Stories from Friday, January 18, 2019

CLOVERDALE — Many times, coaches will try to build on a previous win over a team when meeting that team for the second time in a season. Cloverdale’s Matthew Langdon isn’t really taking that approach tonight, as his Clovers travel to Brazil to meet Northview in the Western Indiana Conference girls’ basketball championship game...

Impending bad weather on Saturday has resulted in the following schedule changes: -- South Putnam's boys' varsity basketball JV-V home games with Monrovia have been postponed to Wed., Jan. 30. -- The WIC middle school basketball tournaments scheduled for Saturday have been postponed. Reschedule is TBD...

VINCENNES – My nomadic ventures to basketball gyms near and far hit a fever pitch earlier this month when I went to five college games in a seven-day period at three different schools. My wife and I went to Indiana University on a Thursday night to see the Hoosiers play Illinois, returning to the site of our first date 18 years earlier...

CLOVERDALE — Cloverdale and North Putnam did not exactly put on a long-range shooting exhibition in their boys’ basketball game on Thursday night. The teams combined to hit just 2 of 34 shots from 3-point range, but in the end Cloverdale was able to capitalize on several more free throw opportunities to record a 48-40 win...

The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Warning for Putnam County from 4 a.m. Saturday until 4 a.m. Sunday. In addition to Putnam, other counties listed in the warning area are Parke, Hendricks, Vermillion, Marion, Hancock, Henry and Rush, including the cities of Clinton, Newport, Rockville, Plainfield, Brownsburg, Danville, Indianapolis, Greenfield, New Castle, Rushville, and of course, Greencastle...

CLOVERDALE -- With major road construction within Cloverdale slated to begin shortly, town officials only recently began the process of accepting a bid for the needed work. During a special meeting called Friday evening, the Cloverdale Town Council unsealed bids from two construction firms seeking to accept repavement work on 32 streets within the town. The project is the main concern for a recently awarded Community Crossings grant...

The Western Indiana Conference has now moved both its wrestling and swimming championships, scheduled for Saturday, up a day to Friday due to concerns over a winter storm forecast this weekend. The wrestling meet,originally scheduled for last Saturday at Edgewood, had been moved to Saturday but will now take place on Friday at 4 p.m...

FIRST PLACE: No. 12 Cloverdale (19-3) at Northview (13-8) The coaches: Matthew Langdon is in his eighth year at Cloverdale. Zack Keyes is in his fourth year at Northview. On the air: WAMB-FM 99.5 will broadcast the game. So far: Cloverdale is building on its biggest win total in program history, and has won eight straight games. Northview has lost two straight games and three of its last four...

Alma Sue Haltom, 56, of Cloverdale, went to be with the Lord Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. She was born in Brazil, Ind., on Sept. 19, 1962 to Stanley and Anna Lucas. She married Marvin Haltom on June 9, 1990. She was a caring mother and wife who enjoyed spending time with her family and pets...

Like many Midwesterners, Duke Energy continues to monitor and prepare for a major winter storm that has the potential to cause power outages across the company's 69-county Indiana service area. "This storm will be different compared to the system that blanketed the Midwest with snow last weekend," Duke Energy meteorologist Curt Grimoskas said. "This one is distinctive because it has the potential to bring a combination of snow, sleet, rain, freezing rain, very gusty winds and cold temperatures."...

Exactly a year ago Saturday, Ken Owen, special adviser to the president at DePauw University, took audio from Martin Luther King's 1960 visit to Greencastle, coupled it with some historic photos and put the resulting effort on YouTube for all the world to see...

CRAWFORDSVILLE -- The Indiana State Police advise that the preliminary investigative report of the officer-involved fatal shooting of Glenn Rightsell, 56, Linden, by Trooper Daniel Organ that occurred on Dec. 28 has been submitted to the Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office...

PLAINFIELD – Duke Energy has reiterated that help managing energy bills is available for any customer who may be experiencing financial hardship, including workers affected by the federal government shutdown, which is moving into its third week. “While the government shutdown is a very visible issue now, we recognize that unforeseen hardships can happen to anyone at any time,” Lesley Quick, Duke Energy’s vice president of revenue services, said. ...

Central Elementary Principal Todd Gowen (right) is presented with a $500 check from Mobil Kwik-Mart owner Scott Stanton as students in Kimberly Cunningham and Tominda Hayes’ computer class look on.

Eligibility in the regular 4-H program necessitates one must be in grades 3-12 as of Jan. 1 of the current year. However second-graders can get a taste of 4-H by signing up for the “Exploring 4-H” program. Exploring 4-H is a program for children who are not yet old enough for 4-H. Any boy or girl in the second grade as of Jan. 1 of the current year is eligible...

On the heels of starting his second term, Indiana State Sen. John Crane toured Putnam County Comprehensive Services, Friday, to better understand the impact the disabilities services agency has in Putnam County and beyond.

RUSSELLVILLE -- Though it is anticipating new construction work and improvements in 2019, The Russellville Town Council is still working through a persistently high usage of the town’s water utilities. With Jim Davis and Town Attorney Stu Weliever absent at the first meeting of the year, town officials focused much of their attention to addressing water loss and a continuing interest in the usage by Cash Concrete. ...

Reviewing the city’s monthly claims is rarely of too much interest at regular City Council meetings. The expenses detailed are either routine monthly matters of doing city business or larger expenses whose bills have lagged behind the arrival of shiny newness such as some new vehicle, building upgrade or new computer wizardry...

They came for the Colonel’s original recipe and wound up getting the Colonel himself ... sort of.

The following cases were filed in Putnam County courts recently. Criminal Cases Robert Gleaves, 30, Putnamville Correctional Facility, Level 3 felony aggravated battery, Level 4 felony prisoner possessing deadly weapon Cole Ray Shoemaker, 18, Greencastle, Level 6 felony possession of methamphetamine, Class C misdemeanor possession of paraphernalia...

County Jail Five people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Friday • At 12:05 a.m. Lectie Ruth Stidham, 50, Greencastle, was lodged at the jail on a local warrant. Thursday • At 10:10 p.m. Paul Andrew Tanoos, 39, Terre Haute, was housed at the jail for possession of methamphetamine, unlawful possession of a syringe, possession of paraphernalia and driving with a suspended license...

Putnam County Public Library will offer weekly classes, led by local bridge enthusiast Joe Baumann. Classes will be held Mondays from 10 a.m. to noon, beginning Jan. 28 and running through March 18 at the library, 103 E. Poplar St., Greencastle. Persons may contact the library at 653-2755 for more information...