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Where does your money go?
(Column ~ 06/01/10)
Where did my money go? Many people find themselves asking that very question before the end of every month. Next to losing weight, pledging to spend less or save more are two of the most common resolutions made by large numbers of people EACH and EVERY year. We are almost halfway through another year and people who pledged to stick to a budget or manage their money better are probably not doing much better than those who vowed, once again, to lose 10 (or more) pounds this year...
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Remembering the Fallen
(Local News ~ 06/01/10)
Bugler Don Wilson, right, blows "Taps" while local veterans Buck Martin, center, and Don Baldwin, left, stand at attention during Memorial Day services held Monday at Forest Hill Cemetery in Greencastle.
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Sylvia Susan Finchum Grubb
(Obituary ~ 06/01/10)
Mrs. Sylvia Susann Finchum Grubb, 88, of Greencastle passed away Sunday, May 30, 2010 at the Putnam County Hospital. Born Nov. 27, 1921 in Stilesville, she was the daughter of Archie & Alice (Petry) Poynter. She had worked as cook at Moore's Bar and Restaurant for several years, retiring at the age of 79. She was a member of the Hanna St. Baptist Church and the Moose Lodge, Greencastle...
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Haley Anna Bain
(Obituary ~ 06/01/10)
Haley Anna Bain, 15, of Reelsville passed away on Saturday, May 29, 2010 at Methodist Hospital, in Indianapolis, following an ATV accident. She was born Feb. 17, 1995 in Terre Haute, the daughter of Dan and Dianna Mager Bain. Haley had just finished her freshman year at South Putnam High School. ...
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World No Tobacco Day focuses on tobacco marketing, women
(Local News ~ 06/01/10)
GREENCASTLE -- About one out of every five women in America smokes. Cigarette smoking kills an estimated 178,000 women in the United States annually. On May 31, the women of Putnam County were encouraged to join the rest of the world and quit smoking...
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Graduation Day
(Local News ~ 06/01/10)
Graduation ceremonies were held Saturday at Cloverdale and South Putnam high schools.
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Some Gave All
(Local News ~ 06/01/10)
Memorial Day services were held throughout Putnam County on Monday.
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Wreck claims life of local scout leader
(Local News ~ 06/01/10)
GRAYSVILLE -- A Greencastle woman died Saturday as the result of injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. Traci Dianne Klinkerfuss, 41, was traveling with a group of riders in Sullivan County during the Ollie Memorial Ride event. The accident happened just before 2 p.m. between the towns of Graysville and Merom...
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Teen dies in ATV accident
(Local News ~ 06/01/10)
REELSVILLE -- A South Putnam High School freshman died Saturday as the result of an all-terrain vehicle accident. Haley Anna Bain, 15, was driving an ATV on C.R. 625W near Reelsville when the four-wheeler left the roadway, went into a ditch, flipped end over end and landed on its top, a news release from Indiana Conservation Officer Max Winchell said...
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Tiger Cub baseball drops a thriller, 11-10
(High School Sports ~ 06/01/10)
CLINTON -- Anyone expecting a pitcher's duel at the second semifinal of the South Vermillion baseball sectional was sadly mistaken. With Greencastle and South Vermillion having already squared off once this season, a 9-7 victory for the Wildcats, the two squads already knew what the other was capable of...
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Clovers fall to Sparkplugs in semis
(High School Sports ~ 06/01/10)
ROACHDALE -- As Brian Dale trotted around the bases in the top of the seventh, it looked like Cloverdale had come from behind again. After trailing 5-3 entering the inning, Dale's three-run homer had just put the Clovers ahead of sectional favorite Speedway 6-5...
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Eagles crowned sectional champs
(High School Sports ~ 06/01/10)
LIZTON -- The South Putnam softball team gave senior Krystal Welch a wonderful graduation present -- a sectional championship. The Eagles defeated Cascade 2-1 Saturday to earn the sectional and will face Linton today at 7 p.m. It might not have been a high scoring affair, but the Eagles were able to get their runs early and hold the Cadets in check throughout the game...
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Eagles win rain delayed sectional final
(High School Sports ~ 06/01/10)
ROACHDALE -- It took them a little longer than they expected, but they achieved what they set out to do. The South Putnam baseball team captured its second straight IHSAA Class 2A Sectional title by defeating Speedway 8-3 Monday. After it looked as if it would be a fight to the finish early, following the second inning, it was all Eagles. South Putnam earned its spot in the final following its win against Cascade in its first game...
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Traci Dianne Park Klinkerfuss
(Obituary ~ 06/01/10)
Traci Dianne "Trace" "Boo" Park Klinkerfuss passed away Saturday, May 29, 2010 in Sullivan County from a motorcycle accident while on the "Ollie Memorial Ride." Traci was born June 18, 1968 in Fullerton, Calif. She was a 1986 graduate of North Putnam High School and attended St. Mary of the Woods College. She married Justin J. Klinkerfuss on Dec. 14, 2004, and he survives...
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