Stories from Thursday, April 16, 2015

A non-discrimination resolution got a new name and a round of applause when it passed unanimously during the April session of the Greencastle City Council Tuesday night. Now titled as a "Resolution Reaffirming Greencastle's Commitment to Providing an Inclusive and Welcoming Community," Resolution 2015-6 was introduced by City Councilmen Adam Cohen and Tyler Wade...

Tuesday evening the Cougar softball team dug out a defensive win against Eminence 2-1. North Putnam fought through a low scoring game and scored two runs in its sixth inning in what was its final at bat.

CLOVERDALE -- The Cloverdale Community School Corporation Board of Trustees voted to approve a slight increase in the cost of lunches. Superintendent Greg Linton said the increase of 10 cents will raise the 2015-16 paid student lunch cost to $2.65 and the adult lunch price to $3.10...

South Putnam baseball will host a 3-on-3 basketball tournament at 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 18 at the Central Elementary School gym. Cost is $10 per person, with three to four people per team. The tournament is open to three groups ­-- middle schoolers, high schoolers and adults. Prizes are up for grabs for the winning teams in each group...

The 2015 Putnam County Fair Queen Call Out Session will be hosted Saturday, April 18 at the Dixie Chopper Conference Center at 2 p.m. The venue has changed due to a scheduling conflict. The meeting is for those interested in participating in the Fair Queen contest. Participants must be entering into at least their third year in 4-H, and be at least 18, but no older than 22, on June 1, 2016...

DANVILLE -- Putnam County drivers are advised that an Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) concrete cleaning and joint sealing project will begin on or after Monday, April 20 on U.S. 36 in Hendricks County. The project area will be from one mile east of State Road 39 in Danville to just west of State Road 267 in Hendricks County...

Michael Acsbok of the Putnam County Public Library will be the speaker at the April 21 Living with Low Vision meeting. The meeting will take place from 10-11 a.m. at Lifebuilder Community Church, 701 E. Washington St., Greencastle. Acsbok, the technology integrator and media specialist at PCPL, will speak on the services and accommodations the library offers for the vision impaired...

Jack Wesley Walker, 86, of Greencastle, passed away Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at St. Vincent Seton Specialty Hospital in Indianapolis. Jack was born on March 31, 1929 at Crawfordsville, the son of Jack Ernest and Edith Marie Pierce Walker. He grew up in the Waynetown area and graduated from Waynetown High School in 1947 before serving in the U.S. Army in Korea...

On Friday and Saturday, April 10 and 11, Greencastle Middle School instrumental and vocal students competed in the Indiana State School Music Association (ISSMA) organizational competition at Cloverdale High School. The students spent many hours preparing three pieces and performed before three highly qualified judges...

ROSEDALE -- On Friday, April 24 at 1 p.m., the Covered Bridge Gateway Trails Association will celebrate the grand opening of the first ADA-accessible hiking/biking trail in Parke County. A ceremonial ribbon-cutting event is scheduled at the trailhead in Rosedale...

BAINBRIDGE -- The North Putnam School Corporation Board of Trustees voted to hire Robert Boyd to perform an internal investigation. During the regular board meeting Wednesday, Boyd was hired at the rate of $75 per hour, with the original contract not to exceed 30 hours...

The North Putnam Community School Corporation will hold a special meeting to discuss and possibly approve the construction of a solar farm that would aim to provide the school with net-zero energy usage. The project that will be discussed involves Johnson-Melloh Solutions, the same company providing the extensive remodel throughout North Putnam schools. ...

CLOVERDALE -- The Cloverdale Town Council is seeking more information about the possibility of extending their sewer services to the Cunot area. Town Manager Wayne Galloway said the Indiana Department of Environmental Management Agency (IDEM) is investigating a complaint about E. coli seeping into the ground and subsequently heading toward Cataract Lake in the Cunot area due to the use of septic tanks...