Stories from Thursday, October 29, 2015

The Putnam County Non-food Pantry, hosted by St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, will be distributing items from 1-3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 31 in the parish hall at 520 Seminary St., Greencastle. In order to be eligible for these items, persons must bring proof of Putnam County residence. Those who bring their own bags may select an additional item from the table...

In a meeting that featured extensive discussion of rewriting bylaws, travel policies and other minutia of re-establishing the Putnam County Convention and Visitor Bureau, the CVB board dropped one potentially big bombshell late in its monthly meeting Tuesday evening...

Danny Williams of Greencastle High School won the sub-junior division in handicap trapshooting at the Grand National Championships in recently. Williams, a member of the Roachdale Claybusters, shot a 99 out of 100 targets. In day one of the singles event, where 200 single targets would be shot over two days, Williams shot a perfect 100 straight birds and kept his chances alive to win the high overall singles championship adding onto his handicap trophy...

Want to see your child take their first basketball shot? Then sign them up for the Greencastle Parks and Recreation Department's "My First Shot Basketball Program" for all kindergarteners. Registration opened on Oct. 7 for $40 per player, and all registrations turned in by Oct. 31 will receive their shot at winning an autographed Indiana Pacers basketball...

The North Putnam Youth Basketball League will have signups for kindergarten through sixth grade boys and girls on the following dates for the 2015-16 season: The registration fee is $50 per player. Evaluation Day: All players will need to be present on Saturday, Nov/ 14 at the North Putnam Middle School Gym at the time detailed below based on age group for player evaluations. Each child is encouraged to bring gym shoes and shorts for evaluations. Evaluation times will be:...

Daniel Huffman was born on July 5, 1996 to Robert and Melissa Huffman. Huffman is one of 13 children with No. 14 on the way. At North Putnam he plays football, basketball, baseball and he high jumps on the Cougar track team. Huffman enjoys his mother's enchiladas and meat lover's pizza. He likes to watch sports on television, his favorite movie is "Shooter" and he enjoys reading "Field & Stream Magazine" and "Sports Illustrated."...

The Putnam County Non-food Pantry, hosted by St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, will be distributing items from 1-3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 31 in the parish hall at 520 Seminary St., Greencastle. In order to be eligible for these items, persons must bring proof of Putnam County residence. Those who bring their own bags may select an additional item from the table...

The new group Indiana Farmers United will host an informational meeting on Thursday, Nov. 5 at the Putnam County Public Library. The meeting will take place in the Local History Room from 6:30-7:45 p.m. and is open to anyone interested in growing and eating healthy food...

Hunters are invited to kick off the deer hunting firearms season with the annual Lieber State Recreation Area Hunters Rendezvous chili supper on Friday, Nov. 13, the eve of the season's opening day. The supper will be from 7-9 p.m. at the Lieber SRA nature center...

Mary Bridget Davies, a notable singer-actress from Cleveland, will perform with the popular regional band Ellusion Friday night at The Swizzle Stick on the north side of the courthouse square in Greencastle. The music is scheduled for 9 p.m. until midnight...

The great Germanic tone poem "Death and Transfiguration," by Richard Strauss, and American composer Michael Torke's joyful "Javelin, "written for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, are the featured works to be performed by the DePauw University Orchestra for its upcoming concert on Sunday...

Nonprofit board members have a responsibility not only to understand, but to make decisions based upon the financial statements of their organization. The last workshop in the 2015 Nonprofit Learning Series, sponsored by the Putnam County Community Foundation and the Montgomery County Community Foundation, is titled "A Board's Guide to Finances."...

To the Editor: I'm a New Yorker. Not your Big Apple, sky-scraper NY'er, but a dairy-farm raised, Adirondack Mountain-loving' NY'er. My husband and I made a temporary move to Indiana for employment -- that was 17 years ago (so much for "temporary"'). ...

County Jail Eleven people were booked into the Putnam County Jail recently. At 10:20 a.m. on Tuesday, Taren Ray Proctor, 27, Greencastle, was arrested for probation violation. At 1:27 p.m. Charles Walter III, 22, no city listed, was lodged at the jail for failure to appear...

The following cases were filed in Putnam County courts recently. Criminal Cases Nicholas J. McAlister, 25, Avon, Level 3 felony possession of methamphetamine, Level 6 felony resisting law enforcement Tramell White, 26, Putnamville Correctional Facility, Level 3 felony aggravated battery...

To the Editor: The PTO hosted our annual Fall Festival Fundraiser on Oct. 3. We would like to thank everyone who came and enjoyed the many activities. It was a great fun-filled night. Your support generated $6,187.50, which the PTO will use to enrich the school experience through convocations, field trips, 100 Book Club, the purchase of educational equipment and other activities. Our only expenses of the night totaled $593.37...

Greencastle will have new faces, new offensive threats and new ways to score, according to coach Bradley Key. "Expect to see a new team," Key said. "We graduated five seniors. Several of those played quite a bit of basketball for us. We've kind of got a new, I think, athletic team. We hope to get up and down the floor a little bit. You say that in October and you'll never know what January will provide."...

CLOVERDALE -- The Cloverdale girls' basketball team has had some successes in in the regular season in past years but has struggled to make .500 and has been knocked out of the sectional round by South Putnam three out of the last four years. This year the Clover team is younger and according to coach Matt Langdon is excited to get the season underway...

The South Putnam girls' basketball team is coming into the season with a new head coach after working all summer with Tim Garver who coached the Eagles throughout the summer tournament. But current head coach Brian Gardner is no stranger to South Putnam and has already developed some of the continuity with the Eagle players that will be needed on the hardwood...

ROACHDALE -- North Putnam has gotten off to a late start this season as many of its varsity players are just wrapping up their sectional-winning volleyball season. The Cougars are also contending with a new head coach, Kevin Corsaro, who was an assistant at Decatur Central from 2006-10 and whose first full-team practice took place Thursday...

BAINBRIDGE -- The school board for the North Putnam School Corporation met for a special session Wednesday amidst reports that it hadn't yet officially passed its budget for the 2015-16 school year. After a previous quorum vote of 3-1, potentially passing the budget for the 2015-16 school year, the board approved the plan by a vote of 4-2 Wednesday at its administration offices in Bainbridge...

The Lafayette Street storm sewer replacement project in Cloverdale is making progress. Reed and Sons Construction is currently working north of Logan Street on the project, which started in recent weeks. Town Manager Wayne Galloway said the project will continue to Market Street and after the drain pipe is complete, a drain basin will be implemented to further assist with flooding issues. ...

With the City of Greencastle general election less than a week away, candidates for mayor, three at-large City Council seats and clerk-treasurer squared off Wednesday night. The 90-minute program in Watson Forum of the DePauw University Center for Contemporary Media, was presented by the Greencastle League of Women Voters in conjunction with WGRE radio and the Banner Graphic. ...

Greencastle native Bette Killion, who released a children's book on Oct. 7 titled "Princess Rosie's Rainbows," has kids around the country wanting to read more about this exceptionally mini monarch and her many adventures. In fact, Killion was recently featured at a book-signing within "Book Mamas" bookstore in Indianapolis -- quite an impressive feat when considering the author has officially entered her 91st year...