Archive for March 2023
Here’s Hoping New Purdue Grid Coach Fares Better Than History
With Ryan Walters’ first spring practices as Purdue’s head football coach under way, let’s continue our look back at his predecessors. Purdue’s football fortunes waxed and waned in the first quarter of the 20th century, a direct result of the coaching hires made until James Phelan – a member of the College Football Hall of…
Read MoreJUST FINE FOR PARKING
I recently read in one of my newsfeeds that an 85-year-old man was fumbling through his drawers (which is a funny image, right there) and found a one-dollar parking ticket fine that he had gotten almost 70 years ago and forgot to pay. Henry was apparently a man with a sharp financial sense. He knew…
Read MoreSquirrels, Bigfoot And No Shushing. Is This The School Library You Remember?
Hidden clues. A wonder box to explore. Passionate debates. Microscopes and flashlights. Does this sound like the school library you remember? Talking is encouraged in today’s Noblesville Schools libraries, as they build on classroom learning in engaging ways that students of the past could never have imagined. Noble Crossing Elementary librarian Taryn Hassler is known…
Read MoreHealth Care Providers Encouraged to “Ask the Question” Hamilton County Chosen for Nationwide Program Preventing Veteran Suicide
Hamilton County’s Veteran Suicide Prevention Coalition is encouraging health care providers and community organizations to “Ask the Question” in an effort to better identify military veterans and their families and to prevent suicides among veterans. Indiana is home to more than 390,000 veterans. Yet the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs estimates more than half of…
Read MoreCity Officials, Project Executives to Break Ground on Fishers Event Center, Welcome Chicken N Pickle as First Tenant of The Crossing at Fishers District
Fishers, Ind. – City officials, executives from Indy Fuel, Thompson Thrift, and ASM Global will host a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the commencement of construction for the Fishers Event Center, an 8,500-seat entertainment and sporting event venue. The project, announced in September 2022, is the anchor to a nearly $550 million expansion of the popular…
Read More10 Heights Robotics Teams Qualify For State Championship
Seven robotics teams from Hamilton Heights Middle School and three robotics teams from Hamilton Heights High School are headed to the 2023 Indiana VEX Robotics State Championship at Lucas Oil Stadium after successfully qualifying at various competitions held earlier this season. This is the sixth year in a row that HHMS has sent multiple teams…
Read MoreSmile
What makes Sara Ballew smile? “My kids, my family, my dogs, customers,” said the 44-year-old Noblesville resident. The 1997 Hamilton Heights graduate and former Cicero resident has been working at Discount Copies, her family’s business, since 1998, two years after the copy business opened. “Mom and I have worked together since I was 14. We…
Read MoreSelf-Guided Historical Tours in Jackson Township Set to Begin in April
The Hamilton County Bicentennial Celebration continues northward with a self-guided tour of locations of historical significance in Jackson Township in Northern Hamilton County. Beginning April 1 (no fooling), the public is invited to enjoy self-guided visual tours that can be accessed by scanning the posted codes at 12 locations throughout Atlanta, Arcadia, and Cicero. As…
Read More‘Great Gatsby,’ Live Music, Gardening, Egg Hunts, Play Auditions, Prairie to Open
There are plenty of things to do this weekend and beyond. Here’s our Times’ list of 35 things to do. 1. Hamilton County Theatre Guild’s The Belfry Theatre presents “The Great Gatsby,” directed by Noblesville’s Andrea Odle, with performances at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, at Arts for Lawrence’s…
Read MoreDaily Almanac: March 24, 2023
Sunrise/Sunset RISE: 7:39 a.m.SET: 8:01 p.m. High/Low Temperatures: HIGH: 50 °FLOW: 42 °F Today is… • National Cheesesteak Day• National Cocktail Day• World Tuberculosis Day What Happened On This Day: • 1999 For the first time in its history, NATO attacks a sovereign country. The military alliance bombed Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War – without…
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