Stories from Wednesday, September 2, 2015

The Putnam County Soil and Water Conservation District will host a public local working group meeting on Thursday, Sept. 17 at 6 p.m. at the USDA Service Center, located on 1007 Mill Pond Lane, Greencastle. The meeting is being hosted on behalf of the United States Department of Agriculture's Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS)...

Second-wettest summer ends with cooler August A summer that failed to produce a single 90-degree day during August will go down as the second wettest in central Indiana history, the National Weather Service reports. Monday officially closed the books on meteorological summer (June 1-Aug. 31), which ended up slightly cooler than normal for many locations, but in general was warmer than the previous two summers in 2013 and 2014...

Diana Ruth (Meyers) Parker, 64, a resident of Midland City, Ala., passed away Sunday, Aug. 30, 2015. Diana was born Dec. 5, 1950 in Beech Grove, Ind., to Fred and Vivian Meyers (Mugg), who preceded her in death. Diana grew up on Cloverdale and Quincy, graduating from Cloverdale High School in 1968 and from Indiana State University...

Another season of weekly jazz shows will kick off Thursday at the Fluttering Duck with the first session of Jazz at the Duck from 8:30-10:30 p.m. This fall's series will run most Thursdays from Sept. 3 through July 10. Updates on the concerts will be made throughout the fall, but for now the September dates have been set...