Stories from Wednesday, June 20, 2007

CLOVERDALE -- If walls could talk, they would speak volumes at a historic log cabin currently undergoing restoration just outside of Cloverdale. The tiny, one-room structure, which historians believe was built around 1850, is nestled peacefully against a backdrop of wooded hillsides and rolling meadows about 3 miles southeast of Cloverdale...

A tentative budget to get the new county 911 Emergency Operations Center started has received the approval of the Putnam County Council. The next step will be acceptance of bids for sitework at the EOC's new location, adjacent to the county highway garage west of Greencastle...

A tentative budget to get the new county 911 Emergency Operations Center started has received the approval of the Putnam County Council. The next step will be acceptance of bids for sitework at the EOC's new location, adjacent to the county highway garage west of Greencastle...

Fillmore resident Brenda Blakey Croan is proud to have published three books about her upbringing in a Virginia salt mining town built on land once owned by Patrick Henry. "I think of myself as a cross between Laura Ingalls and Loretta Lynn," claims the feisty author, who lives with her husband Charlie on their farm east of Greencastle...

Putnam County Jail Four people were booked into the Putnam County Jail recently. * Shawn Hornaday, 24, Indianapolis, was booked in at 6:39 p.m. Tuesday for invasion of privacy and a petition to revoke probation. He was arrested by Greencastle Officer Ed Wilson...

CLOVERDALE -- Beads of sweat, tinged with the dust of the last 50 years, gleamed on Lee Stewart's forehead as he stood in the doorway of an 1850s log cabin nestled in the wooded hills of southeastern Putnam County. Tightening his hand around the end of a pry bar, he crouched down in the cool dampness of the one-room cabin and began to loosen a slender strip of knotty pine from the wall in front of him. Crack! Pop!...