Stories from Thursday, June 25, 2020

With COVID-19 having already negatively impacted the 2019-20 budget at DePauw, the university is likely to face an even more substantial shortfall in the coming academic year. In a Monday memo to staff and faculty, Vice President for Academic Affairs Dave Berque and Vice President for Finance and Administration Bob Leonard laid out the situation the university is facing as well as some measures to make up for the shortfall...

For some reason I’ve been thinking a lot about my grandfather lately. It’s probably due to a combination of several things. First, my sister called recently to advise that she and I have inherited four cemetery plots in Elmhurst, Ill., near where we used to live...

With no new local cases of COVID-19 reported in Putnam County for Wednesday, Putnam County has now gone nine days with just one new diagnosis. Data from the Indiana State Department of Health shows that since two new cases were reported on Monday, June 15, the county has had just one additional diagnosis, on Monday, June 22...

With two city projects meeting their targeted spring construction start-ups recently, they’re ready to roll along now that it’s summer, Mayor Bill Dory told the Greencastle Redevelopment Commission at its June meeting Wednesday evening. The projects have the same contractor in common with Frank Feutz Construction, Paris, Ill., doing the work on both the Calbert Way extension project and the Zinc Mill Road widening and upgrade...

It isn’t often a school board bids adieu to a superintendent and a veteran board member in the same meeting. However, toasting retiring Supertintendent Jeff Hubble and board member Bill Tobin was far from the only feting going on at Monday’s meeting of the Greencastle School Board...

Rita (Bowling) Wait, age 66, of Greencastle, passed away Wednesday, June 24, 2020. She was born Sept. 7, 1953 to the late Rufus and Donna (Napier) Bowling. Rita married Richard Wait on Nov. 21, 1980 and he preceded her in death on Aug. 5, 2010. She is survived by her sons Scotty Bradley Wait and Timothy Paul Wait; sister Doris K. Murello; one brother; sister-in-law Helena Bowling; and granddaughter Donna Wait...

BRICK CHAPEL — While it always helps to be in the right place at the right time, the actions of a Putnam County sheriff’s deputy got a driver and his pet out of their vehicle just before it was destroyed by fire Wednesday evening. Deputy Jeffery Freeman was northbound on U.S. 231 near County Road 350 North when he noticed an oncoming 2005 Dodge Neon with flames coming from the undercarriage...

Nancy Jane Livesay, 85, of Greencastle, passed away Thursday, June 24, 2020, at Mill Pond Rehabilitation Center. Nancy was born in Clinton County on April 21, 1935, the daughter of Ira Estel and Dena Clair (Scobee) Rowings. She was a 1954 graduate of Bainbridge High School. She also attended Butler University and Purdue University...

Patricia Lynn Clements, 71, Greencastle, entered the heavenly realm on June 24, 2020 with her loving family at her side. Patty was born in Greencastle on Aug. 22, 1948, the daughter of Delbert and Lucille (Roach) White. She was a 1966 graduate of Greencastle High School...

The board of directors of the Putnam County Hospice and Palliative Care Association (PCHPCA) have announced a free advanced care planning (ACP) facilitator training for practitioners in Putnam County. The training is Respecting Choices’ First Steps ACP facilitator certification. It is designed for professionals and health-care providers (nurses, health educators, physicians and social workers), clergy, attorneys and others involved in advanced care planning facilitation...

With the help of devoted donors, the South Putnam Community Education Foundation will continue to award scholarships and teacher grants for the end of 2020 and beyond. Regretfully, the organization was not being able to sponsor the 2020 South Putnam Alumni Banquet but still wants to recognize its special winners...

Walmart hourly associates in Indiana received another special cash bonus in their paychecks Thursday, adding up to more than $10.6 million statewide. The latest bonus – the third in less than three months – awards $300 to full-time hourly associates and drivers, $150 to part-time hourly and temporary associates and $400 to assistant managers. ...

Marshall W. Reavis IV, Class of 1984, will receive DePauw University’s most prestigious alumni award for 2020, the Old Gold Goblet. Nicole Pence Becker, a 2006 graduate, is set to receive the Young Alumni Award for “an alumnus or alumna under the age of 40 who has demonstrated leadership in career and civic associations and has shown strong loyalty to DePauw University.”...

ROACHDALE -- Beginning its monthly session half an hour later than usual, the North Putnam School Board tackled three issues which saw further disagreement. First, the board approved one-year contract extensions for North Putnam’s school building administrators. However, there was less of a consensus in approving limited term contracts for Director of Operations Terry Tippin and Athletic Director Roger Busch...

Eight people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Thursday • At 12:58 a.m. Greggory W. Harris, 29, Cloverdale, was lodged at the jail for probation violation. Wednesday • At 2 p.m. Amber N. Dreiman, 36, Cloverdale, was taken into custody on a court order...

Tickets are now on sale www.usactickets.com for the next three upcoming USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship events in the state of Indiana. The four races include the 50th running of the Tony Hulman Classic at the Terre Haute Action Track on Wednesday, July 1, followed by two straight nights of the Bill Gardner Sprintacular at Lincoln Park Speedway in Putnamville on Friday, July 3, and Saturday, July 4 — both of which are co-sanctioned by the Midwest Sprint Car Series...

Recent North Putnam graduate Lucius Alexander chose Elmhurst College near Chicago to continue his education and football career this fall — in that order. Alexander, who tied for 18th in the state in interceptions last fall with six, will study to be a math teacher and really likes the program available in that area...

Following an outstanding South Putnam swimming career in which she won several championships and set school records, recent Eagle graduate Evvie Timberman will continue her athletic and academic careers at Bethel College in northern Indiana. Bethel is an NAIA school located in Mishawaka which is moving this year into the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference as an associate member...

Jordan Vaughn did not play high school basketball while attending South Putnam in the first four years of this century, but is a long-time fan of the sport and has a huge interest in its history. To help promote the history of Putnam County basketball, as well as to find answers to questions he has not yet solved, Vaughn has created a Facebook group titled “Putnam County Basketball: Then & Now.”...