Stories from Monday, December 17, 2018

Greencastle hosted and won both the boys' and girls' meets in the Putnam County swimming championships on Saturday. The individual highlight was South Putnam sophomore Evan Steffy setting a meet record in the 100 breaststroke, breaking the previous standard that was set 17 years ago...

James Marvin Knauer, 53, of Nome, Texas, passed away at CHI St. Joseph Health Regional Hospital, Bryan, Texas, on Dec. 9, 2018, from complications due to his injuries in a motorcycle accident on Dec. 2. He was born Aug. 4, 1965 in Greencastle to James E. and Nina M. Knauer...

Freda K. Duke, 93, of Greencastle, formerly of Marshall, Ill., passed away at 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, 2018 in Asbury Towers Retirement Community at Greencastle. She was retired as an assistant administrator from Indiana State University. Freda was born Dec. 21, 1924 at near Dennison, Ill., the daughter of Fred and Nellie Price Dawson...

Norma J. (MacDonald) Williams, 80, passed away Saturday, Dec. 15, 2018 in Knightsville. She was born in Spencer on Nov. 7, 1938 to the late "Freckles" and Bea MacDonald (Haltom). Norma graduated from Brazil High School in 1956 and married William L. Williams on April 19, 1957...

Audra Helen (Burnett) Corn, 93, passed away on Friday, Dec. 14, 2018, at Legacy Lane on Mill Pond Health Campus in Greencastle. Born to George and Emma (Henager) Burnett of Oakland City, on Oct. 2, 1925, she was older sister to Imogene and Sharon. She was married to Forrest Corn Jr. for 64 years. They had two children, Larry and Deana...

David D. Miller, 78, Coatesville, passed away Sunday morning, Dec. 16, 2018 at his residence. He was born in Amo, Ind., on July 16, 1940, the son of William Cleo and Lois Irene Fisher Miller. He was a 1958 graduate of Amo High School. He married Darlene Phillips on Dec. 19, 1959...

Chesley Clement Lady, 81, passed away Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018 in Midwest City, Okla. He was retired from the U.S. Air Force. He is survived by his wife, Helen Miller Lady; two sons, Clement Lady and wife Donna, Fillmore, and Rodney Lady and wife Brandi, Greencastle; a daughter, Pamela Kite and husband William, Jemison, Ala.; two stepsons, James Cox and Derek Miller; and three stepdaughters, Nita Birkle, Cindy Benson and Brenda Blackman...

Capturing the Christmas story and the birth of Christ, a multi-scene drive-through live nativity Sunday night draws 222 vehicles to First Baptist Church in Greencastle.

Allan Dale Scroggin, 73, Imlay City, Mich., went to be with the Lord on Nov. 28, 2018. Allan was born on Nov. 19, 1945 to Phil and Hazel (Cline) Scroggin in Greencastle. He graduated from Greencastle High School in 1965. Allan served as a sergeant in the United States Air Force, serving two tours in Vietnam from 1965-68, and the Air Force Reserves from 1968-71...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch has announced the two regions who are designated a 2018 Stellar Community, the Health and Heritage region and the New Allen Alliance. “Stellar applicants were given a unique task this year, and that was to partner with their neighboring communities to come up with a plan that can benefit a larger range of Hoosiers,” Crouch said. “Through this collaboration, brilliant ideas came forth and I cannot wait to see their plans come to life.”...

For displaying good citizenship, Greencastle High School students Andrew Fajt (second from left) and Evan Alexander are acknowledged as Character Education Program Star Students for November at GHS.

County Jail Thirteen people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. On Friday: • At 9:13 p.m. Jessie Landon Cummings, 27, Thornton, was booked into the jail on two Boone County warrants. • At 1:04 p.m. Mitchell Richard Alexander, 46, Crawfordsville, was lodged in the jail for failure to appear...

Brick Chapel UMC Brick Chapel United Methodist Church, 3547 N. U.S. 231, Greencastle, will host a special Christmas program on Sunday, Dec. 23 at 6:30 p.m. Fillmore Christian Church Fillmore Christian Church will have a candlelight Christmas Eve worship service at 9 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 24...

The children of Bobbi Nees are asking for friends to help them celebrate their mother’s 80th birthday on Saturday, Dec. 29. Children Beth, Jo and John are hoping the community can help shower their mother with birthday cards ahead of her big day. A longtime member of the Cloverdale and Cunot communities, Bobbi served as a bus driver for Cloverdale Community Schools for 30 years, as well as serving nearly 20 more on the Cloverdale School Board. ...

A sold-out breakfast crowd greets The Grinch Saturday morning at Putnam Inn as the green meanie scowls his way into the packed party room at the restaurant and then covers his ears as he doesn’t appear to want to listen to anything Greencastle Park Director Rod Weinschenk or anybody else has to say about a merry Christmas.

Many coaches and basketball announcers consistently claim that the first few minutes of the second half are the most important in any game. Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren’t. On Saturday night, that adage proved to be 100 percent correct as Greencastle dominated the first half of the third quarter and went on to record a 65-56 win over Cloverdale...

The surprise announcement late last month of Jon Strube’s reassignment from his post as Tzouanakis Intermediate School principal surprised many people in the Greencastle community, both inside and outside the school corporation. On Monday, many of those same people showed up at the Greencastle School Board meeting to express their frustration...

Josh Hall poured in a career-high 27 points and grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds in leading DePauw to an 85-80 win over Earlham in men’s college basketball on Monday night. The Tigers moved to 6-2, while the Quakers dropped to 3-7. The Tigers led by as many as 11 in the opening half before the Quakers knotted the contest at 29-29. DePauw took a 41-37 lead into the intermission and never trailed the rest of the way...

Cloverdale’s girls remained in the Class 2A top 10 rankings by the Indiana Coaches of Girls Sports Association this week. The Clovers moved down a spot to No. 9 despite winning their only game last week. Undefeated Hammond Noll, which was ninth last week, leapfrogged over Eastern (Pekin) and Cloverdale into seventh place this week...

Greencastle (6-1) at Cascade (2-6) The coaches: Bryce Rector is in his third year at Greencastle. Chris DuBois is in his 15th year at Cascade. So far: Greencastle has won three straight games. Its only loss came at South Putnam. Cascade has lost three straight games, and its only wins came over Southmont and Brown County...

BAINBRIDGE -- A serious chemical leak that occurred Sunday in Bainbridge is now being assessed after town officials and first responders worked for approximately six hours to contain it. At about 1:39 p.m. Sunday, the Bainbridge Fire Department was toned out to a hazmat call from municipal utilities employees, who reported that a chlorine leak had occurred near Bainbridge Town Hall...