Stories from Monday, October 9, 2017

DePauw School of Music Events: Week of Oct. 9-15 DePauw Chamber Players: May Phang, piano; Tarn Travers, violin; Eric Edberg, cello Monday, Oct. 9 7:30 p.m. Music on the Square, 21 N. Indiana Street music.depauw.edu/events/calendar/details/faculty-select-series-depauw-chamber-players-2/2017-10-09/...

Starting Wednesday, Oct. 11, Grady Brothers will be seal coating Jackson Street, Washington Street and Indianapolis Road in Greencastle. Work will continue as weather permits. The work is being done as part of the overall pavement preservation and street resurfacing program supported by local tax dollars and grant funds provided through the Indiana Department of Transportation Community Crossings program...

Charles A. Williams, 87, of Fillmore, passed away Monday, Oct. 9, 2017 at home surrounded by family. He was born June 19, 1930 to the late Oran and Ruby (Cox) Williams. Charles married Mary Fidler on July 2, 1950, and she survives. Charles honorably served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War...

Jack Lee Langston, 71, of Cloverdale, died Sunday, Oct. 8, 2017. Born Oct. 10, 1945 in Greencastle, he was the son of Eldon Lee and Dorothy Bryant Langston. His wife, Sandra Aarrestad Langston, preceded him in death in 2012. Jack was a heavy machine operator and was a member of the Mid-Central Operating Engineers...

Sharon Coleen Harrell, 73, of Cloverdale, passed away on Monday, Oct. 9, 2017 at The Waters of Greencastle. She was born on Sept. 30, 1944, in Wayne County, Ill., to Beryl W. and Phema Russell. Sharon is survived by her husband, Joseph Paul Harrell Sr., of Cloverdale; sons, Joseph Paul Harrell Jr. ...

DePauw University is once again among America’s top small colleges for graduates participating in Teach For America. The organization has announced that DePauw is contributing seven graduates to TFA’s 2017 corps, tying with Grinnell College, Williamette University and Gettysburg College for the sixth largest total among small institutions (defined as having 2,999 or fewer undergraduates). Franklin & Marshall College leads the category with 14 new TFA participants...

The Purdue Extension Nutrition Education Program (NEP) is partnering with Health by Design to present a series of workshops this fall designed to help Indiana communities become healthier — as well as more walkable, bikeable and accessible for people of all ages and abilities...

The following cases were filed in Putnam County courts recently. Criminal Cases Rathal M. Moore, 24, Greencastle, Level 6 felony sexual battery Anthony J. Hicks, 49, Greencastle, Level 6 felony resisting law enforcement, Class A misdemeanor driving while intoxicated endangering a person, Class A misdemeanor driving with a BAC of .15 or more, Class A misdemeanor invasion of privacy...

City Fire The Greencastle Fire Department recently responded to four dispatches and five medical runs. • At 12:14 p.m. on Saturday, GFD responded to a fire alarm at 413 S. Locust St. However, the alarm was determined to have been activated unnecessarily due to unknown reasons. GFD reset the third-floor alarm and subsequently returned to station at 12:26 p.m...

Fiction writer, playwright and translator James Magruder will visit DePauw University Wednesday, Oct. 11, as a guest of the James and Marilou Kelly Writers Series. The public is invited to a 7:30 p.m. program in the auditorium of DePauw’s Richard E. Peeler Art Center, which is presented free of admission charge...

As a Cloverdale High School service learning project, students spent Friday afternoon out in the community, doing projects like washing windows, cleaning gutters or raking yards for older residents. About 375 students, essentially the entire student body, participated in the project with the goal of serving the community, learning to give and working together. ...

Starting Wednesday, Oct. 11, Grady Brothers will be seal coating Jackson Street, Washington Street and Indianapolis Road in Greencastle. Work will continue as weather permits. The work is being done as part of the overall pavement preservation and street resurfacing program supported by local tax dollars and grant funds provided through the Indiana Department of Transportation Community Crossings program...

