Stories from Sunday, November 2, 2008

BY SHANNEN HAYES Staff Writer The curtain went up Saturday and Sunday on five original plays written and presented by students at DePauw University. The plays, which were all 10 minutes in length, were staged as part of a Playwright's Festival -- a popular biannual theatre event -- held in conjunction with the university's ArtsFest 2008, which began Thursday and has an "Art and Borders" theme...

Support. Friendship. These are a couple of words that describe what Putnam County's Better Homes Extension Homemakers Club is all about. More than 25 women gathered Sunday at the Bainbridge Community Center to commemorate the club's 50th anniversary...

Professor David Tate -- known around Purdue University as the "CSI Guy" -- visited North and South Putnam high schools before giving a forensic presentation to local Purdue University Alumni recently. Chemistry students at North Putnam High School and science students at South Putnam High School listened intently as Tate explained forensic procedures like fingerprinting, ballistics, DNA, blood splatter and profilers...

Steve and Penny Taylor, Putnam County 4-H parents and club leaders, talk with former 4-H youth development educator and Putnam County Extension director Lauralee Baugh, left, at a party held in Baugh's honor at the Putnam County 4-H Fairgrounds Saturday. "It's been a great ride," said Baugh, who retired on Oct. 31. Baugh plans to stay connected with 4-H and its members, she said...

Richard D. "Buck" Riggle, 82, of Roachdale died Sunday, Nov. 2, 2008 at Hendricks Regional Health Hospital at Danville. Mr. Riggle was born June 11, 1926 at Roachdale to Charles V. and Ethel Marie Dickerson Riggle. He graduated from Roachdale High School in 1944. He later graduated from Worsham Mortuary School in Chicago...

Clark J. "Pete" Shoemaker, 83 of Crawfordsville and formerly of Russellville and Greencastle, died Tuesday, Oct. 28 at the Ben Hur Healthcare facility in Crawfordsville. Mr. Shoemaker was born Dec. 24, 1924 in Whitestown to Clark M. and Virgie L. (Pipes) Shoemaker...