Stories from Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Several people were booked into the Putnam County Jail recently. At 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Lee Hughes, 44, Van Wert, Ohio, was charged with nonsupport of a dependent. At 1:40 a.m. on Saturday, Jose Ricardo Sanchez-Reyes, 31, Indianapolis, was charged with operating while intoxicated and leaving the scene of a property-damage accident...

Registration for the Putnam County Youth Soccer Association spring recreation season is open. Boys and girls from ages 3-14 are invited to sign up at the Greencastle McDonald's this Saturday from 2-5 p.m. The fee for ages 3-4 is $35. The fee for all other age groups is $60...

SPEEDWAY -- The North Putnam girls' basketball team traveled to Speedway High School to take part in the first round of the Sectional 44 bracket. The Cougars looked to sneak an upset but fell to Monrovia, 50-27. The Cougars got off to a slow start as they trailed 11-1 midway through the first quarter. The deficit was one that the Cougars could not overcome due to the size of the Bulldogs, who had four players who were at least six feet tall...

DANVILLE -- The IHSAA girls' hoops sectionals kicked off Tuesday and the Tiger Cubs had a tough draw in Sectional 27 at Danville, taking on the host Warriors. Greencastle (14-7 4-1 WCC) visited Danville (12-11 3-4 SAG) earlier in the year and lost 53-30. That was stuck in the back of their heads and with this being a win or go home situation, they were not going to back down easily. In the end they fought too hard for the Warriors to handle and pulled off a 48-42 come-from-behind win...

By ERIC BERNSEE Editor After 13 years, the two-building outlot development at the north edge of the Greencastle Walmart Supercenter property may be getting a fresh start and perhaps even a little good luck. The site -- which over the years has housed a number of retail businesses, although never a restaurant -- is currently being marketed nationally as part of a 38-property court-ordered liquidation effort that began Tuesday...

Samuel A. McPherson, 72 Groveland, passed away Monday, Feb. 10, 2014. He was born Feb. 7, 1942 in Indianapolis to Emmett and Amanda Katherine Ray McPherson. He graduated from George Washington High School. Sam retired in 1985 after 20 years of being an Indianapolis Police Department (IPD) officer...

Upward Sports basketball camp for kindergarten through fifth grade will take place at Fillmore Elementary school on March 10-15. The camp includes five nights of practice and one day of games on Saturday. All practices and games will take place in the Fillmore Elementary School gym...

The 2014 Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) will begin Friday, Feb.14 and continue through Monday, Feb.17, the Big Walnut Bird Club has announced. Putnam County residents are invited to participate in the GBBC, an annual four-day event sponsored by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society...

For just a moment Tuesday night the Greencastle City Council president seemed to be playing good cop, bad cop with the city's public works director. Councilman Adam Cohen appeared to be lobbing a softball question in the direction of Brad Phillips, reluctantly stepping to the City Hall podium under the limited glare of cable-access channel TV lights...