Stories from Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Marion Halsey (Search) Gabonay, 90, of Greencastle, passed away on Sunday, June 28, 2015. She was born in Bangor, Maine, the second of four daughters, to William and Alice Search. Marion spent the early years of her life in Greencastle while her father taught physical education at DePauw University. The family moved to Waveland, where she graduated from high school, immediately followed by enrollment at Indiana Business College in Indianapolis...

Ivy Tech Community College has officially named Greg Cook as campus president of its Greencastle campus.Cook previously served as interim in this position for almost a year. Cook has been with the college since 2009. Prior to serving as interim Greencastle campus president, he served as site director of Ivy Tech's Avon site for four years ...

ROACHDALE -- Sacred Nations Cultural Center will host the Sacred Nations Sundance from July 4 through 11 on County Road 500 East near Roachdale. The eight-day ceremony comes with an invitation to pray with participants and fullfill Black Elk's vision, a prophecy that all nations will come to the sacred tree of life and pray as one...

Hazel Allen Singleton, 95, of Greencastle, went to be with the Lord on Monday, June 29, 2015. Born Dec. 22, 1919 in Johnetta, Ky., she was the daughter of Arch and Delia (Abney) Allen. She married William L. Singleton on April 12, 1935, and he preceded her in death in 1994...

It was an up and down season for Greencastle baseball but throughout the wins and losses one thing remained constant. Tanner Nicholson was the most consistent and reliable at the plate and was no slouch on the mound. For this reason Nicholson is named the 2015 Putnam County Baseball Player of the Year...

County Jail Three people have been booked into the Putnam County Jail recently. At 2:45 a.m. on Saturday, Daniel Mark Ray, 61, Cloverdale, was arrested for driving while intoxicated. At 9:30 a.m. Monday, Daniel Lee Ritter, 25, Avon, was arrested on a warrant...

The following cases were filed in Putnam County courts recently. Criminal Cases Terrel L. Terry, 21, Cloverdale, Class B misdemeanor leaving the scene of an accident Dustin A. Shannon, 27, Cloverdale, Class A misdemeanor battery resulting in bodily injury...

The mention of summer camp evokes visions of canoes and campfires and creaky bunk beds. But summer camp takes on many forms these days. For 83 Putnam County kids, a recent summer camp involved science lessons, hands-on learning and not having to spend a single night away from home...

The Cloverdale Community School Board voted to award the biggest part of the $1.4 million construction project to Wabash Valley Asphalt Tuesday night. Superintendent Greg Linton said engineering company Curry and Associates recommended the bid from Wabash Valley Asphalt, which came in around $890,000...

A deluge of late candidate filings means there will be contested elections in every Putnam County municipality this fall. Between noon on Friday and the noon Tuesday filing deadline, 12 new candidates added their names to the ballots in Putnam County, with at least one candidate in all but one race in the county and at least one contested race in each town...