Stories from Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Hunter Charles Thomas McKinney of Waveland passed away Friday morning, Nov. 18, 2016. He was born Jan. 28, 2016 in Danville to Nick and Meagan McKinney. Surviving family includes his parents, Nick and Meagan McKinney of Waveland; siblings Alexis McKinney, Everleigh McKinney and Remington McKinney; grandparents, Robert “Buddy” and Doris Posthauer, Mike and Jennifer Dixon and Jackie and Louis “Skip” McKinney; and extended family, all who loved him and will miss him...

No students were injured in a small early-morning Tuesday fire at a DePauw University residence hall. At 3:12 a.m., the Greencastle Fire Department was dispatched to Mason Hall at 402 E. Anderson St. on the report of a fire alarm. Fire crews arrived two minutes later and began a search of the building. They discovered light smoke in Room 310, with the sprinkler system having already extinguished a small fire...

James "Jim" Ray Wright, 74, of Greencastle, passed away Monday, Nov. 21, 2016 in Danville, Ind. Born Aug. 6, 1942 in Letcher County, Ky., he was the son of Brose Wright and Laura (Hall) Wright. Jim had worked for the city of Greencastle as street commissioner for 18 years, retiring in March 1999...

Our Lord called Joshua Dylan Dobbs home with Him on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016. Josh was born on Feb. 2, 1985 to Kenneth and Janice (Wilson) Dobbs and was 31 years of age. Josh was full of life the day he was brought into this world, never leaving the loved ones around him with a dull moment...

INDIANAPOLIS — State Sen. Rodric Bray (R-Martinsville) gathered with fellow legislators Tuesday at the Statehouse for Organization Day — the ceremonial start of the 120th Indiana General Assembly. Bray took the oath of office, officially beginning a new term as the state senator representing District 37...

HOLLANDSBURG — Indiana State Police Trooper Chuck Murphy was patrolling U.S. 36 in eastern Parke County about 9:25 p.m. Monday when he clocked a sports car traveling at 127 mph in a 55-mph zone on westbound U.S. 36 near County Road 275 East. The 2017 Dodge Viper was stopped and the driver identified as 42-year-old Douglas J. McGuirk of Terre Haute...

Sydney Willis, a student in Katie Mosley’s class at Cloverdale Middle School, is the grand prize winner of the Putnam County Community Foundation’s 2016 Darrell Wiatt Family Philanthropy Essay Contest. Willis’ prize-winning essay described Rhonda McCammon, a radiology technician at Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, as being the philanthropist she admires most...

County Jail Seven people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Monday • At 4:07 p.m. Zachary Layne Fleming, 36, Santa Claus, Ind., was housed at the jail on a warrant for possession of methamphetamine. • At 3:32 p.m. James Timothy Coy, 38, Greencastle, was taken into custody for battery, disorderly conduct and probation violation...

Putnam Prompt Care After-Hours Clinic will be closed Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 24, and will reopen Friday, Nov. 25 from noon to 5 p.m. Normal hours will resume over the weekend, with office hours Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m...

Greencastle Middle School Music Boosters will be conducting a gift wrap fundraiser on Saturday, Nov. 26 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the lobby at GMS. Everyone is welcome to bring the holiday gifts they have purchased, and for a donation to the music program, volunteers will wrap them and have them ready to put under the tree...

Closed since May at Big Walnut Creek, County Road 100 East reopened recently with the replacement to Crowe’s Bridge now nearly complete. A federal aid project that’s been in the works since 1999, only a few finishing touches remain for completion of the new bridge...

The Cloverdale Community School Corporation will have two openings on the school board after Dec. 31. The school board is inviting any interested Cloverdale Township patrons to apply for this position. A letter of interest and resume should be sent to the school corporation at 310 E. Logan St., Cloverdale, IN 46120 to the attention of Superintendent Greg Linton. The deadline for application is Dec. 8...

The Friday storm that passed through Putnam County caused fairly minimal damage, but did victimize the roof of a local historic landmark. High winds that came as part of the Friday evening storm tore a large section of metal roofing from the east end of Houck Covered Bridge in northern Washington Township...

Even after getting nearly $12,000 in sewage bill relief, Greencastle Parks and Recreation Director Rod Weinschenk wasn’t the least bit jovial about discovering a pool deck leak that resulted in 1.3 million gallons of lost water. “It’s nothing to laugh about, we lost a tremendous amount of water,” Weinschenk told the Board of Public Works, which unanimously approved a $11,778 adjustment to the park’s sewage bill at its November meeting...

Todd Rokita came to say thank you but said so much more Monday morning in Greencastle. Making the Putnam County Courthouse Square one of eight stops on his 4th District “Thank You Tour,” U.S. Congressman Rokita met with a small but vocal group at Almost Home to discuss making America great again...

Two former Putnamville Correctional Facility (PCF) inmates made their initial appearances in Putnam Circuit Court this week, facing murder charges in a July 13 incident at PCF. Justin A. Morse, 28 -- already facing an earliest possible release date of April 2021 -- appeared before Judge Matt Headley via video conference Monday as murder and conspiracy to commit murder charges were read before the judge entered a preliminary not-guilty plea on behalf of the defendant...