Stories from Saturday, February 9, 2013

Putnam County residents can join the fight against cancer by supporting the 2013 American Cancer Society Daffodil Days. Interested participants can purchase daffodils in several different ways such as by the bunch, a bunch with a vase, or a case of 500. Daffodils can be shared with your employees, family, friends or clients...

The Putnam County Prevention, Intervention, Education (P.I.E.) Coalition Against Substance Abuse conducted its annual meeting at Autumn Glen on Monday night. The 2012 P.I.E. grant recipients gave a brief project description and outcome report for which they were awarded and the 2013 P.I.E. grant recipients were announced...

Thanks to a gift from Asbury Towers Retirement Community and the efforts of Jared Grable and his crew at Global Construction Management, the Putnam County Senior Center has a new coffee bar with sink and cabinets in its dining area.

At 7:43 p.m. on Thursday, Christopher Johnson, 35, Poland, was booked into the Putnam County Jail for contempt of court and failure to appear. At 4:58 a.m. on Friday, Jarrod Lee Bowman, 35, Cloverdale, was arrested for operating while intoxicated with a prior conviction...

The 2013 Putnam County junior varsity boys' basketball tournament is today, (Saturday, Feb. 9) at North Putnam. The first game begins at 9 a.m. and will pit the hosts against Cloverdale. Greencastle and South Putnam will follow at 10:30 a.m. The finals will take place between the winners and begin soon after completion of the second semifinal game...

NASHVILLE -- Coming off a game where it didn't play it's best, the Greencastle girls' basketball team rebounded in the sectional semifinal with a dominating 71-35 victory over South Vermillion, setting up a showdown with Edgewood in the final tonight...

SPEEDWAY -- As the old adage says, there is a multitude of ways to remove the hide of a feline. Though the Cloverdale girls' basketball team wasn't skinning any cats in the sectional semifinal on Friday, it was trying to slow Speedway guard Allison Nash...

DePauw University alumni Timothy H. and Sharon W. Ubben have committed a $20 million gift to the university's endowment to provide financial aid for DePauw students. The gift was formally accepted by the university's Board of Trustees, which met over the weekend, President Brian W. Casey announced...

A recent threat to Putnam Superior Court Judge Denny Bridges has county officials considering beefing up security at the Putnam County Courthouse. The threat, made in January by an individual unhappy with a ruling in Bridges' court, never materialized, but it did make for a day of high alert for courthouse personnel...

TERRE HAUTE -- Authorities are investigating the circumstances surrounding a Clayton teenager who was found injured along the side of Interstate 70 early Saturday morning. At approximately 3:30 a.m., Indiana State Police and Vigo County emergency agencies responded to a report of an injured person found along the eastbound lanes of I-70 near the 12-mile marker. Passersby had reported the incident...

The Greencastle Tiger Cubs defeated Edgewood 41-39 to win the Class 3A Brown County girls basketball sectional on Saturday night.

NASHVILLE -- The Greencastle girls' basketball team is the best in its sectional. The Tiger Cubs fought off a late run by Edgewood to win the Indiana High School Athletic Association Section 28 championship on Saturday night 41-39. It is Greencastle's first sectional championship since 1993 and the first for any team from Putnam County since South Putnam won its sectional in 2005...

The Putnam County Past Presidents Extension Club will be sponsoring its annual garage sale on Saturday, March 2 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the community building at Putnam County Fairgrounds. There will be many booths offering craft items, gently used articles, food products, books and other attractions...