Stories from Tuesday, October 14, 2014

It's as official as it was inevitable. The City Council has adopted of a pair of ordinances providing for water and sewer rate increases for the City of Greencastle. Not that the Council wanted to raise rates -- after all they must pay the increased costs, too -- as much as their hands were forced by edicts from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) and unbalanced utility budgets...

Several chamber works by prominent 20th-century composers will be featured on the DePauw Faculty Woodwind Ensemble's sole recital of the semester on Thursday, Oct. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the Green Center's Thompson Recital Hall. The School's professional chamber ensemble -- comprised of Anne Reynolds, flute; Leonid Sirotkin, oboe; Randy Salman, clarinet; Kara Stolle, bassoon; and Robert Danforth, horn -- will open the concert with a performance of "Sinfonia for Woodwind Quintet" by former Indiana University composer Bernhard Heiden, a student of Paul Hindemith. ...

Claude R. Lister, 83, New Winchester, died at his home on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014. Born Jan. 8, 1931, he was the son of William E. and Nora (Farley) Lister. He married Marguerite (Page) Lister on April 30, 1950. She died on July 20, 2009. He is survived by his sister, Mary E. Kolaiser; his sons, David, Larry (Cathy), Darrell (Karen) Lister, and his daughter, Tricia Lister (husband Don Wells)...

Margaret B. Nelson, 93, of Greencastle, passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014. Margaret was born on Feb. 1, 1921 in Fillmore to Clyde Cecil Bunten and Mary Alpha Storm Bunten. She was a 1939 graduate of Fillmore High School. During her senior year, she was the State Baptist Speech Contest Winner in Evansville...

County Jail Several people were booked into the Putnam County Jail recently. At 2:09 a.m. Friday, Uranmeian Webb, 20, Walton, Ky., was charged with being a minor in consumption of alcohol. At 2:50 p.m., Tonya Marie Benassi, 41 Greencastle, was arrested for failure to appear...

It will be South Putnam Night at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis on Tuesday, Dec. 23. The Indiana Pacers will be taking on the New Orleans Pelicans featuring Indiana native Eric Gordon. South Putnam students are selling discounted tickets for the game through Oct. 20...

The following cases were filed in Putnam County courts recently. Citations and Infractions Thomas M. Peacock II, 28, Fort Wayne, speeding Carl W. Manuel, 53, Indianapolis, speeding Sarah E. Coy, 40, Monrovia, speeding R.S. Curtis, 50, North Salem, speeding...

CLOVERDALE -- Putnamville troopers and Cloverdale Middle School students and staff engaged in a friendly dodgeball competition Friday afternoon to celebrate the students' recent ISTEP success. The event organizer and "referee" was Cloverdale Middle School Assistant Principal Cathy Ames, while the Indiana State Police team was organized by Trooper Mike Wood...

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and Family Support Services' Domestic Violence Program as well as other domestic violence programs all over Indiana and across the country join together to raise awareness about family violence. Domestic violence is an epidemic that not only affects survivors and their families, it affects an entire community...

CLOVERDALE -- The Cloverdale School Board met for its monthly meeting on Monday evening, which lasted a mere 15 minutes. During the meeting the board not only welcomed its new superintendent Greg Linton, but approved a number of personnel items as well...

Banner Graphic/ Kyle Hollinger In order to make way for the development of a senior rental community in the oldest part of the building, the addition at Miller School on Anderson Street must be razed. Miletone Ventures of Indianapolis is undertaking the redevelopment process, with the first crews on scene Tuesday, tearing down and hauling away sections of the building as they prepare to renovate the oldest, northern section of the school, as well as adding a new two-story wing to the southeast side of the building. Plans for the Miller Asbury apartment project include 12 one-bedroom units and 18 two-bedroom units for persons age 55 and up or 62 and up. A 12-month construction period is foreseen with completion due in October 2015. Workers made noticeable progress on the teardown portion of the project on Tuesday, but demolition of one of the building's most distint features -- the large brick smokestack -- is still to come.

NEW MARKET -- The Clover volleyball team has struggled at the end of its season but it picked up a needed win during the week before sectionals. The girls took the match in three sets after staving off a Lady Mounty surge in the third and final game...

Virginia C. Hanks, 81, of Fillmore, passed away peaceably on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014 at Hendricks County Hospital. Ginny was born Apr. 30, 1933 in Mt. Meridian to Albert Truesdel and Garnet Tincher Truesdel. She married Alfred R. "Buck" Hanks on Apr. 23, 1950, and he preceded her in death on January 23, 1997...

Residents of Greencastle's Fourth Ward will have new representation following a Republican Party caucus scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 21. The party caucus is set for 4:30 p.m. next Tuesday in the commissioner's court on the first floor of the Putnam County Courthouse...

In an attempt to stimulate and promote discussion of the issues affecting Putnam County and the world at large, the Banner Graphic introduced "The Pulse of Putnam County" back in September. Things got off to a positive start with the Saturday, Sept. 27 issue, as readers commented on subjects such as a U.S. 231 bypass, a possible Greencastle community center, the Stellar Communities grant, retails spaces in Greencastle, downtown parking and local gas prices...