Stories from Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Daniel S. Newton Sr., 49, of Cloverdale, went to be with the Lord on Monday, Jan. 21, 2019. He was born June 5, 1969 in Terre Haute to William and Judith (Waldbeiser) Newton. He married Jill (Robinson) Newton on Aug. 7, 2004, and she survives. He was employed by Endeavor Communications and loved sports, hunting and fishing...

Paul Samuel Tesmer, 49, of Greencastle, passed away on Monday, Jan. 21, 2019 surrounded by family. He was born May 28, 1969 in Greencastle, the son of Jerry and Marcia (Woods) Tesmer. Paul worked at Putnam County Comprehensive Services for more than 40 years...

CLOVERDALE – The McDonald’s restaurant at 1033 N. Main St. in Cloverdale is inviting guests to experience McDonald’s in a new way with a greater level of choice, engagement and service. The changes are reflective of a new and innovative restaurant model that has been successfully rolled out in more than 2,600 McDonald’s restaurants around the world and puts more choice and control in the hands of guests by evolving how they order, what they order, how they pay and how they are served...

The following cases were filed in Putnam County courts recently. Criminal Cases Samantha Archer, 40, Greencastle, Level 6 felony neglect of a dependent Jonathon R. Hannon, 33, Danville, Level 6 felony theft Paul A. Tanoos, 39, Terre Haute, Level 6 felony unlawful possession of a syringe, Class A misdemeanor driving with a suspended license...

County Jail Five people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Monday • At 11 p.m. William Wilson Lowe, 19, Greencastle, was lodged at the jail on a local warrant. Saturday • At 6:23 p.m. De Ron Christopher Young, 22, Indianapolis, was housed at the jail on an out-of-county warrant...

Candidates for the royal court at Friday night’s 2019 Winter Homecoming at Cloverdale High School.

After listening and observing what his father Jim experienced over eight years in office, representing Indiana House District 44, freshman Rep. Beau Baird shouldn’t be too surprised by anything the state legislature throws at him. But two things “kind of shocked me,” Baird said Saturday during opening comments at the first of three 2019 Legislative Update programs sponsored by the Putnam County Farm Bureau...

After several years of inactivity, the local chapter of the NAACP may soon be reorganized and active again. There will be an informational meeting from 5-6 p.m. on Saturday to discuss restarting the Greencastle chapter. The meeting will take place at Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church in the Colonnade room...

On Thursday, Allen and Peggy Royer will be honored by the local Soil and Water Conservation District for two reasons. On one hand, Allen spent more than four decades working for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, much of it as the district forester serving Putnam County and other surrounding counties, before he retired last summer...