Stories from Thursday, April 20, 2006

By JASON MOON Assistant Editor Even though Putnam County Hospital's new Obstetrics and Gynecology wing has only been open for six days, it's been a busy place. At Wednesday's hospital board meeting, PCH head nurse Joannie Perkins told the five board members in attendance that the first baby was born in the new wing the first day of operations, which was April 14...

Officials with Ivy Tech Community College say they are still on target to construct a new Greencastle campus by 2010 despite a brief setback in the planning earlier this year. Ivy Tech Region 7 Chancellor Jeff Pittman, with the Terre Haute campus, said Wednesday that Ivy Tech's board of trustees recently handed down its list of projects to complete in the next 10 years and that Greencastle had moved up to second position behind Fort Wayne...

The fifth-annual Granny Bike Ride for Cancer will take place on Aug. 26. The race starts and ends at The Pub in the Cunot area. Registration for the event will begin at 10:30 a.m. on Aug. 26 with the last rider going out at noon. After the ride, there will be dinner and an auction...

If all goes according to plan, homeowners in the Parker Subdivision may soon be connecting to the Cloverdale sewer lines. "We still need some sort of sanitary," Parker Subdivision representative Bill Cope told the Cloverdale Town Council Wednesday...