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2024 SPRING SPORTS PREVIEWS: Girls' Tennis, Boys' Golf & Boys' Volleyball
(High School Sports ~ 03/22/24)
Greencastle The Tiger Cubs reached the Crawfordsville Regional final for a second-straight year but once again found a title at the second stage in the girls’ tennis postseason out of reach as Sullivan denied Greencastle a second postseason trophy, just as the Golden Arrows were the only thing keeping the Tiger Cubs from a WIC title...
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2024 SPRING SPORTS PREVIEWS: Track and Field
(High School Sports ~ 03/22/24)
Greencastle retained its Putnam County Track and Field Meet titles but only by two points on the girls’ side after an issue at the high jump saw competitors return to competition, though the Tiger Cubs held serve to stay ahead of Cloverdale. North Putnam, in turn, was the top county school at both WIC meets the following week, thanks in part to a win at discus by Olivia Stewart at the girls’ meet while Nolan Hackleman was getting into a tournament groove by winning the 400-meter dash, long jump and anchoring the 1,600-meter relay.. ...
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2024 SPRING SPORTS PREVIEWS: Softball
(High School Sports ~ 03/22/24)
After several years of finding a wall in South Vermillion in sectional play, North Putnam finally got over the barrier at the Southmont Sectional, rallying twice in the final two innings to finally unseat the Wildcats with a 7-6 win. The run for North Putnam ended at Cascade in the regional round and replicating the success of 2023 will be the job of a very different looking Cougar squad...
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2024 SPRING SPORTS PREVIEWS: Baseball
(High School Sports ~ 03/22/24)
Of the surprises of the 2022-23 sports calendar, one of the biggest came right at the end when Cloverdale rallied in the bottom of the seventh inning, scoring four runs and swiping the Parke Heritage Sectional title out from under the nose of North Putnam...
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2023-24 All-Western Indiana Conference Winter Teams
(High School Sports ~ 03/22/24)
With the conclusion of the winter sports season, the Western Indiana Conference has released its list of All-WIC athletes. Athletes named to the boys’ and girls’ basketball teams are selected by the coaches of the WIC. Athletes in wrestling and swimming are on the All-WIC team based on their performances at their respective WIC meets...
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Donna Faye Freeman
(Obituary ~ 03/22/24)
Donna Faye Freeman, 64, of Plainfield, previously a resident of Putnam County, passed from this life on Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024 at Hendricks Regional Hospital in Danville, following a brief but fierce battle with stage-four metastatic lung cancer. She was born on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 1960 in Indianapolis, the youngest of four to Robert and Juanita (McKinney) Reid...
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Marilyn Joan Lashley
(Obituary ~ 03/22/24)
Marilyn Joan Lashley, 87, passed away surrounded by family on March 21, 2024 at Hickory Creek at Sunset in Greencastle. She was born on Sept. 5, 1936 to Mason and Dorothy (Wray) Fyffe in Crawfordsville. Marilyn was a graduate of Crawfordsville High School in the class of 1954...
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Putnam Scanner for March 22, 2024
(Police Logs ~ 03/22/24)
Several people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Wednesday • At 2:17 p.m. Magon J. Tabor, 32, Greencastle, was booked in on a pair of local warrants. • At 1:53 p.m. Charles T. Bentley, 33, Greencastle, was lodged at the jail for criminal mischief, criminal trespass, disorderly conduct and driving with a suspended license with a prior conviction...
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