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Area 30 Career Center awards nearly $10,000 in scholarships
(Local News ~ 05/22/14)
Area 30 Career Center recently held its annual Senior Awards Program to recognize student accomplishments in their Career & Technical Education programs. Area 30 awarded nearly $10,000 in scholarships to seniors. Top honors went to Scott Cummins a South Putnam student in the Computer Networking Systems program...
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DePauw School of Music receives NEA Award in support of Dvorák Festival
(Local News ~ 05/22/14)
The DePauw University School of Music recently received its first National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant award. The $10,000 grant is earmarked for a weeklong Dvorák and America Festival at the Green Center for the Performing Arts Oct. 27--Nov. 2...
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Greencastle Youth Football, Youth Cheer groups registering for fall
(Local News ~ 05/22/14)
Greencastle Youth Football and Greencastle Youth Cheer programs are currently registering participants for the fall 2014 season. The Greencastle Youth Football program's mission is to augment the physical and mental development of children through learning and playing the sport of football...
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Greencastle takes on Northview at DePauw
(High School Sports ~ 05/22/14)
Due to the severe weather that the Brazil area experienced, the Greencastle tennis team took on Northview at DePauw, losing 5-0. To be updated.
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CHS softball comes back for win
(High School Sports ~ 05/22/14)
CLOVERDALE -- A slow start motivated the Putnam County champs to succeed Thursday when they took on West Vigo. They completed the come from behind victory, beating the Lady Vikings 8-3. The Clovers (12-8, 3-7 WCC) started the game behind, when West Vigo notched a hit with its first batter at the plate. She was able to score. Then, after two scoreless innings where the Clovers just hit pop-flys, the Lady Vikings scored twice more in the first...
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Eagle tennis eliminated from sectionals
(High School Sports ~ 05/22/14)
BRAZIL--The South Putnam girls' tennis team went into the first round of sectionals at Northview High School Thursday night hoping to come out with a victory against the Owen Valley Patriots. The Eagles lost to the Patriots earlier in the season, but coach John Briones thought this time could be different. He said with a "full team" on the courts they would have a pretty good shot...
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Featured Athlete of the Week: Kelly Hayden, Tennis South Putnam High School
(High School Sports ~ 05/22/14)
Kelly Hayden is an 18-year old senior at South Putnam High School. Her parents are George and Madonna Hayden. She has two older brothers, Lance who is 31 and Nick who is 35. She is on the volleyball, tennis and dance teams. Her hobbies include swimming, playing with her dog and riding her golf cart...
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Putnam County track advances athletes past sectional
(High School Sports ~ 05/22/14)
TERRE HAUTE -- Cloverdale led the charge for Putnam County at the IHSAA Boys' Track and Field Sectional at Terre Haute North High School Thursday night. A third place finish overall and the only individual champion on the day belonged to the Clovers, followed by South Putnam in fifth, Greencastle in seventh and North Putnam just behind in eighth place...
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Fillmore Veterans Memorial set to be dedicated Monday
(Local News ~ 05/22/14)
FILLMORE -- the new Fillmore Veterans Memorial will be dedicated in an 11:30 a.m. public ceremony on Monday, May 26. The ceremony will begin with a VFW service on the northwest corner of the Fillmore Elementary School site where the memorial Is located. After that, the group will move to the gym for a short program...
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New hires and no wires at GCSC board meeting
(Local News ~ 05/22/14)
Greencastle Community School Corp. addressed Wi-Fi at McAnally, updates on the 1:1 technology policy and welcomed several new faculty members at the monthly board meeting on Monday night. A school-funded cost break was approved to help with the integration of iPads as part of the 1:1 technology program...
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Dean places third at national collegiate horse competition
(Local News ~ 05/22/14)
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Recent Purdue University graduate and Greencastle native Emily Dean represented her university and her hometown quite well at the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association (IHSA) National Championships in early May. Dean placed third overall in the open western horsemanship finals at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg...
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Can some ash trees be saved? May 27 meeting to shed light
(Local News ~ 05/22/14)
Putnam County residents are living in a community recognized as a Tree City for 15 consecutive years. Now, however, beautiful ash trees in the area are under threat from the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB), a devastating bug. To help understand what is happening to the ash trees and what might be done to save them, a public meeting featuring an Indiana Department of Natural Resources urban forester is slated for Tuesday, May 27 at the Putnam County Public Library (PCPL)...
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Timm turns cottage industry into entrepreneurial success
(Local News ~ 05/22/14)
Having a great idea isn't quite as important to a successful business venture as being great at your idea. That was the logic and philosophy dispensed Tuesday afternoon by Putnam County entrepreneur Mark Timm, co-founder and president of Cottage Garden Inc., a multimillion-dollar business headquartered in Bainbridge that ships personalized gifts like music boxes and photo frames out of its warehouse facility in the old Kroger building on Greencastle's north side...
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South Putnam boys' basketball to host youth camp
(Community Sports ~ 05/22/14)
South Putnam Eagle summer basketball camp is set for Monday, June 2 through Friday, June 6 in the South Putnam High School gym. The camp will be directed by the high school coaching staff and players. Cost is only $35 per camper or $25 per camper for multiple camper families. Make all checks payable to South Putnam boys' basketball...
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City Pool to open for swim season Saturday
(Local News ~ 05/22/14)
Roll up that beach towel, splash on the sunscreen and break out the bikini. It's time for the summer swim season in Greencastle. The Memorial Day weekend traditionally means the start of the summer swim season, and this year will be no different for the Greencastle Aquatic Center. The city will open the pool this Saturday, May 24 (weather permitting, of course)...
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