Stories from Tuesday, March 31, 2020

The Indiana Department of Transportation has announced a patching and resurfacing project will begin this week in Putnam and Clay counties. The contractor will begin overnight patching work on U.S. 231 through Greencastle on Thursday, April 2 and Friday, April 3 between the hours of 7:30 p.m. until 6 a.m., weather permitting...

The Wabash Valley Railroad Museum (WVRM) has teamed up with CSX Transportation to preserve a 98-year-old boxcar, moving it from Greencastle where it has been used for storage the past 55 years. On Tuesday, MISCO Enterprises of West Terre Haute moved boxcar NYC 155524 from Greencastle’s north side to the Wabash Valley Railroad Museum in Terre Haute...

Bernice Flanagan Grubb passed away peacefully on Saturday, March 28, 2020 at the Mill Pond Health Campus in Greencastle. She was 94. She will be long remembered as a loving wife, mother and friend. Whenever she was asked how she was doing, her response was always “I’m doing just fine!”...

At a time when first responders are putting their health and lives on the line more than ever, Jim, Laurie and Eli Hardwick post a note of thanks in front of their Northwood Boulevard home...

A Gleaners mobile food giveaway is scheduled for Saturday, April 4 in the parking lot of Greencastle Christian Church, 630 Primrose Lane. The giveaway is set for 10 a.m. until noon and will be a drive-through event...

Gloria Gould, 80, Greencastle, passed away Monday, March 30, 2020 at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis. Gloria was born in Putnam County on June 14, 1939 to Walter Glenn and Leona Robbins Gibson. She married Victor Shobe Gould on Jan. 1, 1959. She was a member of the Greencastle Church of the Nazarene...

James Albert Sage, 50, of Greencastle, passed away suddenly on Tuesday, March 31, 2020 at Putnam County Hospital. He was born April 22, 1969 in Greencastle, the son of John and Joyce (Hayman) Sage. James has been a machine operator with IAC for three years. He was an avid sprint car fan, attending every Saturday night race at Lincoln Park in Putnamville and traveling around Indiana to races for Sprint Week...

County Jail Two people were booked in the Putnam County Jail on Monday. • At 10:16 p.m. Kimberly S. Hanks, 40, Cloverdale, was lodged at the jail for driving while intoxicated. • At 5:31 p.m. Isaiah E. Craig, 21, Terre Haute, was booked in for battery...

The addition of a versatile new $600,000 pumper to the Greencastle Fire Department arsenal has made two older city-owned fire trucks obsolete. And because of that, GFD has provided the ultimate in mutual aid, selling the surplus trucks to other local volunteer departments...

CLOVERDALE -- Effectively all fire personnel in Putnam County came out Monday evening to help contain a fire which burned down a steel barn east of Cloverdale. A potentially dangerous element to this run was that ammunition stored inside was exploding in the process...

The Indiana Commission for Higher Education is encouraging all students to file the 2020-21 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) before the approaching April 15 deadline. As part of the state’s annual Cash for College campaign, the Commission is joining with INvestED Indiana to host a virtual FAFSA Frenzy event this Saturday...

Putnam County officials announced Tuesday evening that nine cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the county.