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Bridges, Gilbert get new courthouse roles
(Local News ~ 05/04/22)
Barring some unforeseen addition to the November election ballot, Tracy Bridges and Heather Gilbert essentially traded courthouse jobs Tuesday, thanks to the Republican voters of Putnam County. Bridges, who is presently in the final year of an eight-year run as county recorder, captured the Putnam County clerk GOP nomination in a seven-vote primary triumph, 2,049-2,042, over longtime Clerk’s Office employee Debbie Ensor...
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Tiger Cub offense falls short against Braves, Bulldogs
(High School Sports ~ 05/04/22)
The Greencastle Tiger Cub baseball team could only scratch out four hits and two runs as they fell to the visiting Indian Creek Braves 5-2 in Western Indiana Conference action. The Braves were the first to break through in the top of the second inning. A lead off double off the bat of Blayden Mann. Mann would score on a fielding error later in the inning. They would add another in the third, this a double from Carter Modlin set the table. He too would score after an error to make it 2-0...
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South Putnam strolls to win over Brown County
(High School Sports ~ 05/04/22)
After winning two of its first three games, South Putnam had been on an eight-game slide heading into Wednesday’s WIC baseball outing against Brown County. Both teams looked at the game as a chance to get off the bottom of the conference standings, an opportunity the hosts took with a 13-3 win in five innings...
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Indiana GOP lawmakers hold off most hard-right challengers
(State News ~ 05/04/22)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Frustrated Indiana conservatives fell short in most primary races Tuesday in their drive to push the Republican-controlled state Legislature further to the right, and two of the movement’s leaders lost their reelection bids. The roughly two dozen so-called liberty candidates saw only a few victories in Republican legislative races across the state, with one defeating a 10-term incumbent in northern Indiana and two others winning nominations for GOP-leaning open seats...
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