Archive for September 2022

This October, Porktober returns and diners can celebrate by visiting locally-owned restaurants on the Tenderloin Lovers Trail. For Hamilton County residents, make sure to go out and support these local spots that are featured on the trail: Barley Island Brewing Company – Noblesville C.R. Heroes – Fishers Dooley O’Toole’s – Carmel Erika’s Place – Noblesville…

Looking for some fun ways to keep your kids and grandkids entertained? Do you want to help support a local organization and meet fellow community members? Then head to the Sheridan Public Library and take part in one of the many events they are offering this month. Below is a list of the activities currently…

The Indiana Audubon Society is partnering with the Indiana Dunes National and State Park to offer saw-whet owl banding demonstrations again this fall. Owl banding demonstrations will be offered on select nights through the banding season behind the Indiana Dunes Visitor Center. Registration is required due to limited space each night. The owl banding demonstrations…

Progress House has been named a winner of the first-ever Behavioral Health Recovery Innovation Challenge by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), one of just 10 across the nation out of 350 nominees and the only innovator recognized in Indiana. The goal of the challenge was to identify innovations developed by…

More than 1.5 million automatic taxpayer refund (ATR) checks have been printed and mailed, confirmed State Auditor Tera Klutz, CPA earlier this week. “We successfully completed printing on September 21 and sent the last batch of automatic taxpayer refund checks to the postal service on September 22,” stated Auditor Klutz. “Most Hoosiers who filed a…

Pedestrian fatalities are on the rise across the state and nation. As the fall season settles in, shorter days and more hours of darkness bring an increased risk of crashes involving pedestrians, making this October’s Pedestrian Safety Month more important than ever. To prevent these fatalities, the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute (ICJI) is urging drivers…

The Indiana Partners for Pollution Prevention (Partners) inducted its newest member at its Annual Pollution Prevention Conference and Tradeshow held on Sept. 21, 2022. As a new member, the organization pledges to implement voluntary environmental initiatives at its facility, share information and expertise with other businesses, foster environmental stewardship among its employees, and help raise…

Lilly Endowment Inc. recently awarded a $999,733 grant to Indiana Wesleyan University to bring Indiana youth to the IWU-Marion campus to help them explore how higher education can be part of their future. Lilly Endowment made the grant through Indiana Youth Programs on Campus (IYPC), an initiative designed to help colleges and universities across the…

Senator Todd Young in conjunction with Senators Mike Lee (R-Utah), Mike Braun and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), spearheaded efforts to pass the Bulk Infant Formula to Retail Shelves Act to further ease the infant formula shortage in the United States. The bill passed the House and Senate yesterday, and it now heads to the President’s desk…