Stories from Monday, July 17, 2017

Recent North Putnam graduate Max Haste competed in the Indiana Football Coaches Association North-South All-Star Game on Friday night at Indianapolis North Central. Haste was a member of the South team, which lost 21-14. He played tight end and on the field goal unit in special teams.

PUTNAMVILLE – Megan Cavaness has been tantalizingly close to capturing her first bomber A-main victory the last couple of years. She’d ticked off the accomplishment of heat race victories and even added a win in the second bomber feature on a given evening. On Saturday night however, the Greencastle native added to her career accomplishments by topping 19 other drivers to score the Bomber Mid-season Championship feature win...

In addition to taking the top prize Saturday night, 2017 Miss Putnam County Fair Queen Hannah Cunningham was also selected as the inaugural winner of the People’s Choice Award, a program in which each candidate chooses a local non-profit to support...

DELPHI (AP) — State police released an artist’s sketch Monday of a man considered the main suspect in the killings of two northern Indiana girls and urged the public to study the image and provide tips that could help them identify the suspect. The composite sketch depicts a white man with a prominent nose and a goatee who’s wearing a cap and what appears to be a hooded sweater. Police said the suspect has reddish-brown hair, stands between 5-foot-6 and 5-foot-10 and weighs between 180 and 220 pounds...

Gerald I. Clodfelter, age 96, of Greencastle, passed away on Saturday, July 15, 2017. Born Oct. 10, 1920 in Putnam County, the son of Ray and Alma (Irwin) Clodfelter and was a 1938 graduate of Greencastle High School. He graduated from Purdue University in 1941 with a degree in agriculture, with his agricultural achievements being honored at the Purdue Hall of Fame...

Robert Eugene Hunt, 77, of Huntingburg, passed away at 10:23 p.m. on Saturday, July 15, 2017 at Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center in Jasper. He was born Jan. 17, 1940, in Muncie to Oris and Evelyn (Wyne) Hunt. He married Glenda A. Tull on June 22, 1979 in Crawfordsville...

Wanda Gidcumb, 80 Greencastle, passed away Saturday, July 8, 2017 at Hickory Creek at Sunset in Greencastle She was born in Putnam County on July 6, 1937 Wanda is survived by two sons, Alan (Gale) of Greencastle and Donald (Nerie) of Florida; daughter Debora (Brian) Monnett of Greencastle; four grandchildren, Tashia, Joshua, Mandy and Joseph; five great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Sharon Byrd of Greencastle and Lola Mae Hutson of Greencastle...

As Bridges Craft Pizza and Wine Bar prepares for its late August opening, community members will have advance opportunities to experience its cuisine while also supporting Beyond Homeless Inc. and Friends of the Park. Bridges will serve dinner on Aug. 5 and 12 at Myers’ 5 East Event & Catering Co. at 5 East Franklin Street...

The Gleaners Mobile Food Truck will be at the Bainbridge Community Building from 10-11:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 22. Participants should bring their own boxes, food bags or totes to fill with their food selections. There is no age or ID requirement. Anyone in need is welcome...

There will be no Putnam County Hospital Cancer Center Support Group meetings during the month of July and August. Meetings will resume on Sept. 19 at 4 p.m. in the Putnam County Hospital Cancer Center, located on the second floor of the hospital. The PCH Cancer Center Support Group meets the third Tuesday of every month in the cancer center, located on the second floor of the hospital...

The Putnam County Community Foundation is accepting applications for Community and Endowment Builder Grants. All 501(c)(3) nonprofits, churches and units of government serving Putnam County citizens are eligible to apply for Community Grants and Endowment Builder Grants...

The Greencastle Summer Music Festival continues its weekly free concerts on Wednesday, July 19 at 7:30 p.m. in Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church with a performance featuring percussionists Ming-Hui Kuo and her friends Ben Hogan and Ben Freeland...

The pungent sulfur smell of fireworks has finally faded from our nostrils. The clouds of smoke have long disappeared. And even the post-July 4 fireworks mega-sales seem to have finally evaporated. Yet the annual Greencastle fireworks celebration continues to live in infamy. The 2017 event may have gone out with a bang but it refuses to die...

In a rare split vote on final reading -- quite possibly the first since the Greencastle City Council grew to seven members -- the Council has adopted a municipal motor vehicle license excise surtax and municipal wheel tax. By a 4-2 vote with one abstention (with Councilors Stacie Langdon and Tyler Wade dissenting and Steve Fields abstaining), the Council adopted Ordinance 2017-6 on the second of two readings. ...

Blue Ribbon Memories ... that’s the theme of the 2017 Putnam County Fair Parade. And Parade Grand Marshal Kenny Torr can certainly draw upon his many blue-ribbon memories when the floats and wagons and trucks and VW Beetles begin to roll down Washington Street Friday, starting at the “Y” intersection at 6:30 p.m. and reaching the reviewing stand downtown at approximately 7 p.m...