Stories from Thursday, March 14, 2013

The following Bainbridge Elementary students received Student of the Month breakfast for exemplary school effort: Alicia Hernandez, Michael Ali, Sophia Windmiller, Adelia Thomas, Zoey Storm, Libby Bault, Mackinley Lawson, Ava Benge, Wyatt Walker, Callie Whaley, Daniel Schultz, Evan Baker, Nick Hinners, Lydia Reed, Christian Young, Evan Nesbitt, Kennedy Anderson, Hailey York, Melanee Brown, Ian Lawson, Gavin Brooksby and Kassidy Rakestraw...

District 24 State Sen. Pete Miller (R-Avon) presents a resolution to the Indiana Senate, honoring Indiana's 2013 Teacher of the Year, Suzanne Whitton of Brownsburg. Miller helped the Senate recognize the Delaware Trail Elementary School visual arts teacher for her dedication to the community through her work benefiting cancer patients, heart disease patients and veterans...

The fourth-grade class at Cloverdale Elementary School had a special visitor on Friday, March 8. Meteorologist Randy Ollis, from WISHTV Forecast 8, gave a presentation about weather and a day in the life of a meteorologist. Ollis started his presentation by making sure that all students knew they were special and had a purpose in life. ...

A group of Greencastle Troop 99 Boy Scouts and Scouters attended the Al White Memorial Hike on Saturday, March 9. The Al White hike consists of a 5.25-mile forested loop trail through a pine forest, heavily wooded ravines and across Gold Creek at former BSA Camp Bradford (now known as Bradford Woods - North End Property)...

On Saturday, March 23 McCloud Nature Park will be hosting a free program about some of the ancient inhabitants that roamed the earth during the Mesozoic Era. This program will feature a kid-friendly presentation focusing on the major groups of dinosaurs and how they were adapted to life on earth. Kids will learn what dinosaurs were, where and when they lived and what happened to them...

Want to make an impact? Agree to share your American culture with a young person from another country for the 2013-14 school year. PAX -- Program of Academic Exchange, a non-profit education foundation, sponsors students like Elodie from Belgium and Jonas from Germany...

Taking part in the annual Greater Greencastle Chamber of Commerce Bowling Scramble Friday afternoon, Dixie Chopper Business Center team member Jamie Bunten rolls for a spare during the 12-team competition at A 'n J Bowl in Greencastle. The team from The Lock Shop captured the title with Monical's Pizza as runner-up...

CLOVERDALE -- The Cloverdale School Board met Monday evening to discuss several encouraging things that are going on within the corporation. Vivian Whitaker spoke to the board on the Dollars for Scholars program, which is raising a significant amount of money...

BAINGBRDIGE -- The Bainbridge Improvement Society will be holding a free hunter education course on March 23 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and March 24 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Participants in the course must attend both days to qualify for hunter certificate. Anyone born after Dec. 31, 1986 is required to attend a hunter education course to purchase an Indiana hunting license...

What could be more fun than an evening spent with a bevy of eccentric characters with names like Bertha Bumiller, Thurston Wheelis, Vera Carp and Petey Fisk? These are the inhabitants of Tuna, Texas, in Greencastle High School's production of "Greater Tuna," set to take the stage this weekend (Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in Parker Auditorium)...

When the DePauw women's basketball team embarked on its journey to the Final Four this afternoon, there was little fanfare. A few staff members poke their heads out. New football coach Bill Lynch waved, wished them luck, then ducked back inside where it was warm...

The top-ranked basketball team in the nation has a lot to worry about as they prepare for the Final Four this weekend in Holland, Mich. Aside from the travel and packing, there's studying film, media and community commitments, press conferences, banquets, the pressure of being undefeated and, oh yeah, the games...

The Area 30 Career Center held its monthly meeting with the board of directors on Tuesday morning, in which the board went over several routine issues. Area 30 recently completed its Civil Audit. Executive Director Lora Busch said the outcome was good, but there were several things that needed to be addressed, including more accessible water fountains and putting up signs with braile...

PUTNAMVILLE -- Indiana State Police officials announced Wednesday that the Putnamville District has dedicated three troopers fulltime to the ongoing effort to battle the production and use of methamphetamine within the area. Lt. Dan Jones, commander of the Putnamville District, said the troopers' duties will include analyzing tips received, investigating leads, finding and dismantling clandestine laboratories and arresting suspects associated with the manufacture and distribution of methamphetamine, along with all crimes related to methamphetamine.. ...

While their choice of color may seem a little odd (the red and white of arch rival Wabash College), the proper sentiment is definitely there as sorority sisters at the Alpha Phi house at Hanna and Locust streets wish the unbeaten DePauw University women's basketball team good luck in the Final Four. ...

CLOVERDALE -- The Cloverdale Town Council held its monthly meeting on Tuesday evening, in which the council once again addressed many of issues surrounding the Cloverdale Police Department as well as the lingering issue of finding a new town marshal...

Heartland Automotive, which has made a quite habit of expanding its Greencastle operations over a 25-year existence, is making another investment in its manufacturing facility on Warren Drive. Tuesday night the Greencastle City Council learned that Heartland -- the Ota City, Japan-based company that has called Greencastle its American home for a quarter-century now -- will be adding at least $4 million (possibly as much as $5 million once everything is finalized) in new equipment...

Betty J. Carpenter, 81, of Kentland, died at home on Monday, March 4, 2013 with her family present. She was born on May 30, 1931 in Putnam County, the youngest of nine children of Earl and Jo (Timmons) Sutherlin. She graduated from Bainbridge High School in 1949...

Rheda Jo Buehler, age 71, of Cloverdale, died Saturday, March 9, 2013, at Ambassador Health Care in Centerville, Ind. She was born Aug.19, 1941, in Greencastle, to Willard L. and Mary Elizabeth Masten Beaman. Rheda worked as manager for an apartment complex...