Stories from Tuesday, July 16, 2019

INDIANAPOLIS — Sammie Shrum plays with some quality teammates at Cloverdale and on her Indy Magic AAU team. But on Monday, the level of talent was ramped way up as Shrum competed with numerous Division I-bound players in the IBCA Underclassman Showcase at Ben Davis High School...

After engaging the community for six weeks to help inform the style and content of an 8,000-square-foot “canvas,” organizers of the Putnam County Mural Project have chosen an artist to bring the ideas to life. Key Detail, an internationally known mural artist, has been selected to create one of Indiana’s largest murals on four large grain silos at the corner of Veterans Memorial Highway and U.S. 231 in Greencastle...

Henry Nathan Wallen Sr., 66, of Greencastle passed away Thursday, July 11, 2019, at Hickory Creek at Sunset. Henry was born in Morgan County on Aug. 31, 1952, the son of Unis and Amanda Mae (Kirkpatrick) Wallen, and attended Fillmore High School. Mr. Wallen worked for 38 years with Indy Truck and Trailer. After they closed, he worked for Greencastle Community Schools until his health forced him into retirement...

Kathy Walker, 63, Portland, Ore., passed away March 15, 2019. Born in Beech Grove to the parents of Donald and Joan “Lee” Walker, Kathy was raised in Greenfield and graduated from Greenfield-Central High School in 1975. Originally in the class of 1973, she missed two years due to a severe illness...

Thanks to the leadership efforts of 4-H volunteer Christian Destremps, eight youth have participated in a marvelous STEM learning program the past four weeks. Beginning with exploring algorithms and coding decision processes, youth set forth building and programming self-driving vehicles using the Lego Mindstorms kits managed by the Purdue Extension Putnam County program...

The following cases were filed in Putnam County courts recently. Criminal Cases Samantha Nicole Hanners, 28, Greencastle, Level 6 felony battery against a public safety official, Class A misdemeanor resisting law enforcement, Class B misdemeanor disorderly conduct, Class C misdemeanor driving while intoxicated, Class A misdemeanor driving with a BAC of .15 or more...

County Jail Two people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Tuesday • At 3:15 a.m. Angela Rae Higgins, 51, Rockville, was lodged at the jail for driving while intoxicated. Monday • At 9:04 p.m. Penny Ann Thomas, 54, Indianapolis, was booked in for battery with injury...

Hypochondriac protagonist George Kimball (Scott Armitage) gets a check-up from Dr. Morrissy (Cameron Wunderlich) in the Putnam County Playhouse production of “Send Me No Flowers,” which concludes its two-week run at the Hazel Day Longden Theatre with four

Director Jack Randall Earles will have two sessions of auditions for roles in the final production of the Putnam County Playhouse season, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Picnic.” The first session will be at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 21. The second session will be at 7 p.m. Monday, July 22. Both will be held in the Rehearsal Center of the Hazel Day Longden Theatre in Greencastle...

Kristina Corona, DePauw women’s soccer head coach, has resigned to accept a position as the 15U-19U Girls South Director of Coaching for the Colorado Rapids Youth Soccer Club. Corona, who took over the DePauw program in January of 2018, led the Tigers to a 4-11-1 record in her lone season with the Tigers with seven of the defeats coming by one goal each including all five in North Coast Athletic Conference play...

INDIANAPOLIS — A pair of Putnam County basketball standouts helped the Grand Park Premier Black 2021 boys’ basketball team win the 16U Platinum Bracket championship in the Adidas Invitational last weekend. North Putnam’s Mason Brooks led the team with 18 points, including 6 of 6 at the free throw line, in a 60-39 win over Indiana Elite Hoop Dreams. Greencastle’s Brody Whitaker added 15 points...

Fulfilling an essential supporting role for students with disabilities in Putnam County and surrounding areas, an educator with years of experience in meeting these needs is Old National Trail’s newest special education director. With more than 10 years working in special education in the Indianapolis area, Joe Kwisz comes with an eye toward community and building on the work of ONT, which serves the Cloverdale, North Putnam, South Putnam, Eminence and Mill Creek school corporations...

BAINBRIDGE -- In the last regular meeting of the summer before school begins next month, the North Putnam School Board had only two action items to address on its agenda Monday evening. The board approved the adoption of a handbook of guidelines for all non-certified staff at North Putnam Schools for the 2019-20 school year. Superintendent Nicole Singer said that the handbook was based on feedback, and that it would be sent out electronically...