Stories from Friday, August 26, 2016

Greencastle 46, Cloverdale 0; North Putnam 12, Southmont 6; South Putnam 34, Brown County 6

Three contested races will highlight the slate of 11 county school board vacancies to appear on the Nov. 8 election ballot. North Putnam will feature contests in two of four races appearing on the 2016 ballot, with a pair of incumbents facing challenges...

Harold B. Phillips, 77, of Rockville, died Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016 at his residence. Born Feb. 2, 1939 in Trammel, Va., he was the son of James Willie Phillips and Dosha Ernestine Green He married Vivian Bohnhoff on June 20, 1987 in Dietrich, Ill., and she survives...

Three people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Thursday At 2:54 p.m. Samantha Jo Mitchell, 31, Greencastle, was housed at the jail on a warrant. At 10:52 a.m. Brett Kent Kemper, 51, Cloverdale, was taken into custody on a warrant for probation violation...

BAINBRIDGE -- An upcoming public Budget work session has been announced by the North Putnam School Corporation. The session, which is open to the public, is set to be held on Tuesday, Aug. 30 at the NPSC administration office in Bainbridge, to begin at 7:30 p.m...

The South Putnam School Board moved to table the decision to install new lighting at the high school and Fillmore Elementary after hearing a proposal from Patricio Daneri, Managing Director for Energy Harness (the company chosen to install new lighting at Central Elementary)...

The Putnam County Republican Central Committee hog roast and pie auction is set for Saturday, Aug. 27. The funderaiser will take place from 5-8 p.m. at the Putnam County Fairgrounds Community Building. State and local Republican candidates are expected to be on hand and some of them may address the group...

Besides the scheduled musical groups that will take the stage Saturday at the seventh annual Greencastle Music Fest, the audience is in for another treat. Fresh from his notable performance as John Adams in the Putnam County Playhouse production of "1776," Roachdale's Joe Buser will perform "Back Home Again in Indiana" at the festival to help celebrate the state's bicentennial...

The children of Gary and Carolyn Broadstreet of Fillmore are hosting an anniversary reception from 2-4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 3 at the Coatesville Community Center, just south of the Coatesville Public Library. Gary and Carolyn were married at Mt. Tabor Christian Church in Crown Center on Aug. 5, 1966 by Jim Kelly...

An 80th birthday celebration in honor of Dorothy Snider is planned for Sunday, Sept. 11. The celebration will take place from 2-4 p.m. at Harris Hall, Putnam County Fairgrounds.

NORFOLK, Va. -- A 2012 Greencastle High School graduate and Greencastle native is serving in the U.S. Navy aboard USS Gunston Hall. Petty Officer 3rd Class Codi Duncan is a yeoman aboard the Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship operating out of Norfolk, Va...

A 38-year-old Coatesville man who led police on a pursuit last fall in a strange case involving a drug overdose, a substantial amount of methamphetamine and more than a half-dozen firearms was sentenced to 15 years in prison Friday. However, because of a plea agreement with the Putnam County Prosecutor's Office that cleaned up four separate cases facing Darrell L. Goff, the defendant will be serving a maximum of six years in the Indiana Department of Correction...

In short, you might say ASAP is happening PDQ. In this case, ASAP is the Associate Accelerated Program at the Ivy Tech Greencastle campus, offering an affordable associate's degree achieved debt-free in 11 months for less than $10,000. Any way you look at it, that's pretty darn quick...

North Putnam fielded a full, four-player team for the first time this season at Deer Creek on Thursday against Monrovia and Danville, and came within eight strokes of winning the triangular match. Danville won with a 221, followed by Monrovia with a 224 and the Cougars with a 229...