Stories from Wednesday, June 29, 2011

The South Putnam Eagles claimed the 2011 Class 2A softball title this year and was perfect in the West Central Conference as well as county play. Thus the Eagles led the 2011 All Putnam County team with five selections, with Greencastle and North Putnam adding three each and Cloverdale having two...

County Jail James Lee Blankenship, 26, Poland: Possession of precursors, sale of methamphetamine, possession of methamphetamine, June 26, 8:45 a.m. David Dale Brand, 38, Greencastle: Burglary (2 counts), theft, conspiracy to commit theft, June 24, 10:29 p.m...

PUTNAMVILLE -- Graduates of the Putnamville Correctional Facility's Inside Out Dads program recently presented Reelsville Elementary School representative Angie Nichols with a donation. In the presence of their children, family and staff, the 30 graduates were awarded certificates for successful completion of the Inside Out Dads program on Friday, June 24...

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Putnam County Foundation and as part of the Silver Anniversary League of donors, the family of the late Charles A. Jones has established the Charles A. Jones Family Endowment. The unrestricted community endowment will provide discretionary funds to the Putnam County Community Foundation...

In its fifth year at Big Walnut Sports Park in Greencastle, the local leg of the Challenger Sports British Soccer camp has come a long way. The coaches for the camp have come even farther. The camp brings young soccer coaches/instructors from England on a tour of various towns across the United States. ...

From the opening bars of John Paul Keith's "Never Could Say No," the opening track on his latest record "The Man That Time Forgot," it's clear the record's a keeper. A cranked-up mix of rockabilly and garage rock, it opens the album the way a show should open -- get things moving...

If you lined up all the famous quotes in history -- from "Friends, Romans, countrymen ..." to "Four score and seven years ago" to "I'll have what she's having" -- perhaps the most important of them all actually encompasses all the others ... "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."...