Stories from Wednesday, June 12, 2024

On the heels of the recent Greencastle City Council selection of a school board member, Greencastle Township officials are set to do the same on Thursday. At 6 p.m., Greencastle Township Trustee Steve Butts and the township advisory board will meet for the purpose of filling a four-year term on the Greencastle School Board...

Characterizing Kathryn Dory as the right person at the right time for the Greencastle Community School Corporation (GCSC), the City Council Tuesday night appointed her to the Greencastle School Board. Dory, who succeeds Brian Cox on the panel, brings the perspective of more than 40 years in education and 26 years with GCSC as a teacher, band and choir director and since 2008, Academic Super Bowl coordinator of a Greencastle program that has amassed the most state titles in Indiana...

CLOVERDALE — Endeavor Communications on Thursday announced the receipt of a $6,030,000 grant from the Next Level Connections broadband program. The funding will facilitate the construction of 126 miles of fiber optic infrastructure, connecting approximately 1,093 locations across Putnam, Owen, Clay and Hendricks counties...

POET recently partnered with CoBank to give a boost to the South Putnam Youth League. Present for a check presentation of $12,000 toward the program are (from left) SPYL president, vice president and treasurer Amanda Laney, Bethany Combs and Dee Norman and POET commodity manager and grain merchandiser Christine Poole and Lincoln Gaston, respectively...

William “Bill” Stanley Vensko, Fillmore, passed away on Sunday, June 9, 2024. He was 54 years old. Bill was born in McKeesport, Pa., to his parents, William Clayton Vensko and Marie Armstrong. He graduated from Bethlehem Center High School and earned his CDL license...

Morris G. Hurst, age 95, of Belle Union, passed away June 3, 2024. He was born March 14, 1929 in Belle Union to the late George and Ada (McCammack) Hurst. He married Wanda (Eastham) Hurst on March 11, 1949, and they shared 73 wonderful years together until her passing on Dec. 5, 2022...

The Purdue Club of Putnam County will conduct its 25th-annual golf outing on Wednesday, June 26 at Tiger Pointe. Registration for the event will begin at 11 a.m., followed by lunch at 11:30 and a shotgun start at 12:30 p.m. Purdue guests will include Bobby “Buckets” Riddell, a member of the 2009 Big Ten champion Purdue men’s basketball team. He is currently the radio color analyst for Purdue Men’s Basketball...

Wanda L. Hurst, 92, of Belle Union, passed away Dec. 5, 2022. She was born Jan. 13, 1930 in Fillmore to the late Roscoe and Thelma (Day) Eastham. She married Morris G. Hurst on March 11, 1949, and he survived her. She is survived by her children, Janice McCammack and husband David of Belle Union and Marshall Hurst and wife Beverly of Coatesville; four grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren...