Stories from Thursday, June 18, 2015

The Putnam County Community Foundation staged its annual meeting Wednesday evening at the Inn at DePauw, celebrating 30 years of enhancing the local community through grants and scholarships.

Martha "Marty" Marie Reynolds, 83, Speedway, passed away peacefully in the early morning of Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at IU Health West. Born Dec. 11, 1931 to Clifford and Hazel McMains of Greencastle, Martha was the youngest of her four siblings, Ivor, Weyburn, Alice Ann and Myron...

By JAY LOCKETT Sports Editor ROACHDALE -- Only one year after accepting the head coaching job for the South Putnam girls' basketball team, Tim Garver has accepted the position of athletic director for North Putnam. Announced at the North Putnam school board meeting Wednesday night, Garver's contract with North Putnam will officially take effect July 1...

Kenneth Lee Masten, 51, of Denton, Texas, passed away unexpectedly on Saturday, June 13, 2015. Born in Valparaiso, Ind., on Feb. 4, 1964, Ken spent much of his youth in Cloverdale, graduated in 1982 from Greencastle High School and worked for many years at Cummins Behavioral Health Systems in Greencastle...

CLOVERDALE -- As the clock struck midnight and Thursday merged into Friday, a standoff situation in Cloverdale reached the 10-hour mark and entered its second day without resolution. Nonetheless, authorities were still confident that the unidentified 33-year-old suspect who was barricaded inside the Appliance Guy store on Market Street, just off U.S. 231 in Cloverdale, would allow the situation to be defused peacefully...