Stories from Thursday, April 4, 2013

The Tri-M Music Honor Society, the international music honor society for secondary school students, has announced the chartering of a new chapter at Greencastle Middle School. The new GMS chapter is under the sponsorship of school Music Director Kathryn Dory...

Third Nine Weeks All A Grade 9: Megan E Arnold, Kendall Elizabeth DeHaan, Katie L Hewitt, Adam J Maynard, Grady McHugh, Ashley L Owens, Maddison S Plunkett and Joshua L Stewart Grade 10: Allacyn R Arnold, Olivia E Arnold, Colton Levi Bunten, Savannah Lynn Calhoun, Deborah Leann Cheatham, Emily M Dobson, Marissa AnnaLouise Gross, Brandon J Hawkins, Ariel BreAnn Higgins, Jessica A Jones, Katelyn Michelle Lady, Cora Anne Neudeck, Angelica Carolyn Nield, Michaela Scales, Chanapa Emma Siripakmanont, Shelby Katelyn Wells and Phillip Andrew Williams. ...

Third Nine Weeks All A Grade 6: Sierra D Alleyn, Whitney L Boswell, Emma G Cash, MacKenzie A Clark, Jonathon G DeHaan, Helen R Eaglin, Wyatt J Ellis, Austin Tyler Gibson, Hanna S Heagy, Allen David Plunkett, Dalton Louis Scott and Ariana Nicole Warf...

CLOVERDALE -- Kindergarten round-up is scheduled for Thursday, April 11 at Cloverdale Elementary School. Round-up is slated to run from 6-7 p.m. Children who are five years of age on or before Aug. 1, 2013 are eligible for enrollment for the 2013-14 school year...

Four people were booked into the Putnam County Jail on Tuesday. At 9:20 a.m. Robert Pilar Lopez, 48, Greencastle, was arrested for probation violation. At 3:30 p.m. Stephen Jarod Bridges, 31, Greencastle, was lodged at the jail for residential entry and violation of home detention...

The South Putnam girls' tennis team begins its season Tuesday at Greencastle but the team has been in stiff competition all spring. The team's challenge matches, deciding which player will play in which spot in the lineup, have been a strong preview of what the Eagles will face in dual matches this year...

With a mixture of youth and experience, athletes both honed and raw, the South Putnam boys' track team is poised to have strong season. Returning for the Eagles is senior Ryan Chestnut, a regional qualifier last season in the shot put who missed a chance to go to the state finals by 1/2 inch...

CLOVERDALE -- The Cloverdale boys' and girls' track and field teams each came to race on Tuesday. The host Clovers beat North Putnam and Eminence in both classes. The CHS boys finished first with 80 points, followed by Eminence's 39 and North Putnam's 36...

Singer-songwriter David McMillin, a 2006 DePauw University graduate, will return to his alma mater April 9-11 as a guest of the Performing Arts Series. Currently a member of the band Fort Frances, McMillin's DePauw visit will include a solo performance and songwriting workshop, which are both open to the public and presented free of admission charge...

A Saturday evening concert at the Greencastle Moose Lodge will benefit a local family in need. "For the Love of Jude and Kellan" is set for 6 p.m.-midnight on Saturday, April 6 at the Greencastle Moose Lodge. The concert will benefit the Andrea and Craig Trainer family, which welcomed twin boys into the world on Feb. 15. Kellan Reid Trainer spent more than a month in NICU before going home with his family, but his brother Jude Curtis Trainer passed away less than four hours after birth...

Elisa Villanueva Beard, co-chief executive officer of Teach For America and 1998 graduate of DePauw University, will return to her alma mater to deliver the primary address at DePauw's 174th annual commencement. The ceremonies are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Sunday, May 19 in Holton Memorial Quadrangle...

With the weather warming up work continued on the façades of the Greencastle Square.

Neckties can be worn as a sign of respect or a symbol of conformity or simply as a fashion statement. But the teal-colored ties many Greencastle and Putnam County public figures will be wearing this month have a much more serious message tied to them...

A Thursday morning rollover crash on Interstate 70 in Morgan County sent a Zionsville man to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. At 8:52 a.m., Indiana State Police and Morgan County emergency agencies responded to the rash in the westbound lanes of I-70 at approximately the 54-mile marker, or three miles east of the Little Point exit...

Hobart "Jack" Trotter, 87, of Rockville, died at 3:14 pm Wednesday, April 3, 2013 in Hendricks Regional Health, Danville, Ind. He was a retired engineer with Indiana Bell Telephone Co. in Indianapolis with 36 years of service. Following retirement he worked eight years for Professional Mortuary Service in Indianapolis...

Judith A. Rief, 74, of Greencastle, passed away on Thursday, April 4, 2013. Born April 29, 1938 in Greencastle, she was the daughter of William C. and Edna J. (Smiley) Cash. She was a 1956 graduate of Fillmore High School. She married Walter E. Rief on June 5, 1960, and he preceded her in death on Oct. 23, 2008...

Sue Karen Duncan, 62, Indianapolis, formerly of Greencastle, went home to be with our Lord on Wednesday, April 3, 2013. Born July 31, 1949 to Herschel and Imogene (Arnold) Scobee, Sue was a 1967 graduate of Fillmore High School and a long-time member of Beechwood Pleasant Circle Club...