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Here are action shots of each varsity team and senior cheerleader contestant from Saturday's Putnam County cheerleading contest.

Taking hundreds of photos at every sporting event, they all obviously never make it to print. Here are some of the ones that deserved to, but didn't. Until now.

The 10th annual Dancing with the Putnam County Stars featured the first co-champions in event history, as DuJuan Presley-McFadden and Tara Gardner tied with Andrew Ranck and Sarah Bond for the title. Additionally, dancing runner-up Jill Albers set a fundraising record with $15,909 raised.

It was April Fool's joke when a record-setting snow fell on Putnam County on April 1, setting records for a single-day snowfall in April and for an Easter Sunday.

Wabash College walked away with the Monon Bell with a 22-21 victory over DePauw University. The 2017 affair at Blackstock Stadium in Greencastle was a thriller, with the teams trading scores all day and Wabash finally taking the lead on a gutsy two-point conversion try in the fourth quarter. The host Tigers were victimized by a pair of late fumbles. After a one-year absence and a recent heist attempt, the prized trophy returns to Crawfordsville.

Emma Wilson had a great at the LaVern Gibson Championship Course on Saturday, winning the IHSAA cross country state championship.

In the works since February, South Putnam High School has finished renovating its former business lab into a modern library and its former library into an accommodating conference room and computer science classroom. Total cost for the project was less than $75,000.

Spending his 90th birthday the way he spent much of the last 60-plus years, John Wood (piano) plays a Friday-night show at the Greencastle Elks Lodge. Wood is joined on his special evening by regular John Wood Combo members Carol Hamm (bass), Bill James (saxophone and clarinet) and Donnie Hopkins (drums). The night also featured special guests such as Sandy Williams (guitar) as well as Steve Michael and Figgy Hardwick (not pictured). Longtime fans Jack and Carol Sowash were even moved enough to cut a rug for a couple of numbers.

Nine runners from Putnam County earned all-conference honors on Saturday for placing in the top 15.

After months of work, South Putnam High School's remodeled aquaculture and plant facility was ready for students, parents, and neighbors to see during an open house Sept. 8. The facility now features six production and nursery fish tanks, four research tanks, and one quarantine tank. The fish waste is circulated to the hydroponic and aeroponic plant growth systems in a recirculating aquaculture system set up by Eric Curran (a SPHS alumnus) of Falling Waters Farm. The facility also features microgreen growth and food packaging systems. "Few colleges do both (aquaculture and plant growth)," Curran said. "Many schools are starting to get into this, but they're few and far between." The updated facilities will allow students to go straight from high school to employment at Falling Waters Farm.