Stories from Monday, August 24, 2020

Perhaps a welcome sight to local classic car enthusiasts, the Heritage Lake Cruisers car club staged a small cruise-in at the former Jackson's Family Restaurant Friday evening.

Among 186 students, 18 Greencastle High School graduates were awarded $1,000 scholarships this year...

Lenora Mae Melow, age 91, Greencastle, passed away in her home, surrounded by her family on Saturday evening, Aug. 22, 2020. She was born in Cave in Rock, Ill., on Feb. 15, 1929 the daughter of Wame and Hilda Lowe Maynard. She married Dwight Melow in 1948 and he preceded her in death on Sept. 11, 2016...

Greencastle has attracted some remarkable people to its environs over the years. None is more iconic than the legendary civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On Saturday, Sept.5, which is 60 years to the day of his visit to Greencastle, there will be a pair of events commemorating his appearance here and the speech he gave at Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church...

Greencastle Alumni Dollars for Scholars has announced that it has teamed up with Scholarship America -- the nation’s largest provider of private scholarships -- to become a Dollars for Scholars affiliate. In the fall of 1994, Jinsie Bingham was asked by Greencastle Community Schools superintendent P. ...

The annual Reality Store for local eighth-grade students has been canceled. Presented by the Greencastle Kiwanis Club, with help from a number of other local organizations, the annual event becomes the latest in a long line of cancellations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic...

William David Duke Sr., 72, of Greencastle, passed away on Aug. 23, 2020, at IU Methodist Hospital. William was born in Paris, Tenn., on March 31, 1948, the son of Ralph and Dorothy (Valentine) Duke. Mr. Duke worked for over 30 years as a tool and die engineer in the automotive industry...

Putnam County Hospital is reaching out to local schools to help fight the spread of COVID-19. On Friday, Aug. 21, PCH's Director of Marketing and Community Relations Brooke Trissel and Post-Acute Quality Coordinator Lesli Fordice delivered standing hand sanitizing stations to the four county school corporations...

The following cases were filed in Putnam County courts recently. Uriah B. Kortz, 38, Greencastle, Level 6 felony stalking, Class B misdemeanor criminal recklessness Jeremy C. Keenan, 31, Indianapolis, Level 6 felony possession of methamphetamine, Level 6 felony unlawful possession of a syringe, Class B misdemeanor criminal recklessness...

Eight people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Sunday • At 10:04 p.m. Kent J. Jackson, 45, Greencastle, was lodged at the jail on a warrant for battery resulting in bodily injury, residential entry and invasion of privacy. • At 9:10 p.m. Dalton S. Bell, 27, Greencastle, was taken into custody on a warrant for domestic battery in the presence of a child less than 16 years old, disorderly conduct, strangulation and pointing a firearm...

There are many benefits to leading an active lifestyle. Participation in regular physical activity decreases the risk of many chronic diseases, including heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis and breast, colon, bladder, kidney and lung cancer. In addition, an active lifestyle can improve your cholesterol, lower blood pressure, improve sleep and increase energy...

It can be tiresome and overwhelming trying to put food on the table or pay the bills. Sometimes it is impossible to see the light at the end of the tunnel as you struggle to survive and keep your family safe and healthy. You see opportunities around you, but you are never sure if they are the right ones or how to take the right step for fear of tipping the teetering scale the wrong direction...

While COVID-19 has meant the cancellation of a number of community events in 2020, a group of volunteers is refusing to let it get in the way of raising money for local students on the way to a college education. At the conclusion of the inaugural Farm to Fork dinner in 2019, each Dollars for Scholars chapter in Putnam County was awarded $2,500...

Greencastle won its first boys’ tennis match of the season on Thursday by defeating Speedway 4-1. The Cubs swept both doubles matches and also won at No. 1 and 2 singles. Varsity Greencastle 4, Speedway 1 Singles — 1. Holton Miller (G) def. Sam Arlee (S) 6-4, 6-3; 2. Eli Hardwick (G) def. Jack Thompson (S) 4-6, 6-3, (11-9 Super Tiebreaker); 3. Austin Huddleston (S) def. Jacob Carter (G) 6-3, 6-3...

Back in the ‘60s, activists liked to say, “If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.” At the recent Community Conversation, an all-Zoom session featuring Greencastle Mayor Bill Dory and City Council President Mark Hammer, audience members were concerned about just how they might get to be part of that solution...

ROACHDALE -- With uncertainties surrounding funding for public schools across the state, North Putnam Schools is anticipating the complications of lost revenue. Corporation Treasurer Tanya Pearson presented her projections for North Putnam’s budget for 2021 during the North Putnam School Board’s regular meeting last Thursday evening...