Stories from Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Sheila Fay English, 60, of Bainbridge, passed away on Monday, Oct. 12, 2015. She was born on March 4, 1955 in Morgan County, Tenn., to James and Geneva Melton. Sheila was a graduate of Martinsville High School. She was a seamstress by trade and helped her husband with the operation of their Buffalo Farm...

BAINBRIDGE -- There truly is a lot more than corn in Indiana, and proving such a notion is easy in Putnam County. Crafts, artwork, antiques, family activities and a plethora of home-cooked food are gracing the grounds of "Designs by Donna and Friends" in Bainbridge this week for its annual Covered Bridge Festival. Residents and local organizations alike are jumping on the opportunity to both sell merchandise and raise funds for their respective communities...

CLOVERDALE -- Visitors can ride on a hay wagon, decorate pumpkins, go trick-or-treating and more at Lieber State Recreation Area's Gobble-uns Weekend on Saturday, Oct.17. Activities scheduled include: -- 10 a.m.-noon and 1-4 p.m.: Hayrides; cost is $1 per person; meet at the campground parking lot...

Members of the American Red Cross Putnam County Leadership Council were recently recognized for their outstanding service to the organization. Leadership Council members host fundraising events to benefit the American Red Cross and also serve as local ambassadors...

Four recent arrests were reported by Greencastle City Police officers. -- At 12:38 a.m. Tuesday, Officer Kyle Lee made a pair of arrests after a traffic stop on Shadowlawn Avenue. Natalie Floyd, 32, Reelsville, was arrested and lodged in the Putnam County Jail on charges of possession of methamphetamine and possession of paraphernalia...

The following cases were filed in Putnam County courts recently. Natalie N. Floyd, 32, Reelsville, Level 6 felony possession of methamphetamine Clint J. Byrd, 19, Greencastle, two counts of Level 6 felony battery against a public safety official, Class A misdemeanor resisting law enforcement...

Ann Christine Powell, 75, of Lafayette, passed away at 9:05 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015 at Rosewalk Village in Lafayette. She was born July 13, 1940, in Chicago, Ill., to the late Martin and Thelma Hough. She received her BA from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana...

Ivy Tech Community College is offering an SAT/ACT prep course at its Greencastle campus Oct. 26-28. The SAT/ACT Fast Prep helps high school juniors and seniors prepare for the SAT and/or the ACT in just three days. Ivy Tech mathematics and English faculty instruct the course, which covers math and English components of the SAT, including essay writing, and strategies for each section. The course will also cover preparation for the ACT and contain a practice test each night...

CLOVERDALE -- The Cloverdale School Board continues to make cuts as the corporation foresees $1.3 million in state funding cuts in coming years. Superintendent Greg Linton explained while staff cuts were a necessity to make necessary funding changes, the board approved a change in insurance companies which will save the school about $24,000 annually...

ROACHDALE -- As town halls across the northern United States utilize October sessions to prepare for looming winter weather, one small town nestled in northeastern Putnam County is proving to be no exception. Special guest speaker Jay Walerstein, vice president of Road Solutions Inc. ...

An incident that made some residents' and visitors' blood boil got a closer look Tuesday night. A boil order that lasted more than 50 hours for City of Greencastle water users and rural water customers last month was addressed briefly at the first City Council meeting since the inconvenient incident...