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Four Putnam County high school seniors have been named as finalists for the Putnam County Community Foundation's 2019 Lilly Endowment Community Scholar. The prestigious award annually goes to an outstanding graduating high school senior in Putnam County. The Lilly Endowment Community Scholar will be awarded a full-tuition scholarship, including a $900 book stipend per year, for four years to any accredited school in Indiana...

In the fall of 2017, the biggest issue facing Putnam County government was that of ambulance coverage. The issue has been back on the minds of residents again in recent months with the announcement that Putnam County Operation Life has reduced its ambulance staffing levels from three full-time ambulances to two...

Two of the state’s top 27 rushers met at Greencastle on Friday night. Tiger Cub standout Damon Moody entered the game ranked 15th in rushing yards with 1,348, while Edgewood’s Levon Bellemy was 27th with 1,204 yards. Yet neither was the game’s leading rusher, as Greencastle’s Gavin Bollman took advantage of an increased workload and ran for 111 yards and two touchdowns to pace the Tiger Cubs to a 34-6 rout of Edgewood in the Western Indiana Conference third-place game...

NEW MARKET — Survive and advance is the ancient mantra of tournament play in any sport. Greencastle’s volleyball team did exactly that on Thursday evening, overcoming a letdown in the second set to record a 3-1 win over Lebanon and advance to Saturday’s semifinals of the Class 3A Southmont Sectional...

EDINBURGH -- A Cloverdale man and a backseat passenger died late Monday night when the SUV he was driving was hit by a train. The crash sent a third occupant of the vehicle to an Indianapolis hospital with serious injuries. The investigation by Trooper Korry Clark indicated that a 1996 Jeep Cherokee driven by Joshua L. Kelso, 30, Cloverdale, was traveling eastbound on County Road 900 North near County Road 250 East in Bartholomew County...

NEW MARKET — Greencastle’s sectional championship volleyball match against Southmont on Saturday night following the same script as the entire regular season for the defending champion Tiger Cubs. Fortunately for coach Maggie Walters and her team, this script had a happy ending and concluded with the Cubs claiming first place for the second straight year...

Tori Combs is a senior at Cloverdale and participates in volleyball, basketball and softball BG: How long have you been playing your three sports and what have you learned from them? TC: “Life would be really boring if sports didn’t exist. I obviously go all year-round, and I would probably weigh about 500 pounds if I didn’t do anything. ...

CLOVERDALE -- With no major items on its agenda, the Cloverdale Schools Board of Trustees recognized the service work of high school students and faculty during its monthly meeting Monday evening. On Oct. 5 from noon until about 3 p.m., Cloverdale High School and community members organized the second annual Service Learning Project, which is aimed at helping clean up homes and businesses in the community...

A Greencastle woman sustained serious injuries Wednesday afternoon when she was ejected from her SUV in a single-vehicle crash on State Road 240. Shortly before 2 p.m., Abigail Steinmetz, 22, was westbound in the area of Suburban Propane in a 2004 Ford Explorer...

For the second consecutive year, chef John Hecko and the staff at Bon Appetit receive the Taste of Putnam County Golden Plate Award from the Greater Greencastle Chamber of Commerce, accepting the annual honor at DePauw University’s Hoover Dining Hall as winners of the best food voting selected by those attending the recent event on the courthouse square.

Unfolding more like a recap, rerun or return engagement, the October meeting of the Greencastle City Council was like a case of deja vu all over again. After all, three ordinances were revisited and adopted on second and final readings. The tax abatement issue for Heartland Automotive (covered in a previous story) was not only initiated last month but went through a public hearing at the outset of Thursday’s meeting before final adoption, while a number of other issues were addressed for more than the first time.. ...

There was a lot of eye candy to take in Friday afternoon on the square after it was briefly overtaken with Porsches of various models.

"The absence of a hate crimes bill in Indiana speaks much more loudly than any of us would like," DePauw University President D. Mark McCoy told Hoosier lawmakers Wednesday morning. McCoy addressed the Interim Study Committee on Corrections and the Criminal Code, a group of state senators and representatives, at a hearing to consider testimony on the possible creation of hate crimes legislation for the state. The session took place at the Indiana State Capitol at Indianapolis...

CLOVERDALE -- With no major items on its agenda, the Cloverdale Schools Board of Trustees recognized the service work of high school students and faculty during its monthly meeting Monday evening. On Oct. 5 from noon until about 3 p.m., Cloverdale High School and community members organized the second annual Service Learning Project, which is aimed at helping clean up homes and businesses in the community...

“This building could simply not be named for anyone else,” Timothy H. Ubben said as he introduced Bob Bottoms, the 18th president of DePauw University, at a dedication ceremony Friday afternoon for the Robert G. Bottoms Alumni and Development Center...