Stories from Thursday, March 23, 2023

April is National Child Abuse Prevention (CAP) Month, a time when organizations across the United States bring attention to the importance of creating systems and programs that put children and families first. All community members have a role in ensuring that children have positive experiences and that families have the necessary resources when they need them — well before they are in crisis. ...

It’s hardly news to locals that Greencastle Music Fest is a special event. For 13 years now, the annual festival has been packing downtown Greencastle with music fans for what has become a two-night celebration of music and community. On Tuesday the event got some statewide recognition, with Music Fest founder Gail Smith accepting the Best Event/Festival (market budgets under $300,000) award from the Indiana Tourism Association...

Greencastle area residents and business owners can rest assured that officials from the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) and Rieth-Riley Construction don’t want to see any snafus with the upcoming U.S. 231 construction project any more than they do...

ROACHDALE — As administrators are pushing ahead with an upcoming renovation project, a construction manager for it was tapped at the North Putnam School Board’s recent regular meeting. The Hagerman Group was chosen to oversee the project’s budget and coordination of contractors and their laborers based on presentations from it and two other firms at a special session on Feb. 28. The other firms considered were Meyer Najem Construction and the Skillman Corporation...

COATESVILLE — March 26, 1948: 5:23 p.m. In less than two minutes, 14 people were killed. This Sunday will mark the 75th anniversary of the Coatesville tornado. Fillmore resident Sharon Ellett grew up with the ever-present fear and additional parental caution of wind and sudden storms. ...

CLAYTON — A 42-year-old man apparently sustained a non-life-threatening gunshot wound Thursday following a domestic dispute. At approximately 4 p.m. Hendricks County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to East Crawford street in Clayton for a report of a gunshot wound...

Cougars are not unfamiliar to where Trine University is. Former Putnam County Defensive Player of the Year Skylar Warren makes his home up in Angola and soon, another North Putnam player will don the Thunder logo on the football field. Arrick Kramer recently signed on to join the football program at Trine starting in the 2023-24 school year with the soon-to-be Cougar graduate excited by what the university had to offer...

Alaina is a senior at North Putnam and participates in three sports, cross country, swimming and track. ——— Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? Alaina Chew: “Sports are really important to me because I’ve learned a lot about managing my time, especially trying to balance the student-athlete line. ...

If you needed a little excitement in your life, being at a Greencastle softball game in 2022 was just the tonic you needed. The Tiger Cubs only played in one game in which both teams scored less than 10 total runs and 18 games where at least one team hit double digits...

Rozella Mae Johnston, 79, passed away at The Waters of Greencastle on Monday, March 20, 2023 She was born April 22, 1943 to the late Everett and Jessie Roe. She worked her whole life as a cook at the 76 truckstop in Clayton and the Hendricks County Jail in Danville...