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Coping with poison ivy
(Local News ~ 07/02/17)
One of the poisonous hazards that homeowners often deal with this time of year is poison ivy. Some individuals are lucky and never seem to get it, but others can be 10 feet away from it and still end up with it. The best way to avoid the irritation is by learning how to identify poison ivy. There are two different forms of poison ivy found in Indiana. They include a low-growing shrub and a climbing vine...
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Inaugural Area 30 Computer Science Summer Camp a success
(Local News ~ 07/02/17)
The Area 30 Career Center’s recent inaugural Computer Science Summer Camp saw 16 students between 13 and 17 years old from each of the five Putnam County high schools. Students learned about the history of computing, transistors, graphical programming and creating videogames...
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Vigo County Veterans Treatment Court again awarded IOCS grant
(Local News ~ 07/02/17)
TERRE HAUTE -- For the second consecutive year, Vigo County Veterans Treatment Court was awarded the Indiana Office of Court Services (IOCS) Veterans Court grant. This year’s grant was more than three times the amount received last year, and the funding will ensure adequate staffing and training and that veteran’s needs are provided for as they progress through the program...
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Summer Reading Fun at Cloverdale Elementary School
(Local News ~ 07/02/17)
The Cloverdale Community School Board was able to offer a Summer Reading Program for elementary students in grades 1-4 through a grant awarded by Duke Energy. The program was three weeks of reading, learning and fun from May 30-June 16. Students and teachers focused on improving basic reading and comprehension skills through individualized online reading interventions, small group reading interactions and individual and one-to-one activities...
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Exploring all that Putnam County Museum has to offer
(Local News ~ 07/02/17)
The Putnam County Museum has so many great things to offer the community. But did you know that your club or organization could be meeting at the museum? Currently the Putnam County Museum has five organizations that meet at the museum on a regular basis. From exercise groups to sewing groups, from kid’s crafts to weavers groups, the museum has a wide range of events and something for everyone...
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PCPL to host teen Perler Bead Craft event
(Local News ~ 07/02/17)
The Putnam County Public Library will host a teen Perler Bead Craft event Monday, July 10 at 3 p.m. Teens can express their crafty side using tiny beads and an iron to melt them and create a work of art like coasters or even a headphone holder. The event is open to all ages 13-18...
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Putnam Scanner 7-3-17
(Police Logs ~ 07/02/17)
Three people were booked in the Putnam County Jail on Thursday. • At 9:16 p.m. Christopher Dean Perales, 47, Greencastle, was lodged at the jail on a local warrant. • At 3:39 p.m. Cletis Anthony Warren, 45, Cloverdale, was taken into custody on a pair of out-of-county warrants...
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Celebrate 4 Schedule of Events
(Local News ~ 07/02/17)
The Celebrate 4 committee has announced the schedule of events for annual Independence Day celebration at Robe-Ann Park on Tuesday, July 4. Beginning in the cool of the morning and lasting until the final fireworks well after dusk, it will be a day full of activity in Greencastle...
- Here’s to the Red, White & Blue (Local News ~ 07/02/17)
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Model of sub USS Indiana at courthouse
(Local News ~ 07/02/17)
A model of USS Indiana 789, America’s recently commissioned nuclear-powered submarine, is expected to visit the Putnam County Courthouse sometime Tuesday afternoon on the Fourth of July. District 44 State Rep. Jim Baird (R-Greencastle) said the “best guess at this point” is that it will arrive in Greencastle sometime between noon and 4 p.m. Tuesday...
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Mud Mania mud bog fundraiser on tap Saturday
(Local News ~ 07/02/17)
A Mud Mania mud bog fundraising event is scheduled for Saturday, July 8 at Seniour’s Auto Salvage off Manhattan Road south of Greencastle. Proceeds from the noon to 6 p.m. event will go toward local Girl Scout Troops 3700 and 1734 and the Putnam County 4-H Youth ATV Safety Club...
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Gleaners Mobile Pantry at Greencastle Christian Church lot
(Local News ~ 07/02/17)
The Gleaners Senior Mobile Pantry will return to Greencastle on Thursday, July 6, however, a week earlier than usual and at a different location this month due to National Guard activity at the Armory. The mobile pantry will be located in the lower parking lot of Greencastle Christian Church, 620 Primrose Lane (off the east side of U.S. 231 South)...
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Charley Riggle proud of his little ‘piece of history’
(Local News ~ 07/02/17)
ROACHDALE — A step through the front door of is a step into the past. The red double doors facing the corner of Washington and Meridian streets have a squeak that seems to say they’ve hung there for the store’s entire 117-year history. The door closes and then the scent hits — those wooden floors that were the hallmark of old-fashioned stores of all kinds...
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Four bands highlight July First Friday
(Local News ~ 07/02/17)
Music fans will have no shortage of choices with the July edition of First Friday, set for Friday evening in downtown Greencastle Four bands will play four venues at four different times as the melodies continue throughout the evening. Indianapolis cover band My Yellow Rickshaw will bring its eclectic mix of pop, rock bluegrass and R&B to the north courthouse stage at 7 p.m. ...
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‘Fourth’ Fun Begins
(Local News ~ 07/02/17)
Fireworks are kicking off Fourth of July festivities around the country this week, and with one of the “best shows in the state” starting this year’s extended Fourth of July weekend with a bang, many residents of West Central Indiana are off to a good start. ...
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Questions still linger in Pearl Bryan tragedy
(Local News ~ 07/02/17)
After 121 years, through some 3,200 pages of court records, voluminous source documents and seven months of tireless recent research, the tragic tale of Greencastle's Pearl Bryan remains a mystery in many aspects. That's what Putnam County historian Larry Tippin told more than 100 interested visitors to the Putnam County Museum who listened for more than 90 minutes to the concluding portion of his two-part presentation Thursday night on the 1896 murder that became known as the "Crime of the Century.". ...
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