Stories from Saturday, June 19, 2010

PUTNAMVILLE -- Brad Sweet might be from California, but he seems to have Indiana dirt tracks down pretty good. Sweet led the final 12 laps after getting past Darren Hagen just past the halfway mark and held off a late challenge by Shane Cottle to the checkered flag. Hagen placed third ahead of Brad Kuhn and Steve Buckwalter...

Don and Sheree Blanton, along with John and Murinia Gleissner, would like to announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their children, Jamie L. Blanton and John J. Gleissner. Jamie is a 2001 graduate of South Putnam High School. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in family and consumer science education and English education in 2007 from Indiana State University. Jamie is a teacher at Avon High School...

Tony and Ann Starr of Reelsville wish to announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter Brittney Mae Starr to Robert Earl Boyd, son of Wesley and Karen Boyd of Loogootee. The bride elect is a 2004 graduate of South Putnam High School and is currently pursuing a degree in the medical field...

David and Wilma Richard will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary June 25, 2010. The couple was married in the Bainbridge Christian church on June 25, 1950. They are the parents of Gary and wife Jo Ellen of Brighton, Mich. and daughter-in-law Jenny of Danville, wife of their late son Greg. They have four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren...

Bob and Barbara Leonard will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on June 27. Family and friends are invited to an open house from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Kentland Trinity United Methodist Church, 305 East 100 S, Princeton Parkway, Kentland. Mr. Leonard and the former Barbara Glidewell were married June 10, 1960 in the chapel of the Good Shepherd of The First Christian Church in Greencastle...

GREENCASTLE -- Putnam County Prosecutor Tim Bookwalter and Sheriff Steve Fenwick presented the keys to three 2010 Dodge Charger police cars to Mayor Sue Murray and Police Chief Tom Sutherlin Thursday. "In my six years as prosecutor, I have never seen the sheriff's department and Greencastle Police Department work so well together, as they do now," said Bookwalter. "Both departments have been sharing resources and assistance to make all of Putnam County safer."...

Putnam County Jail Jennifer Castellanos, 32, Indianapolis, was booked into the Putnam County Jail at 11:31 a.m. Friday for check deception. Bruce Gibbs, 30, Richmond, was booked at 3:40 p.m. Thursday for operating a vehicle while intoxicated, driving with a suspended license, possession of alcohol as a minor and public intoxication...

GREENCASTLE -- To say the last four years of DePauw athletics have been successful would be an understatement. These four years have seen the school's only team national championship, Jordan Havercamp's game-winning kick in the 2007 Monon Bell as well as the individual achievements of Tiger athletes such as Liz Bondi, Megan Soultz and Spud Dick...