Stories from Saturday, September 28, 2013

Pianist Amanda Hopson, tenor Kerry Jennings and mezzo soprano Caroline Smith, all members of the DePauw University School of Music faculty, will join forces for an evening of American music Monday, Sept. 30. Their performance, the next in the Faculty Select Series, will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Thompson Recital Hall at the Green Center for the Performing Arts, located on the DePauw University campus...

As days shorten, drivers should be extra cautious because their chances of encountering deer on roadways increase significantly. Nearly 50 percent of all vehicle accidents involving white-tailed deer occur between October and December, according to Chad Stewart, deer research biologist for the DNR...

Prime Timers is a group of individuals 55 years and older who meet once a month for dinner and entertainment, sponsored by Roachdale Christian Church. The Tuesday, Oct. 15 speaker will be elder care attorney Claire Lewis, who will discuss elder care issues for those with Alzheimer's disease...

LAFAYETTE -- Heartland Automotive, a subsidiary of Japan-based Shigeru Co. Ltd., has announced plans to expand its Lafayette manufacturing center and create more than 220 jobs by 2016. Heartland, a manufacturer of interior and exterior automotive parts that began its American presence in Greencastle in 1987, will construct and equip a new facility on its 27-acre site in Lafayette...

At 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, Melissa Hargis-McClulough, 42, Cloverdale, was booked into the Putnam County Jail for violation of home detention. At 11:32 a.m. on Sunday, Gavin R. Stone, 48, Spokane, Wash., was westbound on Interstate 70 near the 40-mile marker in a 2007 Peterbilt semi...

For the past several days, Tashi Kyil Monks from the Tashi Kyil Monastery in Dehra-dun, India, visited DePauw University to construct and showcase a sand mandala symbolizing world peace. Seven monks representing the monastery descended upon DePauw's Union Building after being commissioned to create a mandala, which is a Tibetan sand painting -- an ancient art form of Tibetan Buddhism...

In a year of unprecedented change for the Greencastle Community School Corporation, the subject of partnerships has come up time and time again -- partnerships of the schools with individual citizens and organizations; partnerships within the school of students, staff and administrators...

The Greencastle High School Fall Homecoming ceremonies came to a close Friday night at halftime with the crowning of Carly Rhine (left) as queen and Ethan Gill as king.

The Cloverdale seventh- and eighth-grade teams won at Greencastle on Wednesday. The seventh-graders won 14-6 and were led by their defense and the most complete offensive game they've played all year, coach David Petty said. The eighth-grade team won 12-6...

The Cloverdale eighth grade volleyball team lost to Clay City on Thursday 21-25, 25-18, 15-10. The Clovers leading servers were Kiley Shedron with 10 points, Taylor Goss with eight and Justyce Monnett with six. CMS hosts South Putnam on Monday.

There is one week left in the regular season, but the postseason destiny of the Putnam County soccer teams began to take shape on Friday when the draws for the 2013 Indiana High School Athletic Association sectionals were announced. In the girls' tournament, both North Putnam and Greencastle are in sectional 44 hosted by Greencastle High School. The Cougars and Tiger Cubs are on opposite sides of the eight-team bracket...

In what coach Josh Buis called his team's first complete performance of the year, Greencastle forced four turnovers and scored half its touchdowns on defense on the way to a 42-7 homecoming victory over North Putnam on Friday. Alec Pettit scored three touchdowns -- two running the ball and one on a fumble recovery -- to lead a Tiger Cub attack that scored six touchdowns in 14 minutes of game action...

The scoreboard said that South Putnam was a big winner Friday night over Cloverdale. The stat sheet would say the Eagles outgained the Clovers by a mere 93 yards, yet the victory was comfortable for the hosts, 40-0. South Putnam head coach Troy Burgess would argue otherwise...

We're now one week past the midway point of the 2013 football season and somehow I haven't given out a single nickname yet. That's a poor effort by me, and it's one that will be rectified immediately. This worked reasonably well for basketball last year, so I'm going to run it back again for football...

DOVER -- The North Putnam Cougar volleyball team, coming off an impressive win against Cloverdale earlier in the week, traveled to Western Boone and participated in the Western Boone Volleyball invitational on Saturday. The Cougars placed third out of four teams. Their losses came against the Lawrence Central Bears and Western Boone Stars. Their lone win came against the Faith Christian Eagles...

Indianapolis -- Cloverdale's Harlee Fuetter chipped in to save par on her first hole at the Indiana High School Athletic Association regional on Saturday, showing patience, maturity and grit. Not bad for a sophomore who didn't expect to get past sectionals when the season began six weeks ago...

A 47-year-old Department of Correction inmate, poised to be paroled in a little more than three years, is now expected to stay locked up until 2020 as a result of Putnam Superior Court action this week. Phillip L. Sadler, who was serving a 30-year conviction for rape in a Marion County case at the time, was charged with two felony counts for attacking a fellow Putnamville Correctional Facility (PCF) in an October 2012 incident...