Stories from Thursday, October 29, 2020

All students at Greencastle Community Schools will be learning virtually for the next week. Supt. Jeff Gibboney made the announcement in an email to parents and on corporation website Thursday afternoon. While there have been only two additional positive tests among GCSC students this week, the necessary requirements of contact tracing and quarantining and subsequent shortage of staff members forced the corporation’s decision...

Amnesty is over. City water customers who have let their monthly utility bills lapse due to the threat of COVID-19 will have to become current again with their accounts, effective Nov. 10. Adoption of Ordinance 2020-10, repealing Ordinance 2020-1, was made unanimously by the City Council at its recent special meeting, rescinding the moratorium on late payment fines and water service shut-offs...

If you, like me, look out your window five days a week and see the Putnam County Courthouse, it’s easy to forget the significance of the building. It’s an old building. Climbing the stairways is a chore. The WiFi signal is awful. Sometimes little pieces of rock fall from the upper reaches...

Growing up in the Chicago suburbs, we had a next-door neighbor who had a high-rise window-washing business. We marveled at how he would go to great lengths to share the heights of his latest dirty work. And one day, there he and a co-worker were, all over the local TV stations and the front page of the Sun Times, hanging off a high rise in the Windy City...

Logan is a senior at Greencastle and participates in two sports, football and wrestling. ——— Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? Logan Carrington: “Sports have been very important to me. I’ve learned how to act around people because of sports and how to better myself.”...

The second round of the IHSAA Football State Tournament is sometimes the odd week of the state tournament with it being neither the opening round with every team alive nor are any championships on the line for the schools competing. Three of the four Putnam County schools will look to push through to the championship rounds next week with Cloverdale, which advanced after Covington dropped out of the tournament, having to do likewise this week...

Joan Rightsell Baker passed away Oct. 23, 2020 at The Hospice House in Fort Myers, Fla. Joan was born in Greencastle in 1938 and graduated from Indiana University in 1960 with a bachelor’s degree in nursing. She married Charles Robert Baker, M.D., in December 1960. They later moved to Savannah, Ga., where Joan served as a nursing instructor at Chandler School of Nursing before moving to Palm Beach, Fla., in 1968...

PUTNAMVILLE --- With Halloween right around the corner, it’s the time of year when kids and adults alike are looking forward to dressing up in their favorite costumes and spending time with family and friends trick-or-treating. As you head out with your children, family or friends for an evening of trick-or-treating this Halloween, remember that safety is of the utmost importance. A little preplanning and discussion will serve you well and get everyone back home safe...

The 2021 Indiana state park passes, lake permits, off-road cycling permits, and horse tags are now available at property offices and front gates, and online at ShopINstateparks.com. A resident annual entrance pass costs $50. A non-resident annual entrance pass for visitors who live outside the state costs $70. Annual entrance passes are not valid for entrance to the Indiana State Museum, State Historic Sites or Falls of the Ohio Interpretive Center...

BRAZIL — The 2020 Golden Apple Awards presented by WTHI -TV, Terre Haute, recognize a North Clay Middle School teacher who believes education has always been a part of her destiny. “My sisters would want to go outside and play, but I had to stay in and have school with my stuffed animals,” said North Clay Middle School eighth-grade teacher Stephanie Nuckols, who felt being a teacher was an easy decision after graduating from Northview. “I always knew I was destined to be a teacher.”...

William “Bill” Keyt will celebrate his 90th birthday on Sunday, Nov. 1. Bill and his wife JoAnna reside in the Clinton Falls area and are the parents of two children, Mark Keyt and Sandy Miller. They also have several grandchildren and great-grandchildren...

The following cases were filed in Putnam County courts recently. Jacob E. Williams, 25, Fillmore, Class A misdemeanor battery, Class A misdemeanor invasion of privacy Brett D. Elwood, 28, Cloverdale, Class B misdemeanor disorderly conduct-unreasonable noise...

Five people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Wednesday • At 7:58 p.m. Thomas R. Childers, 42, Roachdale, was housed at the jail on a Montgomery County warrant. • At 3:48 p.m. Bradley R. Hudson, 34, Indianapolis, was booked in for nonsupport of a dependent child...

Lloyd “Beer Man” Mullins, 56, of Cloverdale, passed away Oct. 29, 2020. Lloyd was a longtime employee of Indiana Hardwood. He was an Elite Level donor to the Fraternal Order of Police. Mechanical by nature, Lloyd enjoyed repairing golf carts. He was a NASCAR fan and liked fishing...

While a hotly-contested presidential race is drawing voters to the polls in record numbers both locally and nationally, Putnam County residents are finding few local choices on their ballots. With only two Democrats on the county-wide ballot and only two contested school board races, most local races are already decided...

Greencastle High School has announced it will not sell tickets at the door for all winter sports during the 2020-21 school year. The school will also not sell winter sports passes for the 2020-21 school year. Starting with its home girls’ basketball game against Western Boone Nov. 5, Greencastle will post a link to GoFan through its social media channels. Fans may purchase tickets through the service in order to attend games this winter...