Stories from Wednesday, June 27, 2018

A Girl Scout pool party is scheduled for 6-8 p.m. Saturday, June 30 at the Greencastle Aquatic Center in Robe-Ann Park. Admission is $3 per person, which includes entrance fee and snack. The whole family is invited to come. However, no pool passes can be used because the Girl Scouts have rented out the pool for the evening...

Doris Ilene Haussin, 89, of Greencastle, passed away on Wednesday, June 27, 2018. She was born in Dugger, Ind., the daughter of Thomas and Eulala (Burge) Smith and was a 1947 graduate of Linton Stockton High School. Doris retired from McLean Trucking, where she worked for several years as an executive secretary. She had previously worked as a switchboard operator with Indiana Bell...

Robert Allen Jones, 54, of Roachdale, passed away Tuesday, April 17, 2018 in Greencastle. A celebration of Robert’s life is planned for noon-4 p.m. on Saturday, June 30 at 5 Railroad St., Roachdale. A main dish will be provided, but guests are asked to bring a side dish...

The annual Putnam County Playhouse Youth Theater Workshop will stage its workshop-concluding presentation on Saturday, June 30 at 7 p.m. at the Hazel Day Longden Theatre off Round Barn Road on Greencastle's East Side. This year, two productions of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" are on the bill...

After an approximately four-month process, The Putnam County Public Library has a new director. The PCPL Board of Trustees unanimously approved the appointment of Brian Briscoe to the position in its regular monthly meeting Wednesday evening. He is set to begin his duties as director on July 9...