On Thursday, Allen and Peggy Royer will be honored by the local Soil and Water Conservation District for two reasons. On one hand, Allen spent more than four decades working for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, much of it as the district forester serving Putnam County and other surrounding counties, before he retired last summer...

After listening and observing what his father Jim experienced over eight years in office, representing Indiana House District 44, freshman Rep. Beau Baird shouldn’t be too surprised by anything the state legislature throws at him. But two things “kind of shocked me,” Baird said Saturday during opening comments at the first of three 2019 Legislative Update programs sponsored by the Putnam County Farm Bureau...

Candidates for the royal court at Friday night’s 2019 Winter Homecoming at Cloverdale High School.

CLOVERDALE – The McDonald’s restaurant at 1033 N. Main St. in Cloverdale is inviting guests to experience McDonald’s in a new way with a greater level of choice, engagement and service. The changes are reflective of a new and innovative restaurant model that has been successfully rolled out in more than 2,600 McDonald’s restaurants around the world and puts more choice and control in the hands of guests by evolving how they order, what they order, how they pay and how they are served...