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COLUMN: Mickelson now entertains fans more than Tiger
(Sports Column ~ 07/22/13)
While I never considered myself a fan of Tiger Woods, I always found myself rooting for him to succeed during majors. Tiger entered golf's center stage about the same time I started watching and caring about golf, and it was easy to see that he was capable of playing at a higher lever than anyone else...
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Clodfelter wins second-straight national pole vault championship
(Community Sports ~ 07/22/13)
Former Big Ten champion Chet Clodfelter won his second-straight USA Masters Outdoor Track & Field Championship in the pole vault recently. Clodfelter, owner of Greencastle Physical Therapy, won the 45-49 age group at the Olathe, Kan. event, vaulting 14-5 1/4. His vault matched last year's winning height and tied for the highest at the event, regardless of age...
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Area 30 Career Center announces registration
(Local News ~ 07/22/13)
Area 30 Career Center will open the 2013-14 school year on Friday, Aug. 9. Registration will be held at Area 30 on Tuesday, Aug. 6 from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. The Area 30 Career Center will have a booth at the Putnam County 4-H Fair. Staff will be available to answer questions and help with registration needs. Area 30's booth in the Industrial Tent will be open July 19-26 from 4-9 p.m. each day...
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United Way 'stuff the bus' event
(Local News ~ 07/22/13)
United Way of Putnam County is currently holding a "stuff the bus" event. The community is asked to help Putnam County students by donating crayons, pencils and notebooks at one of several collection sites throughout the community or at the Putnam County Fair...
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Country Fun
(Local News ~ 07/22/13)
Performing his song "Shotgun Rider," country singer Clayton Anderson performs at the Putnam County Fair.
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PCH offering diabetes education group classes starting Aug. 5
(Local News ~ 07/22/13)
Putnam County Hospital will again be offering a group class for diabetes self-management on Monday, Aug. 5. The material will be divided into two sessions: Diabetes 101: Diabetes Basics and Diabetes 201: Proper Nutrition which will include carbohydrate counting...
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Business ethics professor due as visiting scholar at DePauw
(Local News ~ 07/22/13)
Jeffery Smith, associate professor of business ethics and founding director of the Banta Center for Business, Ethics and Society at the University of Redlands, will serve as DePauw University's Nancy Schaenen Visiting Scholar during the 2013-14 academic year...
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DePauw grads reunited for Greencastle Music Festival performance
(Local News ~ 07/22/13)
The Greencastle Summer Music Festival continues Wednesday in Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church with "Reunited -- A Night of Musical Memories" featuring soprano Amy Elaine Hayes and tenor Steven Linville. Hayes and Linville, both alumni of the DePauw University School of Music, now sing professionally. ...
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Quarter Century of Service
(Local News ~ 07/22/13)
Sitting on the wicker throne normally reserved for the Putnam County 4-H Fair Queen, Purdue Extension health and human sciences educator Jackie Baumann listens to the speech of a well wisher.
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St. Pierre trades licks with some of Nashville's finest
(Local News ~ 07/22/13)
On any given Friday night, Steve St. Pierre might be found onstage somewhere in Greencastle or elsewhere in central Indiana. As a founding member of Blues Side Up and as guitarist for both War Radio and Phillip Steven and The Open Road, St. Pierre stays busy playing a mix of blues, rock and country...
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Flower Power
(Local News ~ 07/22/13)
The trained eye of Adult Open Class flower judge Maxine Huff focuses on the task of selecting the Grand Champion Cut Flower Specimen at Harris Hall Saturday during the 2013 Putnam County Fair.
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Fair Parade end of the line for both Edwards, Bingham
(Local News ~ 07/22/13)
When the jaunty and colorful Volkswagen Brigade signaled the conclusion of another Putnam County Fair Parade Friday night, it also marked the end of an era. Two local women, synonymous with the fair parade since 1970, took the opportunity to say goodbye to their roles in the procession down Washington Street that signals the start of the annual fairgrounds extravaganza...
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Wainman dental office reopens at temporary location
(Local News ~ 07/22/13)
Nearly two months after a fire a May fire that devastated several downtown businesses chased his practice from its longtime home, Dr. Perry Wainman has reopened in a temporary nearby location. Wainman's office is operating at 125 E. Washington St. in the Elliott Professional Building owned by optometrist Dr. Russell Elliott...
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James R. Rosenberger
(Obituary ~ 07/22/13)
James R. Rosenberger, age 66, of Richmond, passed away on Saturday, July 20, 2013, at Reid Hospital. Born Oct. 25, 1946, in Lockport, N.Y., to Harleigh and Dorothy Swartley Rosenberger, he had lived in Richmond since 2002. James graduated from Grosse Point High School in suburban Detroit in 1964. ...
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Washington Street streetscape meeting set for Thursday
(Local News ~ 07/22/13)
Greencastle City Hall will host an informational meeting and open house on Thursday evening for residents, business owners and others interested in the upcoming Washington Street streetscaping project. The open house is scheduled for 5 p.m. with representatives of the project general contractor, OLCO of Batesville, on hand to address issues concerning the project slated along Washington Street, from Vine Street to Bloomington Street...
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Cowboys enjoy life on the rodeo trail passing through fair
(Professional Sports ~ 07/22/13)
Thanks to the early morning downpour, the outside arena was caked with mud Saturday night. But that that didn't stop the rodeo, or mud rodeo, as the announcer called it. Everyone who entered the arena got at least a smudge of mud on them. But the mud doesn't stop die-hard cowboys and cowgirls...
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