Archive for December 2021
How the Supreme Court could alter the Indiana Senate race
In late June 2018, Democrat U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly was cruising toward reelection and was on a conference call with Hoosier agriculture reporters when he learned that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy was retiring. “It was like I got hit in the head with a baseball bat,” Donnelly told me. “I had been watching…
Read MoreIndiana awards $35.2 million to community partners to accelerate student learning
Governor Eric J. Holcomb and the Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) has announced that $35.2 million in state and federal grant funds are being awarded to 123 community partners and schools across the state as part of Indiana’s Student Learning Recovery Grant Program. These grants are awarded in addition to more than $122 million awarded…
Read MoreAre you experiencing uncomfortable plumbing problems? Here might be why
I’m running through my list of suggested topics from readers, and this one goes out to a reader from Sheridan. It’s a common problem, but one of those topics that doesn’t usually come up in casual conversation – constipation. There are three common times in a person’s life when constipation can become a problem. The…
Read MorePassing remarks for those who have passed on
At the end of each year, news stations recount notable people who passed away during the previous 12 months. I’d like to mention a few who meant a great deal to me… Baseball lost a treasure in 2021. In 1974, Henry Aaron slugged career homerun number 715, eclipsing Babe Ruth’s record after 39 years. Aaron…
Read More12-24-2021
From Tim . . .
To all our wonderful customers, By now you are used to your favorite Hamilton County daily doing things a little bit differently. It’s been a long (and short) 17 years since the little company that could was founded. Of course we never would have survived any of those 17 years if not for you. For…
Read MoreFrom Dr. Arrowood . . .
As I ready for my 9th year as the Superintendent of Hamilton Heights School Corporation, I am as excited to serve in this role today as I was when I was first hired in January of 2014. Each year only seems to get better. For this, I credit, in part, our amazing village. It really…
Read MoreFrom Paula . . .
(This originally appeared in 2020, but is still valid.) Feeling down because Noblesville’s annual Christmas parade was canceled this year due to the pandemic? Don’t worry, I have a solution. I’ve borrowed a time machine so we can go back to December 1, 1962 to see Noblesville’s very first Christmas parade. I got the contraption…
Read MoreFrom Betsy . . .
Merry Christmas to all of our Times newspaper readers. As a journalist, I’ve been writing about Noblesville for 35 years. And some of the same people who were reading my first feature stories in 1986 in the Noblesville Daily Ledger are still reading my newspaper columns in 2021 in The Times. And I thank you.…
Read MoreShaun Aaron Slinkard
Sept. 6, 1989 – Oct. 8, 2021 Shaun Aaron Slinkard, 32, went to be with the Lord on Oct. 8, 2021. He was born on Sept. 6, 1989, in Noblesville, Ind., to Steven D. Slinkard and Lori J. Clark McCarty. Mr. Slinkard worked as a deck hand in the Shrimp Boat industry. He was a…
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