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Greencastle sweeps boys' middle school basketball titles
(Community Sports ~ 01/17/14)
CLOVERDALE -- Greencastle Middle School kept its place atop the boys' basketball heap after both the seventh and eighth grade squads won the Putnam County Tournament Wednesday. The seventh grade squad used lengthy and a stingy defense to overpower Cloverdale 38-12 while the eighth grade team knocked down all 12 free throws attempted in the fourth quarter to outlast North Putnam 55-43...
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Featured Athlete of the Week: Aubrey Nichols, Basketball, South Putnam High School
(High School Sports ~ 01/17/14)
Aubrey Nichols, 18, is a senior at South Putnam High School. A three-sport athlete, Nichols has been on the basketball and volleyball teams for four years, the track team for two and the tennis team for one. In her free time, she enjoys shopping and spending time with her family. ...
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DePauw's Douglas emerging after transfer from Butler
(High School Sports ~ 01/17/14)
With 33 points in her last two games, DePauw junior Hannah Douglas is emerging as an important cog for the No. 1-ranked team in the country. This would have seemed far-fetched three months ago, when Douglas's right arm was wrapped in a sling. It would have been unimaginable eight months ago, when she was finalizing plans to transfer to Florida Gulf Coast. And it would have been impossible a year ago, when the 5-9 guard was averaging 8.6 points and 4.4 rebounds in her sophomore season at Butler...
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I-70 crash victims identified
(Local News ~ 01/17/14)
The two people injured Thursday morning in the six-vehicle crash on Interstate 70 near the 30.5-mile marker have been identified. David L. McDonald, 67, Indianapolis, suffered head and internal injuries and is in critical condition at Methodist Hospital...
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Gobin UMC hosts pair of Sunday events
(Local News ~ 01/17/14)
Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church has a pair of special Sunday events planned on Jan. 19, with a Dove-nominated performer during morning worship and a comedian performing in the afternoon. Sunday morning will feature a free concert from contemporary Christian singer Darla McFadden during the 10:30 a.m. service...
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Few changes in assignments, appointments for City Council
(Local News ~ 01/17/14)
It might be a new year but it's an old look to the Greencastle City Council and its accompanying appointments and assignments. With the first meeting of the new year occurring Tuesday night, it was time for the Council's annual reorganization and revisiting of city department liaison assignments and city board appointments...
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Winter Term play project preview set Monday at DPU
(Local News ~ 01/17/14)
"Achilles/Achilles' Son," a new play by Sean Graney, visiting scholar at the Prindle Institute for Ethics, will be staged by DePauw University Theater this month. Combining music, food and debate with seven Greek tragedies based on the Trojan War, the production of "Achilles/Achilles' Son" is the Winter Term project of a group of DePauw students and their director, Tim Good, associate professor of communication and theater...
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Cloverdale looks to keep improving
(Local News ~ 01/17/14)
CLOVERDALE -- The Cloverdale Town Council recently met for its first meeting of the new year during which it continued discussion on ways to improve the town. Starting off the meeting was the election of new officers, which resulted in Coweta Patton becoming president of the council and Dennis Padgett as vice president...
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Scanner for Jan. 18
(Police Logs ~ 01/17/14)
County Jail Five subjects were lodged in the Putnam County Jail recently. At 11:55 a.m. on Thursday, Jacob Kenneth Nees, 32, Poland, was arrested for operating while intoxicated, battery with bodily injury and two counts of probation violation. At 12:50 p.m. Dave Kelly Ingram, 25, Indianapolis, was charged with battery with bodily waste and with being a habitual felony offender...
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Who's News for Jan. 18
(Other Record ~ 01/17/14)
LAURA ENGLISH, daughter of Mary Dixon of Coatesville and John English of Brownsburg, has been named to the Hope College dean's list for the fall semester. To be named to the dean's list, a student must have a minimum 3.5 grade point average on a 4.0 scale...
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Gobin UMC hosting pair of Sunday events
(Local News ~ 01/17/14)
Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church has a pair of special Sunday events planned on Jan. 19, with a Dove-nominated performer during morning worship and a comedian performing in the afternoon. Sunday morning will feature a free concert from contemporary Christian singer Darla McFadden during the 10:30 a.m. service...
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North Putnam makes decision to cut non-certified employee hours
(Local News ~ 01/17/14)
BAINBRIDGE -- After many months of back and forth question and answer sessions about what to do about non-certified employees hours, a decision has finally been made. During Thursday's North Putnam School Board meeting non-certified employees, including instructional assistants, janitors and cafeteria workers, were reduced to 25 hours a week starting Feb. 1...
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Seven arrested in two GPD cases sparked by callers' tips
(Local News ~ 01/17/14)
Two separate Thursday night incidents, spawned by somewhat innocuous calls to Greencastle police, have resulted in the arrest of seven area residents on a variety of charges. The first incident began with a 6:15 p.m. call about a suspicious vehicle reportedly parked in a driveway along East Walnut Street and ended with the arrest of three subjects...
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Roachdale moves forward in new year
(Local News ~ 01/17/14)
ROACHDALE -- With the start of the new year comes new projects and Roachdale is hitting the ground running. At Tuesday night's meeting the town council was told of the outline to work on getting a $400,000 development grant. The $400,000 grant would be used on upgrading the sewage system in Roachdale. To start the grant process the town must first hire an engineer to do a preliminary write up of the project. Then they would move forward with the grant application...
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