Stories from Sunday, December 23, 2007

State auditors have found problems in the Putnam County Sheriff's Department Commissary Fund every year Mark Frisbie has been sheriff. Spending from the account has more than doubled under his watch and past State Board of Accounts audits show that Frisbie took at least two years to correct most problems investigators pointed out in the Commissary Fund and other Sheriff's Department accounts...

All of the rugged and burly men standing in the lobby of Buzzi Unicem Friday could not have kept 11-year-old Colton Adams away from his new electric keyboard. As soon as he saw it, he tore it out of its box with all of the fury of Christmas morning and began pounding on the keys and pushing every button he could get his fingers on...

With less than a week left in 2007, Greencastle city and township officials have finally reached an agreement for fire protection for next year. Contract completed, residents of Greencastle Township, whose homes are outside the city limits, are ensured fire protection from the Greencastle Fire Department for yet another year. But like in recent years, officials have been slow to come to an agreement on various aspects of the contract -- and in the case of this year, two contracts...

Othal Pauline "Polly" Mitchell, 83, Greencastle, died Saturday morning. Born in Marion County, she was the daughter of Clyde Emmett Cassner and Pearl Elizabeth) Snyder Daniels. She had worked as a cook at the Bainbridge school and then at North Putnam High School for 26 years...