Stories from Friday, September 30, 2016

South Putnam’s eighth-grade volleyball team won the Putnam County Tourney on Saturday after defeating Greencastle and Cloverdale. The Eagles defeated Greencastle in three sets by scores of 15-25, 25-13 and 15-7 and then defeated the Clovers 25-15, 25-13 in the championship...

Greencastle’s volleyball team has struggled since winning the county tournament earlier this month, but is hopeful that a three-set win over North Putnam on Thursday evening can be the springboard to closing out the final two weeks of the regular season strongly...

Payten Simpson is a three-sport athlete at Cloverdale, competing in volleyball, basketball and softball. Banner Graphic: Which sport do you like the best? Payten Simpson: They’re all my favorites, so I can’t pick just one. BG: What is your role on the volleyball team, and how has the season gone?...

Game time: 7 p.m. The coaches: Tony Meyer is in his second year at Cloverdale. Duane Potts is in his 15th year at Owen Valley. Last week: Cloverdale defeated Brown County 19-11, while Owen Valley won 21-10 at Cascade. History: Owen Valley has won the last 18 meetings, including a 48-0 victory last year...

With an admitted love of trivia, most Monday nights you can find Greencastle High School teacher Nicole (Kempf) Burkhalter joining her academic teammates in dominating trivia competition at Buffalo Wild Wings. But there's nothing trivial about the heights to which such competition has taken Burkhalter and her Indiana Academic Super Bowl teams...

A Greencastle man found himself in the Clay County Jail Thursday evening after attempting to flee an Indiana State Trooper. At 8:05 p.m., Master Trooper Todd Brown attempted to stop a gray 1984 Yamaha motorcycle on eastbound U.S. 40 near Clay County Road 425 West for traveling 68 mph in a 55 mph zone...

PUTNAMVILLE -- Indiana State Troopers seized nearly 50 pounds of marijuana and arrested a California man on felony charges following a routine safety inspection Thursday evening in Putnam County. At 6:34 p.m. an ISP Commercial Vehicle Enforcement trooper stopped a 2014 International tractor pulling a box trailer on eastbound Interstate 70 near the 36-mile marker, five miles west of Cloverdale...

The 10th annual Mind Your Health Run/Walk is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 8, starting at 4:30 p.m. from Blackstock Stadium on DePauw University’s Campus and continuing through the Nature Park. Some may remember 2011 when Marshall Mathew, then a freshman at DePauw, took his life. Each year since the Be Great Today 5K has taken place to raise awareness and help fund training in our county for suicide prevention and education...

The Putnam County Public Library will host International Observe the Moon Night (InOMN) Saturday, Oct. 8 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. InOMN is an annual event dedicated to encouraging people to “look up and notice our nearest neighbor, the Moon.” People from around world host events using everything from the naked eye to the most sensitive telescope...

Rather than the General Educational Development (GED), adults needing an alternative to earning a high school diploma will now take the High School Equivalency (HSE) test. Like the GED, the test demonstrates whether students’ knowledge in math, reading, writing, science and social studies is at the same levels as a high school senior’s. ...

Sponsors of the annual Greater Greencastle Chamber of Commerce Friendship Day flower giveaway present the cash donations, canned goods and packaged food collected in exchange for a dozen roses during the Sept. 21 event to the Putnam County Emergency Food Pantry. ...

Whitestone Christian Church will host a concert by Southern Raised Band at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 7. The family band, three sisters and a brother, are from Branson, Mo. The family was trained in classical music but, growing up in the bluegrass-soaked Ozark Mountains, began playing bluegrass eight years ago...

For one Greencastle native, adding another year to her age will simply be adding another year to a life well spent. Helen Godfrey, 100, of Mill Pond Health Campus in Greencastle, will be celebrating her 101st birthday on Tuesday, Oct. 4. And that’s just the beginning...

Fiddle ’n’ Feet, a group of traditional dancers and musicians influenced by Appalachian clogging, Irish step dancing and French Canadian waltzes and reels, will perform a range of percussive dances to live music at DePauw University on Saturday, Oct. 8...

Indiana State Police A Greencastle man found himself in the Clay County Jail Thursday evening after attempting to flee an Indiana State trooper. At 8:05 p.m., Master Trooper Todd Brown attempted to stop a gray 1984 Yamaha motorcycle on eastbound U.S. 40 near Clay County Road 425 West for traveling 68 mph in a 55-mph zone...

OCT. 3-8 Monday, Oct. 3 -- 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. Tech Help Desk has a computer technician for one-on-one assistance using software and electronic devices, and to help diagnose and repair computers and devices...

Indiana Public Access Counselor Luke Britt delivered a presentation about Indiana public access laws Thursday evening in an event sponsored by the League of Women Voters and the Banner Graphic. Britt’s main focus was on explaining the Access to Public Records Act (APRA) and the Open Door Law (ODL), but there were many questions from the audience, which mostly consisted of board members, city officials and genealogical researchers...

It’s not a campaign year for Indiana Treasurer of State Kelly Mitchell. It also wasn’t a long session of the Indiana General Assembly. And so it is that Mitchell is using 2016 as a chance to visit all 92 counties in a year. With three months to go, she’s more or less on track, having visited about 70 percent of the state’s 92 counties as of this week...

The first Ivy Gallery lunch of the school year produces a full house Friday afternoon at the Area 30 Career Center in Greencastle where Culinary Arts students prepare and serve the four-course meal. Greencastle High School student Becca Taylor (right) takes entree orders from a group of longtime friends who regularly attend the luncheons, including Linda Szewc (left) and Rose Akers. ...

An investigation that began with a reported theft from the Walmart employee break room led to a series of other recent crimes, Greencastle City Police report. City officers were initially called to the Walmart store, 1750 Indianapolis Rd., at 4:48 a.m. Sept. 15 to investigate the reported theft...

Cougars, Tiger Cubs pick up wins. Clovers, Eagles trail following weather delays

Peering into a microscope, Kaylee Griner, a North Putnam High School senior, takes part in an interactive science session of the Go Ivy Day of Discovery event Friday at Ivy Tech in Greencastle. Jennifer Bush, an Ivy Tech science instructor, looks on...