Daily Almanac: Feb. 2, 2022

Sunrise/Sunset RISE: 7:53 a.m. SET: 6:03 p.m. High/Low Temperatures High: 41 °F Low: 22 °F Wacky Holiday Today • Change Your Password Day • National Dark Chocolate Day What Happened On This Day • 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates on its way back to Earth • 1960 Four black students start the Greensboro sit-ins •…

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A Witness to History

Reverend Barney Stone, the longtime pastor of the First Baptist Church, may have been the best known former slave to call Noblesville home, but he certainly wasn’t the only one. In 1900 another Noblesville resident who’d been a slave, Lucy Washington, achieved a small measure of fame when various Indiana newspapers noted she was possibly…

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Week in Review: 2-2-22

With the first full month of the year behind us, it has certainly been a lively start to 2022! Lots of things are happening all over the city and the county, so it can be easy to fall out of the loop. We at the Times pride ourselves on keeping you, our readers, informed, so…

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Barton “Bart” Turner

Oct. 12, 1967 – Jan. 28, 2022 Barton “Bart” Turner, 54, of Westfield, passed away Jan. 28, 2022.  He was born Oct. 12, 1967 in Logansport, son of Charles and Mary Ellen (Grant) Turner. Mr. Turner was a 1986 graduate of Logansport High School. Following high school graduation, he attended Culver Summer School. He was…

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Beverly A. Howard

July 23, 1925 – Jan. 31, 2022 Beverly A. Howard, 96, of Noblesville, passed away on Mon., Jan. 31, 2022 at Riverwalk Village in Noblesville. She was born on July 23, 1925 to Anthony and Hortense (Kelly) Hill in Princeton, Ind. Mrs. Howard was a member of Bethel A.M.E. Church who loved the Lord and…

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Choosing High School Courses Not Easy Task

When I was in high school, choosing elective courses was easy. I took the traditional Typing I and II, Shorthand, Accounting, General Business, Home Ec Department’s Child Development and Family Relations, Spanish, and Newspaper classes. Other offerings included Yearbook, Architectural Drawing, Shop and Ag classes, plus advanced English, Math and Science courses That was 40…

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