Stories from Monday, January 1, 2018

DePauw’s basketball teams played in two-day tournaments last weekend, with the women hosting and winning the Amy Hasbrook Memorial Classic and the Tiger men’s team finished second in the Tampa Bay Shootout after winning the last eight titles. • Tigers sweep tourney — DePauw closed the first half with an 18-4 run and ended the third with a 13-2 stretch and rolled to an 80-49 win over visiting John Carroll in the final game of the Amy Hasbrook Memorial Classic...

SPEEDWAY - North Putnam dropped a pair of girls' basketball games in the Speedway Tourney on Thursday. Speedway defeated North Putnam 30-19 in the first round, while Indiana School for the Deaf defeated the Cougars 43-33 in the third-place game. Coach Jarrod Duff thought the Speedway game was “a disappointing loss” since he thought his team outplayed Speedway in most phases of the game...

Clay City (11-6) at Cloverdale (12-2) NOTE: Some schedules had incorrectly indicated this game was to be played on Jan. 1. The coaches: Chris Ames is in his 10th year at Clay City. Matthew Langdon is in his seventh year at Cloverdale. Season recap: The Eels started their season 6-1 before losing three straight games. They have gone 4-2 since then. Cloverdale has won four straight games and eight of its last nine...

Charles Luther Reed, 63, of Greencastle, passed away peacefully, Sunday, Dec. 31, 2017 with his family by his side. He was born on Sept. 8, 1954, in Danville, Ill., the son of Rex and Lillian (Scott) Reed. He graduated from Clay City High School with the class of 1972. He served his country in the United States Army...

Mary Bernice Snider, 82, of Greencastle, passed away Dec. 29, 2017 at 9:50 p.m. at Asbury Towers in Greencastle. She was born May 31, 1935 in Grayson County, Ky., the daughter of George H. Fenwick and Noma Milner Fenwick. Mary married Bobbie Snider on Jan. 2, 1973 and he passed away in August 2000. She was a homemaker and formerly attended Life Spring Church near Bainbridge...

Mildred (Millie) See passed away on Friday, Dec. 29, 2017. Born on Dec. 28, 1918 in Pierceton, Ind., she was the daughter of Franz S. and Lena Melissa Ward Knull. Shortly after her birth the family moved to North Manchester. She later graduated from Central High School and Manchester College, now Manchester University. After teaching two years in Whitley County, in 1942 she married John H. See of Macy, Ind. She taught in Deedsville and Macy until the family moved to Greencastle in 1953...

Debbie Brinson and Kathy Morgan of Endeavor Communications load up some of the boxes of cereal Endeavor employees recently collected and donated as part of a Cereal Drive at its Cloverdale office. Endeavor employees, members and board of directors joined together to collect and donate a total of 900 boxes of cereal in continuing a commitment to support the local community. Endeavor distributed 500 boxes to the Cunot Community Center, 200 boxes to the Missionary Church Food Pantry in Cunot, 100 boxes to the New Providence Church Food Pantry and 100 boxes to the Eminence Christian Church Food Pantry.

Representatives of Castlemakers receive the second installment of $500 of a four-year, $2,000 pledge from Republic Services. The gift is being used to provide materials, components and programming for community projects. Republic representatives Bill Cira, general manager (center), and Kenneth DePasse, governmental affairs (third from right) make the presentation to Laurie Hardwick, Dr. John Savage, Chris Hebb, Brian Howard and Jacob Hale from Castlemakers. Castlemakers is a non-profit community group dedicated to promoting and encouraging scientific and creative skills through building projects, education, mentorship, sharing and relationships with other organizations.

Epsilon Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma is looking for qualified applicants for its Recruitment Grant-in-Aid. Graduates of Putnam County high schools, who are female, who are sophomores or juniors enrolled in an university education program for elementary or secondary education, who have a high GPA, are encouraged to apply for the grant...

This year saw many new things happening at the Putnam County Public Library, and no one could have missed the biggest one. In September 2016 the library purchased an adjoining house for $78,000, and in October 2016 accepted a bid of about $8,500 from Spiker Excavating to demolish the house and lay down a gravel lot to make way for its plans of an extended parking lot...

With a record number of people taking advantage of the free cab service offered for the New Year’s Eve holiday, few impaired drivers were found on the roads of Putnam County. Unfortunately, there was one DUI arrest reported at the Putnam County Jail during the overnight hours of Sunday into Monday...

In their annual sparring session sponsored by the Putnam County Farm Bureau, the state legislators serving the area and the four local school superintendents and high school principals addressed what they hope to see in terms of education reform during the 2018 session of the Indiana General Assembly...

Perhaps the most interesting traffic incident of the weekend had nothing to do with weather or traffic, but a medical emergency. At 2:50 p.m. Friday, ISP Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Trooper Yan Dravigne was flagged down in the westbound lanes of U.S. 40 near County Road 300 East...

Apparently seeking to follow in his father's footsteps, Beau Baird of Greencastle has announced his candidacy for Indiana State Representative in District 44. The Republican will look to succeed his father Jim Baird, a four-term representative who, in October, announced his own 2018 candidacy for Indiana's Fourth Congressional District...