Stories from Sunday, May 1, 2016

James Robert "Rob" Crist, 58, of Greencastle, passed away April 29, 2016 in Indianapolis. Rob was born Oct. 13, 1957 in Indianapolis, to the late Robert and Martha Crist. He was a 1976 graduate of North Putnam High School, and was a highly skilled welder at Floating Docks Manufacturing of Indianapolis...

Services for Rodney Trout, 83, Coatesville, are pending at Bousley Funeral Home, Coatesville. He passed away Sunday, May 1, 2016 at Mill Pond Health Campus in Greencastle. A full obituary with service times will be in Wednesday's Banner-Graphic.

Rain shortened the Greencastle Invitational boys' golf tournament on Saturday, but the host Tiger Cubs played well despite the poor weather conditions and finished first in the four-team event. Jake Buis was the medalist for the meet with a 37, followed by Jake Bennett in third with a 41...

The Greencastle Farmers' Market starts its eighth season on the square in downtown Greencastle on Saturday, May 7. Everyone is invited to celebrate the end of winter and let their favorite farmers know they are appreciated for providing fresh local food...

PUTNAM COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY Monday, May 2 - Saturday, May 7 Monday, May 2 -- Imagination Portal Unplugged, 9 a.m.-noon Enjoy the Imagination Portal without monitors, video games or music in the background. -- Community Help Desk, 2-4 p.m. Computer technician available to give one-on-one assistance using software and electronic devices, and can help diagnose and repair computers and devices...

Trees from the Indiana State Nursery will be given away on Friday, May 5 at the May First Friday event in downtown Greencastle. Saturday, May 6 trees will be given away at the Farmers' Market. Putnam County Families in Nature will help hand out the trees. The trees are sponsored by Buzzi Unicem...

The second annual Master Gardener plant auction is scheduled for Saturday morning, May 14. Gardeners and future gardeners are invited to gather at the Producers Building at the Putnam County Fairgrounds. At 9:15 a.m., set-up should be finished, and folks are welcome to come and see this year's offerings. At 10: a.m., the auction will begin...

DePauw University Theatre's 2015-16 season will close with the annual Spring Spectacle of Shakespeare on Saturday, May 7 in Moore Theatre within the Green Center for the Performing Arts. The festival marks the end of a semester-long, intensive program between DePauw, Shakespeare & Company and six Putnam County middle and high schools to produce three of Shakespeare's plays...

Today marks the debut of the College Report column in the Greencastle Banner Graphic. This column ran for the past 11 years in the Terre Haute Tribune-Star as I worked as a columnist and correspondent there, and has been a popular item among those readers over the years...

The polls are open for the election from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday. Putnam County precincts and polling places are: Clinton: Van Bibber Lake Conservancy. Cloverdale 1: Cloverdale High School. Cloverdale 2: Stardust Hills Clubhouse. Cloverdale 3: Cloverdale Town Hall...

Carly Fiorina, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz's recently announced running mate, reportedly will be in Greencastle today about 5:30 p.m. The Cruz campaign has called Almost Home restaurant about making arrangements to eat there, a spokesman said...

It's a good thing heated races for president top the Republican and Democrat ballots in the 2016 Indiana Primary Election Tuesday. Because just one contested local race exists on either side of the political aisle -- the battle for the District 3 county commissioner spot on the Republican ballot...

A full house packed to standing-room-only greeted Heidi Cruz and Ted Cruz's running mate Carly Fiorina as they visited Almost Home Restaurant and Swizzle Stick Bar on the courthouse square Sunday evening. After introductory remarks by Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), Heidi Cruz spoke to the crowd about what her husband would do as president and who he is as a person...

Friday, May 6 will mark the arrival of the 2016 edition of Greencastle First Fridays and a return of monthly spring, summer and fall fun to the Courthouse Square. The inaugural 2016 First Friday will commence at 6 p.m. with live music starting at 7...

Speaking to an overwhelmingly favorable crowd Sunday evening at Almost Home, Republican vice presidential candidate Carly Fiorina nonetheless took aim at GOP frontrunner Donald Trump. Less than 48 hours from the pivotal Indiana primary, Fiorina used most of her nine-minute speech to extol the positives of Sen. Ted Cruz, her running mate who trails Trump in most state polls of likely Republican voters...

When Gail Smith co-founded Almost Home tea room 26 years ago, it had nothing to do with politics. The years have passed and many things have changed -- Almost Home is now a full-fledged restaurant with the Swizzle Stick bar adjoining -- but it still has nothing to do with politics...

A Thursday, April 28 traffic stop by a Putnam County sheriff's deputy resulted in the seizure of nearly nine pounds of methamphetamine and heroin. On Saturday, Sheriff Scott Stockton reported that Maj. Dwight Simmons made a traffic stop of an eastbound 2010 Nissan pickup truck on Interstate 70 for a traffic violation and found it occupied by several people, including children...