Stories from Thursday, July 31, 2014

Ivy Tech Community College is offering courses in Putnam County, Hendricks County and west Indianapolis for fall semester, which begins Aug. 25. Those interested in taking classes this spring should visit IvyTech.edu/new-students to learn more about Ivy Tech's enrollment steps. In addition to its Greencastle campus, Ivy Tech offers courses at Avon and its Indy West site...

Evan Crowe, a 14 year-old in-coming Freshman at Greencastle HS was selected to the US Youth Soccer Olympic Development Program State Team earlier this summer. Crowe is one of 35 elite players from Indiana that advanced to the regional camp in his age group. The regional camp was held July 14-17 in Rockford, Ill...

County Jail *At 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Allen Lee Braughton, 34, Panama City, Fla., was arrested for nonsupport of a dependent. At 4:35 p.m., Donald Eugene Majors, 60, Terre Haute, was charged with failure to appear and nonsupport of a dependent. At 7:50 p.m., Alicia Leah Sexton, 20, Greencastle, was arrested for theft...

Students' success out of school can impact how well they perform in school. Currently, 15.1 million children nationwide and 30 percent of children in Indiana are left unsupervised after 3 p.m. and do not participate in afterschool programs, according to Afterschool Alliance, a nonprofit public awareness advocacy organization...

Central Indiana residents have millions of dollars that's been forgotten -- $148,849,355 to be exact. And that includes nearly $300,000 alone in unclaimed Putnam County property. "For only the second time ever, more than $100 million has been turned over to the state," Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller said, "which means even more people have missing or forgotten money to claim."...

A "Splash Bash," staged in celebration of the opening of the Bob York Memorial Splash Park at the Greencastle Aquatic Center in Robe-Ann Park, is scheduled for Monday evening, Aug. 4. The public is invited and encouraged to attend the Splash Bash, which will include a Splash Park dedication program scheduled to begin at 6:15 p.m...

North Putnam Community Schools will open for the 2014-15 school year on Friday, Aug. 8 for students in kindergarten through grade 12. The schools will begin maintaining office hours from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Daily beginning Friday, Aug. 1. All kindergarten students must be five years old on or before Aug. ...

July 2014 became the coolest July of record to date on Tuesday. Below normal temperatures have persisted through Thursday, and as a result July 2014 stands as the coolest July of record for central Indiana since weather records for the Indianapolis area began in 1871...

North Putnam Community Schools will open for the 2014-15 school year on Friday, Aug. 8 for students in kindergarten through grade 12. The schools will begin maintaining office hours from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Daily beginning Friday, Aug. 1. All kindergarten students must be five years old on or before Aug. ...

Teen advisers with Putnam County Library Youth Services, Cora Neudeck (left) and William Lowe play a water-based version of duck, duck, goose with Ashley Pearson at a Youth Services event Tuesday. Nearly 20 kids were in attendance to play a variety of water-based variations of popular children's games. Youth Services department manager Mollie Beaumont hopes to make this a yearly gathering for the youth of Putnam County

Diabetes is a disease in which blood glucose levels are above normal. Most of the food we eat is turned into glucose, or sugar, for our bodies to use for energy. The pancreas, an organ that lies near the stomach, makes a hormone called insulin to help glucose get into the cells of our bodies. When you have diabetes, your body either doesn't make enough insulin or can't use its own insulin as well as it should. This causes sugar to build up in your blood...

In a special meeting Thursday, the Greencastle School Board approved Emily Johnson as the new Ridpath Elementary principal in the wake of Shawn Gobert's resignation from the role he has held since 2011. The change was unanimously approved and is to take place immediately, with Johnson beginning in her new role Aug. 1...