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Cubs achieve back-to-back volleyball titles
(High School Sports ~ 10/15/18)
NEW MARKET — Greencastle’s sectional championship volleyball match against Southmont on Saturday night following the same script as the entire regular season for the defending champion Tiger Cubs. Fortunately for coach Maggie Walters and her team, this script had a happy ending and concluded with the Cubs claiming first place for the second straight year...
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Reelsville boil order lifted
(Local News ~ 10/15/18)
Effective at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17, the boil order for Reelsville Water Authority has been lifted. The Reelsville Water Authority had a main break on Saturday, Oct. 13, and placed a section of its customers under a boil order. Water samples were taken Monday and Tuesday, so the earliest the boil order could have been lifted was Wednesday...
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Norman Roy Wood
(Obituary ~ 10/15/18)
Norman Roy Wood, 84, of Greencastle ,passed away Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018 at The Waters of Greencastle. A private burial will take place at a later date. Hopkins-Rector Funeral Home, Greencastle, is in charge of the arrangements.
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James Oscar Clearwaters
(Obituary ~ 10/15/18)
James Oscar Clearwaters, 95, formerly of Greencastle, passed away on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018, at Meadow Lakes in Mooresville. Arrangements are pending at Hopkins-Rector Funeral Home, Greencastle.
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Gertrude 'Gerty' Bell
(Obituary ~ 10/15/18)
Gertrude "Gerty" Bell, 88, passed away Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018 at her home in Brazil with her family at her side. She was born on Oct. 3, 1930 in Attica, Ind., to the late Ted and Olive (Quick) McCoy. Gerty graduated from Brazil High School in 1949, and married Robert Bell on Oct. 14, 1950...
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Carol Sue McGaughey
(Obituary ~ 10/15/18)
Carol Sue McGaughey, 72, of Greencastle passed away Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018, at Kindred Hospital in Indianapolis. Carol was born in Crawfordsville on Aug. 28, 1946, the daughter of Lawrence and Mary (Rusk) McGaughey. She was a graduate of Greencastle High School...
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Community Connectivity
(Local News ~ 10/15/18)
Students, administrators and community supporters were all smiles as they celebrated the opening of an annex for DePauw University’s Tenzer Technology Center on South Indiana Street last Wednesday afternoon. Lee Tenzer (center) chats with Greencastle Mayor Bill Dory and Castlemakers President Chris Hebb, while (below) DPU sophomore Grant Germano (left) talks with Mike Boyles, who is the center’s director.
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Giving Through Friendship
(Local News ~ 10/15/18)
Standing with the generous donations from residents, volunteers and sponsors celebrating another successful Friendship Day celebration.
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Preventing a rodent invasion means sealing openings
(Local News ~ 10/15/18)
It isn’t a pleasant thing to think about, but as the farmers finish up harvest and the temperatures continue to drop, the number of mice seeking refuge into houses is going to increase. Mice are brown rodents with large ears and small eyes that weigh about half an ounce. Their tail is generally three to four inches long...
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Kiwanis Officers
(Local News ~ 10/15/18)
The Kiwanis Club of Greencastle installed the officers for 2018-19 during its Oct. 11 meeting.
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Putnam Scanner for October 16, 2018
(Police Logs ~ 10/15/18)
County Jail Four people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Sunday • At 4:04 p.m., Donald Glen Bishop Jr., 33, Fillmore, was lodged in the jail on a pair of local criminal warrants. • At 3:03 p.m., Shawn Taylor Phillips, 24, Bainbridge, was housed at the jail on a Morgan County warrant...
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Rotary sets wine and chocolate fundraiser Oct. 24 at Putnam Inn
(Local News ~ 10/15/18)
The Greencastle Rotary Club will be hosting a wine and chocolate tasting on Wednesday, Oct. 24 at Putnam Inn. The proceeds from the 5:30-8 p.m. event will be donated to the Rotary’s End Polico Now initiative. The evening will consist of chocolate and wine tasting, education on the wines and chocolates that will be sampled, raffle baskets and networking in the newly remodeled Putnam Inn bar...
