Stories from Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Greencastle High School athletes, parents and fans will have a chance to support Tiger Cub athletics on Wednesday evening at a Greencastle restaurant. From 6-9 p.m. Wednesday, Buffalo Wild Wings will host a fundraiser for GHS athletics. During that three hours, a portion of all sales, excluding alcohol, will be donated to the athletic program...

The Department of Natural Resources has received numerous questions regarding recent legislation that legalizes certain rifles for deer hunting beginning later this year. Most questions have to do with calibers and cartridges allowed under the new law...

Greencastle City Police officers were called to the Indianapolis Road-Percy Julian Drive area Monday night to investigate two pedestrians reportedly impeding traffic in front of the CVS Pharmacy. Just after 7 p.m., GPD Officer Brad Hiatt and Reserve Officer Billy Wallace arrived at the scene where one of the subjects, identified as Elijah D. Isenhower, 25, of Danville, was found to be in illegal possession of two syringes and was taken to the Putnam County Jail...

Roger Darrell Webb Sr. 54, Roachdale, passed away suddenly on Friday April 1, 2016 at Hendricks Regional Health. He was born on March 19, 1962 to Jess Daniel and Betty Jane Wilson Webb at Crawfordsville. Roger attended North Putnam High School. He worked for the Town of Roachdale and later U-Rent-It-Center in Crawfordsville...

Daniel Raymond Nickerson, 60, of Greencastle, passed away on Tuesday, April 5, 2016. Born July 27, 1955 in Greencastle, he was the son of Ronald Wayne and Shirley Ann (Parker) Nickerson. He was a 1974 graduate of Cloverdale High School. Daniel was a United States Air Force veteran, having served overseas...

While it may not necessitate toiling all the live-long day, contractors will be working on the railroad, repairing the precipitous crossing at the southwest entrance to Greencastle sometime in the near future. The first step toward repairing the South Jackson Street (Manhattan Road) crossing came as unanimous approval by the Greencastle Redevelopment Commission of a $35,000 preliminary engineering agreement with CSX Railroad...

Wondering why you are seeing so much of the color teal this April? Teal is the official color of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. To promote awareness about sexual assault, members of the community have partnered with Putnam County Family Support Services in a campaign called Guys with Ties and Girls with Pearls...

The Greencastle Kiwanis Club presents $250 checks recently to the Mary Allison Children's Trust, Putnam County Youth Development and the Putnam County Community Coalition from the Kiwanis Endowment fund housed at the Putnam County Community Foundation. ...

PLAINFIELD -- A man who robbed a Plainfield bank earlier this week may be responsible for three other bank heists in the last month, authorities report. The latest robbery occurred Monday night at the First National Bank in Plainfield. Police are asking for help finding a bank robber suspected in as many as four Hendricks County heists in the last month...

The month of February marked Greencastle High School's annual Cumulative Honors Banquet which featured a staggering 51 seniors who, through their seventh semester, have an unweighted, average GPA of 3.778. Principal Russ Hesler, who spoke at the ceremony, said the banquet was a "great evening of fun and food with a whole room of great-looking, talented and smart kiddos."...

Greencastle High School athletes, parents and fans will have a chance to support Tiger Cub athletics on Wednesday evening at a Greencastle restaurant. From 6-9 p.m. Wednesday, Buffalo Wild Wings will host a fundraiser for GHS athletics. During that three hours, a portion of all sales, excluding alcohol, will be donated to the athletic program...

County Jail Eleven people were booked into the Putnam County Jail recently. At noon on Friday, Rolland Corey Alexander Jacobson, 23, Cloverdale, was lodged at the jail for probation violation. At 4:30 p.m. Patricia Ann Sircy, 51, Greenwood, was arrested on a warrant...

Greencastle City Police officers were called to the Indianapolis Road-Percy Julian Drive area Monday night to investigate two pedestrians reportedly impeding traffic in front of the CVS Pharmacy. Just after 7 p.m., GPD Officer Brad Hiatt and Reserve Officer Billy Wallace arrived at the scene where one of the subjects, identified as Elijah D. Isenhower, 25, of Danville, was found to be in illegal possession of two syringes and was taken to the Putnam County Jail...

Although John Crane says he sees a number of important issues facing Indiana in the current political climate -- educations, religious liberty and rights of conscience and military families and veterans among them -- the candidate for the Indiana Senate District 24 sees one issue above all others: Leadership...