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Flags meet dignified end in Legion ceremony
(Local News ~ 06/14/16)
With Old Glory still at half staff following the Orlando mass shooting on Saturday, Flag Day was nonetheless celebrated on Tuesday. Greencastle American Legion Post 58 noted the patriotic event with its annual flag disposal ceremony at its Veterans Plaza outside the main entrance of the post...
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Phyllis Jean Asher
(Obituary ~ 06/14/16)
Phyllis Jean Asher, 86, of Greencastle, passed away Monday, June 13, 2016 at The Waters of Greencastle. She was born Nov. 27, 1929 in Frankfort, Ind., to the late Ottis and Helen (Johnson) Wingate. Phyllis graduated from Thorntown High School with the class of 1947...
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Annual Jim Baugh blood drive set for June 20
(Local News ~ 06/14/16)
The 10th annual Capt. Jim Baugh Memorial Blood Drive is scheduled for Monday, June 20 at Greencastle Christian Church, 620 Primrose Lane. The blood drive is scheduled for 1-6 p.m. Donors are asked to enter via church door No. 4. The blood drive is co-sponsored by the Baugh family and the Putnam County Fraternal Order of Police...
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Greencastle Youth Football signups continue Tuesday
(Local News ~ 06/14/16)
The final chance to register for the 2016 season of Greencastle Youth Football will be Tuesday evening. Signups will take place at Greencastle McDonald's from 6-7:30 p.m. Age groups include Flag for kindergarten and first grade, Rookie for second grade, Minors for third and fourth and Majors for fifth and sixth...
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Bridge project will close CR 1000 East over I-70
(Local News ~ 06/14/16)
BROAD PARK -- The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) has announced a bridge deck overlay project will close Putnam County Road 1000 East over I-70 in Jefferson Township on or after Wednesday, June 15. The roadway is scheduled to reopen on July 15. The suggested detour utilizes Little Point Road...
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Touch-A-Truck event set Saturday in GHS parking lot
(Local News ~ 06/14/16)
Local children are invited to "Rev Up Your Imagination" for the Friends of the Putnam County Public Library's fourth annual Touch-A-Truck event. Touch a Truck will take place from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday, June 18 at the Greencastle High School lower parking lot...
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Local sports notices -- June 14
(Community Sports ~ 06/14/16)
South Putnam blood drive -- South Football has announced a continuation of its relationship with the Indiana Blood Center and the Indianapolis Colts, and has another blood drive set for this summer. The annual blood drive service project will take place at the Putnam County Fairgrounds on July 2 from 1-6 p.m...
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Cockrum claims Sprint Mid-Season title, $2,000 payday
(Professional Sports ~ 06/14/16)
PUTNAMVILLE -- Fans at Lincoln Park Speedway tried to keep their cool in the steamy conditions Saturday night in Putnamville, as the 5/16th oval track hosted the Sprint Car mid-season championship race. Shane Cockrum ripped around the cushion on his way to his second feature win of the season at Lincoln Park Speedway. Cockrum got past Jeff Bland on the top side of turn three with 10 circuits remaining and stayed there to claim the $2,000 payday...
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Neese to compete Friday in Class Basketball Games
(High School Sports ~ 06/14/16)
Cooper Neese of Cloverdale will be competing in the 8th annual 2016 Indiana Class Basketball All-Star Classic Senior and Junior Games on Friday at Anderson University. Neese will be participating in the Junior Boys game, which tips off Friday at 6:30 p.m. ...
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Anderson out at Greencastle after 49-year career
(High School Sports ~ 06/14/16)
Forty-nine years of coaching high school runners, jumpers and throwers have come to an end for Garry Anderson. Anderson has coached varsity boys' and girls' track and cross country for the past 15 years at Greencastle, the last 14 as head coach, but his coaching contracts were not renewed for the 2016-2017 school year, he said Tuesday evening...
