Stories from Thursday, September 3, 2020

The Bainbridge Volunteer Fire Department will hold its annual Smokin’ Rides and Rods car show on Saturday, Sept. 12 at the fire station, located at 500 W. Pat Rady Way, Bainbridge. The show will start at 9 a.m., and pulled pork will be available for purchase...

Mark Damen Harlan, age still 29, the only child of John and Rita Harlan, born in Indianapolis on July 16, 1963, died Sunday, Aug. 30, 2020 from a motorcycle accident. He graduated from South Putnam High School and joined the United States Army, serving his country as an air traffic controller and an armorer...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Two Indianapolis children, who took off with their mother’s car Thursday afternoon and were reportedly headed to a grandparent’s home in Cloverdale, were reported safe Thursday evening. Indianapolis police said an 11-year-old girl and her 4-year-old brother left the 2500 block of South Harlan Street in Indianapolis and were supposedly bound for Logan Street in Cloverdale...

Richard “Ted” Ledbetter, 71, of Bloomington, passed away Sunday, Aug. 30, 2020, surrounded by his family. He was born to parents James and Alma Ledbetter in Seymour, where he attended school. Ted was a truly remarkable man. He had an incredible talent for touching and uplifting lives. ...

Carol J. Beaman passed away on Aug. 28, 2020 in Sun City, Ariz. She was born on Aug. 5, 1943. She graduated from Greencastle High School in 1962. Carol is survived by her husband of 58 years, Robert E. Beaman; their sons, Todd Beaman and wife Lisa and Monty Beaman and wife Kelly; and seven grandchildren...

BENJAMIN WEBB of Greencastle is one of 2,600 students who was named to the Bradley University dean’s list for the spring 2020 semester. Webb is a mechanical engineering major. --- EVAN DAVIES of Bainbridge was named to the Trine University dean’s list for the spring 2020 term...

Following its mission of improving quality of life at the end of life, the Putnam County Hospice and Palliative Care Association (PCHPCA) continues to raise awareness of the importance of receiving hospice care. PCHPCA is pleased to note that according to the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare, for the last few years more people in Putnam County are receiving the benefits of hospice before they die...

BAINBRIDGE — The Town of Bainbridge is attempting to qualify for a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) through the Indiana Office of Community & Rural Affairs (IOCRA) and is currently seeking grant funding to complete a Water Improvements Construction Project with grant dollars...

Thirteen people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Thursday • At 5:34 a.m. Thomas R. Childers, 42, Roachdale, was booked in for nonsupport of a dependent child. Wednesday • At 4:44 p.m. Angela S. McCubbins, 55, Greensburg, was lodged at the jail for trafficking with an inmate...

The members of the Greencastle League of Women Voters believe that voting is a fundamental right and all eligible voters should have the equal opportunity to exercise that right. They further believe governments need to do everything in their power to make the voting booth as accessible as it can be to its citizens...

A resident’s simple request to park an RV in his side yard doesn’t sound like much in the big picture. But it’s the big picture that Greencastle Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) members were left to ponder after approving a development standards variance for Brad and Aubree Hiatt, 1016 Talon Ct., Tuesday night...

Overall, the Indiana unemployment picture continues to be about as normal and predictable as 2020 itself. As the latest jobless figures go, numbers for July show Putnam County with a 6.6 percent unemployment rate, much better than the double-digit figures it had posted the previous two months...

Greencastle’s Tiger Cubs got off to a slow start on Saturday in girls’ soccer action due to various circumstances. A game originally scheduled for 10 a.m. with Owen Valley had to be moved to 3:00 due to student participation in SAT testing, a pregame ceremony presentation to the fans and the heat led to a slow start by the Tiger Cubs — who managed only one goal in the first half, while giving up one goal...

Cloverdale got off to leads in the first two sets against Greencastle on Thursday night in high school volleyball, but the host Tiger Cubs were able to come from behind and record a 3-0 win. The Clovers jumped out to a 3-1 lead in the first set, but Greencastle’s Carmen Bridges took over the serve and helped the Cubs to take a 5-3 lead they would never lose. Juliette Tomamichel had a kill in that stretch...

The South Putnam Eagle volleyball team opened the season on a nine-game winning streak before that was snapped on Monday night. The Eagles rebounded on Thursday night defeating county rival and Western Indiana Conference opponent North Putnam 19-25, 25-22, 25-23, 25-19 to improve their season record to 10-1, 3-0 in the WIC...

Lilly Meyer is a senior at Greencastle and participates in volleyball. ——— Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? Lilly Meyer: “Sports are very important to me. They have taught me a lot of good morals. Growing up, I started playing COA [travel volleyball] and I swam since I was a little kid. It gives you good building blocks for your future.”...

A full slate of football games is on tap tonight in the Western Indiana Conference in the first full night of action in the new divisional format. In the “large school” division, Indian Creek is at Owen Valley and Sullivan plays at Northview in the first WIC action for those teams. Edgewood will host Washington in a non-conference game...

There have now been 438 diagnosed cases of COVID-19 in Putnam County since March, the Indiana State Department of Health reported Thursday. The news has been good in recent days for the four county school corporations as well as DePauw University. There have still been no new diagnoses in county schools since the first week of school, with a total of three in Cloverdale and one at North Putnam, according to the Putnam County Health Department...

DePauw University English professors Eugene Gloria and Chris White were recently announced as two of the Indiana Authors Award recipients for 2020. White’s novel “The Life List of Adrian Mandrick” took the top honor in the Fiction category, while Gloria’s collection “Sightseer in This Killing City” was selected as the best in the Poetry category...

With 11 school board races to appear on the ballot throughout Putnam County this fall, most voters will be left without a choice of who will fill the positions. In fact, the dearth of candidates leaves only voters in the North Putnam district with any contested races at all...