Stories from Sunday, May 28, 2023

Memorial Day services are scheduled for Monday, May 29 in cemeteries across Putnam County. Roachdale VFW Post 3284 will be making its usual rounds for Memorial Day as follows: • Blakesburg Cemetery, 8:15 a.m. • Bainbridge Cemetery, 8:45 a.m. • Clear Creek Cemetery (Heritage Lake), 9:15 a.m...

A nearly 15-month headache for county officials and the owners of at least one business came to an end on Friday. Bridge 276, which carries Saddle Club Road (400 West) over the CSX Railroad in Madison Township, reopened to traffic for the first time since March 2022...

CLAY CITY – Cloverdale’s defense had shown the kind of improvement needed to reach a sectional final in its first two games at IHSAA Class A Sectional No. 53. Hosts Clay City simply beat the Clover defense with better offense, pounding out 13 hits in five innings as part of a 16-0 win, the Eels’ third-straight sectional title...

BLOOMINGTON – Two Putnam County athletes earned spots at the IHSAA Boys’ Track and Field State Finals from the Bloomington North Regional Thursday. North Putnam’s Nolan Hackleman finished second in the long jump (21-08.25) and South Putnam’s Wyatt Switzer finished second in the 300-meter hurdles (), setting a new school record in the event...

Michael Ray Thompson, 59, of Greencastle, passed away on Friday, May 26, 2023. Born Sept. 9, 1963 in Greencastle, he was the son of Gary L. and Kay A. (Sutherlin) Thompson. He was a 1981 graduate of Greencastle High School. He was a veteran having served in the United States Air Force...

PLAINFIELD — One person died midday Saturday in a seven-vehicle pileup on eastbound Interstate 70. At 12:05 p.m., the Indiana State Police Dispatch Center began receiving multiple calls about a serious multi-vehicle crash in the eastbound lanes near the 64-mile marker, approximately two miles west of the Plainfield exit...