Stories from Saturday, January 27, 2018

BOYS Cloverdale 73, Delphi 60 (Jalen Moore 43 points, moves up to 38th on all-time Indiana scoring list) South Putnam 57, Lighthouse Christian Academy 40 (Allen Plunkett with 34 points, passes 1,000-point career mark) Class 3A No. 4 Tri-West 62, Greencastle 46...

Hoosiers remember it like it was yesterday. It was then that Indianapolis National Weather Service forecasters Dennis McCarthy and Hobart Reeves issued the first-ever Blizzard Warning for the entire state of Indiana at 3:45 p.m. on Jan. 25. When that news came crackling through the police scanner in the Banner Graphic newsroom, everyone within earshot stopped in his or her tracks...

CRAWFORDSVILLE — Greencastle senior Megan Friars won the Indiana High School Bowling regional tournament at Plaza Lanes, and will compete today in the semistate at Arrowhead Bowl in Lafayette. Friars did not roll a lot of strikes in her three-game qualifier, but picked up several spares in rolling games of 171, 184 and 169 as the top seed in the stepladder rolloffs...

The South Putnam Eagles hosted the Owen Valley Patriots in the Western Indiana Conference crossover game on Friday night in boys’ basketball. The two teams playing for 9th/10th place both struggled to score, but the Patriots hit from three-point range, while the Eagles couldn’t and defeated the hosts 47-35...

County Jail Two people were booked in the Putnam County Jail on Thursday. • At 6:5r p.m. Daniel Richard Sparks, 31, Indianapolis, was taken into custody on a court order. • At 6:47 p.m. Keith Allen Clampitt, 32, Danville, was lodged at the jail for theft...

The following cases were filed in Putnam County courts recently. Criminal Cases Derek W. Mager, 42, Fillmore, Class A misdemeanor invasion of privacy Shannon M. Ventura, 31, Greenwood, Class A misdemeanor driving with a suspended license Joseph A. Hagan, 28, Cloverdale, Class A misdemeanor driving with a suspended license...

Parke County REMC will sponsor five students at the annual Touchstone Energy Camp to be held June 6-9 at Camp Tecumseh in Brookston. Students entering seventh grade in the fall of 2018 are eligible to attend and are selected by their local cooperative to participate in the three-day program...

Walmart has recently announced plans to increase the starting wage rate for all hourly associates in the U.S. to $11, expand maternity and parental leave benefits and provide a one-time cash bonus for eligible associates of up to $1,000. The combined wage and benefit changes will benefit more than one million U.S. hourly associates, including 25,273 Walmart associates in Indiana, the retailer said...

Theirs are the first faces you’ll see when you walk into the Putnam County Public Library. They live behind that long desk where you can check out books, hopefully return them and, if you don’t, pay your late fees. “We consider ourselves the face of the library,” Conni Wrightsman, director of the circulation department, said. “I think everybody who works here does it because they want to help.”...

BAINBRIDGE — A lack of patience against a zone defense, combined with a poor shooting night and a strong performance by Cascade’s Dalton DuBois put a damper on the North Putnam Winter Homecoming Friday night. DuBois scored 28 points and pulled down 15 rebounds while leading the Cadets to a 58-44 win over the Cougars in the Western Indiana Conference Playoff Game...

BRAZIL — There were plenty of fireworks on the court Friday night as Cloverdale came calling to Northview in the Western Indiana Conference’s fifth-place crossover game. The Clovers’ Jalen Moore, the state’s leading scorer this year, etched his name in the record books with his 2,000th career point with a free throw in the third quarter. ...

Indian Creek came to Greencastle’s McAnally Center on Friday night as the second-highest scoring team in the Western Indiana Conference at 61 points per game, trailing only Cloverdale. The Clovers hung 80 points on the Cubs earlier this season, but coach Bryce Rector’s squad turned up its defense several notches and held the Braves 20 points below their average in recording a 43-41 win...

Tuesday, Jan. 30 6 p.m. - North Putnam (8-14) vs. Cascade (10-12) 7:30 p.m. - Western Boone (10-12) vs. Cloverdale (17-5) Friday, Feb. 2 6 p.m. - Monrovia (9-13) vs. North Putnam-Cascade winner 7:30 p.m. - South Putnam (17-5) vs. Western Boone-Cloverdale winner...