Stories from Friday, March 7, 2014

A 22-year-old Greencastle man, who admitted to the September 2012 stabbing death of his father, was sentenced Friday afternoon at the end of an emotional hearing in Putnam Superior Court. Thomas W. Badgley, who pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter during a change of plea hearing Dec. 10, was sentenced Friday to 40 years for the fatal stabbing of his father, Tommie Dale Badgley, 53, during a Sept. 12, 2012 incident...

County Jail Seven people were booked into the Putnam County Jail recently. At 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Kyle Alan McCammon, 26, Cloverdale, was charged with violation of home detention, domestic battery and strangulation. At 1:40 p.m. on Wednesday, Andrew Gibson, 20, Roachdale, was charged with theft and burglary...

Due to a scheduling conflict, the Cloverdale High School production of the comedy "Hide and Shriek" has been changed. The play will now start at 6 p.m. on Sunday, March 9.

The Putnam County Public Library is hosting the Indiana Kitefliers Society next Thursday from 2-3:30 p.m. This event will take the place of the usual Boomers and Beyond and is free and open to all ages. The Indiana Kitefliers Society was formed in 1996 "to educate the public in the art, history, technology, and practice of building and flying kites and to advance kiting, its joys, and values."...

DePauw University has announced the addition of Deb Jones, a veteran career services administrator well-versed in helping college students strengthen their professional skills and awareness as DePauw's new director of career services. Jones, who has served as director of career services for Centre College since 1999, officially joined the DePauw staff on Feb. 25...

CODY WARREN, son of Ronald Warren of Reelsville and Tricia Warren of Reelsville, will be the light board operator for the upcoming Franklin College Theater Department of Fernec Molnár's "The Play's the Thing." The production will be presented at 8 p.m. on March 12-15 and at 2 p.m. on March 16...

Putnam County Extension Homemakers' Education and Leadership co-chairs Kelly Robertson (left) and Megan Burdine spearheaded a recent toy drive to benefit Riley Children's Hospital Cheer Guild. They set a goal to collect 100 toys in conjunction with the 100-year anniversary of the Extension Homemakers' organization. ...

Girl Scout Service Unit 184 will stage its annual Masquerade Father/Daughter Dance on Friday, March 14 at the Greencastle Armory. The dance is open to all girls pre K-8 and their dates (dads, grandpa or favorite adult guest). The event is set for 6-9 p.m...

County Jail Two people were booked into the Putnam County Jail on Thursday. At 9:50 a.m., Gilbert Perry Lanham, 51, Brazil, was charged with theft. At 11:17 p.m., Logan Spencer Campbell, 25, Greencastle, was charged with criminal trespassing and a probation violation...

Jill Bridgewater has announced her candidacy for the District 2 seat on the Putnam County Council on the Republican ballot in the May 6 primary election. With a bachelor's degree in accounting, Bridgewater has more than 20 years of accounting experience and believes that would be a plus in serving on the Council...

Hoosier hunters harvested fewer deer in the 2013 season than in each of the previous five seasons. That might be sobering news to some deer hunters, but it wasn't unexpected. "Going into the year, I knew it was going to be down," Chad Stewart, deer management biologist with the Indiana DNR Division of Fish and Wildlife, said. "It's what we thought it would be."...

A new eight-county task force that includes Putnam County will spend the next year developing ways to bring down Indiana's infant mortality rate. The National Leadership Academy for the Public's Health has selected the Terre Haute-based Rural Health Innovation Collaborative to lead the West Central Indiana Infant Mortality Reduction Task Force...

FILLMORE -- Already spearheading an effort to start a town park in Fillmore, the Bethel Baptist Church congregation will spend Palm Sunday doing more service for the community. During the last two Fillmore Town Council meetings, Associate Pastor Adam Waite has shared the plans with the council to perform a day of service on Sunday, April 13...

Even without senior leading scorer Trevor Johnson, the Covenant Christian was able to pull off the win over Monrovia, 51-40 on Friday. This will put them in the IHSAA Sectional 44 championship on Saturday night against the Speedway Sparkplugs. Johnson, who averages around 20 points per game, suffered a bad ankle sprain early in the first half. He missed the rest of the game and it is unknown whether he will play against the Sparkplugs or not...

Jordan Nauert, 18, is a junior student-athlete at North Putnam High School. He was born to Dave and Mitzi Nauert on July 5, 1995 and has one sibling, sophomore Taylor Nauert.
 Nauert's favorite movie is "Coach Carter" and his favorite singer is Luke Bryan. His favorite food is steak. In school his favorite teacher is Mr. Nathan Martindale and his favorite subject is science.
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BEECH GROVE -- A barnburner of a first quarter looked set to end with Greencastle trailing Indian Creek 22-20 in the semifinal of IHSAA Class 3A Sectional No. 27. Before the buzzer sounded, however, Brett DeHart hit a three-quarter court shot that gave the Braves a momentum boost they used to help bury the Tiger Cubs 71-48...

The North Putnam Cougars knew they were up for a challenge when they saw their second-round opponent in Sectional 44. The semifinal game was the toughest test for the Cougars by far on the year and the Speedway Sparkplugs knew that they had to bring their A game...

In a first-round bout with an opponent from three time zones away, the DePauw Tigers had their work cut out for them. The women's basketball team squared off against the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Athenas (24-3), the winner of the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championship. Throughout the physical game the Athenas were able to keep the pressure on the home team, but the Tiger effort prevailed with a final score of 79-68...