Stories from Tuesday, January 29, 2019

DePauw University will be closed tomorrow, Wednesday, Jan. 30, as record cold temperatures and dangerous wind chills are in the forecast for west central Indiana and the Midwest. The university will close at 5 p.m. Tuesday and reopen at 11 a.m. Thursday. Classes will resume with 12:40 p.m. classes on Thursday, Jan. 31. Because of the two missed days of classes, the final day of the adjustment period will now be Wednesday, Feb. 6...

Perhaps an image of the freezing temperatures that are coming our way, a light layer of snow could be seen sprinkling a field in Marion Township in a kind of chilly desolation Tuesday morning. As a result of a polar vortex that will sweep the Midwest, Putnam County will experience dangerous -30 to -45-degree wind chills, some of the coldest air the area has seen in more than two decades. A wind chill advisory issued for central Indiana will be in effect from Tuesday evening until Thursday afternoon.

Gregory Dean Vanes, 62, of Indianapolis and formerly of Brazil, passed away at Terre Haute Regional Hospital on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019, following a brief illness. Greg was born in Clay County on Nov. 20, 1956 the son of Bill U. and Shirley J. (Morlan) Vanes...

David Brouse Brattain, 66, of Lebanon, passed away Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019. He was born on Jan. 30, 1952 in Greencastle to Rosemary and Donald Brattain. David attended Greencastle High School, Greenbrier Military Academy and Lambeth College. He worked as a press technician for General Motors, and was also owner of Zionsville Country Kennel...

Following a four-month search, the Putnam County Community Foundation has named Brandon Wells as the organization’s new executive director. The PCCF board of directors made the announcement Tuesday, with an effective date of Monday, Feb. 4. Wells succeeds Elaine Peck, who served in that capacity for nearly 17 years...

A three-word statement, scrawled in red ink on a bathroom stall of a DePauw University residence hall, is the latest racial bias incident reported on campus and the first this semester. Ken Owen, DePauw spokesman and special adviser to the university president, confirmed that a student discovered the graffiti at about 7:30 p.m. Friday in a third-floor bathroom at Hogate Hall on South Locus Street...

City Hall has received word that Republic Services has suspended trash pick-up in Greencastle for Wednesday, Jan. 30 or Thursday, Jan. 31 due to expected extremely cold temperatures. Next week, Republic will have extra crews out on Wednesday and Thursday to deal with the increased volume due to the suspension this week...

John Kasich, former governor of Ohio and two-time presidential candidate (with speculation he will run again in 2020), will now visit DePauw University on Thursday, Jan. 31, as a guest of the Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture Series. The event was set for Wednesday, Jan. 30, but DePauw has decided to close due to record cold conditions forecast for Wednesday, and the speech (along with other events) has been moved to the following day...

Jolisa Nicole Vickous, 43, of Coatesville, left us to be with The Lord on Monday, Jan. 28, 2019, at Life's Journey of Avon. Jolisa was born in Bloomington on Nov. 1, 1975, the daughter of Frank and Bertie (Jasper) Lehman. She was a 1994 graduate of North Lawrence High School in Bedford...

PUTNAMVILLE -- Indiana State Police Supt. Douglas G. Carter has recognized two troopers from the Indiana State Police Post in Putnamville for 25 years of service. Master Trooper DuJuan Presley-McFadden, who patrols Putnam County, is a native of Kosciusko, Miss., and a 1986 graduate of Kosciusko High School...

The following cases have been filed recently in Putnam County courts. Criminal cases Mindy A. Wilson, 35, Texico, Ill., Level 6 felony dealing in methamphetamine, Level 3 felony possession of methamphetamine, Level 6 felony auto theft, Class A misdemeanor driving with a suspended license, Class A misdemeanor false identity statement...

County Jail Four people were booked in the Putnam County Jail on Monday. • At 6:11 p.m. James Michael Wiltermood, 23, Russellville, was lodged at the jail on a local warrant. • At 2:41 p.m. Nathan Kade Williams, 24, Greencastle, was taken into custody for probation violation...

The Indiana High School Athletic Association girls’ swimming sectional swimming preliminaries will take place at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the Wabash Valley Aquatic Center in Terre Haute. Athletes from Avon, Cascade, Danville, Greencastle, North Putnam, Plainfield, South Putnam, Terre Haute North, Terre Haute South, Tri-West and West Vigo will be competing in heats to determine the eight finalists for Saturday’s championship round...

CHICAGO — The Gatorade Company announced on Monday that it is honoring Emma Wilson of Greencastle High School as its 2018-19 Gatorade Indiana Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year. Wilson was the first Gatorade Indiana Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year ever to be chosen from Greencastle High School last year, and has won the award for the second straight year...

With a continued goal of purchasing and placing automated external defibrillators (AED’s) in public buildings around Putnam County, and assisting residents who have experienced a heart event, Jeff Rich has created the “Have-a-Heart” fundraiser. The fourth annual event is set for Saturday, Feb. 2 at the Community Building on the Putnam County Fairgrounds in Greencastle with a revised program. Doors open at 5 p.m. with the event beginning at 6...

GIRLS SECTIONALS First Round Class 4A 6. Homestead FW South 65, Huntington North 35 7. Zionsville Lafayette Harrison 83, Logansport 49 Zionsville 78, Lafayette Jeff 60 8. Hamilton Southeastern Carmel 48, Noblesville 33 Fishers 58, Anderson 33 9. Mt. Vernon (Fortville)...

James Duncan is a senior at North Putnam and participates in football, basketball and track and field. ——— Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? James Duncan: “I’ve been playing sports since fifth grade. ...

Too bad we just couldn’t have canceled Wednesday itself. All Putnam County schools are closed for Wednesday -- including DePauw University and Ivy Tech -- because of the obscenely cold temperatures and extraordinary wind chills that visited Indiana thanks to the never-popular polar vortex...

CLOVERDALE — The South Putnam Lady Eagles and the North Putnam Lady Cougars had split a pair of games earlier in the year, and most people expected a tough game between two teams that had been playing really well late in the year, but at Cloverdale on Tuesday night, well…...