Stories from Friday, May 11, 2018

JASONVILLE — The Shakamak Board of School Trustees met Thursday evening, and after a brief hearing, unanimously voted to approve Daniel Noel as the new superintendent. The veteran educator has served as superintendent at North Putnam since 2012, but his contract is set to expire June 30...

A “Living with Low Vision” meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, May 15 at Putnam County Comprehensive Services, located at 630 Tennessee St., Greencastle, from 10-11 a.m. The speaker will be Greg Blackman from Eye Can See. Attendees are invited to bring a friend or family member to the meeting...

The Putnam County Museum has invited the Silver Lining Players, a new senior readers’ theater troupe, to call the museum its home. Sandy Steinem, who represents the group, said the meeting was “wonderful” and will give a full report at the troupe’s Monday, May 14 meeting from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the museum, 1105 N. Jackson St., Greencastle...

Delta Upsilon fraternity at DePauw University had 100 percent participation among its 82 members for a recent Rent-a-DU fundraiser in which the men did yard work and other odd jobs in the community to raise funds for the Humane Society of Putnam County (HSPC). In front of the house on Seminary Street, freshman Travis Owen, who chaired the event, presents a check for $2,140 to Sandy Grimes, HSPC president...

Big Bounce Fun House, the Greencastle McDonald’s and the Greencastle Presbyterian Church invite local residents to an evening of free family entertainment Saturday as the Second Saturday event series continues in the heart of downtown Greencastle. At 7 p.m. Greencastle‘s All-American Karate Academy “kicks” things off with an opening performance, followed by magician Daniel Lusk and his “Be Bigger Than a Bully” show, an important message for every child to hear...

Putnam County has a new opportunity for summer activities for kids in kindergarten through fifth grade. Hope For Our Future is owned and operated by Chelle Hendershot, who is currently a teacher in the Greencastle school district and has more than 25 years of experience working with children in school and camp settings...

For displaying accountability, Greencastle High School students Quintin Bartley and Ashley Byrer are the Character Education Program winners for April at GHS. Bartley and Byrer were among 21 Student Star candidates nominated for the monthly honor by GHS teachers and staff...

Eleven people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Wednesday • At 4:41 p.m. Samantha Marie Manning, 26, Cloverdale, was taken into custody for battery. • At 4:02 p.m. Zakary Allen Kortesmaki, 23, Greencastle, was housed at the jail on a petition to revoke probation...

Reaching across the table, Indianapolis 500 Princess Purva Patel, a DePauw University junior from Greenwood, places her tiara atop the head of four-year-old Mercy Stidd, who accompanied friends to the Gleaner’s Food Giveaway Thursday at the Armory...

With a streak of 80-degree days projected to stretch into late next week, summer feels like it has arrived in Putnam County. Right on cue with warmer temperatures is the return of farmers markets at three Putnam County locations. In Cloverdale and Greencastle, the farmers markets will make their returns on Saturday, while in Bainbridge the market is set for Wednesday...

With Karen Pelfrey holding one participant’s shopping bag open, fellow volunteer Sandy Williams deposits a frozen turkey into the carry-all Thursday morning for one of the local seniors taking advantage of the monthly Gleaner’s Food Giveaway at the Greencastle Armory...

Greencastle’s winning total in Tuesday evening’s Western Indiana Conference actually improved after the meet. Tiger Cub hurdler Seelye Stoffregen’s time was misrecorded by the timing company conducting the meet. Stoffregen actually placed fourth in the 300 hurdles with a time of 50.54, not 10th as the initial results...

Cloverdale’s softball team picked up wins over Linton-Stockton and Union Dugger this week to give the team momentum heading into Saturday’s Putnam County tourney. On Tuesday, the Clovers took a 3-0 lead and used strong seventh-inning defense to hold off Linton-Stockton 3-1...

CLOVERDALE — Greencastle’s team and Jake Bennett both defended titles from a year ago on Thursday evening in the Putnam County boys’ golf tournament at Clover Meadows. The Cubs bounced back from their only defeat of the season on Wednesday in a dual match at Terre Haute South to shoot a 163, defeating runnerup Cloverdale by 22 strokes...

A 50-year-old Putnam County man, who shot a former Cloverdale Police officer in December 2016, has been sentenced to 26 years in prison. Jeffrey P. Hunter, who in March authorized a plea agreement in which he pleaded guilty to a Level 1 felony count of attempted murder, was sentenced in Putnam Circuit Court by Judge Matthew Headley...

