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Fillmore Phenom
(High School Sports ~ 08/15/13)
Eleven-year-old Lance Bush wrapped up an impressive summer of travel baseball last weekend. A sixth-grader at South Putnam Middle School, Bush plays for the Mafia Baseball Organization travel team, a hobby since he was eight. He competed in Elizabethtown, Kent. in the Bluegrass World Series July 17-21 with his team earning runner-up at the event. Last week, after being chosen as one of 12 players to represent Indiana on the All-State Team, he competed in Illinois. (Courtesy photos)
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Spencer gets Indiana area's latest Village Post Office
(Local News ~ 08/15/13)
SPENCER -- The Owen County seat of Spencer has achieved a number of notable distinctions since the town was founded in 1820. Named for soldier George Spencer who died at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811, Spencer is the birthplace of the mother of former British Prime Minister Harold McMillan and recently passed Indianapolis as the Indiana town with the most married couples with children per capita...
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Boesen named vice chancellor of Ivy Tech Greencastle campus
(Local News ~ 08/15/13)
Melanie Boesen has been appointed vice chancellor/executive dean of the Ivy Tech Community College -- Wabash Valley campus in Greencastle. She will provide general oversight of the Greencastle campus, community outreach and student recruitment. "Melanie has proven herself to be a clear and strategic thinker and a solid leader," Wabash Valley Chancellor Ann M. Valentine praised. "She will provide the community and campus relationship with an important and thoughtful perspective."...
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Cloverdale council addresses several lingering issues
(Local News ~ 08/15/13)
CLOVERDALE -- It was a fairly simple meeting for the Cloverdale Town Council Tuesday evening as it discussed several routine matters. Town Marshal Michael Clark came before the council to report on the progress he's made since he took the position. Matters included beginning an inventory on the department...
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Tripping the Light Fantastic
(Local News ~ 08/15/13)
The dance scene from the Putnam County Playhouse production of "The Drowsy Chaperone" pairs the title character (portrayed by Julia Kapke), and the King of Romance, Aldolpho (played by TJ Tincher).
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Scanner for Aug. 15
(Police Logs ~ 08/15/13)
Several people were booked into the Putnam County Jail recently. At 10:40 a.m. Tuesday, Bobby Gene Standifer-Forey, 23, Poland, was arrested for violation of home detention. At 6:17 p.m. Ross Oliver, 22, Roachdale, was charged with operating while intoxicated and probation violation...
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Russellville woman's murder still a mystery after 10 years
(Local News ~ 08/15/13)
Could a puzzling Putnam County cold case be heating up after a decade of frustration? Apparently that is just what's happening in the baffling case of an elderly northern Putnam County woman who was killed in her Russellville home 10 years ago this week...
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County loses servant, friend with Fogle's passing
(Local News ~ 08/15/13)
Putnam County got some sad news on Wednesday with the passing of county commissioner Nancy Fogle. The 74-year resident of the county spent nearly 17 combined years as a commissioner or council member, but for Fogle, leadership and service were about a lot more than a title...
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Nancy E. Fogle
(Obituary ~ 08/15/13)
Nancy E. Fogle, age 74, of Greencastle, peacefully entered Heaven on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013, after a brief battle with cancer. Born July 9, 1939 in Greencastle, she was the daughter of John R. and Ruth (Blue) Hammond and was a 1957 graduate of Reelsville High School.
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Jerry Finney
(Obituary ~ 08/15/13)
Jerry Finney, 66, Greencastle, passed away on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. He was born May 23, 1947 in DuQuoin, Ill., the only child of Gerald and Arline (Coffel) Finney. Mr. Finney graduated from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 1969 with a BA in government, and from the University of Illinois College of Law in 1973...
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