Stories from Monday, October 13, 2014

The 2014 IHSAA Football State Tournament draw was announced Sunday, with all four Putnam County schools learning their foes in the upcoming sectionals. All four teams will begin sectional action on Friday, Oct. 24. In Class 3A Sectional 29, Greencastle (3-5) will visit Edgewood (7-1) at 7 p.m. The two teams met on Sept. 6, with the Mustangs defeating the Tiger Cubs 20-14...

Eli Walter Gould, 57, of San Francisco, died Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014 in San Francisco. Born Sept. 22, 1956, he was the son of Charlotte and Harry Leo Gould. A 1974 graduate of South Putnam High School, he graduated from DePauw University in 1978, and attended law school at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y...

A perfect score of 15 was achieved by the Greencastle Middle School girls' cross country team at the county championship meet on Tuesday. GMS eighth-grader Emma Wilson won the 3K event with a time of 11:25.71. Others in the top five were Seelye Stoffregen in second, Sydney Lewis in third, Kennedy Trigg in fourth and Mika Mozawa in fifth...

OBERLIN, Ohio - DePauw scored touchdowns on six of its first seven possessions, totaled 579 yards of offense and intercepted four Oberlin passes on the way to a 54-14 North Coast Athletic Conference win over the Yeomen. DePauw moved to 4-1 overall and 3-1 in the NCAC with its third straight win, while Oberlin dropped to 1-4 overall and 1-3 in the conference...

Twelve cross country teams visited South Putnam Saturday for the IHSAA sectional. It was the third time in a row that county schools had raced on the hilly terrain at South Putnam and each team was well versed in how they wanted to attack the morning's event...

It's October and the Greencastle Parks and Recreation Department is ready for some spooky fun. The department is sponsoring a Make Your Own Halloween Costume event on Monday, Oct. 20 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Putnam County Museum. Having a Halloween party for kid or adults or just want ideas to make your costume the best in the neighborhood when you go trick or treating?...

PUTNAMVILLE -- After nearly 31 years of service to the department and Hoosier citizens, Indiana State Police Sgt. R. Chris Effner of the Putnamville District has officially retired, effective Oct. 1. Sgt. Effner graduated from the 41st Indiana State Police Recruit Academy on Dec. 23, 1983 and was assigned to the former Terre Haute District to patrol his native Vigo County...

The Area 30 Career Center culinary arts students would like to invite the public to their next Ivy Gallery lunch on Halloween. Interested persons are asked to RSVP as seats are limited and fill up quickly. Students will be working on a spooky menu on Friday, Oct. 31. Cost of the three-course meal is $10.75, all inclusive...

Putnam County Hospital will be hosting a Living with Lupus seminar on Thursday, Oct. 16 from 6-7:30 p.m., with check-in beginning at 5:30 p.m. The seminar will take place in the Putnam County Hospital classrooms, located on the third floor. The seminar is designed to help educate lupus patients and their families about this disease...

The Putnam County Public Library will offer an origami workshop by Robert J. Lang who is recognized as one of the foremost origami artists in the world. on Thursday, Oct. 16. The Bringing Origami to Life: Artistic Folding Techniques workshop is scheduled from 9 -- 11:30 a.m...

The generosity of a local family will have a Greencastle High School senior learning a new musical instrument and expanding his musical repertoire. Taylor Secrest, son of Brad and Marjorie Secrest, is already a trombonist and pianist. The newly-established Gerard Family Music Endowment will allow him to begin learning organ from DePauw School of Music instructor Carla Edwards...

CLOVERDALE -- Cloverdale School Board member Brian Asbury resumed his position on the board Monday evening after recently being found not guilty on felony assault-willful injury charges stemming from a Nov. 3, 2013 bar fight in Independence, Iowa. Asbury, along with former middle school behavior interventionist and high school wrestling coach Steven Livingtson were said to have been at an Independence bar after picking up wrestling mats for the school earlier that day. ...

Just a couple days after chatting with local police authorities concerning ongoing scams for an accompanying story, I returned home to find a blinking "5" on my answering machine atop the bedroom nightstand. That "5" represented five separate messages, all delivered in about a six-hour timeframe between being home for lunch and returning to hit the bed after another long night on deadline...

Among them, veteran local police officials Scott Stockton, Tom Sutherlin and Pat McFadden represent some 75 years of service to Greencastle, Putnam County and the State of Indiana. But when it comes to residents being victimized by one of the many scams circulating these days, not even all that accumulated law enforcement experience by Indiana State Police First Sgt./Putnam County Sheriff-in-waiting Stockton (he's unopposed on the Nov. ...