Meeting Notes: Carmel Board of Public Works and Safety 10/19/2022
Meeting Agenda Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022 at 10 a.m. Council Chambers City Hall, One Civic Square Meeting Called to Order Approval of Minutes Minutes from the October 5, 2022, Regular Meeting Bid Opening Bid Opening for Brookshire Golf Course Cellular Tower and Equipment Building Addition; Benjamin Legge, Office of Corporation Counsel. Performance Bond Release/Reduction Approval…
Read MoreFall Enrollment Flat at Indiana’s Public Colleges; Long-term Trend is of Concern
By Casey Smith Overall fall enrollment at colleges across the state of Indiana stayed about the same this year, but the number of students attending those schools over the last five to 15 years is on a downward slide. That’s according to data released Thursday by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education (ICHE). The college…
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Harvest Moon Fest, NFD’s Open House, Fall-A-Palooza, Final Farmers Market, More
Sheridan’s Harvest Moon Festival is this weekend, Carmel Community Players opens “Tick, Tick … Boom!” and the Headless Horseman rides at Conner Prairie in Fishers. Noblesville Fire Department Auxiliary serves up pancakes during its open house, Noblesville Farmers Market is open for the last day of the season and we’re only six days away from…
Read MoreDaily Almanac: Oct. 14, 2022
Sunrise/Sunset: RISE: 7:53 a.m.SET: 7:05 p.m. High/Low Temperatures: HIGH: 62 °FLOW: 38 °F Today is…: • National Dessert Day• national lowercase day• World Standards Day What Happened On This Day: • 1774 The First Continental Congress denounces the British Parliament’s Intolerable Acts and demands British concessions• 1912 President Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded…
Read More300 High-Wage Tech Jobs Coming to Fishers
Tech startup spokenote is scaling up its operations in Indiana, establishing its headquarters in Fishers and creating up to 300 new, high-wage jobs by the end of 2026. “John Wechsler and his spokenote team have built an incredible product platform as they join the growing list of companies that have graduated from Launch Fishers,” said…
Read MoreLocal Organizations Earn Grants from Duke Energy Foundation to Support Environmental Initiatives
Two local organizations, Keep Noblesville Beautiful and the Westfield-Washington Education Development Foundation, have received grants from the Duke Energy Foundation to assiste with environmental initiatives. Keep Noblesville Beautiful received $10,000 for a pollinator garden and sculpture. The grant will support the installation of a kinetic butterfly sculpture and pollinator garden in a roundabout at 191st…
Read MoreSheridan Public Library Awarded Racial Equity Collection Grant
The Sheridan Public Library was chosen as a recipient for the Advancing Racial Equity Development Grant. Sheridan Public Library was awarded $1,000 towards the humanities material. This program has been made possible through a grant from Indiana Humanities with funds from Lilly Endowment Inc. The collection consists of over seventy items now available for circulation.…
Read MoreSleeping Aground
We had just landed at the L.A. International Airport, excited about our vacation. As we walked through the terminal I saw a man—I think it was a man—head slumped over, legs draped over his carry-on bag. Normally I wouldn’t have given him another thought. Goodness knows, I have always boasted of my own daytime slumbering…
Read MoreFishers Police Department Investigating Armed Robbery
The Fishers Police Department is investigating an armed robbery that occurred shortly before 3 p.m. this past Tuesday, Oct. 11. Fishers police officers responded to calls of an armed robbery at the Star Financial Bank at 8762 E. 96th Street. While on route, officers learned the suspect (or suspects) had fled the scene. Officers established…
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