Stories from Friday, September 2, 2016

The United States Census Bureau is the principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and the economy. A new census is taken every 10 years and that data is used to redraw the congressional and legislative districts that must, by law, be roughly equal in population...

Putnamville Correctional Facility is often held at arm's length by the Putnam County community at large. On the surface, it makes sense -- nearly 2,200 offenders housed in the midst of rural Putnam County (nearly 60 percent of the population of Warren Township), the arrests that appear in these pages as a result of trafficking with inmates, the rarer times more serious charges come about from the violence that inevitably occurs in correctional facilities...

MANSFIELD -- Celebrate the end of summer with an old-fashioned dish of beans and cornbread, live music and a tour of the 1880s Mansfield Roller Mill on Saturday, Sept. 10. Beans and Cornbread Day runs from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Mansfield Roller Mill. Admission is free...

Throughout the month of September, member schools in the Wabash Valley Football Coaches Association -- along with Indiana State University, Rose-Hulman, DePauw University and Franklin College -- will join together to help the fight against childhood cancer...

Ten waterfalls found on DNR properties -- including Cataract Falls south of Cloverdale -- are among 20 statewide listed in the latest Best of Indiana people's choice contest announced by the Indiana Office of Tourism Development. Visitors to the IOTD website can cast up to five votes in the waterfall category and in two other categories -- Best Winery Experience and Best Music Festival...

Mill Pond Health Campus in Greencastle will host a carnival and barbecue event Saturday, Sept. 3. The free community event is scheduled for 2-5 p.m. at Mill Pond, 1014 Mill Pond Lane, Greencastle. The event will feature fair food favorites, live entertainment, carnival games, karaoke, RZR rides, door prizes and more...

Putnam Prompt Care After-Hours Clinic will be open from noon to 5 p.m. on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 5. Prompt Care is located inside Putnam County Hospital, 1542 Bloomington St., Greencastle, and sees patients with no appointment necessary. For more information, person may call call 655-2686...

PUTNAMVILLE -- American Legion Commander Rod Gaffney from the Cassell C. Tucker Post 58 in Greencastle performed a officer dedication of Adam Brown Memorial Post 208 Monday at the Putnamville Correction Facility. "I am deeply honored to dedicate this post," Gaffney said. "Not all commanders get this honor."...

Bill Hayes -- the 1947 DePauw University graduate who scored a No. 1 Billboard hit in 1955 and has been a star of TV's "Days of Our Lives" since 1970 -- and his wife and co-star, Susan Seaforth Hayes, are coming to campus for a three-day residency, Sept. 6-8...

The Putnam County Convention and Visitor Bureau (CVB) has become the third in a three-county partnership promoting art- and food-related businesses and attractions along the Rural Routes to Main Street Cultural Trail (RR2MS). Started by the Hendricks County CVB as a way to attract visitors interested in "Going Local," RR2MS promotes restaurants sourcing ingredients from the county, galleries that feature local artists, garden shops, breweries/wineries, quilt/fiber stores, honey farms and more...

The perplexing shooting death of one Ohio man by the hand of another as they rode together in the backseat of a minivan along Interstate 70 back in May will be resolved by a plea agreement. Appearing in Putnam Superior Court Wednesday afternoon, Markus S. Yeanay, 18, Columbus, entered a guilty plea to a Level 3 felony charge of aggravated battery causing death in the fatal May 8 shooting of his 33-year-old uncle, Mario Edwards, also of Columbus...

HPS welcomes donations for courthouse clock

Game time: 7 p.m. Location: Jay Barrett Field in West Terre Haute. The coaches: Mike Meyer is in his seventh year at Greencastle. Jeff Cobb is in his 12th year at West Vigo. So far: Both teams have played Crawfordsville already. Greencastle defeated the Athenians 27-20 in Week 1, while West Vigo trailed them 14-0 at halftime last week before scoring the final 27 points...

County Jail Six people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Thursday At 9:39 p.m. Katherine Ryan Francis, 30, Valparaiso, was housed at the jail on an out-of-county warrant. At 1:50 p.m. Austin W. McFerron, 20, Coatesville, was taken into custody on a parole violation...

Mabel Jean (Keller) Brown, 92, of Greencastle, passed away Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016 at Asbury Towers. Mabel was born May 9, 1924 to the late Lemma and Anna (Adams) Keller. She married Luther Brown on Nov. 24, 1956 he preceded her in death Sept. 24, 2001...

Deanna Kaye Wells, 71, of Greencastle, passed away Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016 in Danville, Ind. Deanna was born Jan. 26, 1945 in Brazil to the late Kibbe Maurice and Dorothy Orth Snell. She was a 1963 graduate of Brazil High School and attended Indiana State University...

The annual Phelps family reunion is planned for Sunday, Sept. 11 at Red Bud Hill reception hall east of Rockville. The reunion always takes place the second Sunday in September. The 2016 festivities are set from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. with a meals served about 1 p.m...

Seedline International will host its 20th Annual Harvest Conference from Sunday, Sept. 11 to Wednesday, Sept. 14 at its new location, 2747 E. U.S. 40, Brazil. Services begin at 7 p.m. each day. For more information, call the office at 765-795-2500 or email susiet@ccrtc.com...

