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'Be Well' 5K Saturday at Big Walnut Sports Park
(Local News ~ 06/25/18)
Putnam County Hospital will stage its second annual "Be Well" 5K Run/Walk Saturday, June 30 at Big Walnut Sports Park in Greencastle. The race will begin at the shelterhouse located adjacent to the playground. Check-in and registration will be from 9-9:30 a.m. with the race beginning promptly at 10...
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Silkroad faculty performance part of Summer Music Festival series Wednesday at Gobin
(Local News ~ 06/25/18)
The Greencastle Summer Music Festival will host the Silkroad Global Musician Workshop faculty performance as this week's free 7:30 p.m. festival event in the sanctuary of Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church. A freewill offering will be taken to support the workshop's scholarship fund, which helps students from all over the world attend the week-long workshop being held this week at the DePauw University School of Music...
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SPORTS BRIEFS: North Putnam football blood drive set for Thursday
(High School Sports ~ 06/25/18)
North Putnam will have a blood drive on Thursday from 3-7 p.m. in the high school gym in conjunction with the Indianapolis Colts Challenge. “We are at a critically low level of blood in our state, and a holiday weekend is approaching,” North Putnam head coach Sam Carnes said. “Please come out and help save lives.”...
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Dennis L. Lockhart
(Obituary ~ 06/25/18)
Dennis L. Lockhart, 95, Brownsburg, passed away Monday, June 25, 2018. He had retired from Detroit Diesel Allison in 1984 and was a U.S. Army Air Corps World War II veteran. His wife, Mary Ann Lockhart, and son John Wayne Lockhart preceded him in death...
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Putnamville officer arrested for trafficking at facility
(Local News ~ 06/25/18)
PUTNAMVILLE -- Acting on a tip, authorities at the Putnamville Correctional Facility (PCF) have arrested a correctional officer on four charges, including three felony counts, in an attempt to bring contraband into the facility on Saturday. On June 20, the Office of Investigations and Intelligence (OII) at PCF gathered information that Officer Brian Perry Morris had recently trafficked contraband into the prison facility and would be attempting to do so again...
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Public rededication of Civil War monument Sunday at 2 p.m.
(Local News ~ 06/25/18)
The long-awaited rededication ceremony for the Civil War Monument will take place in Greencastle's Forest Hill Cemetery on Sunday, July 1. The 2 p.m. event is free and the public is encouraged to take part. After a repair project spearheaded by the Heritage Preservation Society (HPS) of Putnam County that took longer than the war the monument commemorates, the ceremony will be an opportunity to celebrate the collaboration of multiple organizations, individual citizens and areas of government that helped to make the restoration a reality.. ...
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July 5 closing expected for project on State Road 240
(Local News ~ 06/25/18)
The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) has announced that a small structure replacement project will close State Road 240 in eastern Putnam County on or after Thursday, July 5. The area in question is just over 1.5 miles west of State Road 75 (or approximately nine miles east of Greencastle)...
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Grant to DePauw to help support diversity access to computers
(Local News ~ 06/25/18)
A $25,000 grant to DePauw University from the Ball Venture Fund Competition will fund “Roadmap for Students of Color in Computing Program,” an initiative designed to improve access to computer science for traditionally underrepresented students. The competition, sponsored by the Ball Brothers Foundation of Muncie and administered by Independent Colleges of Indiana (ICI), is in its 20th year. It aims to provide colleges with seed funds for innovative start-up projects...
- Coming Full Circle (Local News ~ 06/25/18)
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Don’t lose out by focusing on winning
(Local News ~ 06/25/18)
The summer season has been business as usual for many 4-H’ers who work on projects, attend meetings/workshops or camps. One suggestion for both parents and youth is to set goals and establish what it is that one is seeking by being involved in a particular activity or event. Be careful to not become so wrapped into the busyness of the season that the sense of purpose in 4-H or other activities is lost...
- New Clinic Open (Local News ~ 06/25/18)
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Court News for June 26, 2018
(Court News ~ 06/25/18)
The following cases were filed in Putnam County courts recently. Criminal Cases Joshua D. Hickman, 30, Bainbridge, Class B misdemeanor criminal mischief Donna F. Dibiase, 36, Cloverdale, Class C misdemeanor driving without ever receiving a license...
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Putnam Scanner for June 26, 2018
(Police Logs ~ 06/25/18)
City Police One summons and two citations were issued as a result of recent activity by Greencastle Police Department officers. A 26-year-old Greencastle man was issued a summons into court on a charge of inhaling toxic vapors in an incident reported at 10:10 p.m. Sunday...
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School board appointment process questioned by Lazar
(Local News ~ 06/25/18)
Outgoing Greencastle School Board member Lisa Lazar made an emotional farewell to her post on Monday evening. Moved almost to tears at times, Lazar expressed her pride at four years of work on the school board while also questioning the process by which board members are chosen...
- Off to Market (Local News ~ 06/25/18)
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Curb Enthusiasm
(Local News ~ 06/25/18)
Workmen from CC & T Construction, Indianapolis, continue to make pretty, pretty, pretty good progress Monday in removing the corner swales of brick pavers and limited curbing to install new curbs and smoother concrete areas while adding handicap accessibility at the corners of the north side of the Courthouse Square. ...
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Larry Allen Attkisson
(Obituary ~ 06/25/18)
Larry Allen Attkisson, 66, went to be with the Lord on Monday, June 25th, 2018 at 11:25 a.m. Larry was born August 3rd, 1951 to Robert and Mabel (Small) Attkisson. He graduated from Washington High School where he excelled in math and wrestling. He coached wrestling for eight years at North Putnam High School...
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Vernon A. Hendrickson
(Obituary ~ 06/25/18)
Vernon A. Hendrickson, 62, Greencastle, passed away Wednesday, June 20, 2018 at his residence. He was born in Putnam County on Oct. 3, 1955, the son of LeRoy and Frances Sturgeon Hendrickson. He is survived by his sisters Debra (Joe) Brown of Kentucky and Teresa (Charlie) Whitt of Greencastle, several nieces and nephews, two aunts and one uncle...
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Library Board expected to name new director
(Local News ~ 06/25/18)
The Putnam County Public Library will soon have a new director, pending approval from the PCPL Board of Trustees. Alan Zerkel, the current president of the PCPL Board of Trustees, has confirmed to the Banner Graphic that the issue will be on the board’s agenda Wednesday night...
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