Stories from Thursday, May 17, 2018

The quick response of emergency personnel and the presence of Vectren Energy crews already in Greencastle likely kept a Thursday-morning natural gas leak from being much worse. After 10:30 a.m., construction workers on the 300 block of East Walnut Street were finishing the curb on the south side of the road. At that point, a worker driving stakes in the ground hit the gas line that feeds Spring Tree Square Condominiums...

The public is welcome to attend a senior piano recital by Simon Foss, graduating senior at Greencastle High School, featuring works by Bach, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Chopin and Debussy, in Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church of Greencastle at 5 p.m. Friday, May 18. ...

Residents are invited to join local author Beth Benedix for an author’s talk, book sale and signing on Thursday, May 24 at the Putnam County Public Library. The free program will begin at 7 p.m. at PCPL, 103 E. Poplar St., Greencastle. Benedix will have copies of her newly published book, “Ghost Writer: A Story About Telling a Holocaust Story.” The book focuses on the life of Joe Koenig, a Holocaust survivor, and Benedix’s efforts to tell his story...

Financial support for the upkeep of Little Walnut Cemetery would be accepted and appreciated. Little Walnut Cemetery is located on West County Road 225 North in southern Clinton Township. To support the cemetery, contact John Thomas at 653-6085 or Gladys McMains at 653-5711...

County Jail Nine people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Wednesday • At 12:55 p.m. Terrill Trivett, 52, Indianapolis, was lodged at the jail on a Hendricks County warrant. • At 10:22 a.m. Robert Joseph Sabo III, 32, Danville, was taken into custody on a local warrant...

Ivy Tech Community College celebrated its second cohort of ASAP program graduates during a recent ceremony in Greencastle. Campus leaders honored 18 ASAP program graduates with associate degrees in Liberal Arts. Some students also earned degrees in General Studies. In addition, students earned transfer general education core certificates from the college...

Pizza, pasta, beer, wine. Coffee, books, antiques, clothes. Farmers markets, First Fridays, music, community. Life in downtown Greencastle has been positively stellar for the last few years, and getting better all the time. Much of the credit, and rightly so, goes to the 2011 Stellar Communities grant and the Greencastle-DePauw University partnership that made it happen...

Believe it or not, the Monon, New York Central and the Pennsylvania railroads -- legendary trains that once rumbled through town, leaving a romantic legacy in their wake -- are running again in Greencastle. Just on a smaller scale than most of us remember them...

When DePauw University conducts its 179th commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 20 there will be a decided local flavor to the honorary degree recipients. DePauw will present two longtime Greencastle community leaders -- Jinsie Scott Bingham and Dorothy Chapman Brown -- with honorary doctoral degrees along with Holocaust survivor Eva Kor of Terre Haute when the ceremony unfolds on Holton Memorial Quadrangle in front of the Roy O. West Library...