Stories from Monday, March 4, 2013

REELSVILLE -- A one-vehicle Crash in Washington Township has seriously injured a former mayor of Terre Haute and killed her husband. Judy Anderson, who served as mayor of Terre Haute from 2000-2004, was airlifted to an Indianapolis hospital following the crash. Her husband Brent, the car's driver, was killed in the crash.

The DePauw University Chorus and DePauw Chambers Singers, conducted by Prof. Gregory Ristow, will join forces for a concert on Thursday, March 7 beginning at 7:30 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium of the Green Center for Performing Arts. The program pairs three Psalm settings with several American compositions and arrangements of traditional spirituals. The singers will be accompanied Thursday night by pianists Amanda Hopson and John Clodfelter...

Where can youth learn life skills and work to master knowledge by selecting from more than 70 topics that include shooting sports, scrap booking, photography, sewing, aerospace, ATV safety, small engines and model building crafts? The answer is 4-H! Enrollment forms may be found on the Purdue Extension Putnam County website listed below and new this year are the two projects recreation and sports fishing...

A trio of original plays written by three DePauw University students will be presented March 7-10 by the DePauw Theatre. "Battle, Baby, Bird: New Works by DePauw Playwrights" includes "Potato, Potato (Po-tay-toe, Po-tah-toe)", written by senior Will Freske; "The Curse," by senior Amanda Feller; and "Hawk," which is the work of junior Elise Lockwood...

Do you like to build with Legos? Do you have like kits or original designs? The Greencastle Parks and Recreation Department's Brick Mania Challenge 2013 Lego display contest is set for Thursday, March 7. The contest is free to enter. Entries will be judged in two categories, Kits or Original Creations. Each category will have several divisions for age or group...

The Putnam County Public Library will present a Cash for College program titled Financial Aid 101 on Wednesday, March 6, beginning at 6 p.m. Craig Slaughter, director of financial aid at DePauw University, will present a session for college-bound students who are looking for answers to questions about the financial aid process...

The Putnam County 4-H Horse and Pony Club's annual Tack Auction and Chili Supper fundraiser is set for Sunday, March 10 at the Putnam County Fairgrounds. The chili supper will start at noon with the tack auction set to start at 1 p.m. New tack will be provided for the sale by Todd Yundt...

CLOVERDALE -- The Cloverdale High School FFA is seeking support for the 2013 Monsanto Chapter Challenge, adviser Tiffany Douglass has announced. Any person involved in the agriculture industry, no matter how much or how little, can help by going to the website www.ffachapterchallenge.com and clicking on "register as agriculturalist" and voting for the Cloverdale FFA...

The staff of Forest Hill Cemetery advises the public they will be removing all mementos and ground decorations on Friday, March 15. Anyone wishing to keep these items should retrieve them before that date. Everyone is thanked in advance for his or her cooperation...

Servants at Works (SAWs), a mission of the Greencastle Presbyterian Church, is planning its fifth year of ministry and is again looking for work. SAWs volunteers work to provide handicap ramps, low-rise steps and safety rails at no cost to qualified disabled residents of Putnam County...

More than 200 people crowded into the Putnam County Museum for the opening of the sixth annual Putnam County Student Art Show. "The Student Art Show is always one of our most popular exhibits," said Tanis Monday, executive director of the museum. This year's contest drew 133 submissions -- all of which are on display in the museum -- from students representing each of the county's public school districts, as well as a few home-schooled students...

Returning and new vendors are invited to attend a Greencastle Farmers' Market vendor organizational meeting hosted by the Friends of the Farmers Market on Wednesday, March 6. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Kiwanis Room at the Putnam County Library, 103 E. Poplar St., Greencastle...

With the notion of adding a little more color and whimsy to the community, the anonymous Night Stockers have struck again in Greencastle, pulling off perhaps their largest and most time-consuming endeavor yet in yarn bombing one of the trees along the Washington Street side of City Hall. ...

Nearly three months after naming Dawn Puckett the acting superintendent of Greencastle Community Schools, the school board appears likely to make it official next week. The school corporation has announced a board meeting set for 4 p.m. on Monday, March 11, in which the two main agenda items center on replacing Superintendent Lori Richmond...

Delila M. Saylor Cornett, 92, formerly of Greencastle and Roachdale, died Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. She was born June 8, 1920 in Eubanks, Ky. Delila was secretary and treasurer for several years and junior regent chaplain along with many other duties being associated with The Ladies Auxiliary Chapter 138 affiliated with Moose Lodge 1592 of Greencastle...

Josephine Ruth (Ader) DeWeese, 89, a longtime resident of Speedway, recently of Avon, died Saturday, March 2, 2013, at Hendricks Regional Health in Danville. She was the youngest of three daughters of Emery Vincent Ader (1880-1939) and Zemora Ella (Kersey) Ader (1885-1967) and was born Nov. 4, 1923 at her parents' farm near Fillmore...