Stories from Thursday, January 10, 2019

The long saga that began with an April 2017 home invasion and robbery is nearly over. With two of his co-conspirators already serving identical 72-year sentences, Charles Maybaum, 32, Indianapolis, received a 30-year sentence on Thursday. Paul Reese Jr., 30, and Justin Cherry, 29, went to trial separately and were each found guilty of nine felonies. One day both men were handed their long sentences in early Agust, Maybaum chose not to take his chances in front of a jury...

Mike Schimpf will resign as principal at South Putnam High School effective at the end of the 2018-19 school year. At the South Putnam School Board's first meeting of 2019, Superintendent Bruce Bernhardt presented a letter addressed to him from Schimpf, which briefly outlined his reasons for declaring his resignation at this time...

While winter has seen just a half-inch of snowfall thus far, indications are that could all change by the end of this week. Indianapolis TV meteorologists have been predicting something in the 2.5- to four-inch range for Putnam County and most of central Indiana on Saturday...

Nearly one third of the employees dislocated by the closure of Dixie Chopper took the opportunity to connect with area employers Thursday. With 25 employers in attendance, 35 former Dixie Chopper employees took advantage of the job fair organized by WorkOne Western Indiana at the Inn at DePauw...

CLINTON — Cloverdale competed at South Vermillion on Saturday in high school wrestling, placing fourth as a team in the tournament. “Our wrestlers competed well and had some outstanding individual performances,” Clover coach Chris Kaufman said. “We had six wrestlers representing Cloverdale in the finals, one wrestler competing for third and three wrestlers competing for fifth...

Ty VanSickle is a senior at South Putnam and participates in tennis and basketball. ——— Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? TVS: “Sports are really important to me. It’s really fun to play them, and just to be able to spend time with my friends during practices and games. ...

With the final night of divisional play coming up Friday in the Western Indiana Conference, the girls’ championship basketball game pairings have already been set with the boys’ divisional winners still up in the air. Cloverdale will travel to Northview on Jan. 18 for the conference championship, setting up a rematch of the volleyball championship match played in the fall...

LINDEN – Greencastle’s physical play proved to be too much for the North Montgomery Chargers to handle and as a result the visiting Tiger Cubs came away with a 64-35 win Tuesday night. From the start the Tiger Cubs (11-6) pounded the ball inside as Greencastle’s senior Claire Gillen scored her team’s first six points to help the visitors race out to an early 10-2 lead which prompted a North Montgomery time out...

Passing out a variety of food to Putnam County seniors, Gleaners representative Dick Sullivan and local volunteers serve more than 110 residents Thursday morning at the Greencastle National Guard Armory.

Putnam County Farm Bureau is now accepting student scholarship applications for 2019. To be eligible, the student must be the child of a Putnam County Farm Bureau Inc. member. Membership in the Putnam County Farm Bureau must have been carried for at least two years prior to the application and must be in good standing at the time of presentation. ...

Nearly one third of the employees dislocated by the closure of Dixie Chopper took the opportunity to connect with area employers Thursday. With 25 employers in attendance, 35 former Dixie Chopper employees took advantage of the job fair organized by WorkOne Western Indiana at the Inn at DePauw...

County Jail Four people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Wednesday • At 12:51 p.m. Crystal Dawn Clark, 45, Beech Grove, was lodged at the jail on a court order. • At 10:13 a.m. Kyley Jo Vanderheydren, 40, Rockville, was taken into custody on a local warrant...

The Greencastle Tiger Sharks were back in the swim Wednesday night in a tough contest versus the Cadets from Cascade. “The entire team swam well and showed great spring strength off of our holiday training,” coach Kent Menzel said. “Though the women did not earn a team win, they swam to solid firsts in both the 200 medley (Brooke Boswell, Sydney Lewis, Zoe Weltz and Olivia Headley) and 200 free relays (Weltz, Lewis, Headley and Katie White)...

The Western Indiana Conference wrestling meet will take place Saturday at Edgewood High School, starting at 9 a.m. Among the Putnam County athletes expected to do well, according to the seeding are: • Cloverdale freshmen Xavier Evans (19-2) and Will Roberts (21-1), the top seeds at 106 and 113 pounds, respectively...

North Putnam (4-8, 1-3) at No. 13 Greencastle (9-1, 3-1) The coaches: Collin McCartt is in his fifth year at North Putnam. Bryce Rector is in his third year at Greencastle. On the air: WREB-FM 94.3 will broadcast the game. So far: North Putnam has lost its last four games. Greencastle has won six straight games since its only loss at South Putnam on Dec. 7...

Greencastle’s boys’ basketball team received votes this week in the Associated Press top 10 poll for Class 3A. The Tiger Cubs, 9-1 going into tonight’s home game with North Putnam, had received votes in November after defeating then-ranked Danville...