Stories from Monday, September 18, 2023

No charges had been filed as of Monday afternoon in a Friday stabbing incident in Fillmore. Authorities were called to a residence on the north side of town near Hoosier Market shortly before 1:30 p.m. Friday. The incident in question involved two females in the back yard of the residence who go into some sort of altercation...

Newly crowned Cloverdale Homecoming King Noah Betz and Queen Keelie Price stand before their subjects Friday night during halftime of the Clovers’ game with North Putnam.

A major water main break has water pooling and flowing from West Poplar Street in Greencastle Monday afternoon.

It’s a Putnam County kind of night Friday at the Indianapolis Marriott East ballroom, with local agencies capturing five different awards at the 2023 Indiana Emergency Response Conference Awards Dinner...

A month after she sought to do so for other local leaders, DePauw University President Lori White laid out a vision for the institution’s becoming more relevant on Friday. For the annual meeting of the Greencastle/Putnam County Development Center, she expounded on initiatives aimed at shoring up partnerships between the university, the city and wider county areas. The overarching sentiment was each part being better for it...

Record-setting attendance at the Greencastle/Putnam County Economic Development Center annual meeting is reason enough for Director Kristin Clary to be grateful, correct? Well, on Friday Clary regaled a crowd of 95 community and regional leaders with a long list of reasons she was practicing gratitude, painting a positive picture of the state of economic development in the community...

It was a numbers game for the Greencastle City Council at its September meeting. Numbers dominated the discussion as the Council took unanimous action on first reading for ordinances dealing with the 2024 city budget, 2024 appropriations and tax rate, salaries of city employees and salaries of elected officials...

ROCKVILLE — The vehicle of a Parke County woman missing since June has been located. Investigators also located human remains nearby. On Sunday evening, an area realtor was showing a house to potential buyers in rural Rockville when they discovered the 2007 Ford Focus of Betty Jane Capps on the property...

Arry (Shelly McFadden) demands to know what is in the envelope that sister Cora (Kathy Arnold) is keeping from her in the Putnam County Playhouse production of “Morning’s at Seven,” which continues this Wednesday through Saturday at the Hazel Day Longden Theatre...

CLOVERDALE — Part of an extensive project to address such within the town, water system improvements at the interchange of Interstate 70 and U.S. 231 are now waiting in the wings for Cloverdale. Speaking to the Cloverdale Town Council at its regular meeting last week, Eric Smith of HWC Engineering briefed members on a water main being extended from Tower Road to a relocated main north of the interstate...

The 2023 South Putnam Homecoming King and Queen will be crowned at halftime of Friday’s game against West Vigo. Queen candidates include (from left) Chloe Heet, Caroline Hodge, Alexa Newby and Jaicee Jackson; while king candidates are Aiden Beadles, Emilio Gallegos, Keaton Chew and Griffin Jones. The Eagles and Vikings kick off at 7 p.m.

North Putnam High School Fall Homecoming queen candidates are (seated from left) seniors Sadie Mercurio, Layci Reed and Layla Hassar and (standing, from left) Mackinley Lawson and Chloee Livingston. North Putnam homecoming is set for Friday, Sept. 22 with a 7 p.m. football game vs. Cascade...

The 1973 athletic sports year was a pretty special one at Greencastle High School. Two of the best athletic teams in GHS history will be honored on Oct. 13 at halftime of the Cubs’ regular-season football finale versus North Putnam. This year is the 50th anniversary of the 1973 “Perfect Purple” GHS football team and the 1973 GHS volleyball team that went to the final four of the state tournament...

Part of a meeting that took 10 minutes, Area 30 Career Center’s interlocal board heard a brief update last week about tracking enrollment. Asst. Director Sharon Bone spoke on fall student data that will be collected for reporting to the state. More specifically, this data covers demographics as to enrollment in different courses...

Emphasizing the importance of the U.S. Constitution to our every day life and rights, the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution is commemorating Constitution Week Sept. 17-23, with support from the county and city. Washburn Chapter DAR members recently met with both the Putnam County Commissioners and Greencastle Mayor Bill Dory, each of whom signed proclamations recognizing Constitution Week locally...

The City of Greencastle announced Monday that Locust Street is now open to traffic. The public is asked to continue to use caution when driving on the street as some construction work will continue. While Locust Street is open, street lights will be installed this week, resulting in construction vehicles and workers along the street...

Craig Robert Hess, 55, of Greencastle, passed away on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. Born July 9, 1968 in Indianapolis, he was the son of Donald and Patricia (Oden) Hess. He was a 1986 graduate of Greencastle High School and received his bachelor’s degree in marketing from Butler University in 1990...

The line is out the bay door at the Fillmore Volunteer Fire Department Friday as hungry revelers come for its annual chicken barbecue. This being the 63rd effort, the two-day event is the fire department’s primary fundraiser.

CLOVERDALE — With Principal Sonny Stoltz saying the initiative has been a long time coming, a new food pantry hosted by Cloverdale High School is coming to fruition. With a “dry run” on track for Sept. 22, Stoltz detailed the need for the Clover Cupboard to the Cloverdale School Board recently. While there is still “a long way to go,” he said, the food pantry has garnered support from the community...

PUTNAMVILLE -- Indiana State Police Trooper Colton Maynor has been promoted to the rank of trooper detective, ISP Superintendent Doug Carter recently announced. The promotion of. Maynor’s responsibilities will include conducting criminal investigations and managing, investigating and processing crime scenes. ...