Stories from Monday, January 14, 2019

John R. Kasich Jr., the 69th Governor of Ohio and a candidate for President of the United States in 2016, will come to DePauw University on Wednesday, January 30, as a guest of the Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture Series. A Republican who is known for working with Democrats as governor and as a member of the U.S. ...

With the snowfall received this past weekend as incentive, the Greencastle Parks and Recreation Department is announcing its annual Snow Sculpture Contest. The contest is divided into three categories: Best Snowman, Best Snow Creature and Best Snow Sculpture (anything that doesn't fit into the first two categories)...

County Jail Two people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Friday • At 7:13 p.m. Leviticus Nathaniel Brown, 27, Greencastle, was taken into custody for unlawful possession of a syringe, possession of marijuana and possession of a lookalike substance...

BAINBRIDGE — The current members of the Bainbridge Town Council and any other candidates for council will be pitted against each other in a single pool in 2019. The council received this news from Clerk-Treasurer Monica Bray during its recent monthly meeting at town hall...

CLOVERDALE -- After its first regular meeting of 2019 recently, the Cloverdale Town Council has new leadership, as well as a standing concern with filling its local governing boards. Though it barely had a quorum with the absence of members Don Sublett and Gary Bennington, the council elected former vice president Larry Fidler to handle the gavel, taking over from long-time official Coweta Patton. The board in turn approved Cindy Holland as VP and recognized Greg Jay as its new at-large member...

The 2019 Greencastle municipal primary election ballot has its first Republican and its second candidate overall after recent filings in the Putnam County Voter Registration Office. Republican Stacie Langdon becomes the second city candidate for the May 7 primary election, filing for re-election to the Second Ward seat on the Greencastle City Council...

It appears as though the first snowstorm of winter last weekend might have established an unwelcome winter pattern. After enduring a winter storm warning and receiving the biggest snowfall of the season on Saturday, central Indiana appears poised to go through the same routine again this coming weekend...

Cloverdale and Greencastle both got votes this week in the Indiana Coaches of Girls Basketball Association rankings. Cloverdale is ranked No. 12 in Class 2A, while Greencastle is No. 18 in Class 3A. The county champion Clovers are 18-3 heading into tonight’s home game with Parke Heritage, while Greencastle is 12-6 going into a double home game weekend against Owen Valley on Friday and Western Boone on Saturday...

Cascade (3-10) at South Putnam (9-4) The coaches: Chris DuBois is in his 15th year at Cascase. Greg Dean is in his fifth year at South Putnam. So far: Cascade has lost three straight games and seven of its last eight. South Putnam has won three of its last four games...

Four of the five championships in the Western Indiana Conferfence will be decided this weekend. On Friday night, the girls’ basketball championship will be decided when East Division winner Cloverdale plays at West Division champ Northview in a rematch of the volleyball championship in the fall...

MONROVIA — Both riding multiple-game losing skids, North Putnam (five-game losing streak) and Monrovia (four-game losing streak) had to wait a couple of extra days for one to end it with a win. The snow that blanketed most of the state of Indiana forced Saturday’s game to be postponed until Monday...

When North Central girls’ coach Joey Davidson played point guard at Sullivan — and later at DePauw University — in the 1990s, he played an all-out, in-your-face pressure style full-court game. Now in his fourth year as head coach of the Thunderbirds, Davidson’s squad predictably plays the same way...

VINCENNES — College basketball coaches sometimes need to make starting lineup changes, and those moves are not always received well by the player being removed from the starting lineup. Olney Central College women’s coach Clint Burris needed to make such a move in December involving 2017 Greencastle graduate Nailah Ray...

The Legislative Update series will make its 2019 debut Saturday, Jan. 19 when the Putnam County Farm Bureau hosts its first session of the new year. The program is scheduled to feature the three men who represent Putnam County in the Indiana General Assembly currently under way at Indianapolis -- District 44 State Rep. Beau Baird (R-Greencastle), District 37 State Sen. Rodric Bray (R-Martinsville) and District 24 State Sen. John Crane (R-Avon)...