Stories from Friday, April 1, 2016

The South Putnam varsity and JV baseball teams will be hosting a three-on-three basketball tourney funderaiser on Saturday, April 2 at Central Elementary School. Registration begins at 10 a.m. Cost is $10 per person and a team can consist of up to four players...

The teens of the BeThel Students Ministies are raising money for a summer 2016 mission trip to Alaska. The organization is planning a golf scramble on Saturday, April 23 to help fund the trip for the youth. The scramble will be at Clover Meadows golf course with play starting at 1 p.m...

BRODY BEASLEY received a Super-Superior rating for his piano performance at the Hendricks County Music Festival on March 12. Beasley performed two pieces by memory and was judged on rhythm, preparation, musicality and professionalism. A Super-Superior rating indicates a perfect score on both pieces...

GREENCASTLE -- Board members from the Mary Allison Children's Trust Fund were pleased to accept a donation from Gobin United Methodist Church in the amount of $2,011.70 as well as from the Greencastle Rotary Club in the amount of $500. Gobin and Rotary are Trust Patrons for 2016 for the charity...

Local real estate broker Eric Wolfe recently garnered top awards from the F.C. Tucker Company for his 2015 real estate sales in Putnam County. Wolfe was named to the President's Club for closing more than $5 million in sales and was recognized as a Top Producer for being No. 1 in sales in Greencastle's F.C. Tucker/Schneider Realty office...

Recipients of the VFW Citizenship Award at North Putnam Middle School are seventh-grader Cayman Curran and eighth-grader Alexi Sweet. The award is presented by Roachdale VFW Post 3284.

The following cases were filed in Putnam County courts recently. Clint L. Walker, 17, Bainbridge, seat belt violation Luke A. Bunch, 18, Cloverdale, speeding John J. Marks, 57, Wichita, Kan., expired plates, driving with a suspended license Zachery C. Wood, 25, Fillmore, seat belt violation...

County Jail Six people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. At 10:20 a.m. on Thursday, Shane Michael Baker, 31, Fillmore, was lodged at the jail for probation violation. At 3:25 p.m. Megan Ann Bass, 30, Staunton, was booked in on a warrant...

DePauw University President-elect D. Mark McCoy announced Friday that Cindy Babington, currently vice president for admission and financial aid, has agreed to serve as chief of staff in the new administration. Anthony E. Jones, currently vice president of enrollment management at Fisk University, will join DePauw as it's vice president for enrollment management. The appointments are effective July 1, when McCoy assumes the presidency...

A quick Internet search reveals some of the stranger things ever turned in to Goodwill stores -- prosthetic legs, a live grenade, jackets with large amounts of money in the pockets and even an urn with Grandma still in it. A similarly strange story unfolded at the Greencastle Goodwill earlier this week when workers found handguns in a piece of donated furniture...

After more than 42 years working for the City of Greencastle in some capacity, retiring City Building Inspector Dave Varvel awakened Friday without an office, a building site or a fire scene to go to. "It's a different, strange feeling, knowing you don't have the responsibility you had the day before," Varvel said Friday afternoon, a day after being feted with a retirement reception at City Hall...

If getting there is indeed half the battle, the Greencastle Community School Corporation (GCSC) and City Plan Commission must feel like they've won half the war. On face value, the result of the Plan Commission's meeting earlier this week was unanimous approval of a new site for the GCSC bus barn, just southwest of the intersection of Tennessee Street and State Road 240...

Banner Graphic/ERIC BERNSEE For the 13th straight year, Dr. John Hennette and the staff of Greencastle Pediatric Dentistry donated their services Friday for the Give Kids a Smile program. Six-year-old Natally Doan, a Deer Meadow Primary School student, is the beneficiary of a new smile as dental assistant Morgan Christy charts her progress. ...