Stories from Thursday, November 21, 2019

Terry R. Steele, 64, of Cloverdale, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019. He was born March 21, 1955 in Greencastle to the late Glen and Ruth (Kinney) Steele. Terry graduated from Cloverdale High School in 1973. He was a retired construction worker and enjoyed being outdoors fishing and mushroom hunting. Terry had a soft spot in his heart for animals and loved watching Cubs baseball and IU basketball...

A Florida man was taken to a Terre Haute hospital after he lost control of his semi on Interstate 70 and plunged down an embankment, coming to rest in a creek. At about 6 a.m. Thursday, Michael D. Holliday, 61, Jacksonville, Fla., was westbound near the 35-mile marker of I-70...

A 31-year-old Greencastle man is facing voyeurism charges after it was discovered he reportedly used a planted cellphone to videotape women using the port-o-let bathrooms during the Monon Bell football game Saturday. Logan Campbell is facing charges of voyeurism, a Level 6 felony in which the alleged perpetrator “peeps”using a camera, and a Class A misdemeanor count of public voyeurism...

Bristol Watkins of Quincy is one of three winners of the Banner Graphic Halloween coloring contest.

County Jail Six people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Wednesday • At 4:33 p.m. Andrea Breanne Schwibbe, 34, Bainbridge, was housed at the jail on a warrant. • At 1:49 p.m. Timothy Warren Wagers, 33, North Salem, was booked in on a court order...

When they could be out at other gigs of their own, as many as 25 area musicians will instead be donating their time to raise money and awareness for Beyond Homeless Inc. this Saturday at Wasser Brewing Co. As a culmination to National Hunger and Homeless Awareness week, the downtown brew pub will be hosting the third annual Hope for the Homeless benefit concert from 7-10 p.m. with a number of special guests highlighting the bill...

Tired of losing police, fire and other personnel to better-paying municipalities, the Greencastle City Council has commissioned a salary study. On a split vote, the Council agreed to engage the marketing research firm New Focus to undertake a study of the salaries of six or seven communities. Cities such as Plainfield, Avon, Brownsburg, Crawfordsville, Danville, Bluffton and Angola were listed as possibilities...

Lexi Vanihel is a senior at South Putnam and participates in basketball. ——— Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? Lexi Vanihel: “Sports have been my whole life, and I’ve learned so much from them — things like character building, how to be a leader and how to determine what is important for a person to be.”...

Four Tigers have been selected all-North Coast Athletic Conference Football second team in voting by the league’s coaches. Right tackle Nick LaChapelle (Sr., Cincinnati, Ohio/Moeller) was DePauw’s lone selection on the offensive team after anchoring a line that ranked fourth in the conference by allowing 2.1 sacks per contest...

The coaches: Matthew Langdon is in his ninth year at Cloverdale. Brian Gardner is in his fifth year at South Putnam. On the air: WREB-FM 94.3 will broadcast the game. So far: Cloverdale beat Riverton Parke 68-35, lost 54-39 to South Putnam, beat Clay City 50-35 and defeated Shakamak 47-38. South Putnam beat South Vermillion 61-38 and Cloverdale 54-39 before losing 49-45 to Edgewood...

CLOVERDALE — The closest local race of the 2019 municipal election may not be over just yet. Based on Election Day tabulations, incumbent Cloverdale Clerk-Treasurer Cheryl Galloway defeated challenger Vanessa Carr by just two votes, 143-141. However, Carr is challenging the outcome of the election, filing a petition for a recount in Putnam Circuit Court on Tuesday — the final day such a request could have been made...

ROACHDALE -- Continuing a line of success in the art department at North Putnam High School, another Putnam County art student has been recognized at the national level. Junior Curtis Matthias was recently honored as a national finalist for his poster celebrating National Poetry Month, which takes place every April...

Cloverdale will look to defend its Putnam County girls’ basketball championship tonight when the No. 12-ranked Clovers meet the host South Putnam Eagles at 6 p.m. Greencastle will play North Putnam in the second game. Tonight’s winners will meet in the 6 p.m. consolation game on Saturday, and the winners play for the title at 7:30 p.m...