Stories from Thursday, June 21, 2007

Greencastle's yardwaste recycling center, located across from the middle school, could be one step closer to being moved outside the city limits with officials seemingly in agreement on the switch. On Monday, the Putnam County Commissioners agreed to let officials with the West Central Solid Waste District -- operators of the recycling site -- move to the county highway department property with one condition...

Specialized equipment, two new business lines, additional physicians and a website are coming to Putnam County Hospital. Hospital board members approved the purchase of new medication carts, a C-arm and a portable x-ray machine during their monthly meeting Wednesday...

Work is underway with the extensive water line project that began June 1 and is expected to run until the end of August. Midwest Trenchless Ser-vices from Grant, Mich., has been placing 10-inch fusable PVC piping inside the 12-inch, old water pipes by a fairly new process called sliplining...

Putnam County Jail Two people were booked into the Putnam County Jail recently. Greencastle Fire Dept. The Greencastle Fire Department responded to one recent run. On Wednesday: Cloverdale Twp. Fire Dept. The Cloverdale Town-ship Volunteer Fire Department responded on several runs recently...