Stories from Tuesday, April 18, 2017

INDIANAPOLIS -- Local authorities believe they are a step closer to solving an April 2 home invasion after serving a search warrant on Monday. Putnam County Sheriff's Department detectives and deputies, working in conjunction with Indianapolis Metropolitan Police, served the warrant on the near southeast side of Indianapolis...

Tyler App, 13, of Montezuma, died at 7:57 p.m. on Thursday, April 13, 2017 in St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis. He was born Nov. 20, 2003 to Kyle App and Amy Delp App. He was a student at South Vermillion Middle School. He loved watching movies, going fishing and boating...

PUTNAMVILLE -- Springtime and warm temperatures bring out folks hiking, biking and mushroom hunting along rural roads here in central Indiana. Every spring the Indiana State Police Meth Suppression Section likes to remind the public to watch for unattended backpacks and gym bags that may contain toxic meth trash...

Nancy Ann Huber passed away Monday, April 17, 2017 at St. Vincent Hospice following an extended illness. Nancy was born in Indianapolis on June 10, 1934, the daughter of A. A. "Pete" and Ellen (Steele) Huber. She graduated from Roachdale High School in 1952...

Severn Records recording artist, singer/harmonica player and Greencastle resident Tad Robinson will take the stage at Wasser Brewing Co. at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 22. Many local music fans are aware of Robinson’s work. His roots-music profile is firmly established through his recorded work, his eight Blues Music Award nominations (the Grammys of the blues world), and his touring which has taken him throughout the U.S. and to more than 25 countries in three continents over his career...

Using the Greater Greencastle Chamber of Commerce ceremonial scissors, Dr. Elena Castello symbolically cuts the ribbon to open the Holisitic Health and Colonics Center, located at 6581 S. CR 250 East (first road east of South Putnam High School off U.S. ...

MONTEZUMA – The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) has announced a bridge deck replacement project on the U.S. 36 bridge over the Wabash River in Parke County, beginning Monday, April 24. Traffic will be restricted to one 10-foot lane over the Wabash River Bridge. Traffic will be controlled at the bridge with a traffic signal...

Pianist, musicologist and humorist John Eaton is considered one of the foremost interpreters of American music in Washington, D.C. inner circles. As a featured player at the Kool Jazz Festival and a mainstay of the Smithsonian’s Performing Arts Jazz series, he has given more than 200 sold-out lecture/concerts for the Smithsonian Institution on American popular song in both the nation’s capital and around the country...

County Jail Eleven people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Monday • At 4:50 p.m. Kavlin William Doan, 30, New Castle, was lodged at the jail on a local warrant. • At 4:27 p.m. Sigmund Augustus Croan, 24, Greencastle, was taken into custody for bond revocation...

A 22-year-old Greencastle man was arrested Thursday on the charge of sexual misconduct with a minor. Nathan Trumbo was arrested by Greencastle Police Officer Darrel Bunten at an Ohio Street residence and booked in the Putnam County Jail at 2:48 p.m...

Property tax statements for 2017 have been mailed, Putnam County Treasurer Kathy Minnick announced on Monday. Property owners who do not receive their statements by Friday, April 28 may inquire about the status by contacting the Treasurer’s Office at 653-4510 or treasurer@putnamcountyin.us...

The Greencastle High School Alumni Association, in cooperation with the Greencastle Parks and Recreation Department, will sponsor a 25-mile bike ride through Putnam County on Saturday, April 29 to benefit GHS scholarships and Park Department youth sports programs...

The annual Putnam County Relay for Life event -- a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society -- is set for Saturday, April 22 at DePauw University’s Blackstock Stadium. The 12-hour event -- staged from 11 a.m. until 11 p.m. -- will feature local teams and university groups walking the track and competing in activities and events to raise funds to fight cancer...

With the distribution of 425 copies of “P.J. Funnybunny’s Bag of Tricks” last week, Real Men Read completed a third year of serving the kindergarten students of Putnam County. An outreach program of the United Way of Putnam County, Real Men Read takes local men into all 22 kindergarten classrooms in the seven Putnam County elementary and primary schools...

The reigning Indiana Academic Super Bowl Class 3 state champion Greencastle High School Science team tackles a question Tuesday evening in area competition in the GHS multi-purpose room. Freshman Ben Wilkerson (left) prepares the official Greencastle answer while senior teammates Nicholas Seaman and Alex Weliever check his work. ...

Greencastle’s track and field teams were busy last week, competing in a triangular meet at Monrovia on Thursday and in two different events on Friday at Lafayette Jeff and Franklin Central. On Friday, the Tiger Cubs competed against Owen Valley and the Bulldogs at Monrovia...

Robert R. "Bob" Cooper, 91, of Brazil, formerly of Greencastle, passed away on Sunday, April 16, 2017. Born June 22, 1925 in Greencastle, he was the son of Hubert Earl and Dorothy Louise (Allen) Cooper Sr. He was a 1943 graduate of Greencastle High School...