Stories from Monday, April 1, 2013

The Cloverdale baseball team began its 2013 season with a strong statement on Saturday, sweeping Lanesville with 6-0 and 5-4 victories. Senior Justin Wilson started game one for the Clovers, striking out four in four walk-free innings. Wilson, Cody Carter and Will Andersen combined for a one-hit shutout...

INDIANAPOLIS -- The No. 1 Louisville Cardinals could have reacted a number of ways to the gruesome injury of reserve guard Kevin Ware. They chose to channel their emotions into a second-half blowout of Duke, clinching a trip to the Final Four with a 85-63 win...

EMINENCE -- Indiana University senior Aulani Sinclair earned a spot on the All-Big Ten Honorable Mention team this season by leading the Hoosiers in scoring (15.5 per game) and three-point percentage (.385). Her prowess in the latter has earned her a spot in the State Farm Women's 3-Point Championship. She will compete in Atlanta, site of the men's NCAA Division I Final Four, against seven of the best shooters in the country and the event will air live on ESPN on Thursday at 7 p.m...

Dixie Chopper founder Art Evans (center) congratulates two of his longest-serving employees, Larry Jones (left) and Brad Church, on their recent 30th anniversaries with the Coatesville/Fillmore-based lawnmower manufacturing company.

"Our Journey Continues" has been the fitting theme for Indiana Extension Homemakers Association throughout the year leading up to the 100th anniversary of the organization. IEHA will be celebrating in a big way at this year's Home and Family Conference to be held at Purdue University on June 12-14...

BELLMORE -- Traffic on the U.S. 36 bridge over Cecil M. Harden Lake (Raccoon Lake) will be restricted to one lane at a time beginning today. Crews from Schutt-Lookabill Co. will be performing the $2.2 million bridge deck replacement project, with work set to continue through Sept. 30...

French and Czech chamber music masterpieces, each written by a broken-hearted composer, form the program to be presented by the DePauw Chamber Players at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 3. The ensemble -- pianist May Phang, violinist Dan Rizner, and cellist Eric Edberg -- will be joined by their faculty colleague Nicole Brockmann on viola for this intimate concert in the Green Center's Thompson Recital Hall on the DePauw University campus...

Director Brad Sandy will stage two sessions of auditions for the Putnam County Playhouse production of the musical "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown." The first session is set for 3 p.m. Sunday, April 7. The second session will be at 7 p.m. Monday, April 8. Both sessions will be at the Hazel Day Longden Theatre on Round Barn Road in Greencastle...

A charity wine tasting and silent auction event is being organized to raise funds for the stabilization and restoration of the historic Civil War Soldier's Monument at Forest Hill Cemetery in Greencastle. The Friday, April 19 fundraiser will begin at 6 p.m. at Greencastle VFW Post 1550, located at 819 S. Jackson St...

Dancing with the Putnam County Stars is set for Saturday, April 6 at the DePauw University Indoor Tennis and Track Center. Local celebrities will go toe to toe and raise money for Putnam County Youth Development. This is the third of three sets of biographies of the 2013 stars...

The public is invited to come out and celebrate the unbeaten DePauw University women's basketball team's 2013 NCAA Division III national championship on Thursday, April 4 in downtown Greencastle. From 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., DePauw players and coaches will be on hand at Eli's Books and Starbucks at the corner of Washington and Indiana streets for a meet-and-greet session...

The Putnam County Youth Development Commission (PCYDC) would like to extend an invitation to the Putnam County community to attend the fifth annual Dancing with the Putnam County Stars Open Dress Rehearsal, scheduled for Thursday, April 4 at the DePauw University Indoor Tennis and Track Center...