Stories from Saturday, January 13, 2018

Just days after opting out of the Putnam County Democratic Party chairmanship, Adam Cohen went right to back work in his familiar City Council leadership role. The First Ward councilman on the city’s seven-member governmental body, Cohen was unanimously re-elected Thursday night to a 10th straight term as City Council president...

GRANVILLE, Ohio – Ninth-ranked DePauw scored the game’s first 20 points and moved to 15-1 overall and 7-0 in the North Coast Athletic Conference following a 62-48 win at Denison on Wednesday. The Big Red dropped to 8-8 overall and 3-4 in the conference...

CLAYTON — Greencastle and Cascade split a pair of high school swimming meets on Wednesday, with the Tiger Sharks winning the boys’ meet 91-89 and Cascade winning the girls’ meet 101-82. “Our swimmers worked very hard to earn the split with Cascade,” Greencastle coach Kent Menzel said. “I think it came down to a question of depth for our evenly matched teams, where our depth on the boys’ side carried the day, and their depth on the girls’ side ended up overpowering us.”...

CLOVERDALE — North Putnam varsity coach Collin McCartt has been ill this week, fighting cold-like symptoms common this time of year. McCartt was in attendance on Wednesday night at the Putnam County middle-school basketball championships, and what transpired surely made him feel a lot better...