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Lady Cougars fall to Monrovia
(High School Sports ~ 05/29/15)
CLAYTON -- On a breezy Wednesday at Cascade North Putnam's softball team played in its IHSAA sectional championship against Monrovia. Each team was led to the championship game by great pitching, so it was no surprise that runs were scacre. Monrovia got the better of North Putnam, winning 3-1 after taking the lead late in the game...
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Cloverdale's Moghadam vaults into state finals
(High School Sports ~ 05/29/15)
BLOOMINGTON -- A pole vaulter who barely snuck into regional after a fifth-place finish at sectional vaulted himself right into the state finals with his performance Thursday night. Cloverdale senior Chris Moghadam found his inner springs for a leap of 13 feet, seven inches, nearly two feet higher than his sectional jump of 11 feet, 10 inches...
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Cloverdale falls to Monrovia in sectional round
(High School Sports ~ 05/29/15)
ROACHDALE -- It was late in the game when Cloverdale's baseball team made it on the scoreboard against Monrovia at the North Putnam IHSAA sectional Thursday. While the Clovers never gave in and gave themselves an opportunity to make a run at the lead, Monrovia was able to stave off any comeback attempt and took the win...
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Greencastle earns sectional win, plays in semis
(High School Sports ~ 05/29/15)
DANVILLE--Greencastle jumped out to a 9-0 lead in the first two innings of the Danville baseball sectional against the Indian Creek Braves Wednesday night before the final duration got pushed to Thursday night because of weather. The nine-run lead proved to be big before winning 11-4...
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Little Deputies
(Local News ~ 05/29/15)
Roachdale is a little safer with 18 new special deputies sworn in by Putnam County Sheriff Scott Stockton recently, even if those honorary deputies are only about three-feet tall. The sheriff said he was following up on a promise made to Cathy Proctor's second-grade class during Law Enforcement Appreciation Week in January. ...
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Garner goes up, up and away to retirement
(Local News ~ 05/29/15)
After 42 years of encouraging his students to reach for the stars, John Garner soared off into retirement Thursday morning. Garner, a popular science teacher who came to Greencastle High School in 1984 after 10 years at Cloverdale, climbed into the small gondola of a Stars and Heights hot-air balloon, soared above the GHS parking lot and floated off to the west as dozens of family members, students and fellow teachers cheered him just after dawn...
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Farm Bureau promotes ag literacy in local students
(Local News ~ 05/29/15)
The Indiana Agriculture in the Classroom (INAITC) program strives to increase agricultural literacy through K-12 education. More than 100 volunteers across the state work with schools, teachers and youth organizations to introduce the program, arrange farm tours and present lessons and activities in the classroom...
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Christfest concert set July 11 at DePauw's Green Center
(Local News ~ 05/29/15)
Christfest, a community concert, will return for its second year on July 11 at Kresge Auditorium in DePauw University's Green Center. The event will be a night full of music, fellowship and fun. There are four performers for the evening: Jonathan Thulin, 1 Girl Nation, Mark 209 and Greencastle's own Bobbie Lancaster. These accomplished artists, some of whom can be heard on Christian radio stations, have a wide range of musical styles such as bluegrass, gospel, rock, pop and worship...
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Who's News
(Local News ~ 05/29/15)
HANK SPENCER, a senior computer science major of Greencastle, received Clyde Lamb Award, the Alumni Computer Science and Information Systems Prize and the "Decade of Excellence" Prize at the University of Mount Union's Senior Recognition and Honors Convocation on April 21...
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At the Library: May 30, 2015
(Local News ~ 05/29/15)
Family Quiet Time, Imagination Portal, 9-11 a.m.: Looking for a little quiet in the library? These hours are for you. Enjoy the without monitors, video games or music in the background. Tech Help Desk, 2-4 p.m.: Our Tech Help Desk has a computer technician available to give one-on-one assistance using software and electronic devices, and can help diagnose and repair your computers and devices...
