Bainbridge News

All school offices within the North Putnam Community School Corporation will open on Monday, July 27.

The members of Saturday Shoes Rick Barcus, Jeremy Hayes, Dennis Furr and Anthony Mullis will bring their alt-country sounds to Parkfest at 7 p.m. Tuesday.

For several years, Murray Pride has been reading to students at Roachdale and Bainbridge Elementary Schools.

Older campers learned the value of cooperation during a rope game at Heritage Lake this week.

Bainbridge Republican Dan Stockton has tossed his hat into the ring early to challenge incumbent Democrat Brad Ellsworth for the 8th U.S. Congressional District seat.

Bill Harshbarger, a starting forward on the 1959 undefeated regular season and regional champion Bainbridge basketball team, will be the featured speaker at the 95th annual Bainbridge High School Alumni Association banquet June 27 in the Bainbridge Community Building.

Dan Stockton of Banbridge, center, is seeking Indiana's 8th District congressional seat.

A Bainbridge teenager died in a one-vehicle crash on C.R. 800N Tuesday when his pickup careened off the side of the road and overturned in three feet of water at the bottom of an embankment.

Some Greencastle High School students recently took learning out of the classroom and traveled to Bainbridge for a tour of Rockies Express Pipeline East.

The eighth annual Blast from the Past Festival opens at the Bainbridge Community Center next Saturday at 9 a.m. The two-day festival is the main fundraiser for Friends of the Park in Roachdale, Bainbridge and Russellville and helps support the Summer Fun in the Sun program in local parks.

North Putnam Community School Corporation Superintendent Murray Pride introduced local author Vera M. Kierstead-Farber to Roachdale Elementary students before he finished reading her book "Jamie's Journey" to them.

Members of the Indiana Army National Guard's 1313th Engineer Company said thank you to their families Thursday in a ceremony heldin a Columbus, Ind., high school gym.

For over 30 years, Jim Crosbie has used his talent as a woodworker to create beautiful pieces of practical art.

For more than four decades, Judy Blaydes has been molding the minds of elementary students.

Two men charged in separate cases of Class D felony sexual misconduct with a minor have entered guilty pleas and will be sentenced in Putnam County Circuit Court in June.

Bainbridge Town Council members Richard Cope, Bonnie Osborn and Naomi Barker passed Ordinance 2009-3 on the second reading.

Janie Briones was busy Sunday morning delivering the thousands of pounds of food collected by local postal workers Saturday during their annual food drive.

FAIRMOUNT - Lillie Mae Stout, 82, of Fairmount, IN, passed away Wednesday, May 6, 2009, at Community Hospital in Anderson, IN.

Putnam County schools did not fare particularly well on the 2008 ISTEP-Plus. While Bainbridge and Roachdale Elementary schools ranked in the "exemplary" category; and Deer Meadow Primary, Ridpath Elementary, Central Elementary and Cloverdale High School garnered an "academic progress" rating, all other schools in the county are on the "watch" list.

Fifteen-year-old Stuart Owen doesn't look or act sick. But inside his young body, there is a lot going on.