When city department heads provide their monthly reports to the Greencastle City Council, there’s generally a gem or two to be culled from within the myriad of statistics. For example, the recent Greencastle Utilities report shows that the Water Department pumps an average of 1,344,908 gallons per day...

A Greencastle woman was killed in a high-speed single-vehicle crash which occurred northeast of the city Tuesday morning. At about 10:20 a.m., emergency personnel were dispatched to the railroad bridge near the intersection of Albin Pond Road and County Road 100 East for an accident with injuries...

MONROVIA -- At approximately 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Hendricks County deputies were dispatched to a truck stop at State Road 39 and Interstate 70 regarding a person with a gunshot wound to the lower leg. The preliminary investigation indicates that the incident began as a road rage incident while the suspect and victim vehicles were traveling eastbound on I-70 near the 57-mile marker, west of State Road 39...

The Putnam County Public Library Board presented its budget for next year at its regular meeting Wednesday evening. The more notable items set out in the budget are those set for full-time and part-time assistants, group insurance, furniture and equipment and the Rainy Day Fund...

Thirty-six separate segments of city sidewalk are due for upgrades in the 2021 Greencastle Sidewalk Project. Although a number of bidders picked up the bid packets on what was determined, according to engineers’ estimates, to be a $124,495 project, Joe Spiker Excavating of Greencastle was the lone bidder...