Stories from Thursday, July 23, 2020

Following several months of planning for the safe return of athletics, DePauw and its North Coast Athletic Conference partners have agreed to suspend competition through December 31, 2020. "My heart aches for our student-athletes, coaches and staff," said Stevie Baker-Watson, DePauw Associate Vice President for Campus Wellness and Theodore Katula Director of Athletics.

On the whole, this year’s Putnam County 4-H Fair was a decidedly unusual one. With none of the carnival fanfare and the absence of Legionburgers to boot, it was all about the 4-H’ers and their efforts. This year’s Supreme Showmanship competition was unusual on its own. Besides moving to the horse arena for the final portion and the presentation of the awards, there were fewer people in the stands than normal...

The coronavirus — aka COVID-19, or The Covid as I’m hearing it called a lot more these days — has changed our lives, perhaps forever. We can’t go out to eat without being impacted. We can’t go to the store without it being a factor. For crying out loud, we can’t send our kids to school without fearing for their well-being...

Once a promising proposition for a delapidated school building on the city’s West Side, the plan to turn Jones School ino senior housing is apparently now a dead issue. An agreement to sell the building to Milestone Ventures Inc. was originally reached in the summer of 2017...

Recent North Putnam graduate Adam Ammons has signed to play football for DePauw University, although his freshman season was canceled on Wednesday due to COVID-19.

ROACHDALE -- Following in pace with those offered through other area school districts, North Putnam Schools will also provide an online option for students. The North Putnam School Board approved the online program’s handbook during its regular meeting held last week. However, questions as to how it could be supported with all of the uncertainty coming into the new school year were considered...

The old Greencastle Stockyards at the north of town is getting new tenants. This time, however, they won’t have four legs and a curly tail. The Greencastle Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) approved both a special exception for a contractor’s warehouse in the General Business district and a development standards variance to allow a storage structure to be built without a sewer or septic system...

Employees at the Dollar Tree on Greencastle’s east side got an unexpected surprise after a truck drove into the storefront Thursday morning...

Purdue Extension Master Gardeners (EMG) receive training in horticulture to equip them to volunteer in assisting Purdue Extension with home horticulture education in local communities. The requirements for Purdue EMG certification include acceptance into the training through an application and screening process, payment of a registration fee, completion of the EMG Basic Training – which includes passing the open-book final exam with a score of 70 percent or higher – and contributing at least 40 hours of volunteer service approved by the local EMG county coordinator within two years. ...

Always a local favorite when he plays his adopted hometown, Tad Robinson and his band will perform at ParkFest on Tuesday, July 28. The soul blues singer and harmonica player will be joined by Kevin Anker on Hammond organ, Paul Holdman on guitar and Brian Yarde on drums...

Fifteen people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Wednesday • At 9:43 p.m., Jack D. Schabel, 64, Coatesville, was lodged at the jail for strangulation and domestic battery. Tuesday • At 8:52 p.m. Daniel W. Galloway, 49, Greencastle, was taken into custody for possession of a controlled substance, possession of paraphernalia, possession of marijuana, driving while intoxicated and refusal to submit to a chemical test...

Betty Jean Monnett, age 90, of Cloverdale, passed away Wednesday, July 22, 2020. Betty was born Aug. 27, 1929 to the late Lawrence and Edna (Routt) Cummings. She married Claude Monnett Sept. 22, 1949 and he preceded her in death Feb. 16, 1996. She is survived by her sons, Keith Monnett and wife Christina, Dana Monnett and wife Terry, Dale Monnett and wife Janet, Russell Monnett and wife Kelly; daughter Linda Bond; bonus son Vernon Bothwell; sisters Audra Vickroy, Shirley Brewer, Faye Gaddis, Sharon Mannan; brother Dennis Cummings; and numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.. ...

BRAZIL -- More than a dozen alleged drug dealers, including one from Putnam County, were arrested Thursday in Clay County. Authorities arrested the 13 after conducting what they termed a “warrant sweep” with raids at several area residences undertaken to execute the warrants in a timely fashion...