Stories from Thursday, February 12, 2009

Putnam County Jail Joseph Ferran, 27, Martinsville, was booked into the Putnam County Jail at 1:18 a.m. Saturday for operating a vehicle while intoxicated and public intoxication. Angela Reese, 33, Crawfordsville, was booked at 3:03 a.m. Saturday for operating a vehicle while intoxicated, possession of marijuana and paraphernalia and operating per se...

David E. Duell, 74, of Reelsville died Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009 at the Waters of Greencastle. Born March 8, 1934 in Brazil, he was the son of David R. and Annabelle Roberts Duell. He was a 1953 graduate of Reelsville High School and had attended DePauw University. He married Donna Jean Gaddis on Oct. 25, 1968 and she preceded him in death on Feb. 21, 2000...

Teddy Eugene Sheets, 67, of Crawfordsville died on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009. He was born in the family home in Parkersburg on Feb. 14, 1941 to Arthur Edward Sheets and Clara Wanita Rollings Sheets. He lived in Parkersburg until August 2008. On March 20, 1961, he married Carolyn Sue Surber in Crawfordsville...

Helen M. Appleby, 83, of Cloverdale died Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009 at her residence. She was born on Nov. 26, 1925 in Hendricks County and was the daughter of the late Benjamine Sam and Lillie Cordie Lawson Snapp. She married George W. Appleby on Feb. 14, 1943 and he preceded her in death on Feb. 7, 2002...

The jury trial of a DePauw student facing 10 felony charges has been continued. Brittany E. Schmall, 21, of Portage, Mich., was set to go to trial on Feb. 24, but at the request if her attorney, Sidney Tongret of Greencastle, that date has been pushed back to May 5...

After several weeks of online and phone voting, the tallies are in and the local not-for-profit agencies to be featured monthly in the Banner Graphic's "Pay it Forward" initiative have been selected. January's spotlight was on United Way of Putnam County. Those to be featured in the coming months are:...

Area 30 Career Center board of directors decided at their meeting on Tuesday to cancel the contract between the center and the Generating Responsibility Through an Alternative to Suspension Placement program. GRASP is a program mandated by the school corporations through the court system for students assigned to serve an out-of-school suspension...

BAINBRIDGE -- Town Council members Richard Cope, Bonnie Osborne and Naomi Barker passed two ordinances at Wednesday's meeting requiring all cats and dogs over the age of six months that are not permanently confined in a building or structure to be sterilized and provides a definition of who owns the pets...

While reviewing the month's financial report at Wednesday's meeting, Supt. Robert Green told the Greencastle School Board he has been working with the principals in trying to cut expenses throughout the corporation. The corporation currently needs to cut about $800,000 in spending for the 2009-10 school year...

SPEEDWAY--The North Putnam Lady Cougars girls' basketball team traveled to Speedway to play the Tri-West Lady Bruins in the third game of the first round of the Class 2A, Sectional 46 Wednesday night. North Putnam knew entering the game that it would have to play a nearly perfect game against Tri-West, as the Lady Bruins entered the contest with a 13-7 season record...

By DAN SHELTON Sports Writer SPEEDWAY -- The Lady Clovers made a statement Wednesday night. They're not going to roll over for anyone in the Speedway Sectional. Cloverdale stunned the crowd at Speedway Wednesday night when it upset South Putnam 54-46 for its first sectional win in nearly ten years...

SPENCER -- Greencastle overcame a slow-tempo first half to defeat Brown County at the Class 3A Owen Valley Sectional Wednesday. Sophomore Mallory Miller provided the firepower for GHS, connecting on five 3-pointers en route to her game-high 18-point performance...