Stories from Wednesday, October 16, 2013

The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) is expected to hire multiple seasonal winter program workers at upcoming job fairs. Successful hires will work as snowplow drivers during snow and ice events and may perform general highway maintenance duties during the winter season (November-March)...

A pair of recent traffic accidents were investigated by Greencastle City Police Officer Jeff Modlin. -- At 9:34 a.m. Saturday, a 50-year-old Putnam County woman suffered minor injuries in a two-vehicle accident on Veterans Memorial Highway at Percy Julian Drive...

The Greencastle/Putnam County yard waste site will be closing on Wednesday, Oct. 30. Residents should take advantage of the warm weather to clean up any remaining yard trimmings or storm debris before the site closes for the season. The site, located west of Greencastle southwest of Greencastle and west of South Jackson Street, will reopen in April 2...

The American public has lost patience with Washington. The question is, now what?

 Congress is unable to do its job. It displays neither competence nor responsibility. It lurches -- reeling from crisis to crisis, each one self-manufactured in an effort to postpone the reckoning from some earlier crisis. It shut the government down over a temporary budget...

I started reading Golf Digest when I was in high school with the hope I could increase my scoring average. It didn't help, so I finally cancelled my subscription last year. Same with Playboy. I was browsing through the magazine rack at a local bookstore and saw the October issue of Mess magazine. ...

To the Editor: The Central Elementary PTO hosted our annual Fall Festival fundraiser on Saturday, Oct. 5. We would like to thank everyone who came and enjoyed the many activities. Much thanks to the many volunteers that were game coordinators and workers, basket coordinators and those who donated candy and prizes for the night. The festival could not have taken place without your help...

To the Editor: Husband finds his wife's been running up expenditures on her charge cards. The bills amount to more than his income. He confiscates her charge cards. As a result, she tells him she is no longer going to cook his meals and wash his clothes...

The Cloverdale eighth-grade football team beat Eastern Greene last week to finish its season 7-1 and secure its second consecutive Putnam County Championship. "This team has been dedicated to working hard and staying together," CMS coach Billy Boyette said. In Thursday's game the Clovers won 44-0. Steven Allen had 172 rush yards and two touchdowns. Drew Boyette threw for two scores, one to Nick Winders and one to Haiden Harbert-Davis. Drew Boyette had two interceptions and Ethan Radford forced two fumbles, returning one for a touchdown. The seventh-grade team beat Eastern Greene as well, winning 6-0. "The defense played very hard tonight," coach David Petty said. (Courtesy photo)

The South Putnam volleyball team lost to Cascade in the Eagles final home game of the season on Monday, 25-11, 25-17, 25-15. "We fought hard against a very tough-hitting Cascade team," South Putnam coach Deanna Long said. Kenzie Trisler led the Eagles with 11 service points, followed by fellow-seniors Katie McHugh (eight), Carey Tanner and Aubrey Nichols (seven each)...

CLOVERDALE -- The Cloverdale volleyball team's celebration of senior night on Tuesday was cut short as the team lost to the visiting South Montgomery Mounties in three sets, 25-16, 25-14, 25-20. Cloverdale's best set of the night was the last. After getting down 11-4, senior Lexi Branneman got the serve and rattled off nine points, including two aces, to take the lead. The Clovers could not hold that advantage and let it slip away despite their momentum...

ROACHDALE --Two sets into the penultimate match of the season, North Putnam's volleyball squad seemed to be in cruise control in its match against South Vermillion. Having trailed for all but a single point in the opening two sets, the Wildcats finally sprang into life, winning the third set and leading by seven in the fourth set. A strong rally for the Cougars late in that set, however, was enough to get the Cougars a win, 25-19, 25-11, 17-25 and 25-22...

