Stories from Thursday, May 30, 2019

Four Putnam County athletes from three different schools will descend upon Indiana University on Saturday for the IHSAA girls’ track and field state finals. North Putnam’s Ashley O’Neal (high jump), Cloverdale’s Kenzie Stoltz (100 hurdles) and Greencastle’s Sydney Lewis (pole vault) and Seelye Stoffregen (300 hurdles) each earned a state finals berth by placing in the top three in the Bloomington North Regional last Tuesday...

As a junior at DePauw University in 2006, basketball player Austin Brown had a brief brush with fame that landed him on ESPN. With the announcement Thursday that Brown, now a sports agent, will be representing a generational NBA talent, he’ll have a client likely to be the lead story on SportsCenter for many nights to come...

After concluding six conferences which have been held throughout Indiana in the past month, leaders at the local and state level have engaged in conversations and discussions on how Indiana’s rural communities can not just grow, but thrive. The Inn at DePauw served as the venue for the last regional conference hosted by the Office of Community and Rural Affairs (OCRA) for 2019. The previous events were held in Madison, Huntingburg, Fair Oaks, Knightstown and Angola respectively...

Nearly a month past a primary election day that featured no primary in the city, Greencastle’s fall municipal ballot continues to take shape. In a meeting of the Putnam County Democratic executive committee this week, at-large city council candidate Kim Fidler announced her plans to remove her name from the ballot...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — By correctly spelling “replenish” Wednesday morning in the third round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, South Putnam Middle School student Noah Couch kept his hopes alive of advancing to the finals. However, the family got the news that afternoon that Noah would not be one of the 50 finalists...

Harold “Doc” Power, 94, of North Salem, passed away Tuesday, May 14, 2019. He was born April 1, 1925 in Indianapolis, son of the late James W. and Edith (Grimes) Power. He was a member of Indiana Murat Shrine, the Masons, the American Legion of North Salem and Jamestown and the Ohio State Alumni Association...

County Jail Three people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Wednesday • At 11:26 a.m. Randal David Harper, 41, Indianapolis, was lodged at the jail for probation violation. • At 1:14 a.m. Jesus Exiquio Perez, 44, Indianapolis, was taken into custody on a local warrant...

The Putnam County Horse Judging Team spent the past eight months learning how to evaluate and judge horses of all breeds and riding disciplines, how to present and defend their placings, preparing to compete in contests and developing life skills. Coached by Lisa Pitts, with the assistance of Shea Mahoney-Sutherland, various team members attended and competed in three different contests this spring...

North Putnam, Greencastle and South Putnam will compete in the Attica Sectional today at the Harrison Hills Country Club in Attica. Greencastle has won the last three sectional team titles, and five of the last six. Seeger’s Peyton Snoeberger, who will play collegiately next year at Purdue, is one of the frontrunners for individual medalist honors...

The Indiana Scorpions 11U baseball team won the Circle City Memorial Day NIT Field of Dreams tournament. Team members (from left, front) were Trevin Long, Sam Gooch, Nathan Sutherlin, Braxton Lewis and J.T. Roshong; (back) Ashton Dayhuff, Gunnar Shirk, Austin Foley, Eli Gilley and Seth Ross...

Each year when school ends, children who rely on school meals served at Greencastle Schools through the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs are at serious risk of going hungry. This is where the Federal Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) comes in and helps bridge the hunger gap...