Stories from Friday, May 10, 2013

BAINBRIDGE -- Bainbridge Elementary School will host a retirement open house for three special retirees, Jan Jonker, Judy Proctor and Nana Rising. The event is set for 3:30-5:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 14 in the school library. Everyone is invited to help celebrate their years of dedication...

Mill Pond Health Campus in Greencastle will host a Senior Health Fair Tuesday, May 14 at its facility at 1014 Mill Pond Lane. The free event is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with free blood pressure checks, massages, bone density checks and more. From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., a free salad bar will be available along with healthy snacks...

Indiana District 30 State Sen. Scott Schneider (R-Indianapolis) will be the featured speaker Monday, May 13 at the Greencastle Defenders of Liberty's monthly meeting at the Dixie Chopper Business Center at the Putnam County Airport, 102 Ballard Lane, Greencastle...

CLOVERDALE --The Center for Women's Ministries in Cloverdale has announced a new support group called New Beginnings, to be held each Wednesday from 1:30-3:30 p.m. New Beginnings is open to any woman going through divorce or loss of a loved one...

County Jail A number of people have been booked into the Putnam County Jail recently. At 10:25 a.m. Wednesday, Alice J. Jennings, 42, Roachdale, was arrested for probation violation. At 10:45 a.m. Robert Jonathen Price II, 34, Terre Haute, was charged with possession of methamphetamine, possession of a controlled substance and probation violation...

PUTNAMVILLE -- Starting this Sunday, May 12, Indiana State Police will be participating in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Ticket Aggressive Cars and Trucks (TACT) campaign. West-central Indiana will be one of the areas of concentrate as troopers participate in the campaign through Saturday, June 8 in an effort to reduce the number of crashes involving commercial motor vehicles and passenger cars...

This Sunday, mothers from Bainbridge to Bismarck will find themselves gleefully on the receiving end of a lovely floral arrangement, an overpriced (and unfortunately often cheesy) Hallmark card or a thoughtful long-distance phone call. Yes, we'll all go out of our way this Sunday to salute Mom, but shouldn't that be the case each and every day. Isn't every single day really Mother's Day?...

To the Editor: Many young people spend weekends with friends, catching up on homework, doing family chores and sleeping in. Greencastle High School student Tanner Wood is the exception. In addition to playing football, track and being active in the arts department, this student has volunteered countless hours in the Emergency Department of Putnam County Hospital...

To the Editor: I would like to personally thank everyone who participated in the Greencastle Police Department's Drug Take Back Event VI held on Saturday April 27, 2013. I want to thank the Greencastle School Corporation for the use of the Greencastle High School and the parking lot for the event. This four-hour event saw approximately 130 vehicles utilize the site collecting 30 boxes of medication...

BELLEVILLE, Ill. -- The 13th-ranked DePauw University Tigers advanced to the NCAA Division III Women's Tennis Championship Second Round after blanking Hope College, 5-0, in a first-round match. DePauw improved to 18-7 with the win, while the Flying Dutch dropped to 15-7. The Tigers face Coe College in Friday's second-round match at Noon CDT on the Washington University campus...

Greencastle senior Hunter Smith is used to winning football games, so when he decided to play division-III football in college, the choice came easy to him. Smith elected to attend Franklin College in the fall, where he will play strong safety for the Grizzlies. He didn't really entertain any other options...

CLOVERDALE -- Through a brief break in the weather, the Greencastle boys' golf team managed to tear open a window big enough to finish the nine-hole Putnam County Tournament in first place on Thursday. The Tiger Cubs, led by junior Alec Davis' even-par 36, finished with a team score of 162. Cloverdale finished second with 173, followed by North Putnam's 179 and South Putnam's 189...

Eugene Gloria, DePauw University associate professor of English, is the recipient of the 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for poetry for "My Favorite Warlord." Announced recently, the Anisfield-Wolf Awards "recognize books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and our appreciation of the rich diversity of human cultures."...

By the standards of most of his students, Greencastle High School principal Russ Hesler's spring break was less than exciting. Named the high school's ninth principal in 12 years early in the spring semester, Hesler spent the last week of March moving into a new office, going through old files and generally adjusting to life in his new job...

If ever a cautionary tale should emerge to shine some sobering light on what too much alcohol can make a person do, the local court system was the place for it this week. For not just one, but two extremely strange-but-true local cases captured the local courtroom spotlight the past few days...

While the exact effects of the Affordable Care Act remain to be seen, schools and local governments are gearing up with adjustments in how the handle part-time employees. Greencastle Schools authorities have been wrestling with this question in recent months, coming to the hard decision to cut the hours of part-time workers to 29.5 or fewer hours...

BAINBRIDGE -- After a few slow months Bainbridge has started several projects and is looking to finish up some now that the weather has warmed up a bit. At the May town council meeting Wednesday, a Safe Routes to School grant was discussed along with several other projects...

Tonya J. Murphy, 52, of Roachdale, passed away on Thursday afternoon, May 9, 2013. She was born to Bern and Loutisha Tidwell Fugate on March 20, 1961 at Greenwood. She graduated from Arsenal Tech High School in Indianapolis and nursing school at Ivy Tech. She was a LPN at Asbury Towers in Greencastle...

On Thursday the Indiana High School Athletic Association announced draws for the 2013 postseason softball tournament, set to begin Monday, May 20. Each of the Putnam County teams begins its tournament on a different night, except for a first-round game between two...