Stories from Friday, November 3, 2017

Six people were booked in the Putnam County Jail on Thursday. • At 5:37 p.m. Zachary Richard Utz, 21, Avon, was lodged at the jail on a Hendricks County warrant. • At 3:30 p.m. Austin W. McFerron, 22, Coatesville, was taken into custody for burglary, possession of stolen property, unlawful possession of a syringe and possession of paraphernalia...

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Who was Klughardt? Who was Ravel? Who was Carl Nielsen? What is the Mother Goose suite? What does an English horn, a piccolo and a contrabassoon have to do with a woodwind quintet? Find out the answers to these questions and hear some great music when the DePauw Faculty Woodwind Ensemble — Anne Reynolds, flute; Leonid Sirotkin, oboe; Randy Salman, clarinet; Kara Stolle, bassoon; and Rob Danforth, horn — present its fall Faculty Select recital at 7:30 p.m. ...

It was 1998. Few people even had cellphones. Fewer yet knew how to text. Forget Steve Jobs, Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa ruled the world. But after the last successful theft of the Monon Bell, then-Wabash College student Mario Massillamany couldn’t wait to call his mother and tell her about it...

The four Wabash College students who tried to steal the Monon Bell from its display case on the DePauw University campus will be experiencing a little more of the rivalry atmosphere than they bargained for. The four men, including the Little Giants’ football team placekicker, Schuyler Nehrig, 19, Greenfield, made an appearance in court Friday...

With a Greencastle woman dead and the wrecks continuing to pile up, the time to do something about Waterworks Hill has come. At least that was the opinion of the Putnam County sheriff and Greencastle mayor when they contacted the Indiana Department of Transportation about their concerns regarding U.S. 231 north of Greencastle...

James Ray Hanger Sr., 82, of Greencastle, passed away Friday Oct. 27, 2017 in South Carolina. Born June 6, 1935 in Quincy, Ill., he was the son of Leonard Hanger and Cecilia (Moore) Hanger. He married Loretta E. Hall and she preceded him on Dec. 23, 2016. He was also preceded in death by his parents; brothers Loyd David, Lee Albert, Edward and Cecil Tilman Hanger; and sisters Charlotte Jean Chance and Patricia Kay Mandabach...

George Mager, 82, formerly of Greencastle, passed away Oct. 26, 2017 at the Villas in Green Valley, Ariz. He was born May 26, 1935 in Diamond, Ind., to Andrew and Elsie (Philabaum) Mager. George retired from IBM in Tucson, Ariz., in May 1993 and spent 24 years of retirement in Vail...