Betsy Reason

Suburban North Club’s new recovery center opens today, just eight months after the building’s ground breaking in September. Club members, friends from the community, other recovery groups, Noblesville Mayor Chris Jensen, major donors, contractors and many others involved in the project are expected to be in attendance at today’s grand opening. The new $1.9 million…

This weekend is all about flowers and plants and gardening and sprucing up with flea market finds. So here I offer the 25 Things to Do in The Times this week: 1. Get up early for the 23rd annual Hamilton County Master Gardener Plant Sale from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday at the…

Gardeners, it’s time to shine up your little red wagons, make your plant lists and head for this weekend’s plant sale. If you haven’t attended Hamilton County Master Gardeners’ plant sale, you need to go, particularly if you like gardening. The 24th annual spring Plant Sale is 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the…

When 10,000 people attended the inaugural Indiana Peony Festival in Noblesville in 2021, attendance was more than organizers could have ever imagined. So this year, the Peony Festival returns this weekend with more activities, including a Peonies in the Park 21-and-older preview event on Friday night and a Brunch Crawl Saturday morning before the festival,…

Guests will be shuttled to the front door of this year’s Taste of Business – Made in Noblesville. A new guest shuttle service will bring guests from each of the Embassy Suites parking lots and the former Odyssey restaurant site during today’s Noblesville Chamber of Commerce event, thanks to a shuttle service provided by Prairie…

We drove by the new Hamilton County government employee parking garage on Thursday night. Although there were blockades at the two entrances, the kiosk at the front gate was lit brightly with public hours posted as well as a photo of the new garage alternating on the screen. The garage was well lit inside and…

It’s the first prom season since the pandemic that Ana Shull has been busy with prom dress alterations. There were no proms in 2020, there were proms with lots of Covid guidelines and rules in 2021, so a lot of kids didn’t go to prom. “But this year, the proms are on,” said Shull, who’s…

Here is our weekly list of 25 Things to Do in The Times: 1. Noblesville Farmers Market is open for the season 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at Federal Hill Commons in downtown Noblesville. Parking is offered at the nearby Mexican restaurant that was torn down, at BlueSky Commerce, both just west of the park,…

Hamilton County government employees — who’ve been shuttled on buses from the vacant Riverview Hospital-owned parking lot on the west side of White River for the past year — have a new, covered and consolidated place to park. The $11.5 million Hamilton County Parking Garage — that’s been under construction since May 2021 at the…

Karen Williams Pryor couldn’t help but have a big smile on her face as she heard her name called along with nice things being said about her. A Noblesville native who was a varsity cheerleader and played clarinet in her school band and who spent much of her adult life working for a Noblesville air-spring…