Stories from Friday, March 28, 2014

County Jail Several people were booked into the Putnam County Jail recently. At 12:13 a.m. on Tuesday, Wanda Faye Price, 32, Indianapolis, was arrested for driving on a suspended license. At 8:50 a.m., Melissa Ann Miller, 36, Greencastle, was charged with possession of methamphetamines and a probation violation...

Timothy David Edwards, 49, Reelsville, passed away Tuesday, March 25, 2014 in Union Hospital, Terre Haute. Tim was born March 18, 1965 to Richard and Sherry Edwards in Danville, Ind. Tim was employed as a guard at the Indiana State Farm and Great Dane Trailers until his illness...

Betty Jean Baird, 85, of Roachdale, passed away at Mill Pond Health Campus Thursday, March 27, 2014 at 10 p.m. She was born Nov. 5, 1928 at Indianapolis to Charles P. and Marie Galbreath Rady. She graduated from Roachdale High School in 1946. She was a member of the Roachdale Presbyterian Church...

Georgianna Davenport will be coming to Aglow on Saturday, April 5 at 9 a.m. at Hazelwood Christian Church in Hendricks County. Davenport will present beautifully crafted furniture of the Tabernacle. The furniture reveals aspects of both the Old and New Testaments in our lives and gives a pattern to show the way God still desires that we enter boldly into His presence...

St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Greencastle will be offering a special Taizé service, a contemplative musical prayer service as part of this year's Lenten activities. This ecumenical musical event is open to all members of the community and will take place at 7 p.m. on Sunday, April 6 in the church sanctuary, located at 202 E. Washington St., Greencastle...

Antioch Baptist Church will host renowned evangelist and musician Bruce Frye for a revival on April 6-9. The event will begin with two services on Sunday, April 6, at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. It will continue with 7 p.m. services on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday...

The Greater Greencastle Chamber of Commerce will sponsor a half-day seminar on the Three C's of the SBA on Thursday, April 17. This will be a chance for business owners to learn about the assistance available from the U.S. Small Business Administration in the form of counseling, capital and contracting...

The Richard E. Peeler Art Center at DePauw University has been selected to participate in the Museum Assessment Program (MAP). Through guided self-study and on site consultation with a museum professional, participation in MAP will empower the Peeler Art Center to better serve visitors by facilitating its meeting and exceeding the highest professional standards of the museum field...

Michio Kaku, an internationally renowned theoretical physicist whose new book, "The Future of the Mind," is No. 2 on this week's New York Times bestseller list (hardcover nonfiction), will provide a glimpse into the future when he visits DePauw University on May 5...

While Indiana's overall unemployment rate provided good news for the state when the latest figures were announced Friday, it proved just the opposite for Putnam County. The local jobless figure ballooned to 8.6 percent for February, the Indiana Department of Workforce Development reported, dropping Putnam County in a three-way tie with Sullivan and Fountain counties for the 13th worst unemployment rate in the state...

Whittier, Calif. - Trailing by as many as five goals in the first half, DePauw rallied to tie its contest at Whittier, but the Poets held on for a 12-11 win over the Tigers. DePauw dropped to 1-4 on the season, while Whittier improved to 4-5. The Poets scored the game's first two goals and held a 5-1 advantage midway through the first half...

A dog's nose is up to 100,000 times stronger than a human's. To put that in perspective, if those numbers applied to sight, what a human would see at one-third of a mile a dog could see from around 3,000 miles. And now thanks to Companion Dogs Plus (CDP), the Earley family will be getting a leg up in the fight against diabetes, with a little help from a rescue dog named Jackson...