The Greencastle Water Department will be flushing fire hydrants throughout the city beginning on Tuesday, May 15. Ed Phillips of the water department said the work is expected to continue on Wednesday and possibly into Thursday. All work will be performed between 6 p.m. and midnight on the given days...

Cloverdale’s Tyler Kaeff and North Putnam’s 4x100 relay team provided the highlights for Putnam County athletes in Thursday evening’s Western Indiana Conference boys’ track and field meet. Kaeff, who will run collegiately at DePauw University, blistered the 110-meter hurdles in 14.88 seconds to win the conference title. He also finished second to University of Indianapolis signee Zach Deurloo of Cascade in the 300 hurdles and was also second in the high jump...

Kathy Vrabeck, senior client partner with Korn Ferry and a 1985 graduate of DePauw University, is the new chairman of the university's Board of Trustees. Elected at this week's spring meeting of the board, Vrabeck succeeds 1984 grad Marshall W. Reavis IV, founder and chief executive officer of SVM LP and board chairman since May 2014. Like Reavis, Vrabeck has been elected to a four-year term...

Bobbie L. Magness, 84, of Greencastle, went to be with the Lord on Friday, May 11, 2018. He was born Sept. 24, 1933 to the late Claud and Eunice (Jones) Magness. Bobbie married Thelma Carol Rubeck on Oct. 26, 2002, and she survives. He is also survived by his daughters, Barbara (John) Hall, Andrea Magness (Fred), Dana (Jim) Shaw and Jana (Chuck) Haywood; grandchildren Jerry Van Fossan, Kristian Van Fossan, James Shaw, Katie Shaw, Jenna Shaw, Alicia Haywood, Lee Haywood, Luci Peterman and Rebecca Peterman Gardner; great-grandchildren Taylor Jo and Austin Michael Van Fossan.. ...

A pizza sales fundraiser for the Greencastle High School football team will begin May 16 and end June 3. The boys hand-make the pizzas themselves and offer four different choices: Cheese, pepperoni, sausage and pepperoni and sausage combo, all available for $13 each...

The following cases were filed in Putnam County courts recently. Criminal Cases Carl J. Allen, 43, Plainfield, Level 6 felony theft, Level 6 felony forgery William W. Lowe, 18, Greencastle, Level 6 felony possession of methamphetamine, Class C misdemeanor possession of paraphernalia...

County Jail One person was booked in the Jail on Friday. • At 3:50 a.m. Lectie Ruth Stidham, 49, Greencastle, was lodged at the jail on a local warrant. City Police Two Owen County residents were arrested Thursday afternoon when their vehicle was stopped on State Road 240 by Greencastle City Police officers...

This summer, 25 different charitable organizations, scholarships and endowments are participating in the Putnam County Community Foundation Share the Dream program. The fundraising program offers proportionally awarded grant prizes to participants who receive at least 10 donations of $25 or more between May 1 and Aug. 31...

Unanimously adopting a resolution addressing hate crimes in the state of Indiana Thursday night, the Greencastle City Council likened the measure to "a statement of principle" rather than a new law. Council President Adam Cohen, who authored Resolution 2018-5, said it reaffirms city officials' commitment to what was passed in 2015, while also addressing the concept of hate crime...

In 1887, a Denver woman, a priest, two ministers and a rabbi recognized the need for cooperative action to address their city’s welfare problems. They put their heads together to plan the first united campaign for 10 health and welfare agencies. They raised $21,700 and started an organization that has lasted more than 130 years...

Cloverdale senior Tyler Kaeff admitted earlier this spring that it was “his fault” he didn’t make a return trip to the Indiana High School Athletic Association track and field state finals. He had qualified for the state meet in both the 110 high hurdles and 300 low hurdles as a sophomore, but his times fell off last year and his season ended at the Bloomington North Regional...

DUGGER — Greencastle got back on the winning track in high school baseball on Thursday, picking up a 12-2 win at Dugger Union. The hosts led 2-1 after four innings, but Greencastle pushed across four runs in the fifth and seven more in the top of the sixth inning to record the win...

While some county and conference tournaments have already taken place for Putnam County teams, a majority of the post-season action is still on the horizon. County titles have been decided in boys’ golf and track and field, and conference titles have been awarded in tennis and track and field...