Stories from Monday, June 6, 2011

Greencastle High School will be hosting a Lift-A-Thon on Saturday at 8 a.m. in McAnally Center for GHS student-athletes. Those athletes involved will be collecting pledges for your support. Another way a person can show support is by attending this event, as it will be open to the public...

BLOOMINGTON -- Greencastle sophomore Colleen Weatherford not only battled her competitors in the 800-meter run, but the heat at the IHSAA State Finals Saturday at Indiana University. Weatherford walked away from the race with a seventh place finish on a day where the heat claimed more than its fair share of runners...

FERDINAND -- A long drive to the Southern part of Indiana brings 2A No. 2 South Putnam's softball squad to within touching distance of a state championship. The Eagles' trip to Ferdinand netted them two wins in the IHSAA 2A South Semi-State and a trip to the 2A State Championship Game this Saturday at Ben Davis High School...

The Greencastle Summer Music Festival continues Wednesday evening at 7:30 p.m. in the sanctuary of Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church with a performance by DePauw School of Music faculty members Anne Reynolds (flute), Randy Salman (clarinet) and Leonid Sirotkin (oboe). There is no admission charged but donations will be accepted...

An early morning crowd celebrated the Putnam County Community Foundation's 2011 spring grant awards Friday in the Community Room of Area 30, where it was announced that $93,000 was awarded from the Community Foundation's unrestricted and field of interest endowments...

FILLMORE -- As the Town of Fillmore continues reworking its nuisance ordinance, the new document will not contain a decibel limit on noise, according to the town council president. President Wes Terhune said at Thursday's meeting he could not find a number that would be fair to all the people of the town. While some neighbors want a noise limit to curtail activity at a motorcycle track north of Hendricks Street, Terhune said there is no good way to do so...

ROACHDALE -- Knowing his students from A to Z is special to North Putnam High School's Alan Zerkel perhaps because his own initials are A.Z. He's sensitive no doubt to the old axiom "the last (especially alphabetically) shall be first." But more likely it's because he cares about them and wants to show it...

Avis Plummer, 93, Rockville, died Saturday, June 4, 2011 in the Waters of Clinton. She was a homemaker. She was born Aug. 10, 1917 in Jefferson Township, Putnam County to the late John William Cooper and Pearl Clearwaters Cooper. Her husband of 54 years, Russel Plummer, whom she married January 12, 1936 in Marshall, Ill., died Nov. 16, 1990...

All Greencastle High School alumni are invited to the GHS All-Class Dinner, scheduled for Saturday, June 25 at the Dixie Chopper Business Center at the Putnam County Airport. Cost of the dinner/dance is $25 per person. Music will be provided by the John Wood Combo and The Chiggers...

Merl and Marjorie (Pettit) Grimes celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on Sunday, June 5. Mr. and Mrs. Grimes have five children, Susie Brown, Becky Bond and husband Rodney, Debra Wood and husband Loren, David Grimes and wife Faye and Martha Knoebel and husband James, all of Greencastle. They have nine grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren...

Sharon Lee Maxwell, 72, Indianapolis, passed away Friday, March 3, 2011. She was born June 17, 1938 in Indianapolis. She is survived by a daughter, Kimber Lee Langebartels; four grandchildren, J.J., Amy, Kay and Julie Langebartels; and two sisters, Beverly Cavin and Gloria Cole...