Pool Season to Open With More Seating, More Flicks

Forest Park Aquatic Center guests asked for more seating around the pools, and they got it. They asked for private rentable shaded seating, and they got it. They asked for an adult seating area, and they got it. What else is new? New choices at the concession stand. Smoothies and freshly made popcorn will be…

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Daily Almanac: May 24, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset: RISE: 6:23 a.m.SET: 9:05 p.m. High/Low Temperatures: HIGH: 86 °FLOW: 60 °F Today is…: • Brother’s Day• EMS for Children Day• International Tiara Day What Happened On This Day: • 1970 Engineers begin drilling the world’s deepest hole. The Kola Superdeep Borehole had reached the unsurpassed depth of 12,262 meters (40,230 feet) before the…

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Readers’ Choice 2023 Results

Dine In Restaurant Winner: 10 West Runner Up: Grindstone on the Monon Honorable Mentions: Fast Food Restaurant Winner: Chick-Fil-A Runner Up: Culver’s Honorable Mentions: Restaurant Winner: 10 West Runner Up: Grindstone on the Monon Honorable Mentions: Chinese Restaurant Winner: Kobayashu Sushi & Asian Kitchen Runner Up: Peking Garden Honorable Mentions: Coffee Shop Winner: Noble Coffee…

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Summer Safety – Part 2

Last week I went over some sun and water safety information. This week I want to examine wheeled things that appear in the spring and summer. It’s great to see kids and adults out on their bicycles now that the weather has warmed up. The downside is we will see the inevitable bike accidents. Some…

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The Postscript by Carrie Classon

“Lukewarm Water” Yesterday wasn’t the best day. I don’t like to complain and, the truth is, I have very little to complain about. Still, yesterday was not the best day. I woke with a stomachache. I’d gone to bed with a stomachache, and this is not terribly unusual. My mother gets stomachaches, and now my…

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2023 Bmw 760i Gets A Radical Makeover That Nods To The Past And Future

By Casey Williams It seems about every twenty years, BMW gets radical with the 7-Series. Remember back a couple of decades to the 2003 model that debuted the iDrive infotainment system and “Bangle butt” raised trunklid, named for former BMW design chief, Chris Bangle. Eventually, though, BMW’s competitors copied the car’s controls and rump. As…

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Republican Turned Democrat McCormick Seeks To Defy History

By BRIAN A. HOWEY With Democrat Jennifer McCormick’s official entry into the 2024 Indiana gubernatorial race, Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. has ruled out seeking the Democratic nomination. “As for me, I don’t see the stars aligning for a McDermott candidacy in 2024 at this time,” McDermott texted told me on Wednesday. Allies of former…

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Spartz Hosts Town Hall In Hamilton County

Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN.) continued her town hall meetings with a stop in Hamilton County. Rep. Spartz gave an update on happenings in Washington D.C., including her work on the debt ceiling, health care reform, border security, and Helsinki Commission as well as responded to a number of questions on issues ranging from permitting reform…

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Boosting Mental Health Care Access

According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, 1 in 5 adults and 1 in 6 youth experience mental illness each year in the United States, but less than half of them receive treatment. May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and this session we prioritized several bills to increase and improve services and treatment across…

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