If there were plans in place to make John Wood’s 90th birthday concert a farewell show, then someone forgot to share the plan with the pianist. Asked if the Friday, Oct. 13 show at Greencastle Elks No. 1077 would be his last, the stalwart of the local music scene was in a joking mood...

INDIANAPOLIS — Putnam County’s two judges, who the numbers say do the work of three judges, will get to appeal to the Indiana General Assembly for additional judicial resources. On Thursday, the Interim Study Committee and Courts and the Judiciary approved requests for additional judicial officers or courts in four counties, including Putnam...

For nearly 400 eighth-graders, the reality of their experiences Monday at the Putnam County Fairgrounds offered their first real taste of living like an adult, from getting a job to paying taxes to living paycheck to paycheck. Students from Greencastle, Cloverdale, Eminence, North Putnam and South Putnam schools -- many of whom have never previously been exposed to the true cost of living -- descended upon the Community Building at the fairgrounds for the annual Reality Experience, now sponsored by the Greencastle Kiwanis Club with assistance from the local Rotary and Lions clubs, Kappa Delta Phi and Delta Theta Tau philanthropic sorority, the League of Women Voters, Putnam County Foundation, Youth Development Commission and Putnam County Hospital, along with numerous local real estate, insurance, banking and justice system representatives.. ...

DePauw’s defense held visiting Oberlin to just 11 first downs and 164 total yards and the Tigers picked up a 26-10 North Coast Athletic Conference win over the Yeomen at Blackstock Stadium. The Tigers improved to 5-0 overall and 4-0 in the NCAC, while Oberlin dropped to 2-3 overall and 1-3 in the conference...

CRAWFORDSVILLE – South Putnam’s No. 1 doubles team of Austin Arnold and Tanner Pistelli competed on Saturday in the individual doubles sectional tournament. Southmont’s team of Jack Reimondo and Reese Long defeated Arnold and Pistelli by scores of 6-3, 6-3, but SP coach Johnny Briones was not disappointed with his team’s effort...

Rain forced the cancellation of Saturday night’s final racing card of the season at Lincoln Park Speedway. Fans who had have unused general admission tickets or valid blue wristbands for Saturday’s racing may get a refund, use those ticket during the 2018 season or use them as partial payment for tickets to the season banquet...

Greencastle junior Emma Wilson continued to extend her cross country victory streaks, winning the South Putnam sectional girls’ individual title on Saturday for the third straight year. Team-wise, South Putnam placed both its boys’ and girls’ teams in the top five to advance to Saturday’s Ben Davis Regional...

NEW MARKET – Southmont had never won a girls’ soccer sectional title prior to Saturday, while Greencastle had won four times over the past 16 years. The teams played to a 1-1 tie during their regular-season match, and the rematch in the sectional finals was deadlocked at 2-2 with a little over five minutes to play and seemed headed toward being decided by penalty kicks...

SULLIVAN — No. 6-ranked Greencastle was a prohibitive favorite going into the Class 2A Sullivan boys’ soccer sectional, having only lost one match all season (to Terre Haute North) and having won the Western Indiana Conference crown. Greencastle dominated the Sullivan sectional, which consisted of six teams from the WIC, recording shutout victories in the first two rounds and then defeating West Vigo 7-1 on Saturday in the championship...

Volleyball sectional action begins tonight at both sites where Putnam County teams will be playing, although none of them are competing until at least Thursday. At North Montgomery, Greencastle is the only one of the six Class 3A teams with a winning record at 13-10 and has a 2-1 record against the rest of the field...

DePauw University School of Music’s concert season continues with a full slat of live music offerings before taking a respite the following week for fall break (Oct. 14-22). Included in this week’s lineup will be the DePauw Jazz Ensemble’s season-opening performance (7:30 p.m. ...

Great food and music were on display Saturday night at the fourth annual Roachdale Rib and Blues Festival. Uncle John’s Pig Shack (above) took first place in the amateur ribs competition, with team members (from left) “Uncle” John Huber, Chad Chrisman and Doug Huber claiming the prize. Meanwhile, fiddler John Kellam entertains the crowd with the Fret Set’s old-time flavor of the blues...