican Terry Seitz and Schuetter, the Democratic rival, ended in a tie...
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Ringing in the New
(Local News ~ 12/19/15)
The new Miller Asbury apartment development in the old Miller Elementary School in Greencastle is dedicated Thursday afternoon as celebrants forego a traditional ribbon-cutting ceremony to ring in the new facility with a school bell. Mayor Sue Murray does the honors at the conclusion of the program after Milestone Ventures principal Chuck Heintzelman (applauding left) explained that a school typically welcomes the start of new things with the ringing of a bell. ...
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GCSC to 'cease' pursuit of east side land
(Local News ~ 12/19/15)
Board members for the Greencastle Community School Corporation decided Thursday at its monthly meeting to seek another route for its prospective transportation facility. After researching the town for a suitable location to build a new transportation center, the Greencastle School Board decided, after significant feedback from the adjacent community, not to pursue the 30-acre property by Woods Edge subdivision...
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Cougars swept by Mustangs Friday
(High School Sports ~ 12/19/15)
ROACHDALE -- The North Putnam varsity basketball teams both came up short in their conference clashes with Edgewood on Friday. The Cougar girls (2-11) dropped a low-scoring affair to the Mustangs (9-4), 33-29. In the boys' game, the Cougars (1-5) fell to the Mustangs (4-2) by a final score of 54-27...
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Spencer helps Raiders to title
(High School Sports ~ 12/19/15)
SALEM, Va. -- Mount Union linebacker Hank Spencer is walking away from football a winner. The 2012 North Putnam graduate and senior leader of the Purple Raider defense was part of a championship effort Friday night, as Mount Union defeated St. Thomas 49-35 for its second title in four years and 12th NCAA Division III football champions overall...
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GHS boys fall to Golden Arrows
(High School Sports ~ 12/19/15)
SULLIVAN -- Ryan Coble had a spectacular outing Friday night playing in front of a tough Sullivan crowd. The senior led the Tiger Cubs in scoring with a gargantuan 34-point effort. However, none of the other Cubs were able to get much going offensively and Greencastle fell, 63-53...
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Lady Eagles fall to Vikings
(High School Sports ~ 12/19/15)
The South Putnam Lady Eagles opened a boys' and girls' Western Indiana Conference high school basketball game at South Putnam on the short end of a 47-33 score to the West Vigo Vikings. The Eagles were outscored 17-4 over the last 10:27 of the game to fall to 7-3 on the year and 0-2 in conference play...
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Eagle boys fall to West Vigo
(High School Sports ~ 12/19/15)
The South Putnam Eagle boys' basketball team ran into a deep, talented, athletic West Vigo Viking team on Friday night. The Vikings beat the Eagles 77-48 in the second game of a girls and boys doubleheader in Western Indiana Conference play. The Vikings exploded out of the gate and ran out to a 10-1 lead in the first three and half minutes before the Eagles called timeout to try and slow West Vigo down. ...
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Lady Clovers lose nailbiter
(High School Sports ~ 12/19/15)
CLOVERDALE_-- A strong second half put the Cloverdale girls' basketball team back in the game but WIC Eastern Division rival Brown County held off the home team Friday night to earn the win, 51-49. "It was one of those games where through two and a half quarters we didn't play very well," CHS coach Matt Langdon said. ...
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Cloverdale boys earn big win
(High School Sports ~ 12/19/15)
CLOVERDALE -- Brown County was no match for the Cloverdale boys' basketball team Friday and after Cloverdale went up 15-2 early in the first behind Cooper Neese and Jalen Moore's threes, the Eagles never caught back up. "We're still a young team," CHS coach Patrick Rady Jr. ...
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Greencastle girls take win
(High School Sports ~ 12/19/15)
SULLIVAN -- After a slow start that only saw them post two points in the first quarter, the Lady Tiger Cubs rallied behind the hot hand of senior point guard Bethanie Burgeson to beat Sullivan, 56-22. From the start it was clear the host Golden Arrows (2-11, 1-2 WIC) would try to slow the pace of play. xThey succeeded, at least in the first quarter, taking a 9-2 lead...
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Greencastle defeats CHS, earns comeback win
(High School Sports ~ 12/19/15)
CLOVERDALE --The Greencastle boys' basketball team used great effort and sharp-shooting to secure a 75-67 comeback victory over Cloverdale Saturday. After a thirteen-point Cloverdale lead GHS stormed back taking the lead late in the fourth behind some three-point shooting by Nick Costin who hit tow big shots to help GHS earn the lead...
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