Stories from Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Ronald W. Price, 68, of Greencastle, began his eternal journey on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2017. Born Oct. 10, 1948 in Kingsport, Tenn., he was the son of James B. Price and Louise (Harrell) Price. On July 29, 1972 he married Susan Cross. Ron was a 1966 graduate of Oxford High School in Benton County, Ind...

Ellen Miller Sedlack, 78, of Greencastle, was born into eternal life, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017. Arrangements are pending at Bittles and Hurt Funeral Home, Greencastle.

Christine Jane (Sprouse) Stearley Sills, 67, of Brazil, passed away while living at Meadows Manor East, Terre Haute, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2017 at 7:40 p.m. She was born Nov. 2, 1949, in Clay County, the daughter of Leslie Lee and Imogene (Fisher) Sprouse...

Six people have been booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Tuesday • At 3:31 a.m. Jerad Allen Taylor, 33, Greencastle, was lodged at the jail for driving while intoxicated and possession of a controlled substance. Sunday • At 7:20 p.m. Zachary Adam Poole, 34, Greencastle, was charged with battery with a deadly weapon...

A former Banner Graphic sports writer died Monday in a single-vehicle crash in Porter County. The Times of Northwest Indiana reports that Danny Shelton Jr., 35, Kouts, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash in Pleasant Township. A native of Porter County, Shelton, who went by the first name Dan professionally, had two tenures as a Banner Graphic sports writer, from September 2005 through April 2006 and again from January 2009 through January 2010...

Weighing in at more than 100 pages long, the Putnam County employee handbook is a bit too voluminous, at least in the opinion of one county commissioner. “It’s 100-some pages and I think that’s insane,” District 2 Commissioner Rick Woodall said Monday during the commissioners’ bi-monthly meeting...

Greencastle City Police officers went out of their way to make a little boy’s day. Rhyme and reason in play, five city officers visited the East Side home of little Gage Nauman and his parents, Amanda Hawkins and Ryan Nauman, last Friday, taking community policing an extra mile and making a little boy smile...

District 44 State Rep. Jim Baird (R-Greencastle) will co-host the 2017 Indiana Military Veterans Legislative Day Monday, Jan. 23 at the Indiana Statehouse, 200 W. Washington St., Indianapolis. The Indiana Military Veterans Legislative Day Committee has announced that Rep. Baird and District 93 State Rep. John Bartlett (D-Indianapolis) will co-host the event, which begins with a veterans’ march to the statehouse at 8:30 a.m...

CLOVERDALE -- Six Cloverdale residents were present to express their desire to have Interim Marshal Charlie Hallam made full marshal and other concerns about the Cloverdale Police Department during the Cloverdale Town Council’s regular meeting on Jan. 10...