Stories from Wednesday, March 1, 2023

CLOVERDALE — Making a decision planned for its regular March meeting, the Cloverdale Town Council chose a construction firm for repairs to Bennington Way at a special meeting Tuesday evening. After opening two bids at its regular February meeting, the council tapped Feutz Contractors of Paris, Ill., for $1,158,740.60, pending final review by Town Attorney Richard Shagley. The other bid was from DC Construction for $853,937.38...

February 2023 will go down in Indiana weather history. It marks the sixth time ever and the first time in 49 years that February has come and gone without a single measurable snowfall occurring, the National Weather Service reports. That has also previously occurred during February 1949, 1935, 1932, 1931 and 1918...

NEW MARKET – Tournament play in Indiana high school basketball is just different. The intensity is higher, physicality is tougher, pressure is more intense and that was evident in the Game No. 3 of the Class 2A Sectional 44 contest between the Cloverdale Clovers and Riverton Parke Panthers. The Panthers advanced with a 43-37 victory over the Clovers to take on North Putnam in Friday night’s semi-final...

NEW MARKET - In a game the resembled one from the movie 'Hoosiers', the North Putnam boys’ basketball team was able to escape with a 31-29 victory over the Southmont Mounties in the first round of the Southmont sectional Wednesday night. Ball possession and stingy defense was the name of the game from the tip. ...

SPENCER — A Cloverdale High School graduate and former Putnam County deputy prosecutor has been named a judge in Owen County. On Wednesday, Gov. Eric Holcomb announced Donald VanDerMoere II as his appointment to the Owen Circuit Court #1. He will succeed Judge Lori Thatcher Quillen, who retired effective Jan. 20 after serving more than 20 years...

Beverly “Sue” Finchum, 78, passed away Feb. 26, 2023. She was born Sept. 16, 1944, in Brazil to William Coward and Mabelle Hoskins Coward. Sue retired from Heartland Automotive...