Stories from Thursday, September 20, 2018

Sharon "Sue Bell" Miller, 72, of Bainbridge, passed away Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018 at Hickory Creek at Sunset in Greencastle. She was born on Feb. 8, 1946 to the late Hubert M. and surviving Ruby P. (Riddle) Bell. On Sept. 7, 1963 she married James Edward Miller. He survives...

The Greencastle Civic League is seeking new members. The women’s group was founded in 1984 and continues to focus on beautification, clean-up, cultural development and general improvement of life in Greencastle. The executive committee will host an open call for members at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 24 in the community room of Starbucks. A public presentation will be followed by a question-and-answer session and a meet-and-greet with members...

The Greencastle Eagles Aerie 4388, will host a Wigs for Kids Benefit on Saturday, Sept. 22 from 3-9 p.m. All proceeds from the event will go to Wigs for Kids. A meatloaf dinner with mashed potatoes and green beans will be served beginning at 5 p.m. A cut-a-thon and auction will begin at 6 p.m. followed by a band playing 7-9 p.m...

Beginning this September, North Putnam Schools will recognize teachers across the school corporation through a new teacher appreciation initiative. The program will focus on teachers who engage their students with rigorous coursework, as well as demonstrate leadership and growth as educators, mentors and community members...

Contrary to a news release sent out last week, Dental Care of Greencastle will not be hosting a day of free dental services on Saturday, Sept. 29. The release, sent by Heartland Dental of Effingham, Ill., stated that Dr. John Wadas and his team would be helping improve the oral health of the community as part of Free Dentistry Day, a program dedicated to providing free dental care to the growing number of Americans without dental insurance...

County Jail Eight people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Wednesday • At 11:17 p.m. Jason Lee Jones, 39, Greencastle, was taken into custody on a warrant for auto theft. • At 1:11 p.m. Trystien Lee Boswell, 19, Cloverdale, was housed at the jail on a pair of local warrants...

CLOVERDALE — The first day on the job was a productive one for new Cloverdale K-9 officer Maggie. Having just received full certification for narcotic detection the day before, Maggie was spending her first day on the job Wednesday when her handler, Deputy Marshal Levi App, was called to assist Marshal Steve Hibler with a traffic stop...

When a 55-year-old Greencastle man asked to see a police officer Wednesday morning, his request wasn’t exactly granted in the way he had foreseen. Glenn Ray Claxton went to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Department asking to see a detective. When a front office employee told him no detectives were available, he left...

Two Greencastle men are accused of stealing a minivan Tuesday and later causing a serious accident as they tried to elude police detection. While the crash occurred shortly after 5 p.m., Greencastle Police Officer Kyle Lee had been investigating the theft of a 2005 Toyota Sienna earlier in the day...

Indiana is rich in historic barns that require adaptation to shelter today’s huge agricultural equipment or to suit a new purpose. Across Indiana, barns of all ages and types have been rehabbed for farming and repurposed as houses, businesses, event venues and more...

CLOVERDALE — Cloverdale’s volleyball team picked up a pair of wins this week to improve to 14-5 on the season. On Thursday, the Clovers hosted North Putnam on Grandparents and Pink Out Night, and won 25-7, 27-25 and 25-10. On Tuesday, the Clovers defeated Brown County 25-21, 25-16 and 26-24 to improve their Western Indiana Conference records in the East Division to 2-1...

With the air scheduled to turn cooler this weekend, the post-season for the eight IHSAA fall sports is either upon us or rapidly approaching. Football is exactly at the halfway point of its season, having played five weeks with four more and the sectional first-round games over the next five weeks. More information is available on football than other sports, courtesy of John Harrell’s website, but we will take a look at each one as best as possible...

The coaches: Randy Minniear is in his third year at Brown County. Tom Winders is in his second year at Cloverdale. On the airwaves: WREB-FM 94.3 will air the game. So far: Brown County won its opener 58-8 over Edinburgh, and since then has lost 41-13 to Jennings County, 42-20 to Cascade, 55-0 to Indian Creek and 58-14 to Beech Grove. Cloverdale has lost 6-0 to South Putnam, 28-18 to Greencastle, 45-6 to Edgewood, 14-8 to Cascade and 49-14 to North Putnam...

Summer is apparently going to wring every last degree out of its toasty 2018 stay. With fall looming for a 9:54 p.m. arrival on Saturday (Sept. 22), another high temperature of more than 90 degrees was registered locally on Thursday. A high temperature of 91 degrees was officially logged in at 3:43 p.m. Thursday, according to the Greencastle Schools weather station, marking the 38th time central Indiana has cracked the 90-degree mark this summer...