Stories from Sunday, April 26, 2015

Leroy S. Tilley, 93, of Greencastle, passed away on Saturday, April 25, 2015. Born April 6, 1922 in Greencastle, he was the son of Guy and Lola Ruth (Gardner) Tilley. He was married 57 years to Grace (Harmon) Tilley, and she preceded him in death on May 20, 2013...

When the North Putnam girls' track team ran its scheduled meet at home Thursday against Crawfordsville it was without its Putnam County rival Greencastle who had many track team members on a band trip. North Putnam and Crawfordsville faced off alone with the visitors just edging out the Lady Cougars...

The North Putnam Bosses 11U volleyball team finished third in the Gold Division at the JVA Classic Tourney held at the Indiana State Fairgrounds last weekend. The team is comprised of fifth-grade students at Roachdale and Bainbridge Elementary Schools. ...

The weekend weather gave way for South Putnam to host its third annual "Champions Together" track meet on Sunday. The meet promotes unity and leadership between high school athletes and athletes from Putnam County's Special Olympics team. Sunday the different athletes teamed up for a variety of track and field events under the beautiful sunny sky...

Harold Barger, a veteran of state, county and city highway experience and a Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam War, is seeking the Third Ward seat on the Greencastle City Council. Barger, 65, who resides at 310 Fifth St., is on the Republican ballot in the May 5 city primary...

Steve Fields has worked in the public eye of the Greencastle community since moving here in 1978. Now he is volunteering his services to the community as a candidate for the Third Ward seat on the Greencastle City Council on the Democrat ticket in the May 5 primary...

May is National Historic Preservation Month. To celebrate, the Heritage Preservation Society of Putnam County is teaming with organizers of First Friday Greencastle for a joint venture on May 1. In conjunction with offerings in the Courthouse Square area, HPS is aptly sponsoring a renovation-themed event in a recently rehabilitated building nearby...

CLOVERDALE -- The Cloverdale School Corporation Instrumental Music department has experienced many performance opportunities this year for the students involved with the program. The contests and events occur outside of the regular school day. Student musicians, their parents and instructors have made extra efforts to rehearse and perform to the best of their ability, being positive ambassadors for Cloverdale Community schools and the local area...

The South Putnam Community School Corporation Board of Trustees this week approved an administrative performance stipend to be paid out of corporation funds. Superintendent Bruce Bernhardt explained teachers that were on staff last year and are still teaching this year were eligible for the performance stipend as determined in previous negotiations. ...

Tyler Wade, a lifelong Greencastle resident and current Fourth Ward city councilman, is seeking election to his first four-year Council stint on the Republican ticket in the May 5 city primary election. "I grew up on the city's south side, in the same house four generations of relatives called home," Wade said. "My great grandparents, Cliff and Dorothy Monnett, owned and operated Monnett's Market...

Tanis Monday, Fourth Ward City Council hopeful on the Democrat ticket in the May 5 primary, is executive director of Beyond Homeless Inc., the shelter for women and children that opened in early 2014. Prior to that she served as executive director of the Putnam County Museum for four years following her initial year as assistant director...

Bennet "Benny" Whitlock, 66, of 907 S. Locust St., is seeking the Fourth Ward Greencastle City Council seat on the Democrat ticket in the May 5 city primary election. Born in 1948 in Greencastle to Edward and Anna Mae Whitlock, he was raised in Putnam County, attending Roachdale Elementary School up to the fifth grade when the family moved to Bainbridge and he finished his education there, graduating from Bainbridge High School in 1967...

A special meeting of the North Putnam Community School District board was held last week to address possible construction of a solar farm to power North Putnam schools. Although a quorum was present, and a few community members were in attendance, the board did not want to make a decision on the matter without the full attendance of its members...

Speaking before Putnam faithful among the grand-old party of Lincoln, Reagan and a pair of George Bushes, Indiana Lt. Gov. Sue Ellsperman assured local Republicans Sunday afternoon "your state is strong." That is "because of this party," she told a Lincoln Day audience of more than 125 at the Putnam County Fairgrounds Community Building...

The continued greening of Greencastle has not been lost on State of Indiana officials. That's why two of them were on hand on a cold, rainy Saturday morning -- Earth Day, wouldn't you know -- to honor the City of Greencastle as a Green Legacy Community...