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Weeklong celebration of DePauw ArtsFest begins Sunday
(Local News ~ 10/27/18)
For the next week, DePauw University will present ArtsFest 2018: Art and Horizons, an annual weeklong event and interdisciplinary celebration of arts, local culture and student accomplishment. The festival kicks off in the Green Center for Performing Arts at 1:45 p.m. Sunday with Art Attack. With events spread across visual arts, literature, theater, music and cinema, event organizers hope to offer something to lovers of the arts of all ages...
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Fall Fest Fun
(Local News ~ 10/27/18)
Residents, employees, guests and their children enjoy some Fall Fest fun Thursday afternoon at Mill Pond Health Campus in Greencastle. While plenty of treats -- even a watermelon carved like a cat’s face -- were available to enjoy, pumpkin bowling provides the excitement as eight-year-old Evan Mann of Cloverdale celebrates a strike...
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Friday's high school football sectional semifinal scores
(High School Sports ~ 10/27/18)
Sectional 1 Crown Point 12, Portage 7 Merrillville 42, Lake Central 14 Sectional 2 Valparaiso 55, Chesterton 7 Penn 16, Warsaw 7 Sectional 3 FW Snider 49, Carroll (FW) 30 Homestead 24, FW Northrop 7 Sectional 4 Carmel 28, Westfield 7 Lafayette Jeff 35, Noblesville 24...
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Scott, defense dominant as Eagles top Howe, 30-14
(High School Sports ~ 10/27/18)
INDIANAPOLIS — The South Putnam Eagles used a power running game and an opportunistic defense to defeat the T.C. Howe Hornets 30-14 in the Class A Sectional 45 semifinal game. The Eagles took advantage of several Hornet miscues and played a solid game in improving their record to 5-6 and advancing to the sectional final next week against Traders Point Christian. The senior class at South Putnam will be participating in its third sectional final in four years...
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Cougars gets strong defensive effort, line play in win
(High School Sports ~ 10/27/18)
BAINBRIDGE — North Putnam head coach Sam Carnes knows what needs to happen on nights like Friday, when the field is wet and muddy and offensive effectiveness can be limited. You have to have line play. Carnes’ Cougars got strong play up front to help their running backs pile up 234 yards on the ground in a 15-6 win over Cascade. They will play at Class 2A No. 1-ranked Western Boone on Friday in the sectional championship...
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GIRLS' PREVIEWS: Tiger Cubs look to keep roaring under new coach
(High School Sports ~ 10/27/18)
Greencastle will definitely have a new look this year, losing three of its top seven players from last year as well as coach Bradley Key — who departed to take over at Greenfield-Central. Taking the reins of the Tiger Cubs is veteran Tod Windlan, who has won more than 200 games coaching at six schools...
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GIRLS' PREVIEWS: Eagles seeking good health, players to step forward
(High School Sports ~ 10/27/18)
South Putnam has won the last two sectional titles, but will be missing some key pieces from those teams this season. Graduated guards Lillie Stein (Franklin College) and Miranda Bieghler (Manchester University) are 1,000-point scorers who have advanced to the next level, while feisty Ally Nichols did not score that many points but was a defensive sparkplug for the Eagles...
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GIRLS' PREVIEWS: Veteran Clovers ready to take that next step forward
(High School Sports ~ 10/27/18)
Cloverdale returns three veteran starters and is looking for other younger players to step up as the Clovers hope to improve on last year’s 17-6 record. Senior Tori Combs, who was the Banner Graphic Player of the Year as a sophomore, produced another double-double season with 14.0 points and 12.7 rebounds per game...
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GIRLS' PREVIEWS: Cougars hoping to continue improvement this year
(High School Sports ~ 10/27/18)
Jarrod Duff is in his third year as the North Putnam coach, and is looking for the improvement his team has made over the past two years to continue. He knew when he took over that the rebuilding job would take a while, but the Cougars increased their win total to eight last year and only lost one senior from last year’s squad...
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WOMEN'S PREVIEW: DePauw Tigers return NCAC’s top individual, freshman players
(College Sports ~ 10/27/18)
DePauw’s women’s basketball team made its 19th overall appearance in the national tournament last year, but dropped a 65-50 loss to Trine in the first round of the NCAA Division III national tournament. The Tigers hold the second-longest active Division III streak with 15 straight tournament appearances dating back to 2004...
- COLLEGE REPORT: Five county grads competing in college this year (College Sports ~ 10/27/18)
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Wilson goes for repeat state title today
(High School Sports ~ 10/27/18)
TERRE HAUTE — Greencastle senior Emma Wilson will try to repeat her 2017 cross country state title today in the IHSAA state finals at the LaVern Gibson Championship Course. Wilson is the defending state champion after running away with the title a year ago by nearly 15 seconds...
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Tippin details Pearl Bryan saga and the new book it spawned
(Local News ~ 10/27/18)
The devil is in the details -- or so the old idiom goes -- meaning there is a mysterious element hidden within those specifics that might seem simple at first but will need much more time and effort to complete than expected. The devil was definitely in the details both in the murderous tale of Pearl Bryan, the 23-year-old Greencastle girl whose headless body discovered in a Kentucky field in 1896 to set off a sensational "Crime of the Century" clamor, and the 2016-17 research done by Putnam County Historian Larry Tippin of Roachdale to bring to light the real facts in a 122-year-old case that still fascinates the masses today.. ...
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