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City leaf pick-up to commence Oct. 22
(Local News ~ 10/15/18)
The cool air of fall has arrived in west-central Indiana just in time to begin bringing down the autumn leaves in earnest to await annual collection efforts of the Greencastle Department of Public Works. That process is scheduled to start with the city leaf vacuum making its rounds beginning Monday, Oct. 22 and continuing through Nov. 30, Department of Public Works Superintendent Brad Phillips told the City Council at its October meeting...
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Waste site to close on Oct. 31
(Local News ~ 10/15/18)
The Greencastle yard waste drop-off site, located just past the Putnam County Highway Department on County Road 225 South, will be closing for the season on Wednesday, Oct. 31. Residents are urged to take advantage of the warm weather to clean up yard trimmings and debris before the site closes for the year...
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Holy Porsche!
(Local News ~ 10/15/18)
There was a lot of eye candy to take in Friday afternoon on the square after it was briefly overtaken with Porsches of various models.
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Tickets on sale for Monon Bell game
(College Sports ~ 10/15/18)
Tickets for the 125th Monon Bell Classic sponsored by Cancer Treatment Centers of America football game between DePauw University and Wabash College are now on sale. Tickets for either the DePauw or Wabash seating sections will be available for purchase online. Everyone attending the game must have a ticket and the single-admission cost is $25...
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DePauw fails to take advantage of Denison turnovers in loss
(College Sports ~ 10/15/18)
DePauw’s defense forced five Denison turnovers, but the Tigers came up with just four field goals as the Big Red used a fourth-quarter comeback for a 20-12 North Coast Athletic Conference win. The Tigers dropped to 3-3 overall and 3-2 in the NCAC, while the Big Red improved to 4-2 overall and 4-1 in conference play...
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No. 9 Clovers play No. 7 WeBo tough before falling 3-1
(High School Sports ~ 10/15/18)
MONROVIA — The No. 7-ranked Cloverdale Clovers and the No. 9-ranked Western Boone Stars squared off in the 2A Sectional 44 championship contest Saturday evening at Monrovia. The matchup lived up to its billing as great volleyball was played, with the Stars coming out on top to win three sets to one...
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PREP ROUNDUP: Wilson wins regional XC title; Monnett, Rumley also advancing
(High School Sports ~ 10/15/18)
INDIANAPOLIS — Greencastle’s Emma Wilson won the Ben Davis Regional cross country meet for the third straight year to lead three Putnam County athletes earning advancement to Saturday’s Shelbyville Semistate. Wilson, who finished second in the event as a freshman, placed first with a time of 17:49.86 to defeat runnerup Kately Wasson of Zionsville by 38.05 seconds...
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Judith Jean Wilcox-Handy
(Obituary ~ 10/15/18)
Judith Jean Wilcox-Handy, 83, of Greencastle, passed away Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018 in her residence. Born May 30, 1935 in Greencastle, she was the daughter of Richard Parker and Virginia (Geabes) Parker. Survivors include two daughters, Jamie L. Wilcox, Greencastle, and Vickie S. Black, Greencastle; two grandchildren, Parker Thomas Black, Greencastle, and Sophia Wilcox Black, Greencastle; a sister-in-law, Carolyn Parker and her family; and several nieces and nephews...
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All’s well that ends well with Holiday Inn smoke scare
(Local News ~ 10/15/18)
CLOVERDALE -- What must have initially been a scary situation for guests at the Holiday Inn Express in Cloverdale over the weekend became an example of professionalism by hotel staff and the Cloverdale Township Fire Department. At about 8:30 p.m. Friday, an alarm went out to CTFD, indicating that a fire had possibly started at the hotel. Before firefighters arrived on the scene, hotel staff had traced the smell of smoke to the third floor of the Holiday Inn...
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