Stories from Wednesday, February 20, 2013

The Putnam County Planning Commission and the Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) recently honored Larry Jones (left) for his 31 years of outstanding service to the community. Jones, a Roachdale resident, began serving on the planning commission in 1981 and made the decision to leave both the BZA and the planning commission after deciding it could use some younger blood. ...

Putnam County Museum has announced the opening of the 2013 Student Art Show. The opening is scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 23. Prizes, certificates and acknowledgments will be awarded at 11:30. On display are more than 100 pieces of art crafted by students in grades K-12 and representing all four county school systems as well as home school students...

Starting this weekend, McCloud Nature Park will be hosting the third annual McCloud Maple Syrup Days, which runs for two weekends, Saturdays and Sundays, Feb. 23-24 and March 2-3. Various maple syrup-making demonstrations such as Native American and pioneer methods, hands-on tree tapping practice and maple tree identification pointers will be on-going...

Dr. Jun Yang, a Fulbright Scholar from China, will present his views on entrepreneurship and business start-ups in America and China during two presentations on Thursday, Feb. 21 in Greencastle. The first presentation is at 1 p.m. at the Greencastle campus of Ivy Tech Community College, 915 S. Zinc Mill Rd...

Students and parents can get help with financial aid paperwork and the process at a financial aid workshop on Monday, Feb. 25 at Ivy Tech Community College, 915 S. Zinc Mill Rd., Greencastle. The free program will be offered in Room G114 from 4-6 p.m...

County Jail A number of people were booked into the Putnam County Jail recently. At 1:45 p.m. on Monday, Billy Lee Jones, 36, Cloverdale, was arrested for probation violation. At 5 p.m. Sara Elizabeth Beaman, 30, Bainbridge, was lodged at the jail for violation of home detention...

District 44 State Rep. Jim Baird (R-Greencastle) addressed the Indiana House to recognize national Future Farmers of America (FFA) Week which began on Saturday. "Indiana has a long, storied history in providing a bountiful harvest from the heartland, and the FFA is dedicated to furthering the tradition," Rep. Baird said in addressing fellow legislators at the Statehouse on Monday...

Bobbie Lancaster has traveled the country performing as a singer-songwriter, but she's found her true purpose in writing songs of praise for The Lord. As she begins work on her new gospel/praise album, her church family at Greencastle Christian Church has decided to walk alongside her...

PUTNAMVILLE -- On Monday, 174 offenders were recognized for their successful completion of the spiritual and character-based Purposeful Living Unit Serve (PLUS) program at the Putnamville Correctional Facility (PCF). The ceremony commenced with a welcome and opening remarks by PCF Superintendent Stanley Knight followed by an introduction of the keynote speaker by Beckie Bennett, assistant superintendent of re-entry at the correctional facility...

ROACHDALE -- After the tragic house fire that claimed the lives of three members of the Wiggins family Sunday morning, the town of Roachdale has been showing its support. Jodie Clodfelter of the business Shabby-n-Sheek will be hosting a walk and ride in honor of the Wiggins family Sunday, Feb. 24, starting at 8 a.m...

The veterans committee at the International Automotive Components (IAC) plant in Greencastle has dedicated a hallway to the veterans that work there. Artist Stephen Edwards took several ideas that the committee had come up with and ran with them. Edwards and the committee's ideas resulted in a hallway that depicts national monuments seen in Washington, D.C., and pulling words from some of President Abraham Lincoln's speeches...

CRAWFORDSVILLE -- The North Putnam boys' basketball team made the final trek of the regular season north to take on the North Montgomery Chargers. The boys battled hard but the Chargers held the upper hand the entire night taking the game 70-50. The Cougars got off to a poor start and that set the tone for the rest of the night...

The moments just after halftime is a time most take for granted -- except if you're on the court or the sideline. Teams know those first few moments can sometimes make you or break you and the Greencastle boys' squad learned that lesson the hard way...

In three games against Wittenberg this year, the DePauw men's basketball team has scored 200 points to Wittenbergs' 191. DPU entered the North Coast Athletic Conference as the No. 4 seed; Wittenberg the five. They had identical overall records. The two sets of Tigers are remarkably evenly matched...

The last time the Hiram College women's basketball team played at DePauw, it fell behind 29-0. Things weren't quite as bad Tuesday, as the Tigers scored just the game's first 14 points, but the final outcome was just as expected. Top-ranked DPU won its North Coast Athletic Conference opener over Hiram 72-35...

Every team in Indiana wants to go into the Indiana High School Athletic Association boys' basketball state tournament riding a wave of momentum. South Putnam will certainly be doing that as the Eagles closed the season by winning six of their last eight games, including Tuesday night's season finale against North Vermillion, 64-28...

The DePauw University men's tennis team lost to Southern Indiana on Wednesday, 7-2. The host Tigers picked up wins at No. 2 doubles and No. 2 singles. "We competed well and had a lot of close matches," DPU coach Scott Riggle said. On Monday both the men's and women's team got wins over Olivet Nazarene. The women won 8-1, with wins at all but No. 2 singles, and the men won 7-2, losing just No. 1 singles and doubles...