Stories from Friday, October 6, 2023

My fortune cookie from last Tuesday had a message that hit me right in the moment. Celebrate your success and learn from your mistakes. Dimestore philosophy seems an inauspicious place to start talking about elementary education, but here we are...

The penultimate week of the 2023 football regular season will be the first time fall shows its true colors to the area but fans won’t have to go far, as all four teams will be playing from the comfort of home Friday night. Greencastle will host Owen Valley for homecoming while North Putnam takes on Brown County, Cloverdale faces West Vigo and, in a matchup of ranked opponents, A No. 6 South Putnam and 2A No. 9 Heritage Christian tangle once again with a 7:20 p.m. start time...

CLOVERDALE – A lot of times high school football games are won by the team that makes the least mistakes. The Western Indiana Conference football game between the West Vigo Vikings and the Cloverdale Clovers epitomized that. The host Clovers had a solid game plan and matched the Vikings, except that they had inopportune penalties and turned the ball over three times in a 43-18 loss that was much closer than the score indicated...

A second-straight all-Eagle battle for South Putnam was a much tougher matchup as the A No. 6-ranked hosts took on 2A No. 9 Heritage Christian. The home team shot out to a 14-0 lead, led 20-7 after a quarter of play and looked to be cruising to a big win but bogged down offensively in the second and third quarters, seeing a 19-point lead shrink to 10, before a late score and stop cemented a 36-19 win over the visiting Eagles...

Emotions swirled at Greencastle Friday night as the Tiger Cubs celebrated homecoming on a pair of fronts against Owen Valley. Tiger Cub head coach Dave Stephens and quarterback Cole Stephens met against the same players that had been amongst just a year prior with the Patriots trying to halt a three-game slide...

The following cases were filed in Putnam County courts recently. Lena L. Warum, 44, Brazil, Level 4 felony arson, Level 6 felony theft Amber Yoquelet, 37, Fort Wayne, Level 5 felony possession of a narcotic drug, Level 5 felony attempt to traffic a controlled substance with an inmate, Level 6 felony possession of a controlled substance...

Ten people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Thursday • At noon Shawn M. Mansfield, 49, Greencastle, was housed at the jail for battery with bodily injury. • At 10:58 a.m. Matthew A. Blauvelt, 38, Greencastle, booked in on a local warrant...