Stories from Sunday, June 15, 2014

Lowell Flint, 91, joined God's heavenly choir on Saturday, June 14 He was born in Greencastle on Oct. 8, 1922 to Raymond and Ivyl Ferrand Flint. He graduated from Bainbridge High School in 1940. While serving in the Army in the European Theater during World War II, he married Vera Smith on Sept. 13, 1943...

The Indiana High School Golf Coaches Association (ISHCGA) has announced that Cloverdale senior Aaron Whitlock has been named Academic All-State in golf. Whitlock is one of 15 senior golfers chosen statewide for this prestigious award. Whitlock, the son of Todd and Dianna Whitlock, was one of 54 nominees for the award this year. A candidate must have achieved a minimum 3.5 grade average, a core SAT score of at least 1000, and rank in the top 15% of his class...

PUTNAMVILLE -- Dan Lewellen had been so close, so many times in finally getting his first elusive UMP Modified feature win. Bad luck and mechanical problems always seemed to rear their ugly head at the most inopportune times. However, on Saturday night, all of that was forgotten as the Clayton, Ind. race car driver by night, school teacher by day, pulled away over the final 10 laps to score that victory in the 3D Carpentry, DL Construction, VanHorn Graphics, No. 5L...

Each year Covenant Christian High Shool has a banquet to honor athletes from different schools in all sports they feel embody the characteristics of positive sportsmanship and integrity in athletics. This year South Putnam's Katelyn Lady was selected as an honoree for her efforts on the basketball team. Congratulations to Katelyn for a tremendous honor...

Julie Sargent, DePauw's interim women's lacrosse head coach since September, has been named the program's head coach. Sargent directed the Tigers to a 3-10 record in 2014 including a 2-6 mark in North Coast Athletic Conference games in the program's second year of varsity competition. The 2012 Carthage College graduate joined the DePauw staff as an assistant coach in the program's inaugural season of 2012-13. Sargent was a four-year starter and all-conference player at Carthage...

BRAZIL -- Fire destroyed at least three Clay County businesses on Saturday night in a blaze that required a major thoroughfare be shut down for hours. Multiple fire and rescue crews battled the fire that originated at Highway 40 Furniture Mart -- a business that sits on the eastern edge of Brazil and just north of the major highway that runs through the heart of the city...