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Davies excited to continue football career for Trine Thunder
(College Sports ~ 05/27/19)
BAINBRIDGE – Evan Davies wanted to continue his football career after high school, and he also wanted to study engineering. The recent North Putnam graduate, who quarterbacked the Cougars to the sectional championship game last fall, filled both desires when he signed with Trine University earlier this year...
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Duke Energy cautions Hoosiers to guard against utility scammers
(Local News ~ 05/27/19)
PLAINFIELD – Duke Energy is warning its customers in Indiana to be on guard against phone calls from utility scammers who are demanding that customers pay their electric bill immediately or risk having their electric service disconnected within the hour...
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Collaboration highlights Summer Music Festival Wednesday
(Local News ~ 05/27/19)
The Greencastle Summer Music Festival continues its weekly series of 7:30 p.m. Wednesday free concerts on May 29 in Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church with “Musical Mosaic,” a performance by cellist Eric Edberg and pianist Claude Cymerman, both emeritus professors of the DePauw School of Music, and joined by cellist Peter Kim, a 2017 DePauw graduate, in two of the works...
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Brazil Concert Band sets opening night June 2
(Local News ~ 05/27/19)
BRAZIL -- The Brazil Concert Band, now in its 161st year of continuous music making, will present “Opening Night 2019” in Forest Park, rain or shine, Sunday, June 2 at 8 p.m. The BCB with Director Matthew S. Huber will offer a wide variety of music from classic band literature, Broadway gems and those ever-popular marches by John Philip Sousa and Karl L. King...
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Invasive species education and control efforts planned
(Local News ~ 05/27/19)
Do you know what an invasive species is? It is a plant or organism that is not native to our environment, and one that can cause (or is likely to cause) harm to our environment, economy and/or human health. Several different invasive species currently exist in Putnam County and the surrounding area, including autumn olive, garlic mustard, Japanese honeysuckle and purple loosestrife to name a few...
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Nice Choice
(Local News ~ 05/27/19)
Winners of a recent drawing in the Cloverdale Middle School C.H.O.I.C.E program are (from left) seventh-grader Aleah Harris and fifth-graders Asyria Ford and Kenneth Latham.
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Putnam Scanner for May 28, 2019
(Police Logs ~ 05/27/19)
City Fire The Greencastle Fire Department responded to nine recent dispatches: • At 10:14 a.m. on Friday, GFD was dispatched to 505 S. Jackson St. for a fire alarm. Firefighters arrived at 10:16 and found that water had leaked into a detector’s wiring and caused the alarm. DePauw Public Safety was called to repair the detector, and GFD reset the alarm. GFD left at 10:25 a.m...
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Beginning a New Chapter
(Local News ~ 05/27/19)
With a ceremony that highlighted the importance of home and the bonds forged between peers, South Putnam High School held its commencement exercises for the class of 2019 Saturday afternoon...
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Pomp and Circumstance
(Local News ~ 05/27/19)
Cloverdale High School graduate and band member Allison Speas takes part in the senior tradition of directing the band during commencement ceremonies.
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So Many Paths
(Local News ~ 05/27/19)
With class president Mary Timm pointing out that “100 different paths” got North Putnam graduates to Saturday’s commencement, her classmates display those paths, from loafers of Marcus Burdine to the “well-loved” work boots of Blake Boyer and the colorful heels of Kayla Bray and Emma Blanford thrown in for good measure.
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Commencing with Life
(Local News ~ 05/27/19)
Joining with nearly 300 Putnam County students who officially completed their high school educations on Saturday, North Putnam graduate Taegan Abney (above left) laughs at Zachary Koll’s valedictory speech.
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BENNETT’S MINUTES: Several foes win in baseball, softball
(Sports Column ~ 05/27/19)
While Putnam County teams were only able to compile a combined 2-8 record in baseball and softball sectional play last week, several opponents of county squads were able to win sectional titles and move on to regional action. Softball Most notably, Northview won what had to be the toughest 3A softball sectional in the state at Owen Valley...
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County athletes succeed in WIC middle school meets
(High School Sports ~ 05/27/19)
South Putnam’s girls’ 4x100 relay team won the Western Indiana Conference championship earlier this month to highlight Putnam County performances. The Eagles’ team of Bailey Brickert, Audrey Richardson, Josie Teipen and Hanna Teipen captured first as the Eagles finished fourth as a team...
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GCSC seeks school board applicants
(Local News ~ 05/27/19)
The search begins now for applicants to finish out the last three years of a Greencastle School Board appointment. With the recent announcement of the resignation of board member Lisa McCoy, effective June 30, the school board has about two months to find a replacement for the next three years until the term is up on June 30, 2022...
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New bandshell officially opens with first ParkFest of 2019
(Local News ~ 05/27/19)
For 25 years, the music and not the building has been the main attraction during the ParkFest summer concert series. But for tonight only, the stage itself will take center stage. A 6:30 p.m. ribbon-cutting ceremony is planned for the new Robe-Ann Park bandshell, which was completed in late 2018...
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Memorial Memories
(Local News ~ 05/27/19)
With children gathered round in search of their annual piece of Memorial Day, American Legion Post 58 member Bob Tyler gives a shell casing to one boy Monday at Forest Hill Cemetery.
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Myra Jane Hutcheson
(Obituary ~ 05/27/19)
Myra Jane Hutcheson, 87, of Greencastle, passed away on Sunday, May 26, 2019 at Putnam County Hospital. Myra was born on December 23, 1931, the daughter of Carl Leonard and Beulah May (Sears) Twigg. She attended Greencastle High School. Mrs. Hutcheson worked for many years as a nurse’s aide with Eventide Nursing Home, Hickory Creek Nursing Home and the Putnam County Hospital...
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