AWANA Clubs for pre-K through high school will begin Sept. 11 p.m. at Harmony Baptist Church, 3125 S. CR 150 West, Greencastle. The groups meet from 6-7:30 p.m. For informaiton contact Pastor Jim Amis at 653-6245.

New Life Baptist Church is partnering in a national movement calling everyone "Back to Church." The prayer is for people who have never attended church or who once attended church but don't anymore will come to church on Sunday, Sept. 18. That Sunday has an extra significance, as New Life began to meet together in Greencastle 23 years ago in the basement of the U.S. Department of Agriculture building on U.S. 231...

Dee and Tish (Nichols) Greenlee celebrated 60 years of marriage on Thursday, Aug. 11. They exchanged their vows at Coatesville Methodist Church on Aug. 11, 1956. Rev. Jim Ward officiated the ceremony. On their 50th anniversary they renewed their vows with Rev. Charles Wood at Fillmore Methodist Church...

The international 21CMposium that the DePauw University School of Music has been "busting chops" on for more than a year is about to unfold. The three-day gathering of thinkers, performers and arts leaders will convene Sept. 9-11 at the Green Center for the Performing Arts on the DePauw campus...

The Putnam County Museum will host soil health specialist Barry Fisher speaking on "The State of Our Soil Health" after two decades of conservation cropping systems. Fisher will speak at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 7. The program is free and open to the public...

The Putnam County Public Library will be presenting the September Actors and Authors series this month with four special events planned. The series will kick off on Tuesday, Sept. 6 with an appearance by actress Virginia Newcomb and screenwriter/DePauw University professor Steve Timm who will discuss their movie, "Reparation," an 11-time award -winning independent thriller filmed in Putnam County during the summer of 2014...

Monna Coons, 69, of Petaluma, Calif., passed away on June 24, 2016, at the Zen Hospice Home in San Francisco. She was born Aug. 28, 1946 to Howard and Mary Brown in Greencastle. She met her husband, Larry Coons, in 1964 and they were married June 12, 1965 at the First Christian Church in Greencastle. Monna and Larry had a loving relationship for 45 married years...

The Humane Society of Putnam County will stage its inaugural Celebration Night on Saturday, Sept. 10. A fun night of celebration and reflection on the success of the animal shelter's reopening last fall, important animal care programs available for county residents, the Rescued Treasures Store and more are promised...

CLAYTON -- Putnam County represented itself well in the Western Indiana Conference girls' golf tournament, which concluded play on Wednesday at Deer Creek after only nine holes were played on Saturday due to the weather. Each school had at least one representative on the 17-member all-conference team, led by Cloverdale with two members...

PCPL, Sept. 5-10 Monday, Sept. 5 Closed for Labor Day Tuesday, Sept. 6 -- Author Series, Part I: "Reparation" Film Talk, 12- 1:30 p.m. Brown Bag Lunch Talk by "Reparation" actress Virginia Newcomb and screenwriter Steve Timm. Event coincides with Greencastle premiere at Ashley Square Cinema on Sunday, Sept. 4 at 7 p.m. (with shows through Thursday, Sept. 8)...

County Jail Four people were booked in the Putnam County Jail on Thursday. At 6:18 p.m. James Ralph Tutro, 40, Greenfield, was housed at the jail on out-of-county warrants. At 11:28 a.m. Michelle Suzanne Hilbert, 33, Cloverdale, was taken into custody on a local warrant...

Scores from around Putnam County North Putnam 40, South Putnam 19 Greencastle 30, West Vigo 27 Cloverdale 20, Edgewood 18 Elsewhere in the WIC Sullivan 35, Northview 12 Indian Creek 13, Owen Valley 7

Looking back on a marriage that's lasted 75 years, it's strange to recall the times the romance almost didn't happen. But for Noble and Edith (Nichols) Fry, married Aug. 13, 1941, that's part of the story -- a girl who was almost too young to date, a first date that nearly didn't happen, a house fire, a tardy minister and a heart condition...

Summer's here and the time is right for dancing in the street Friday night in Greencastle as First Friday and Taste of Putnam County merge for the first time, drawing a large crowd downtown. Youngsters get into the music (above) on South Indiana Street as Blues Side Up performs, while among more than a dozen food vendors, Tap House 24, serves up some taste treats outdoors while patrons indoors enjoy the large open windows looking out onto the street...

BAINBRIDGE -- With bicentennial celebrations for the state of Indiana upcoming, one small town has been making some rather unique preparations. For the better part of a year, the town of Bainbridge has had in the works not only an exclusive state flag, which it unveiled on the state's 199th birthday (Dec. 16, 2015), but four permanent monuments, as well...

David and Alice Greenburg are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary today, Saturday, Sept. 3. David and Alice were united in marriage in the chapel of the former Indiana Central College (now University of Indianapolis) in Indianapolis on Sept. 3, 1966. David is a lifelong sheep farmer and shearer. He is also the owner of Greenburg Accounting in Greencastle...