Stories from Tuesday, September 3, 2019

In the spirit of supporting crucial emergency personnel, Walmart recently donated $1,000 to Putnam County’s Community Emergency Response Team (CERT).

Janet Sue Staley, 74, of Greencastle, went to be with the Lord on Monday, Sept. 2, 2019. Janet was born on Nov. 30, 1944 to John and Rose Bombei, in Indianapolis. She was raised on the Holbrook Dairy Farm in Amo. She was a 1962 graduate of Amo High School, then was employed at Larue D. Carter Memorial Hospital in Indianapolis...

Sometimes, you wonder if the world is doomed to descend into autocracy. Certainly, that’s what the coverage of the past few years suggests. We read about the nations that are already there, like China and Russia, of course, and Saudi Arabia and Iran. Or about countries like Hungary, Turkey and Poland that are nominally democratic but have been trending less so...