Stories from Thursday, September 18, 2014

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, also known as Wabash Valley Healthy Moms and Babies...

Donald Leon Price, 84, passed away Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014 at Union Hospital in Terre Haute. Don was born May 21, 1930 in Brazil to Edward A. "Dick" Price and Catherine (Bridgewater) Price. Don graduated from Brazil High School in the class of 1948 and married his lifelong love, Dolly Mae Griffith, on July 29, 1950...

Putnam County emergency personnel were dispatched to a one-vehicle accident Thursday evening at 5:12 p.m. on U.S. 231 just north of U.S. 40. Investigating officer Lt. Donnie Pettit noted that Brian Harlen Baker-Watson, 47, Greencastle, was driving northbound on U.S. 231 in a 2005 Chrysler Town and Country van...

At its September meeting, the town of Roachdale presented its first reading of the 2015 budget. The second reading will take place during October's monthly meeting and if no objections arise by that time, the budget will be approved. Property cleanups continued to be addressed by the board for several locations...

Only halfway through their extensive annual budget hearings, members of the Putnam County Council convened for a brief version of their regular monthly meeting on Tuesday. With one day of hearings down and another to go, the council made quick work of its agenda, which included a number of appropriations and transfers as county departments prepare for the end of the year...

DePauw takes to the road for the first time dur- ing the 2014 season as it opens North Coast Athletic Conference play at Wittenberg. The teams are meeting for just the ninth time and third as NCAC competitors. DePauw is 1-0 after a 31-13 win over Se- wanee on September 6, while Wittenberg is 0-1 following a 22-16 loss to Butler on September 6...

CLOVERDALE--One final night before the girls' county golf tournament the North Putnam Cougars and South Putnam Eagles teed off against each other at Clover Meadows. The Cougars got the best of their county rival beating them by six strokes, 243-249...

The Greencastle Tiger Cubs swept West Vigo in Thursday's match. The girls played strong offense and defense in order to hold the Vikings to no more than 10 points a set. Lydia Trout, Allison White and Taylor Stoltey all had 10 digs for the defense, and Quinci Miller added seven blocks, while Brynne Shuee added five. Quinci Miller was huge at the net with 21 kills and Taylor Stoltey had 34 assists...

ROACHDALE--The Indiana girls' soccer sectionals are under a month away and the North Putnam Cougars got a good dose of what they might see come that time. They hosted sectional opponent Tri-West Bruins Thursday night and the Bruins came away with a 7-2 triumph...

Almost Home Gail Smith, 17 W. Franklin St., Greencastle 653-5788 Killer tomato soup Corn chowder soup Gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches Strawberry pizza shots Asbury Towers Justin Homler, 102 W. Poplar St., Greencastle 653-5148 Black and blue Wellington...

With a dozen local businesses providing samples of their delicacies and three musical acts on tap, the fifth annual Taste of Putnam County will focus on food, music and fun Saturday, Sept. 20. The Greater Greencastle Chamber of Commerce will again stage its 4-8 p.m. event at the Dixie Chopper Business Center at the Putnam County Airport on Ballard Lane off State Road 240 on the city's far East Side...

Its days are finally numbered for a dilapidated old house on Greencastle's West Side, ravaged by time and so overgrown by bushes, trees and monster weeds that its front door is barely visible. The ramshackle brick house at 401 W. Columbia St. -- once home to a local church congregation and reportedly the onetime centerpiece of a 200-acre homestead just three blocks west of the courthouse square -- will be coming down over the next 60 days, the Greencastle Board of Public Works and Safety learned Wednesday evening.. ...