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Jackie Lee Baldwin
(Obituary ~ 03/26/17)
Jackie Lee Baldwin, 84, passed away on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017. He was born on Oct. 8, 1932 in Greencastle, the son of Vivan Ruby Stewart and Carroll W. Baldwin. He graduated from Greencastle High School in 1951. Jackie served in the Marines from Jun 1951 to June 1954. He worked at the zinc mill until it closed and later retired from the Department of Correction...
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Braxton Allan Medearis
(Obituary ~ 03/26/17)
Braxton Allan Medearis, two-year-old son of Michael and Brailyn (Whitson) Medearis went to heaven Thursday, March 23, 2017 following an unexplained illness. Braxton was born Feb. 24, 2015. His mommy and daddy are Brailyn (Whitson) and Michael Medearis...
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William Owen Scott
(Obituary ~ 03/26/17)
William Owen Scott, 79, died on March 21, 2017 in Hendricks County. William (Bill) was born Jan. 12, 1938 in Windfall, Ind., to Owen and Garnet (Ricks) Scott. In the early 1950s the family moved from Tipton County to Wabash County where he graduated from Lagro High School in 1956...
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Darrell Gene Thompson
(Obituary ~ 03/26/17)
Darrell Gene Thompson, 85, Roachdale, passed away Friday, March 24, 2017 at Hendricks Regional Health. He was born on Jan. 28, 1932 in Montgomery County to the late Sherman and Mildred (Harshbarger) Thompson. In May 1954 he married Deloris "Dodie" Ann Bridges. Mrs. Thompson survives...
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Donetta Mae Scott
(Obituary ~ 03/26/17)
Donetta Mae Scott, 82, of Cloverdale, went to be with the lord March 25, 2017. Born March 9, 1935 to the late Clifford and Blanche (Bell) Trowbridge. She married Elva Scott May 7, 1955, and he survives. Donetta was a retired beautician and a member of Job's Daughters, and she enjoyed working for several years at DePauw University in the Hub...
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Sue Ellen Crafton
(Obituary ~ 03/26/17)
Sue Ellen (Wolf) Crafton, 62, passed away in her home near Raleigh, N.C., the afternoon of Wednesday, March 22, 2017. The daughter of a farmer and an elementary teacher, she grew up near Patricksburg in Owen County. During high school in Clay City she began dating the man who would later become her husband, Chris Crafton. Together, they would have two children, Kit and Kevin...
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Larry M. Clodfelter
(Obituary ~ 03/26/17)
Larry M. Clodfelter, 67, of Greencastle, passed away at home early Friday morning, March 24, 2017, ending his battle with cancer. He was the first son of Max and Alice (Shoemaker) Clodfelter, born Sept. 3, 1949 in Crawfordsville. He was a 1967 graduate of Bainbridge High School and a 1968 graduate of the Hobart Welding School in Troy, Ohio...
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Arnold Smith
(Obituary ~ 03/26/17)
Arnold Smith, 73, of Greencastle, passed away on Sunday, March 26, 2017. He was born in Deerlodge, Tenn., to Herman and Mabel (Hall) Smith. Arnold spent a lifetime working in auto body shops around Greencastle. He had a passion for cars. He retired from Great Dane in Brazil...
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South Putnam’s Gibson eager to start coaching
(College Sports ~ 03/26/17)
Having completed his playing career as the second-leading rusher in Marian University history, Rob Gibson will remain involved in college football this fall as an assistant coach at Montana Tech of the University of Montana in Butte, Mont. A high school standout for South Putnam, Gibson recently accepted an offer to become the running backs and tight ends coach for the Oredigger program...
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Haste chosen as IFCA All-Star
(High School Sports ~ 03/26/17)
The post-season honors keep rolling in for North Putnam senior tight end Max Haste. The Marian-bound Cougar has already been honored as all-Putnam County, all-Western Indiana Conference, all-Wabash Valley Football Coaches Association, all-region and all-state after a monster senior season in which he caught 49 passes for 770 yards and three touchdowns...
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Youth Philanthropy
(Local News ~ 03/26/17)
Preparing to serve Almost Home’s famous strawberry pizza are Putnam County Youth Philanthropy Committee members (from left) Ben Gellman, Annika Whitlock, Hannah Long, Ben Wilkerson and Eric Hinkle. The annual youth philanthropy fundraiser took place earlier this month. Gail Smith and Almost Home have hosted this event for nine years. This year $2,285.23 was raised for the Putnam County Youth Philanthropy Endowment, which funds youth-led projects in Putnam County...
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Putnamville Cemetery Association gearing up for mowing season
(Local News ~ 03/26/17)
The Putnamville Cemetery Endowment Association is requesting all decorations that would interfere with mowing be removed by Saturday, April 15. Additionally, the annual meeting of the endowment association is planned for 7 p.m. on Monday, April 10 at Putnamville United Methodist Church...
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Putnam County Yard Waste Site to open April 1
(Local News ~ 03/26/17)
The Greencastle-Putnam County Yard Waste Site, located at 2363 S. CR 250 West, off Manhattan Road/South Jackson Street (past the highway department and the police firing range) will open for the season on Saturday, April 1. Accepted are grass clippings, twigs, branches, leaves and other organic yard waste. No stumps or sod will be accepted...
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County council approves library lot funding
(Local News ~ 03/26/17)
With the Putnam County Public Library Board moving forward with plans to redesign its parking lot, one of the final pieces to fall into place required approval of the Putnam County Council. That step was completed last Tuesday when the council approved the use of $43,000 from Library Improvement Reserve Fund (LIRF) to complete the project...
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Library to open parking lot bids April 3
(Local News ~ 03/26/17)
Putnam County Public Library Director Grier Carson has announced that the final plans for the new parking lot have come in. The plans provide 17 more spaces, better drainage and a softer 90-degree turn. It also moves the entrance from College Avenue to Walnut Street. The changes are to be done in such a way as to allow for more improvements in the future...
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New courthouse clocks, Civil War statue work loom
(Local News ~ 03/26/17)
Springtime is stacking up as a busy time for the Heritage Preservation Society (HPS) of Putnam County. Projects involving new courthouse clocks, the restoration of the Civil War Monument at Forest Hill Cemetery and a new, updated website for the organization are under way...
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Communiversity event to focus on impressionism
(Local News ~ 03/26/17)
French impressionism in art and in music aimed to capture glimpses of life’s fleeting moments — the vibrancy of the light at sunrise, the serenity of a lily pond or the conversations between wind and waves — a celebration of the world moment-by-moment. ...
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Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
(Local News ~ 03/26/17)
The 70-degree temperatures Saturday afternoon made Robe-Ann Park a popular place as youngsters (at left, from front) Jasmine Cummings, 6, Savannah Wolfe, 5, and Kirin McKinney, 5, ride the dinosaur and pretend they’re off to Africa. Meanwhile, one-year-old Kalista McKinney (above) wishes she were big enough to tackle the nearby slide Cummings (below) so nimbly challenges.
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BENNETT'S MINUTES: Play hard, kids; you never know who's watching
(High School Sports ~ 03/26/17)
I intentionally omitted one key detail from Saturday’s story on Nailah Ray of Greencastle signing to play basketball for Olney Central College, in order to fully explain it in this space. Normally in such stories, I try to ask college coaches how they “found” the athlete or if the athlete “found” them, but in this case I didn’t ask — I already knew...
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