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GCSC to reopen schools with mask requirement, virtual option
(Local News ~ 07/16/20)
It took three hours of discussion and a split vote, but Greencastle Community Schools approved its plan to reopen school buildings to students on Aug. 5. With community and staff members voicing strong opinions from multiple points of view, the board ultimately approved the reopening plan proposed by administrators and a committee of 37 GCSC stakeholders...
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David S. Wells
(Obituary ~ 07/16/20)
David S. Wells, 66, of Greencastle, passed away on Monday, July 13, 2020. Born Jan. 18, 1954 in Greencastle, he was the son of Albert A. and Mary E. (Rogers) Wells and was a 1972 graduate of Greencastle High School. David worked at the Putnamville Correctional Facility for 30 years, retiring in 2013. He had previously owned and operated Wells Stop-n-Shop and worked at Gould’s Market...
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BENNETT'S MINUTES: Thomas making name for himself on travel circuit
(Sports Column ~ 07/16/20)
Cloverdale junior Kyle Thomas had a strong performance last weekend playing with the Grand Park Premier 2022 UA Rise basketball team in a tournament at Westfield. In pool play, Thomas had six points as GPP defeated Kentucky Future Elite 76-52. Thomas had 13 points on 6-of-7 shooting as GPP defeated DistinXtion Black 2022 87-57, then followed up that effort with his best outing of the weekend with 15 points in a 96-74 win over All Ohio...
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Gold Division wins all-star football tilt
(High School Sports ~ 07/16/20)
TERRE HAUTE — The game was delayed two days by weather. It was played two weeks later than normal due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the weather was hot. Some of the players scheduled to perform didn’t make it and many players played considerably more snaps than normally happens...
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Court News for July 17, 2020
(Court News ~ 07/16/20)
The following cases were filed in Putnam County courts recently. Christopher Davis, 30, Putnamville Correctional Facility, Level 5 felony battery with bodily injury to a public safety officer Lectie R. Stidham, 52, Brownsburg, Level 5 felony trafficking a controlled substance with an inmate, two counts of Class A misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance...
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Shakespeare in the Park
(Local News ~ 07/16/20)
In the Putnam County Playhouse Youth Theatre Workshop’s middle school version of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” (above) Hamlet (Gunner Roach, left) battles Laertes (Ella Tischer) while the noble Osric (Penny Cumings) referees the sword fight...
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Russellville adopts noise ordinance
(Local News ~ 07/16/20)
RUSSELLVILLE -- After receiving complaints from residents, the Russellville Town Council has now adopted a noise ordinance. The council and the town at large might also have a party to look forward to. Town Attorney Stu Weliever said he had practically “stolen” a noise ordinance from a larger town. Acknowledging that “one man’s music is another man’s noise,” he said it gave the town parameters to address excessive noise...
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Putnam Scanner for July 17, 2020
(Police Logs ~ 07/16/20)
County Jail Four people have been booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Thursday • At 8:33 a.m. Darien T. Davis, 30, Roachdale, was lodged at the jail on a writ. Wednesday • At 11:09 p.m. Amanda L. Lowe, 38, Greencastle, was taken into custody for driving while intoxicated-refusal, driving while intoxicated and reckless driving...
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Beam Me Up
(Local News ~ 07/16/20)
Making good on its commitment to stay in downtown Greencastle, Old National Bank continues work on its new facility at the northwest corner of Washington and Vine streets...
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DAZE WORK: We could use a little gangster in our lives
(Column ~ 07/16/20)
For the most part, I’ve always preferred to fight my own battles. Verbal or physical, it didn’t matter. Not that physically there were ever that many of them to begin with. My first real fight started just as horseplay when Ronnie, one member of the guys I ran around with in grade school, somehow popped me in the nose and it started gushing blood...
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Linton, principals speak to plan for Cloverdale schools
(Local News ~ 07/16/20)
CLOVERDALE -- With anticipation and anxiety together fresh as the beginning of the new school year draws nearer, Cloverdale Schools now has its own framework for coming back. Superintendent Greg Linton and the school corporation’s principals spoke to a comprehensive, but tentative, back-to-school plan during the Cloverdale School Board’s regular meeting Monday evening...
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