Stories from Friday, September 14, 2018

Tzouanakis Intermediate School will remain closed until further notice. Greencastle Schools Supt. Jeff Hubble notified Tzouanakis parents Friday evening that air quality tests remain high. “Unfortunately, the third air quality test yielded results that make us uncomfortable with opening TZ in the immediate future,” Hubble said...

Sharon A. Ensor, 74, of Bainbridge, passed away Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018 at Hendricks Regional Health. She was born on Oct. 29, 1943 in Boone County, Ind., to the late Kenneth and Margaret (Collier) App. Sharon graduated from high school then attended beauty school...

It’s so easy these days to despair about the future of our country. It feels like half the people I run into just want to pull the covers over their heads and ignore the news. There’s dysfunction at the highest levels of government. Recent reports - the new book by Bob Woodward and a New York Times op-ed - reveal that top administration officials are so worried about the president’s impulses that they’ve formed a sort of “resistance” movement to thwart them. ...

County Jail Five people were booked in the Putnam County Jail on Thursday. • At 7:38 p.m. Richard Lee Lacey, 37, Greencastle, was booked in on a local warrant. • At 6:18 p.m. Trey Michael Vickrey, 26, Greencastle, was taken into custody for possession of methamphetamine and theft...

The mission of the Elks National Foundation is to help Elks build stronger communities. They fulfill this pledge by investing in communities where Elks live and work. Greencastle Elks Lodge 1077 used part of an ENF Gratitude Grant to donate $1,250 to local Boy Scout Troop No. 99 to assist with their need for camping equipment...

Patti A. Stauffer, MS, has been appointed executive director of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE), a non-profit membership organization founded in 1991 and dedicated to advancing scholarship, education, and practice in practical and professional ethics. ...

The Putnam County Highway Department has contracted with The Daltons of Warsaw to perform brush control treatment in the road right of way in Franklin, Jackson, Floyd, Marion, Greencastle and Monroe townships within Putnam County, Highway Supervisor Michael Ricketts has announced...

Healthy living is compressed of many factors in one’s life. These factors can range from doctor visits, screenings, healthy eating, physical activity and much more. However, one aspect of health in our bodies that we would like to talk about today is cholesterol...

The annual conference of the Association of Indiana Counties will cause the delay of upcoming meetings of both the Putnam County Commissioners and Putnam County Council. The commissioners and council would regularly be scheduled on the third Monday and third Tuesday, respectively. Instead, the meetings will be one week later...

Alphabet soup may not be on the menu but the old PNC is set become the new KFC. The Greencastle City Council heard that development Thursday night when City Planner Scott Zimmerman explained that the property at 46 Putnam Plaza, last occupied by used car dealer Motorama Auto Center, will be razed and a new Kentucky Fried Chicken establishment constructed on the site of the former PNC Bank...

A construction crew from Joe Spiker Excavating, Greencastle, hoists one of the last remaining rafters to be put in place on the new bandshell at Robe-Ann Park.

Almost exactly one year to the day of its last tax-abated expansion, Heartland Automotive has a new project coming on line and a new tax-abatement request before the Greencastle City Council. Thursday night the Council adopted Resolution 2018-15, declaring the property Heartland has called home since 1987 at 300 S. Warren Drive an economic revitalization area, which makes the site eligible for tax abatement...

Basking in the attention of her crowning Friday evening, 2018 South Putnam Homecoming Queen Samara Young celebrates with escort Trey Long.

With as many as an estimated 2,000 American veterans buried within the confines of Forest Hill Cemetery in Greencastle, decorating their resting places in time for holidays can be taxing not only on cemetery personnel but the flags they put out. Things got a little better Thursday afternoon when representatives of Greencastle American Legion Post 58 presented Forest Hill Supt. Ernie Phillips with 200 new flags...

Greencastle firefighters came out in force to respond to a house fire located in the Sherwood addition late Friday morning. The Greencastle Fire Department received a call at 9:58 a.m. that dispatched them to 901 Evensview Dr. where the fire had started in the upper part of the residence. arrived at the house at approximately 10:05 a.m. and began working to contain the fire...