Stories from Saturday, August 29, 2020

SPENCER -- The South Putnam Eagles’ football team was coming off a dominating performance against Cloverdale last week and has jumped up in the state rankings. The Eagles moved up to #8 in Class A in the coach’s poll and entered the Associated Press poll at #11 this week. It wasn’t as dominating, but the Eagles justified their rankings with a complete team victory over the host Owen Valley Patriots, 41-20 on Friday night in a non-divisional game against another Western Indiana Conference team...

When Chris Mitchell became the first recipient in the history of Life Cycles of Putnam County Saturday morning, it was more than simply getting a bicycle for the Greencastle man. Rather, Mitchell learned a bit about his new set of wheels, thanked those who had made it possible and hopped on the bike and rode away from the Greencastle Farmers Market, headed for work...

Neva Belle York, 99, of Greencastle, passed away on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020, at Asbury Towers. Neva was born in Auburn, Ill., on Aug. 20, 1921, the daughter of William Asher and Clara (Landers) Defries. Mrs. York was a member of Greencastle Church of the Nazarene. Over the years she had worked for Castle Craft Jewelry, Mallory’s and DePauw University...

NEW MARKET — It was a team win, but Southmont’s Carson Chadd stepped up with two of the biggest plays of the night to lift the Mounties past North Putnam 21-14 in the season opener on Friday night. Trailing 14-13 early in the fourth quarter, Chadd took a hand-off around the right edge 45 yards for a score to put Southmont back on top with 11:50 to play, before helping seal the victory with a sack on a third down play by the Cougars inside the red zone...