The Indiana Department of Education has named Our Lady of Grace Catholic School (OLGCS) a 2018 fully certified STEM school.

OLGCS joins 60 schools state-wide, is the first Catholic school in the state, the first preschool through eighth-grade school and the first Hamilton County school to become STEM certified. 

"A quality education begins with amazing educators and excellent material," said Dr. Jennifer McCormick, Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction "Materials rooted in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics help prepare our students for a successful life beyond high school. We are grateful for their passion and dedication."

OLCGS was chosen based on our commitment to teaching the STEM disciplines. The school is unique as it incorporates religion and art into its program, "STREAM."

Noblesville Schools announced they are seeking to expand their current operating referendum by asking residents to vote on a proposal on the Nov. 6, ballot.

The new referendum would replace the existing one passed in 2016 and would provide funding through 2026. 

The expanded referendum would provide Noblesville Schools with increased funding for school safety, mental health and recruiting/retaining top teaching staff. The current operating referendum tax rate is 18.9 cents and the proposed referendum would replace the 18.9 cents rate with a new rate of 37 cents.

“The referendum we passed in 2016 was about maintaining the status quo of our staffing, programming and services, and was a 10.5 percent reduction in the tax rate,” said Dr. Beth Niedermeyer, superintendent of Noblesville Schools. “This referendum is asking the community to support an increase in funding so we can address school safety and mental health enhancements, as well as teacher recruiting/retention needs.” 

An incredible experience came to an end for one Noblesville High School student Sunday.

Shelby Tyler, who will be a senior this school year, finished in 11th place Sunday in the Women’s High Jump competition at the IAAF World U20 Championships Finals in Tampere, Finland.

Tyler cleared 1.75m, and 1.80m, but couldn’t hurdle 1.84m.

The Top 3 all cleared 1.90m and the winner cleared 1.92. All of them were 19 years old.

Karyna Taranda of Belarus ultimately came away with the title, setting a PB of 1.92m. Maria Fernanda Murillo of Colombia, meanwhile, took the bronze medal behind Ireland’s Sommer Lecky, both ending with bests of 1.90m.

TORONTO — After being announced on Tuesday as Harding Racing’s driver for Sunday’s Honda Indy Toronto, Noblesville native Conor Daly recorded Harding Racing’s best finish of the season with a 13th place result on the streets of Toronto.

Daly started in the 11th position but lost a few spots on the start and fell to 14th at the end of the first lap. After he fell four more positions on Lap, Daly started his climb back through the field during the pit stop cycle and also thanks to a little bit of chaos.

A full course yellow was called on Lap 28 for Ryan Hunter-Reay’s stalled car and several cars hadn’t pitted yet. Because the pits are closed when a caution comes out, those cars can’t take advantage of pitting immediately and fall to the rear of the field. That shuffle elevated Daly from 16th to 10th.

But the chaos didn’t end there.

Patricia Michael, of Sheridan, went to be with the Lord on Sunday evening, July 15, 2018.

She was the youngest of six children born to Orval and Margaret (Pickard) Birden.

Norma Jeanne Clark, 88, of Fishers, passed away on Monday, July 16, 2018, at Riverwalk Village in Noblesville.

She was born on June 6, 1930, in Greenfield.

Dear Editor, 

And to the people of Noblesville, Fishers, towns of Hamilton County, Tipton, Tipton County, Indianapolis, Marion County and the people of Indiana:

The board and volunteers of the Indiana Transportation Museum would like to express our deepest gratitude to all of you for your support, including our last day at Forest Park in Noblesville. 

For more than 52 years the museum has been a part of Forest Park. With our train rides, we gave classes on the history of Indiana rail transportation to school children in Noblesville and neighboring communities.

Our volunteers also learned with our community. Many adult and young teenage volunteers learned about working on our historic rail equipment keeping it all running safely. We are proud of all our volunteers who learned at ITM, then went on to became new railroaders for Norfolk Southern, CSX and Burlington Northern railroads. 

Dear Editor,

“Nearly all men can stand adversity but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
-Abraham Lincoln

This quote comes to mind as I watch the drama unfold between the Indiana Transportation Museum (ITM) and the City of Noblesville. We are in the final stages of ITM’s eviction from Forest Park and I’d like to make a couple of comments on the way this episode has been handled.

This is a real David and Goliath story. However, unlike in the Bible, Goliath will end up winning this battle despite David’s efforts. The City has always held all the cards. It is the landlord, it has seats on the Hoosier Heritage Port Authority, which owns the tracks, and it has the deep pockets and formidable firepower of a taxing authority. The ITM is a non-profit that depends on donations and train fares to pay its bills and is run by volunteers.

Still, it managed to successfully operate trains in Hamilton County for decades.

I’ve been thinking on this for a while, and I invite you to think through it with me.

I grew up in a strong, evangelical, Christian community, and continued in that faith tradition for most of my adult life. Then I had a major crisis that included my faith. So, I walked away and started over figuring things out for myself.

For a while now, I have been angry at Christianity. I have been angry at all churches regardless of denomination. I have been angry at the way mankind mutilated the message of Jesus and used it as a tool of oppression. I would have said “to hell” with it all, except I wasn’t sure anymore whether hell was real.

One thing I didn’t expect is that my crisis would affect my political points of view. But when you set out to “look at everything with new eyes,” you have to actually look at everything.

I saw a young athlete two weeks ago who complained of shin pain.

He had been upping his running mileage; the pain was due to a stress fracture. It is estimated that between five and 30 percent of athletes and military recruits develop a stress fracture each year. Briefhaupt first described the condition in 1855 when examining military recruits.

Everyone is familiar with bone fractures, especially those that result from acute trauma. These fractures are usually easy for an untrained person to see on an X-ray – the bone looks like a broken stick. Stress fractures, however, can be much more difficult to diagnose.

Stress fractures result from repeated stress on the bone. This repetitive microtrauma causes disruption of the microscopic structure of the bone over time that eventually exceeds the bone’s ability to heal itself. A tiny crack subsequently develops in the bone that may or may not be obvious on an X-ray. Think of bending a piece of metal over and over; eventually it weakens and breaks.

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