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By: Betsy Reason Noblesville High School families may have noticed new signage at the school. Being that I picked up my daughter often this past semester at Noblesville High School, due to her extracurricular choir activities, I noticed a new sign that directs visitors to the right to go to the school’s main entrance and…

Photo courtesy of Rob Slaven of Indy Ghost Light Photography Youth ages 10-18 rehearse for Carmel Community Players’ summer youth production of “Godspell” musical, which opens on Friday and runs through June 25 at The Ivy Tech Auditorium in Noblesville. Photo courtesy of Rob Slaven of Indy Ghost Light Photography Fender Brokamp of Westfield (from…

Rhonda Parker Taylor wanted to write a book to prove to herself that she could. For many, like Parker Taylor, writing is a difficult task. Growing up, she wasn’t a good student in English, reading or writing. She struggled with McGuffey Readers. And the phonetic concepts escaped her as a child. But she was still…

Jim LaMonte (from left, as Charlie Aiken), Julie Dutcher (as Mattie Fay Aiken) and Sally Carter (as Violet Weston) rehearse for Main Street Productions’ “August: Osage County,” directed by Brent Wooldridge, onstage now through June 18, with performances at 7:30 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and Thursday, and 2:30 p.m. Sundays, at Basile Westfield Playhouse. Photo courtesy…

For Brent Wooldridge, directing “August: Osage County” is a dream come true for a play director. He calls it his “bucket list show.” A vanished father. A pill-popping mother. Three sisters harboring shady little secrets. When the large Weston family unexpectedly reunites after Dad disappears, their Oklahoman family homestead explodes in a maelstrom of repressed…

The Times photo by Betsy Reason Noblesville High School 2023 graduate Abby Pittman was among 737 NHS graduates on Tuesday night during the NHS Commencement at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. She’ll be heading to Butler University on a four-year, full-ride Lilly Endowment Scholarship. The Times photo by Betsy Reason Noblesville High School 2023 graduate attended…

In its first year, the new Hyperion Players’ greatest challenge has been getting the word out and bringing in an audience. “I think we’ve succeeded so far, but it’s a lot of work, especially because we’re not doing musicals or children’s theater yet,” said Noblesville’s Ian Hauer. Hyperion’s next play, “Call Me Sister,” opening Thursday…

Let’s face it. Noblesville needs a performing arts venue for community theater groups. The community needs performance space where community or non-equity theaters, dance companies and musical groups can affordably stage their performances for the public. Having “insufficient or no access to performance space” is our local theaters’ greatest barrier, according to the results of…

This first weekend in June kicks off summertime activities in and around Noblesville. Here’s our Times’ list of 35 things to do this weekend and beyond. -Betsy Reason writes about people, places and things in Hamilton County. Contact The Times editor Betsy Reason at betsy@thetimes24-7.com. For more Hamilton County Bicentennial events, visit www.hamcoturns200.com