Stories from Monday, April 29, 2013

PUTNAMVILLE -- A 31-year-old Marion County woman was arrested Sunday at the Putnamville Correctional Facility (PCF) for allegedly trafficking a controlled substance to an offender. Indianapolis resident Jakkia Baker was arrested at the prison on felony charges of conspiracy to traffic, trafficking with an Inmate and possession of a controlled substance...

A police investigation into a possible drug deal on the city's north side led Greencastle Schools officials to place Tzouanakis Intermediate School on lockdown Monday afternoon. At 1:17 p.m. Officer Darrel Bunten of the Greencastle Police Department was dispatched to a possible drug transaction in the parking lot Northview Apartments at Albin Pond and Houck roads...

The Greencastle Farmers' Market will spring to life Saturday, May 4 on the east side of the courthouse square. Activity will begin at 8 a.m. Opening-day musical entertainment will be provided by John Bean, who will be singing as he alternates on the banjo, guitar and fiddle...

PUTNAMVILLE -- The Indiana Department of Correction, in partnership with the Indiana State Police and the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, has released a third edition of the Indiana Cold Case Homicides Playing Cards. The deck of playing cards profiles 52 unsolved homicides and missing persons cases from around the state...

WAVELAND -- Indiana Conservation Officers, along with staff members at Shades State Park responded to a call of two lost mushroom hunters at Pedestal Rock Nature Preserve on Sunday afternoon. Pedestal Rock Nature Preserve is a remote nature preserve attached to Shades State Park...

The Putnam County Public Library will be hosting a poetry reading with David Cho on Thursday, May 2 at 7 p.m. as part of the Putnam County Public Library Author Series. Cho attended the University of Illinois, Purdue University and the University of Washington. ...

The City of Greencastle is requesting grant funding for a second round of owner-occupied home rehabilitation and would like to invite homeowners to attend a meeting to learn more about the program on Wednesday, May 1 at 5 p.m. The meeting will take place at Greencastle City Hall, 1 N. Locust St...

Registration for the both the South Putnam summer swim lessons and swim team will be held Saturday, May 11 from 9-11 a.m. at South Putnam High School. Both programs run throughout the month of June and all ages are welcome, though young children must be potty-trained to enroll...

DePauw's women seem motivated. Led by Paige Gooch's two-round 149 including a 74 today, the fourth-ranked DePauw women's golf team totaled a 632 and won the first of two North Coast Athletic Conference Championships by 17 strokes over runner-up Wittenberg at the Granville Golf Course...

BROWNSBURG -- The Cloverdale boys' golf team finished in eleventh place at the Brownsburg Invitational on Saturday, shooting a 383 at the 14-team, 18-hole event. Freddy Fislar shot an 86 to lead the Clovers, rebounding from a slow start. Rylan Mattocks (94), Chase Snyder (98), Aaron Whitlock (100) and Devin Bassett (101) also competed for CHS...

CRAWFORDSVILLE -- The Greencastle varsity softball team beat North Montgomery twice on Saturday, winning game one 12-2 in six innings on then winning game two 8-5. Courtney Adams threw a complete game for the Tiger Cubs to start the day, allowing just three hits and striking out five...

The Greencastle boys' golf team stayed on track on Saturday, winning the Tiger Cub Invitational in a route. GHS shot a 317, significantly lower than second-place Southmont. South Vermillion, West Vigo and Rockville rounded out the field. Tanner Dean was once again the medalist, finishing with a four-over 76 the 18-hole event at Windy Hill...

BRAZIL -- The Greencastle girls' tennis team came out with a spark on Saturday. The Tiger Cubs played their best tennis of the season and came away with a first-place finish at the four-team tournament at Northview High School. GHS finished with the same team score as North Montgomery but won a tie-breaker based one games won. Northview was third and Linton finished fourth...

At 6:52 p.m. on Thursday, Holly Rae Gullett, 35, Poland, was booked into the Putnam County Jail for theft. At 6:20 p.m. on Thursday, Blaine A. Fenwick, 18, Greencastle, was northbound on Round Barn Road in a 1992 Toyota Paseo attempting to turn left into the Nazarene Church when he was struck in the rear by John R. Hasty, 20, Coatesville, in a 1999 Ford F150...

INDIANAPOLIS -- The second Westside Classic tournament, held at Covenant Christian High School, looked and felt an awful lot like the first rendition for Greencastle's baseball squad. The Tiger Cubs were handed a pair of defeats Saturday, losing to the host Warriors 10-1 in the opening game and falling to Cardinal Ritter 9-7 in the consolation game...

LEBANON -- The North Putnam varsity baseball team picked up its 10th win of the season when the Cougars won at sectional-rival Lebanon on Saturday, 9-6. NPHS (10-1-1, 5-0 WCC) completed a dominant four-day stretch when it knocked off Cloverdale, Tri-West and the Tigers...

A sustainable community doesn't just happen; it is the result of extraordinary effort. The Greencastle Sustainability Commission is planning on recognizing those individuals, schools and organization that have made a difference in helping the city work toward a more sustainable and secure future...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Legislation expanding in-state college tuition opportunities for veterans passed out of the General Assembly Friday. District 44 State Rep. Jim Baird (R-Greencastle) sponsored Senate Bill (SB) 177, which will now go to the governor's desk and await the signature of Mike Pence before becoming a law...

Hundreds showed up to participate in this year's Relay for Life on Saturday, which had the theme of "Tune Out Cancer."

While the theme of this year's Indiana Academic Super Bowl competition has been "The Glory That was Greece," locally it might as well have been "The Glory That is Greencastle." For Greencastle High School is sending three teams -- English, Science and Interdisciplinary -- to the 26th annual state finals Saturday, May 4 at Purdue University in West Lafayette...

INDIANAPOLIS -- "This was a heck of a year." As usual, DePauw's Kris Huffman is selling herself short. DPU's women's basketball coach for the past 20 seasons, Huffman was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday, capping off a year in which her team went undefeated, won the national championship and she was named national Coach of the Year by three separate organizations...

Lisa Von Tress, formerly of Greencastle, passed away on Friday, Jan. 4, 2013 at Pavia Hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico, after an extended illness. A memorial service for Lisa will take place from 2-4 p.m. Saturday, May 4 at the family farm of Wade and Tavia Hazel, 6139 S. CR 625 West, Reelsville...

Stanley Stout, 64, of Magnetic Island, Australia, formerly of Greencastle, lost his battle with motor neuron disease on Saturday, April 20, 2013. Stanley was born Dec. 23, 1948 in Greencastle to Ira B. and Alice Stout. He proudly served his country in the Vietnam War and was awarded two bronze stars and several Vietnamese awards, including their medal of honor. He later served in the Royal Australian Air Force as a flight lieutenant...

It's been a long process, but the building that most recently held the Old Topper's Steakhouse will reopen under a new name and new owners. The Old Toppers building was under foreclosure and purchased in February by McPub's, the family corporation of Brent McCammack, with the goal of redoing the entire inside and getting it back up and running...