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Bridge project will close CR 1000 East over I-70
(Local News ~ 06/14/16)
BROAD PARK -- The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) has announced a bridge deck overlay project will close Putnam County Road 1000 East over I-70 in Jefferson Township on or after Wednesday, June 15. The roadway is scheduled to reopen on July 15. The suggested detour utilizes Little Point Road...
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Cultural Trail to expand into Putnam County this fall
(Local News ~ 06/14/16)
What started in 2010 as a true Hendricks County cultural destination and expanded into Morgan County in 2013 will extend into a third county this fall. The Rural Routes to Main Street Cultural Trail, a self-guided, self-directed driving tour which features sites such as art galleries, local studios, restaurants, a honey farm, confectionaries and many other locations that make or sell handmade goods will add locations in Putnam County thanks in part to a $20,000 matching grant from the Indiana Office of Tourism Development.. ...
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DePauw School of Music events: Week of June 19-25
(Local News ~ 06/14/16)
Silkroad's Second Annual Global Musician Workshop June 19-25 7:30 p.m. Green Center for the Performing Arts The buzz is building about Silkroad's Global Musician Workshop to be hosted by the DePauw School of Music June 19-25 at the Judson and Joyce Green Center for the Performing Arts. Although paid registration to participate as a musician has closed, several free events and concerts will be open to the public during the seven-day workshop...
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Tickets available for next two senior citizen trips
(Local News ~ 06/14/16)
The Waters of Greencastle and Mill Pond Health Campus are sponsoring two upcoming trips at the Putnam County Senior Center. The next trip is Thursday, June 16 to the Indianapolis City Market and the War Museum. There are still a few seats available at a cost of $15...
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Putnam Scanner for 6-15-16
(Police Logs ~ 06/14/16)
County Jail Six people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. At 10:46 p.m. on Monday, Stephen James Lindsey Brittschmidt, 24, Greencastle, was housed at the jail for criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon (a knife), disorderly conduct and reckless possession of paraphernalia...
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Learn signs of abuse or neglect: World Elder Abuse Awareness Day is June 15
(Local News ~ 06/14/16)
Putnam County Prosecutor Tim Bookwalter is using the occasion of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day today, Wednesday, June 15, to call attention to the problem of abuse, neglect or exploitation of elders and urges citizens to learn the warning signs of mistreatment...
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Jim Baugh Memorial Blood Drive set
(Local News ~ 06/14/16)
The 10th annual Capt. Jim Baugh Memorial Blood Drive is scheduled for Monday, June 20 at Greencastle Christian Church, 620 Primrose Lane. The blood drive is scheduled for 1-6 p.m. Donors are asked to enter via church door No. 4. The blood drive is co-sponsored by the Baugh family and the Putnam County Fraternal Order of Police...
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Shooting for the Stars takes aim at discipline, respect
(Local News ~ 06/14/16)
The Putnam County 4-H Archery Club hosted its first Archery Banquet on Saturday evening in the open arena at the Putnam County Fairgrounds. Sixteen archers, ranging from grades four to 12, partnered with the stars of Putnam County to raise funds for the archery club and educate the public on all things archery...
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Touch-A-Truck event set Saturday at GHS
(Local News ~ 06/14/16)
Local children are invited to "Rev Up Your Imagination" for the Friends of the Putnam County Public Library's fourth annual Touch-A-Truck event. Touch a Truck will take place from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday, June 18 at the Greencastle High School lower parking lot...
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Council reappoints Denise Sigworth to GCSC board
(Local News ~ 06/14/16)
What a difference four years can make. When Denise Sigworth was initially appointed to the Greencastle Community School Corporation board in June 2012, it was a chaotic time in the school system. The superintendent was on her way out. The chief financial officer was about to be fired. And multiple candidates had their eye on that Greencastle City Council appointment to the school board...
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Eagles earn all-state honors
(High School Sports ~ 06/14/16)
Two South Putnam softball players were honored recently by the Indiana Coaches of Girls Sports Association for their outstanding play this spring. Recent Eagle graduate Katie Hewitt was named to the Class 2A All-State first team, while freshman catcher Drew Bratcher was named to the third team...
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