Stories from Thursday, September 11, 2014

Trading nonperishable food for flowers, the Putnam County Emergency Food Pantry received hundreds of items through Greencastle's annual Friendship Day tradition on Wednesday. Among those present for the donation were the sponsors of the event, Michelle Collins of Asbury Towers, Lora Zoll of Ivy Tech Community College, Kim Cooper of the Putnam Inn, Sue Frazier of Bittles and Hurt, Tammy Johnson of the Greater Greencastle Chamber of Commerce, Jenny Sullivan of Eitel's Florist, food pantry director Judy Miller and Patricia Hoopengarner. ...

BAINBRIDGE -- Putnam County Hospital Physician Practices has announced that certified family nurse practitioner Cheryl Snodgrass has joined North Putnam Family Healthcare and is now seeing patients. North Putnam Family Healthcare is located at 440 E Pat Rady Way in Bainbridge. Snodgrass joins Elizabeth Brater, MD...

AT&T has expanded its 4G LTE network to Greencastle and Heritage Lake, bringing more customers the latest generation of wireless network technology. Launching 4G LTE in Crawfordsville in January 2014, the AT&T expanded coverage is part of its ongoing rollout across the market...

A "Living with Low Vision" program is scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 16 at the Life Builders Community Center, 701 E. Washington St., Greencastle, from 10-11 a.m. The guest speaker will be Vicky Horstman of Votech Rehab who will be speaking and teaching on low-tech and no-tech things to assist in everyday living with low vision...

BRAZIL -- Two teenagers were seriously injured following a two-vehicle collision on Thursday afternoon on U.S. 40 near County Road 300 East just east of Great Dane Trailers. Indiana State Police and Clay County emergency personnel were dispatched at 3:27 p.m. to a two-vehicle collision in the eastbound lanes of U.S. 40 where the preliminary investigation revealed that a 2000 Chevrolet Cavalier, driven by Austin W. Dean, 18, Knightsville, was eastbound on U.S. 40 near County Road 300 East...

South Putnam High School will crown its 2014 homecoming queen and her court Friday night when the Eagles host county rival North Putnam for a 7 p.m. kickoff. Homecoming queen candidates are (standing) Jessica Jones, Morgan Aker, Sunniva Anderson and Emily Dobson. Candidates for the underclassmen court positions are (second row, from left) Allie Nichols, Alex Fanning, Madeline McHugh, Katie Hewitt, Blaze Bottorff, Gulianna Delano, Ashley Schroer, Kailee Hawkins and Meredith Trump...