Stories from Saturday, September 27, 2014

COATESVILLE -- Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) maintenance crews will begin a pavement preservation project on State Road 75 in western Hendricks County on or after Monday, Sept. 29. SR 75 is due to be chip-and-sealed from U.S. 36 to U.S. 40...

Morphing old Miller Elementary School into the Miller Asbury senior rental community may be quite the groundbreaking project for Greencastle but it was sledgehammers rather than shovels that went to work Friday afternoon. Representatives of Milestone Ventures, the Indianapolis firm undertaking the ambitious redevelopment project, were joined for the occasion by city officials, neighbors and former faculty members who once taught at Miller School at 522 Anderson St., Greencastle...

Cloverdale High School seniors Brock Dickison and Hannah Mann were named as the 2014 Homecoming King and Queen during the Clovers' football game against South Putnam on Friday evening. Others in the 2014 court included freshman prince and princess Jordan Berardi and Jazmien Buskirk, sophomore prince and princess Michael Easton and Christina Stout and junior prince and princess Jackson Szczerbik and Christyn Willis.

North Putnam senior Olivia Zarate was named 2014 Homecoming queen during the Cougars' football game against Greencastle Friday night. Zareta is the daughter of Pete and Brenda Zareta and was accompanied by her father for the crowning. Others in the 2014 Cougar court were junior Madisyn Smith, sophomore Kaelynn Abner and freshmen Emma Holsapple. (A PHOTO GALLERY of North Putnam Homecoming can be found {http://www.bannergraphic.com/gallery/north-putnam-homecoming-2014/ HERE})

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ROACHDALE - Greencastle's football team was 24 minutes away from gaining its first victory last week but failed to hold onto a 16-0 lead, falling to South Putnam at home. Given a second chance to get their first victory after taking a 17-0 lead into halftime at North Putnam, the Tiger Cubs gave away two fumbles and a score before righting the ship and securing their first win of the season 24-7 over the Cougars...

CLOVERDALE--An early score by Cloverdale and a fierce running game spearheaded by Ethan Boyd, could not stop South Putnam from gaining a victory against its rival Friday night. The Eagles ran behind Kyle Shaffer for most of the game and came away with the big win 21-12...