The quest to defend last season's undefeated run to the national championship began -- officially -- on Tuesday when the DePauw women's basketball team had its first practice of the season. Junior Lauren Abendroth and her teammates worked in an agility drill at the start of practice. The Tigers finished last season 34-0, winning the national championship game in a blowout over the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. (Banner Graphic/GRANT WIEMAN)

The Greencastle boys' cross country team advanced to regionals this weekend by finishing the South Putnam Sectional in fourth place on Tuesday. GHS scored 117 points as a team, behind Avon (33), Brownsburg (48) and Danville (89). Plainfield (125) was fifth...

South Putnam junior Madison Egold ran a season-best race to lead the local finishers and help her team qualify for the next round during Tuesday's cross country sectional at South Putnam High School. The Eagles finished in fifth place with 147 points, one spot behind Greencastle's 120. The top five teams qualify for the Ben Davis Regional on Saturday...

CLOVERDALE -- The Cloverdale School Board met for its monthly meeting Monday evening, in which it discussed the ISTEP exam as well as airing several of its events through Endeavor. District test coordinator Kathleen Glaser gave the board its first taste of spring ISTEP results. The 2013 test was particularly challenging, as it was delayed by statewide computer issues and took nearly three weeks to complete...

A $15 million gift from Judson and Joyce Green will launch an initiative to transform the DePauw University School of Music -- Indiana's oldest and one of the nation's first -- to meet the needs of students who are entering a rapidly changing music industry...

By ERIC BERNSEE Editor Pulling the kids along in a little red wagon is one of those time-honored, all-American Norman Rockwell-type occasions in which most children and adults have found themselves on one end or another or both. But when you mix in reported intoxicants, a darkened roadway, some belligerent conduct and other nefarious factors, an erstwhile childhood memory can end up in criminal court...

Pauline Victoria Majors, 84, of Roachdale, passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013. She was born on May 27, 1929 in Yadkin County, N.C., to William Sully Swaim and A. Victoria Turner Swaim. Pauline married James McDonald Majors on Dec. 3, 1946, and he preceded her in death on Jan. 20, 2013 after 66 years of marriage...

PUTNAMVILLE -- Fifteen students from Ivy Tech Community College recently toured operations and programs at the Putnamville Correctional Facility (PCF). "Many of our students want to pursue a career in a corrections related field," Ivy Tech instructor Jamie Houston relayed to PCF staff members during the tour...

Bainbridge Elementary recently celebrated its August Students of the Month, which included (front,left) Hayden Bobo, Sophia Hornbuckle, Landon Gilliatt, Taylor Poynter, Ben Roach, Coby Galloway, Bayley Shrum, Caiden Trent, Autum Carrico, Mykala Hiner, Veda Bragg, Chloe Brooksby, Elleanor Jones, Owen Fairburn, Karissa Miller, Matt Parker, Will Buescher, Hannah Walton, Shelby Shrum, Curtis Matthias and Alyssa York...

Dixie Chopper, the Dixie Chopper Business Center and Final Approach Restaurant and Pub will co-sponsor the October Greater Greencastle Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours. The event is set for 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29 at the Dixie Chopper Business Center at the Putnam County Airport, 102 Ballard Lane...

PUTNAMVILLE -- During a recent post meeting, six Putnamville troopers were recognized for their time with the Indiana State Police. Three troopers were recognized for 20-plus years of service and three were upgraded from senior trooper to master trooper...

ROACHDALE -- The North Putnam volleyball team had a setback on Wednesday, losing to visiting Danville 25-13, 22-25, 25-16, 25-12 in its final match of the regular season. The Cougars played solid in the second set, building a big lead and maintaining it until late, but the group struggled in transitioning from defense to offense and with the brilliant play of Danville sophomore Olivia Hartman...

Authorities have identified the victims of a single-vehicle accident that resulted in the death of a Fillmore woman Monday afternoon on State Road 240, just east of County Road 650 East. Nancy C. Trivett, 66, died at the scene as a result of head trauma from the accident, the Putnam County Sheriff's Department reported...