Stories from Monday, November 27, 2017

Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 62. South southwest wind 9 to 13 mph. Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 39. South southwest wind 5 to 8 mph becoming north after midnight. Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 53. North northeast wind around 6 mph becoming east in the afternoon...

Gene J. McMurtry, 80, of Bainbridge, passed away Friday, Nov. 24, 2017. He was born on Sept. 23, 1937 in Indianapolis to the late Perry and Juanita (Miller) McMurtry. On March 3, 1961, in Belleville, Ind., he married Nancy (Anderson) McMurtry. They were married 56 years...

Betty Louise Hiles Waldron, 79, of Blanchester, Ohio, died Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017 at her home. Born April 24, 1938 in Cincinnati, Ohio, she was the daughter of the late Elmer and Helen Keethler Hiles. Betty worked at DePauw University, first in the Roy O. West Library and then in the Registrar's Office. She was elected as Madison Township trustee assessor in 1994...

The Putnam County Sheriff’s Department recently responded to six property-damage accidents and one personal injury accident. Monday • At 8:40 a.m., Patsy J. Sheehan, 65, of Omaha, Neb., was westbound on Interstate 70 near Cloverdale in a 2006 Chevrolet Impala when she swerved into the median, overcorrected across the westbound lane and the north shoulder, slid down a grass embankment and rolled once before coming to rest on her wheels...

The Putnam County Public Library will offer four computer classes this December. Classes are free, open to the public, two hours long with a break, hands-on and designed to introduce patrons to productivity tools with beginners in mind. Space is limited, so registration is necessary and can be done by contacting Mike Acsbok at 653-2755 ext. 118 or visiting pcpl21.org, the circulation desk or the reference desk...

CLOVERDALE -- Cloverdale High School will host its annual Clothe a Child events Saturday, Dec. 2. • 9 a.m. - 3 p.m., 11th annual Craft Show, CHS auxiliary gym • 9:30 a.m., Pet Costume Contest registration • 10 a.m., Pet Costume Contest • 10:30 a.m., 5K Run/Walk registration...

MARSHALL -- Visitor can drive through the Turkey Run State Park campground to see sites filled with holiday displays during the park’s Festival of Lights, each weekend through Dec. 31. The festival runs 6-9 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through Dec. 17, then daily from Dec. 22-31...

“Shadowlands,” an exhibit of the work of Ken Gonzales-Day, a California-based interdisciplinary artist, is on display at DePauw University’s Richard E. Peeler Art Center through Dec. 15. The public is invited to attend the exhibition, which is presented free of admission charge...

TERRE HAUTE -- Ivy Tech and Duke Energy partnered together to coordinate the recent annual Spartan Match at Terre Haute. The goal of Spartan Match is to bring K-12 schools together and compete with other students and schools in activities related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics...

So when is the status quo not exactly the status quo? Apparently whenever statistics get involved -- think Benjamin Disraeli’s famed lies, damned lies and statistics line -- which is how Putnam County could post an identical unemployment rate for two straight months but end up falling a number of spots in the monthly state rankings...

Vernon E. Jordan Jr. -- the civil rights legend, attorney and 1957 graduate of DePauw University -- who Newsweek calls “a veteran dealmaker and one of the nation’s most prominent African-Americans” -- will return to his alma mater to deliver the commencement address to DePauw’s Class of 2018...

CLOVERDALE -- Representatives from all branches of local Cloverdale government recently met in a roundtable discussion of how to market Cloverdale to businesses and potential residents. The governments represented were: Town of Cloverdale (Town Manager and Building Inspector Wayne Galloway, Clerk-Treasurer Cheryl Galloway, Social Media Manager Laura Hatton); Cloverdale Town Council (President Coweta Patton); Cloverdale Redevelopment Commission (President Wayne Galloway, Matt and Andrea Nichols); Putnam County Visitor Bureau (Eric Freeman) and Planning/BZA Commission (Roy Lotz of both, James Coy of BZA).. ...

The marquee sign that has proclaimed hundreds of upcoming Greencastle High School events and welcomed thousands of visitors over the past six years met an unceremonious demise Friday night at the entrance to McAnally Center off Percy Julian Drive. But it wasn’t a prank. Wasn’t malicious in nature. Wasn’t even vandalism at all...

Washington University’s Rachael Sondag buried a three from the corner with 1.5 seconds left to give the Bears a 77-75 lead and DePauw’s Claire Keefe hit the rim with her attempt to knot the game at the buzzer and WashU left with a win and the Midwest Challenge title...

Greencastle (1-0) at Danville (0-0) Game time: 7:30 p.m. varsity tipoff The coaches: Bryce Rector is in his second year at Greencastle with a record of 9-15. Brian Barber is in his 19th year at Danville with a record of 314-115. So far: Greencastle beat Crawfordsville 51-44 last week. Danville has not yet played this season...

TERRE HAUTE — When Patrick Rady added his alma mater, Terre Haute South, to this year’s Cloverdale boys’ basketball schedule he knew what he wanted to accomplish. To defeat one of the state’s top programs, one featuring six players taller than anyone on his bench, wouldn’t be impossible — but also wouldn’t be very likely...

LITTLE CINCINNATI — Cloverdale led 27-3 after one quarter on Saturday and were never challenged in improving their record to 6-1 on the season with a 74-17 win over Eastern Greene. “We started out strongly, and sometimes on a Saturday you don’t always do that,” Cloverdale coach Matthew Langdon said. “We hit some shots and created some turnovers. In the second half, we did some good things that we’ve been working on, such as slowing things down and getting shots in the halfcourt.”...

Wilma (Malayer) Zimmerman, 87, passed away Friday, Nov. 24, 2017 at home in Brownsburg. Born on March 15, 1930, she was the daughter of the late Burley and Veda Malayer of Roachdale. She married George "Pete" Zimmerman on Nov. 5, 1960. He preceded her in death...

Santa Claus will arrive at the north side of the Putnam County Courthouse Square to kick off December First Friday events as Main Street Greencastle celebrates the beginning of the holiday season in downtown Greencastle on Friday. First Friday events run from 5-7 p.m. with events at the courthouse and merchants around the square...