Stories from Tuesday, February 1, 2022

DANVILLE - The Greencastle girls’ basketball team traveled to Danville to face the Frankfort Hot Dogs in the first round of IHSAA Sectional No. 25 and used a big second quarter to advance to Friday’s semifinal 49-30. It was a highly contested opening period. Greencastle was moving the ball well and got really good scoring looks. Emma Hunter hit a pair of three pointers and Raigan Chavez also had a pair of baskets in the quarter...

NEW MARKET – The South Putnam Lady Eagles went into the Class 2A Sectional No. 44 as an underdog to the Parke Heritage Wolves on Tuesday night at Southmont. The Eagles had won four of the last five sectional titles and for three quarters plus, looked like they might upset Parke Heritage, but could not maintain a lead and lost 49-42...

NEW MARKET – It had been two months since Cloverdale and North Putnam met in WIC girls’ basketball play, a commanding 56-33 win for the latter on Nov. 30. Fast forward to Tuesday night and, for much of the second game of IHSAA Girls’ Basketball Class 2A Sectional No. 44, the two teams were evenly matched in a way they were not before...

SAWs, the mission of Greencastle Presbyterian Church that provides accessibility ramps and steps to disabled residents of Putnam County, is beginning its 14th year of service to the community. Last year SAWs helped 20 residents improve the access to their homes. This year it would like to meet or exceed the same level of help. If the weather permits it is expected that this objective can be met...

With snow predicted to fall across large portions of Indiana this week, the American Heart Association encourages Hoosiers to protect their hearts while shoveling snow and to seek immediate treatment if they experience any signs or symptoms of a heart attack...

The Summer Enrichment Program (SEP) is accepting applications for an educational director for Summer 2022. SEP’s mission is to provide educational, social, cultural and recreational opportunities for approximately 45 at-risk elementary age school children in a five-week, non-denominational day camp sponsored by St. Andrew’s Episcopal and Gobin United Methodist churches...

Eleanor M. Taylor, 93, of Greencastle and formerly of Indianapolis, passed away on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022. She was born on May 23, 1928 in Chrisman, Ill., to Chandler O. Mitchell and Leona Edwards Mitchell. Eleanor was a graduate of Eastern Illinois University and had taught home living in the Wayne Township MSD...

TERRE HAUTE — Competing at a district competition last month, the Greencastle High School DECA (Distributive Education Clubs of America) chapter advanced most of its members on to the state competition in March. GHS had 19 students take part in various competitive categories related to business, marketing, finance, management and entrepreneurship, and 16 of those students qualified for state...