Stories from Saturday, October 28, 2017

The Putnam County Public Library will welcome author Scott Russell Sanders on Thursday, Nov. 9. Sanders will give a 6 p.m. talk titled “Taking Care of Home: Sustainability on a Small Planet.” The event is free and open to the public. Our species, one among millions, is degrading the conditions for all life on this beautiful planet, he believes. ...

Winners in the Tzouanakis Intermediate School Red Ribbon Week coloring contest announced Friday are (front, from left) third-graders Mya Boston, first; Landon Storm, second; and Shalyn Bright, third; (middle, from left) fourth-graders Zane Scales, first; Mona Horvath, second; Taryn Christopher, third; (back, from left) fifth-graders Annalise Smith, first; Kyra Bandy, second; and Logan Burritt, third.

The Putnam County Public Library will be offering two computer classes in November. On Friday, Nov. 10, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Introduction to Social Networking will introduce participants to a variety of websites devoted to socializing with others online and ways to protect privacy while enjoying an online social life...

The Putnam County Public Library will host its annual Halloween party Oct. 31 from 4 - 6 p.m.

LITTLE POINT -- On Thursday afternoon, an Indiana State Police commercial enforcement trooper stopped a Kenworth tractor-trailer for inspection on eastbound Interstate 70 near the 52-mile marker in Morgan County about 12:45 p.m. During conversation with the driver, the trooper noticed several indicators of possible criminal activity. A subsequent search of the vehicle revealed 23 re-encoded credit cards...

Two people were booked in the Putnam County Jail on Thursday. • At 8:07 p.m. Perry B. Norman, 47, Cloverdale, was lodged at the jail for driving while intoxicated. • At 3:14 a.m. Steve Edward Lee, 53, Greencastle, was booked in for driving while intoxicated...

Hanna Street Baptist Church will host a revival from Sunday, Oct. 29 through Wednesday, Nov. 1, featuring Reffeitt Ministries of Brownsburg. Richard and Loretta Reffeitt will lead the meetings as the congregation meets at 7 p.m. nightly. Hanna Street Baptist is located at 501 E. Hanna St., Greencastle. For more information contact Pastor Patrick Smith at 653-8614...

On Oct. 31, 1517, a relatively unknown professor and pastor of a relatively unknown university in Wittenberg, Germany posted 95 discussion points, or “theses,” on the university’s bulletin board, actually, the local church’s doors. When he did so, Martin Luther simply wanted to share and discuss pastoral concerns he had over a questionable practice of the medieval Roman Catholic Church: The sale of “indulgences,” or special permissions for entry into heaven received by paying a fee...

The South Putnam School Board’s vote on a proposal from Insulated Roofing Contractors (IRC) to make repairs to portions of the high school roof was split, with President Wes Hacker and Holly Hutcheson voting against and Secretary Dave Bombei and Anthony Heavin voting for, in a recent special meeting...

For starters, the new Community Conversations series co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters and the Putnam County Public Library, didn’t exactly cover much in the way of new ground or shed any real light on solutions to local problems. But it did perhaps remind city officials and local residents alike that some of those issues are still hanging around and are still very much in need of attention...

Serving an apple and pear salad with feta cheese and spiced pecans to Geneva McCammack, server Xavier Pagan, a North Putnam High School student attending the Area 30 Career Center Culinary Arts class, gets the first Ivy Gallery luncheon of the school year under way Friday...

As an addict turned convict turned Pro BMXer turned motivational speaker, Tony Hoffman has a message he repeats often. “One choice can change the rest of your life,” Hoffman said. It was a prominent message Thursday morning at McAnally Center as Hoffman spoke to 1,400 eighth- through 10th-grade students from Cloverdale, Greencastle, North Putnam, South Putnam and Eminence in an event sponsored by the Putnam County Youth Development Commission...

Greencastle junior Emma Wilson will compete at 1 p.m. today at the LaVern Gibson Championship Course east of Terre Haute in the girls’ Indiana High School Athletic Association cross country state finals. Wilson has finished eighth in each of the past two years, and enters this year’s event with the top time coming out of semi-state...

Game time: 1 p.m. Location: Blackstock Stadium, Greencastle On the air: WGRE-FM 91.5 will broadcast the game. Series Record: DePauw leads 4-2 and has won the last four meetings. 2016 Meeting: DePauw scored touchdowns on its first seven possessions on the way to a 69-21 North Coast Athletic Conference win at Allegheny...

INDIANAPOLIS — Cloverdale overcame a 1-4 start this season by winning four of its last five games entering Friday night’s sectional semifinal game at Park Tudor. The Clovers’ late-season run came to an end, as the speedy Panthers used the strong running of Bishr Jones to record a 28-6 and move to their first sectional championship game since 2006...

Sectional 30 Friday Greencastle 14, Sullivan 0 Danville 32, Tri-West 20 Nov. 3 7 p.m. —Greencastle (7-4) at Danville (11-0) in championship game Sectional 38 _Friday Western Boone 21, Tipton 14 Park Tudor 28, Cloverdale 6 Nov. 3 Western Boone (8-3) at Park Tudor (4-7) in championship game...

INDIANAPOLIS — The South Putnam Eagles traveled into Indianapolis on Friday night to take on the Howe Hornets in 1A Sectional 45 high school football. The Eagles used dominating line play to advance 19-12 to the sectional championship game next week. The Eagles will play Indianapolis Arlington who advanced by beating Indianapolis Tindley 52-0 in the other semifinal game...

With no score in the game and only 4:10 remaining Friday night, Greencastle’s Damon Moody scored a touchdown from four yards out to help lift the Tiger Cubs over the Sullivan Golden Arrows, 14-0. It had rained all day Friday in Greencastle, making the field difficult to play on. ...