Stories from Wednesday, January 2, 2019

A veteran Indiana State Police trooper assigned to Putnam County escaped serious injury Monday afternoon in a single-vehicle accident while responding to a crash at the 38-mile marker on Interstate 70 in western Putnam County. At approximately 1:45 p.m., Master Trooper DuJuan Presley-McFadden sustained minor injuries in an accident near the 60-mile marker in Hendricks County, a mile east of the Belleville-Monrovia exit...

Frederick Lee Aubrey Sr., 84, of Auburndale, Fla., passed away on Saturday, Dec. 29, 2018. Fred enjoyed helping people in their shared recovery journey -- a commitment for more than 58 years. He also loved many years of fishing and playing golf. Fred will be missed by those who knew him...

James Dale Allee, 36, of Danville, passed away Sunday, Dec. 30, 2018, surrounded by his family and friends. Born Dec. 21, 1982 in Greencastle, he is the son of Penny Jo Evens and the late Joseph Clifford Allee. He married Rachael J. Below on July 25, 2009 in Danville...

Clint Cooper, a Greencastle native, has been named co-manager of the Carpenter Realtors’ Greencastle office. He will manage alongside Connie Cooper, who has been a vital member of Greencastle’s real estate community for more than 40 years. Clint graduated from Greencastle High School and spent several years in law enforcement, then with Nucor Steel, before becoming a realtor. He has been a licensed real estate agent for 15 years, earning multitple awards for personal sales accomplishments...

Celebrating the opening of her very own agency, Barb Young (second from left) cuts the ribbon recently at Young’s Hometown Insurance.

The Old National Trail Special Services Governing Board of Directors will meet for its regular meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 8 at 9:30 a.m. The meeting will be held in the board room at Area 30 Career Center, 1 N. Calbert Way, Suite A, Greencastle. It is open to the public...

The following cases were filed in Putnam County courts recently. Criminal Cases Anthony C. Bauers, 36, Brazil, Level 6 felony driving a vehicle as a habitual traffic violator Clifton R. Adams, 53, Greencastle, Class B misdemeanor possession of marijuana...

CRAWFORDSVILLE (AP) — Relatives of a man fatally shot by an Indiana State trooper are demanding answers after police said there was no body or dash camera video of what led up to last week's shooting along a western Indiana highway. The cruiser driven by the trooper who shot 56-year-old Glenn A. Rightsell of Linden didn't have a dash camera, as some of the agency's cruisers do, and Indiana state troopers aren't equipped with body cameras, Sgt. Kim Riley said Monday...

County Jail Six people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Tuesday • At 10:56 p.m. Anthony Curtis Bauers, 36, Brazil, was lodged at the jail for driving as a habitual traffic offender. • At 7:29 p.m. Jason Emerson Garrison, 21, Indianapolis, was taken into custody on a local warrant...

With December in the rearview mirror, one-third of meteorological winter is now behind us, and it appears that the El Nino-fueled predictions of a warmer, wetter winter are holding serve. For through the first 31 days of winter, the National Weather Service at Indianapolis has logged only 0.5 inches of snow for central Indiana, marking one of the least-snowiest Decembers on record...

In what is normally a routine meeting to close out the books for the year, the Putnam County Commissioners used their New Year’s Eve meeting on Monday to set the table for 2019. Thanks to months of effort, the county starts the year with a new employee handbook for the first time in a number of years...

Sounding a bit like a 2019 version of the old Celtic expression “May the road rise to meet you; may the wind be always at your back ...” the sign at the Servicemaster office on Greencastle’s East Side puts a modern twist on things and a smile on drivers’ faces as they scoot along Indianapolis Road with hopes and dreams for the new year.

For the second straight year, just one local DUI arrest was made on the New Year’s holiday. Arrested by DePauw Public Safety Officer Steve Smith early Tuesday morning, the Greencastle man found himself in the Putnam County Jail before 2019 was two hours old...

Despite suffering two defeats since the last Indiana Girls’ Basketball Recruiting Report rankings were released, Cloverdale is ranked 10th in this week’s poll. The Clovers are now 14-3 after finishing fifth in the 12-team Toby Yoho Classic at Eastern Greene last week. They had been eighth in the last IGBRR poll...

Holiday basketball tournament action can sometimes be really good, and other times really bad. For the players, the thought of preparing for games without having to worry about the stress of classes, tests or other projects makes the time period appealing...