Stories from Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Donna Ann Gibson, 77, of Ladoga, passed away at 11:53 a.m. Monday, Jan. 1 at the Community Heart and Vascular Center in Castleton, Ind. She was born on March 5, 1940 at Russellville to the late Donovan and Mary (Gardner) Shoaf. She married Thomas E. Gibson on March 29, 1958 in Jeffersonville. They were married for 59 years...

Robert A. "Bud" Thomas, 53, of Bainbridge, passed away Sunday, Dec. 31, 2017 in St. Vincent Hospital. Born Oct. 6, 1964 in Danville, he was the son of Allen Bryant and Carol Mae Shull Thomas. He married Connie S. Poynter on May 4, 1985 in Greencastle...

BAINBRIDGE -- Dr. Robert Heavin will now be seeing patients at the newly expanded North Putnam Family Healthcare, located at 209 E. Pat Rady Way in Bainbridge. All of Dr. Heavin's staff will make the transition, so patients can be greeted with and cared for by familiar faces...

John H. Carson, 78, formerly of Greencastle, passed away Sunday, Dec. 31, 2017. Services have been entrusted to Lindquist's Layton Mortuary, 1867 N. Fairfield Rd., Layton, Utah 84041.

County Jail Six people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Monday • At 8:55 p.m. James Eugene Stevens, 40, Greencastle, was lodged at the jail for disorderly conduct and public intoxication. • At 3:50 p.m. Curtis Morgan Shepherd, 26, Quincy, was taken into custody for driving while intoxicated and reckless driving...

Family Support Services has finalized its search for a new executive director and hired Scott Monnett of Greencastle. Monnett has more than 15 years of experience in not-for-profit executive leadership, including fundraising, community relations, program development, partnership engagement and mission advancement...

For the Banner Graphic Going home from work Saturday afternoon, a Clay County man witnessed something strange happening in the westbound lanes of U.S. 40 near County Road 300 East in Putnam County, and stopped. Employed as Indiana Department of Corrections executive director of construction services and serving as the Dick Johnson Township Volunteer Fire Chief Kevin Orme of Brazil immediately went to help the driver of a 2002 Dodge pickup truck sitting in the middle of the road...

SPENCER -- A Cloverdale teenager has been sentenced to 10 years in the Indiana Department of Correction with three years executed and remaining time suspended to probation for his part in a June home invasion and robbery at a Cunot-Cataract Road residence...

Divisional basketball in the Western Indiana Conference is more than halfway over, with three of the five girl/boy doubleheaders taking place in December. The final two doubleheader nights will take place over the next two weeks, with several big matchups on the card this Friday night that will go a long way toward deciding the pairings for the crossover round games...

Sean Ramey is a senior tennis player at Greencastle High School. Banner Graphic: How long have you been playing sports, what have you learned from them and how important are they to you? Sean Ramey: “I’ve played sports about my whole life. I started off playing soccer, but my mom introduced me to tennis at an early age and I liked it enough that I started playing it full-time in high school. ...

A little more than 22 years after it was completed, the Putnam County Jail will soon be paid in full. Upon completion of the Putnam County Jail, Commissioner Don Walton cut the ribbon on the new $5 million facility on Dec. 8, 1995. On Tuesday, Walton (now in his second multi-term stint) was among the three commissioners present when it was announced the jail will be paid off later this month...