Stories from Tuesday, February 19, 2019

MECCA – South Putnam improved on its best season of this millennium on Tuesday night with a 75-63 victory at Riverton Parke, with the Eagles raising their record to 15-6 – their highest victory total since the 1994 sectional championship team. The Eagles came out of the blocks firing, pouring in 19 first-quarter points with nine from senior Allen Plunkett...

CLOVERDALE -- At approximately 10 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 19, an Indiana State Police trooper stopped an eastbound gold Chevrolet Equinox on Interstate 70 near the 41-mile marker for a traffic violation of following too closely. Stopped near the Cloverdale/U.S. 231 exit of I-70 in Putnam County, the driver was identified as Joshua Gomez, 21, San Diego, Calif. During a conversation with Gomez, the trooper reportedly observed criminal indicators...

Continuing his 100-mile walk in honor of both his late grandfather and fellow student Tyler Trent, Purdue University junior Aaron Lai could be seen making his way south toward Greencastle from Brick Chapel Monday evening.

A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect for Putnam County and most of Indiana Tuesday night through Wednesday morning. An expanding area of high pressure will produce clearing skies late tonight. But a surge in warmer, moist air north will overrun the cold layer and spread into central Indiana late Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, causing snow to develop overnight. That snow will later become mixed with sleet and freezing rain as temperatures rise...

Greencastle Mayor Bill Dory met with members of the Beta Psi chapter of Tri-Kappa Sorority recently to sign a proclamation declaring the week of Feb. 17-23 as Tri-Kappa Week. Kappa Kappa Kappa Inc. (Tri-Kappa), a women’s service sorority, was founded on Feb. 22, 1901.

The following cases were filed in Putnam County courts recently. Criminal Cases Jeffrey Venerable, 31, Greencastle, Level 3 felony conspiracy to deal in a Schedule II controlled substance in the presence of a minor, Level 5 felony conspiracy to traffick a controlled substance with an inmate...

County Jail Two people were booked in the Putnam County Jail on Monday. • At 11:45 p.m. Troy Stone Martin, 21, Greencastle, was taken into custody on a local warrant. • At 10:58 p.m. Jonathan Lee McClure, 33, Poland, was booked in for driving with a BAC of .08 or more...

The Putnam County Convention & Visitors Bureau (PCCVB) intends to contribute $28,500 to support Putnam County non-profit organizations with missions or programs that encourage tourism. “All non-profits need reliable financial support,” PCCVB Board Member Kit Newkirk said. ...

A collaboration between two faculty members and a student at DePauw University has brought to print a story that, in the words of history Professor Emeritus John T. Schlotterbeck is “important to DePauw’s history while providing an unprecedented account of one man’s civil war.”...

To borrow the old slogan from Staples, “That was easy.” After five rounds of voting and no consensus reached during its January meeting, the Putnam County Council had a unanimous selection for president less than five minutes into the February meeting on Tuesday...

TERRE HAUTE/OLNEY, Ill. — A rare double-dateline is deserving on a day when a rare college basketball doubleheader was witnessed on Saturday involving two former Cloverdale standouts. Even though neither ex-Clover happened to win his game, the defeats can definitely not be pinned on them...

CLOVERDALE -- The Cloverdale Clovers and the Parke Heritage Wolves finished regular season play at Cloverdale Tuesday night. The two teams certainly competed like it was already the tournament with the Clovers holding on for 63-60 victory. “Both programs have faced some adversity this year. I thought you saw two teams that are playing their best basketball going into the state tournament,” Cloverdale head coach Patrick Rady said...

Lane Watson is a senior at South Putnam and participates in basketball. ——— Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? Lane Watson: “Sports have been really important to me. They have taught me to have a work ethic, and to work hard. I have met my best friends through sports, and I feel really close with the guys on the basketball team. It’s one of the five most important things in my life.”...

Seeking to extend the campus pedestrian corridor known as Burkhart Walk that runs north and south from Seminary Street to Hanna Street, DePauw University has asked the City of Greencastle to permanently close a portion of College Avenue. Mayor Bill Dory said he has received a request from DePauw, seeking to close College Avenue between Hanna and Olive streets, effectively extending the pedestrian corridor by creating a new section between the Julian Math and Science Center and Lilly Physical Education and Recreation Center on the west and the Performing Arts Center on the east.. ...