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Court News for May 30, 2015
(Court News ~ 05/29/15)
The following cases were filed in Putnam County courts recently. Wanda Ritter, 63, Greencastle, two counts of Class A misdemeanor check deception Hailey Niccole Tipton, 25, Crawfordsville, Class A misdemeanor theft David G. Vella, 54, Evansville, speeding...
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Putnam Scanner for May 30, 2015
(Police Logs ~ 05/29/15)
Three people were booked into the Putnam County Jail recently. At 9:10 p.m. Wednesday, Tonya Lynn Anderson, 30, Greencastle, was arrested for possession of methamphetamine, theft and probation violation. At 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Christopher Brian Taylor, 29, Greencastle, was booked in for reckless driving...
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Fillmore Alumni Banquet set Saturday, June 6
(Local News ~ 05/29/15)
The 90th Fillmore Alumni banquet is set for Saturday, June 6, at the Fillmore Elementary School cafeteria. Welcome hour will be 5-6 p.m., with dinner served at 6. All alumni are welcome to bring guests, and anyone who attended FHS or has an interest in the school is welcome to attend...
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CVB officers to meet June 3
(Local News ~ 05/29/15)
The Putnam County Convention and Visitor Bureau officers will meet at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, June 3. The meeting to discuss the reorganization will take place at the CVB office at 12 W. Washington St., Greencastle.
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'Capturing Fame' Warhol exhibit opens June 2 at Peeler
(Local News ~ 05/29/15)
From 1970 to 1987, Andy Warhol took scores of Polaroid and black-and-white photographs, the vast majority of which have never been seen by the public. Those images often served as the basis for his commissioned portraits, silkscreened paintings, drawings and prints...
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Playhouse open house set Sunday afternoon
(Local News ~ 05/29/15)
The 54th season at Putnam County Playhouse kicks off on Sunday, May 31 with an open house at the Hazel Day Longden Barn Theatre on Round Barn Road in Greencastle. The event is scheduled for 1-3 p.m. It is free and open to the public. The box office will be open for season ticket sales. Individual tickets for all productions also will be on sale...
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Tested by fire
(Local News ~ 05/29/15)
Consider 200,000 butts. When you hear, "they don't make 'em like they used to," the case in point is the longevity of the barber's chairs at Dick's Barber Shop. Installed no later than 1923, the familiar orange chairs have survived more than nine decades and the rear ends of an estimated 200,000 customers each...
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New location doesn't change Dick's Barber Shop
(Local News ~ 05/29/15)
The plan was for Dick Asbell to be the first person to get a haircut in the newly-relocated Greencastle barbershop that bears his name. And while Asbell was indeed in the first chair getting a trim from son Phil at 7:45 a.m. Friday, he wasn't alone. Apparently a week was enough time to wait for a number of regular customers...
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Putnam County woman meets with pen pal she hasn't seen in 50 years
(Local News ~ 05/29/15)
LIMEDALE -- Despite being close friends for almost 50 years, this week is only the second time a Putnam County woman and her Argentine pen pal have met face-to-face. Rural Putnam County resident Nema Cooper has been writing to Ana Lia Massolo in Ramos Mejia, a suburb of Buenos Aires, since July 14, 1965. In all their years of sharing stories about their lives, families and turmoils, this is only the second time they have been able to sit across the table from one another and share...
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Stellar Project slowly winding down in city
(Local News ~ 05/29/15)
Where once it seemed like all four sides of the courthouse square were under construction at once and major Greencastle streets were under constant restoration, there's now a light at the end of the tunnel for the city's $19 million Stellar Communities Grant project...
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Great Day to be a Tiger Cub
(Local News ~ 05/29/15)
Moments from Greencastle High School graduation.
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Eagles bow out of North Putnam sectional
(High School Sports ~ 05/29/15)
ROACHDALE -- There wasn't much that South Putnam's baseball team was able to do against WCC rival Cascade in the North Putnam sectional Friday. Cascade jumped out to a quick lead and went on to a big 19-1 win. Eagle coach Zach Love believed that his team never gave in just as the Eagles have done all year...
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