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Forfeits in upper weight classes hurt Clovers in one-point loss
(High School Sports ~ 01/17/19)
Cloverdale hosted Northview on Tuesday for a varsity wrestling match, with Northview pulling out a 40-39 victory. “We were able to come up with come great individual efforts,” Clover coach Chris Kaufman said. “All season long we have be plagued by not having any ‘big’ wrestlers [in the three heaviest weight classes] and that made the difference...
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Neese scores career-high 13 as Sycamores fall
(College Sports ~ 01/17/19)
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- Jordan Barnes posted 15 points and pulled down 11 rebounds as the Sycamores fell 69-64 to Northern Iowa on Wednesday night. The Sycamores dropped to 10-7, 2-3 MVC while Northern Iowa improved to 8-10, 3-2 MVC. The loss ended a three-game winning streak for the Sycamores against UNI. Barnes posted his first career double-double with 15 points and a career-high 11 rebounds. Cooper Neese came off the bench to score a career-high 13 points and had a look at three with eight seconds remaining which glanced off the rim.
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Gladys 'Cookie' Collins
(Obituary ~ 01/17/19)
Gladys "Cookie" Collins, 71, passed away surrounded by her family on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019. She was born on Aug. 13, 1947 in Center Point, the daughter of John Fulk and Hester (Lints) Fulk Smith. Gladys collected fiber optic angels and loved to crochet. She enjoyed playing computer games, working puzzles and painting ceramics...
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2018 Putnam County traffic stop linked to alleged nationwide $3 million stolen credit card ring
(Local News ~ 01/17/19)
A June traffic stop along Interstate 70 in Putnam County is linked to an alleged nationwide stolen credit card ring that has reportedly made $3 million in unauthorized purchases, a U.S. Secret Service affidavit indicates. The connection has surfaced after three members of the alleged stolen credit card ring were arrested Jan. 8 in New Rochelle, N.Y., on the basis of warrants issued by the U.S. District Court in Newark, N.J...
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PCYDC to raise funds with Lip Sync Team Challenge
(Local News ~ 01/17/19)
For the first time in more than a decade, there will be no dancing the night away for the benefit of the Putnam County Youth Development Commission. Likewise, no dancing to the music nor dancing in the streets. Your mama, in fact, don’t dance (at least not for PCYDC)...
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McCammack exhibit opens Saturday at PCM
(Local News ~ 01/17/19)
An exhibit presentation on the history of the McCammack family of southeastern Putnam County will open Saturday, Jan. 19 at the Putnam County Museum, 1105 N. Jackson St., Greencastle. The exhibit opens at 11 a.m. It will be conducted by museum board member Jordan Vaughn and historian Patrick Pearsey. Both individuals are McCammack descendants...
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Playmaking event at museum rescheduled
(Local News ~ 01/17/19)
Because of the winter storm last Saturday, the progran 1Day/1Play has been rescheduled for 2-5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10 at the Putnam County Museum, 1105 N. Jackson St., Greencastle. The event will still be kept small, so all participating children will have a part in the play created by the group...
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After five rounds of voting, still no County Council president
(Local News ~ 01/17/19)
County council meetings in Indiana tend to be a little dry. As important as the job of controllng the county's purse strings may be, the month-to-month minutiae facing the seven-member board, including additional appropriations, transfers and line items, can a bit overwhelming to all but county government insiders...
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Park’s snow scuplture contest under way
(Local News ~ 01/17/19)
With the snowfall received this past weekend as incentive, the Greencastle Parks and Recreation Department is announcing its annual Snow Sculpture Contest. The contest is divided into three categories: Best Snowman, Best Snow Creature and Best Snow Sculpture (anything that doesn’t fit into the first two categories)...
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Putnam Scanner for January 18, 2019
(Police Logs ~ 01/17/19)
County Jail Six people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Wednesday * At 2:35 p.m. Ravinder Singh Bains, 29, Pittsburgh, Calif., was housed at the jail for dealing in marijuana, hash oil, hashish or salvia. * At 1:38 p.m. Kaleb Leeangelo Frederick, 19, Greencastle, was booked in for theft and criminal trespass...
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Poor 3-point shooting hurts DePauw in 70-59 loss to Wabash
(College Sports ~ 01/17/19)
CRAWFORDSVILLE — DePauw entered its men’s basketball game at rival Wabash on Wednesday night as the North Coast Athletic Conference’s top 3-point shooting team and 27th in the nation (40.1%), while the 14th-ranked Little Giants came in with the league’s best defense against the long ball and eighth in the country (27.5%)...
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North girls ‘find way’ to get past Mounties
(High School Sports ~ 01/17/19)
NEW MARKET — In what turned out to be a game of attrition, North Putnam girls’ basketball team prevailed 53-45 Tuesday night at Southmont. By the end of the game, Southmont had three players on the bench with five fouls and two North Putnam players were on the floor with four fouls each. Overall, 48 fouls were whistled and 54 free throws were shot...
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Another Saturday, another snowstorm headed for Indiana
(Local News ~ 01/17/19)
Hoosiers are likely to feel the wrath of winter for the second straight weekend as another winter storm bears down upon the area with a Winter Storm Watch issued for much of west-central and central Indiana from Friday night through Saturday night...
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