Stories from Saturday, April 13, 2013

Senior Education Ministries Inc. has scheduled Dine with a Doc on the fourth Monday of every month from 10 a.m.-noon at Ivy Tech Community College. Dine with a Doc is a free program that welcomes the local senior public to hear the doctor of the month presents an educational topic with lunch...

The DePauw University Orchestra, under the direction of Orcenith Smith, will accompany winners of the annual School of Music Concerto Competition in an exciting array of solo performances on Sunday, April 14 at 3 p.m. in the Green Center's Kresge Auditorium...

DePauw University has appointed Larry Stimpert, Colorado College professor of economics and business, as its vice president for academic affairs, President Brian W. Casey has announced. Stimpert will begin his responsibilities on July 1, 2013. He replaces David Harvey, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, who has served in that capacity since 2009 and will return to a full-time faculty role...

Rain showers deterred many sporting events on Thursday afternoon but the South Putnam track and field teams were not slowed by the wet weather or Eminence. The boys' squad defeated the Eels 88-44 while the girls' squad won the dual meet 82-40. Ariel Higgins and Leanna Masters posted two wins apiece for the girls with Higgins winning the 100- and 300-meter hurdles and Masters taking the shot put and discus events...

The Greencastle softball team picked up its first win on its newly-improved home field on Friday, beating Crawfordsville 11-4. The Tigers Cubs got a complete game from starting pitcher Madi Fauvergue, who had 10 strikeouts on her way to her second win of the season...

ROACHDALE -- The North Putnam softball team faced its first adversity of the young season on Friday, but the team found a way to preserver and came away with an 8-2 win over visiting Rockville. Sophomore Sabrina Surber struck out 20 Rox and helped her own cause, blasting a two-run home run in the third inning...

The Cloverdale FFA Greenhouse will be opening for the season on Saturday, April 20 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Each year the landscape and horticulture classes order, plant, germinate and market flowers and vegetables that they will offer for sale to the public...

Renovations behind the Greencastle Partnership Center were complicated slightly late this week by the discovery of two buried fuel oil tanks. Workers from 3-D Professional Contractors found the tanks while performing excavation work on Thursday. Officials from the Putnam County Community Foundation, which owns the former Greencastle Federal Savings and Loan building at 2 S. ...

In an era that's given us "Duck Dynasty," Angry Birds and turkey bacon, it's good to know that the eagle is still king of our feathered friends and more. After 100 years, the Eagle Scout rank still stands supreme in the world of Scouting, and that point was unmistakably driven home on Friday in Greencastle. For an elite eight Putnam County young men were honored at the ninth annual Mayor's Luncheon for Scouting after attaining the highest rank attainable in the Boy Scouting program...

For the 11th consecutive year Friday, Dr. John Hennette and his Greencastle Pediatric Dentistry staff have participated in the national Give Kids a Smile Day program, providing children with free dental services ranging from cleanings to screenings to fillings.

PUTNAMVILLE -- An intoxicated wrong-way driver struck a semi five miles west of Cloverdale Thursday night, shutting down eastbound Interstate 70 for more than an hour in western Putnam County. Indiana State Police at Putnamville reported Friday morning that Pamela S. Goedde, 57, of Evansville, was intoxicated when she drove her 2004 Honda Accord westbound in the eastbound lanes...