Stories from Thursday, December 14, 2017

A woman was badly burned in a Sunday-morning fire at Castlebury Apartments. Greencastle Fire Department dispatched to the scene at 7 a.m. to a fire at 1202 Castlebury Dr., Apt. D. Firefighters arrived on scene at 7:05 a.m. Due to the call coming in at shift change, a crew of 10 firefighters on three engines was able to respond...

The DAR cabin in Greencastle’s Robe-Ann Park will welcome a visit from Santa Claus this Saturday, Dec. 16. Santa will be at the cabin, located just off the Bloomington Street entrance to the park, from 10 a.m. until noon.

First Baptist Church, 404 Judson Drive, Greencastle, will host its annual drive-through nativity scene Sunday, Dec. 17. The 6-8 p.m. live nativity will feature real sheep, donkeys and camels as members of the congregation stage several scenes leading up to the welcoming of the newborn King in the manger scene in the drive-through effort...

CLOVERDALE — Minutes after authorities were alerted to a possibly impaired driver headed eastbound on Interstate 70 from the Clay County area Wednesday afternoon, a 23-year-old Hendricks County man crashed his car into a guardrail and a box truck just west of the Cloverdale interchange at U.S. 231...

A New York Times op-ed piece examining the path that led to last weekend’s grand opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and the Museum of Mississippi History notes the contributions of a DePauw University emeritus professor of history in a column headlined “In Mississippi’s Museum Openings, a Victory for ‘Local People.’”...

ROACHDALE -- Clerk-Treasurer Debbie Sillery announced during the Roachdale Town Council’s regular meeting that Santa Claus will be at the park for “Milk and Cookies with Santa” Dec. 22 from 6-8 p.m. Volunteers and 200 empty milk jugs are still needed for the event. Bring milk jugs to the Roachdale Town Hall Volunteers should contact Sillery at 765-522-1532...

Honors, accomplishments, accolades. The hits just keep on coming for Greencastle High School senior Ben Gellman. Already excelling with his legs in cross country and track and with his mind as a three-time state champion in English competition at the Indiana Academic Super Bowl, Gellman Wednesday afternoon was honored for his heart and soul in being named the 2017 Putnam County DAR Good Citizen...

Brown County (1-5, 0-2) at Cloverdale (4-2, 1-1) Media coverage: WREB-FM 94.3 will broadcast the game live. The coaches: Chuck Hutchins is in his fourth year at Brown County. Patrick Rady is in his third year at Cloverdale. So far: Cloverdale lost 93-65 to Terre Haute South and 78-60 to Edgewood and has beaten Southmont 69-61, Indian Creek 77-75, Monrovia 48-45 and South Putnam 72-53...

Greencastle hosted Edgewood on Wednesday night in high school swimming, with the Sharks sweeping the Mustangs. Greencastle won the boys’ meet 109-71 and the girls’ meet 109-75. “It was definitely a fast and fun for us at McAnally pool,” Greencastle coach Kent Menzel said. “The Tiger Sharks were on top of their swims all night against a very-spirited Mustang squad.”...

Ruth Marie Hanlon, 81, of Greencastle, passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017. Born Jan. 13, 1936 in Clay County, the daughter of Estel and Herberta (Leberer) Sutton. She was a graduate of Greencastle High School. Ruth had retired from DePauw University where she had worked as an accounting clerk for 38 years...