Betsy Reason

McMillan’s Auto Care & Towing in downtown Noblesville has been serving and chatting up customers for more than 35 years. The family business — owned by Chuck and Dotty McMillan of Noblesville — has been a place where folks take their cars to get auto-repair service for more than three decades. The father-and-son team of…

While every birth and death is significant, The Times remembers some of those who we lost in 2021, from ages 17 to 99: Paul Edward Woodward, 96, Noblesville, died Dec. 3, 2021. He served as an MP in the U.S. Army in Hawaii during World War II. He was a Hamilton County Co-Op director, 4-H…

As we wind down 2021 on this New Year’s Eve and prepare to welcome 2022, I share with you my highlights of the year. Here’s my list of more than 35 things that I recall in 2021: 1. The $24.4 million mixed-use Levinson project, Noblesville’s first parking garage, and the first new downtown apartments in…

Over the past few years, it has seemed that people have been mailing fewer and fewer holiday cards. Some send greetings on Facebook (now Meta) and others use email or texts. While any of these methods are welcome, I have yet to give up mailing holiday newsletters. And this year was no exception. While my…

Merry Christmas to all of our Times newspaper readers. As a journalist, I’ve been writing about Noblesville for 35 years. And some of the same people who were reading my first feature stories in 1986 in the Noblesville Daily Ledger are still reading my newspaper columns in 2021 in The Times. And I thank you.…

Santa Claus — in his wire-rim eyeglasses, big red suit and beard as white as the snow — takes his seat in the Hamilton County Historical Society’s Santa House on the Courthouse Square. He invites children to sit on his lap or sit next to him. He asks for their wish lists for Christmas. And…

When Dr. Luke James started his Noblesville chiropractic business after college, he was looking for a way to build awareness. So he decorated the outside of his office with Christmas lights. “My dad has always loved Christmas and thought it would bring people joy during the season,” said James, who loves Christmas, too. “People loved…

While many of the food and clothing drives are now over because it’s almost Christmas, the need is still there for our communities. More than 26,000 individuals in Hamilton County are food insecure, according to the Hamilton County Harvest Food Bank in Noblesville, with about 33,333 meals needed this holiday season. So there are many…

A lot of things in our daily lives have changed this year. But one thing that hasn’t changed is the generosity of folks in Noblesville who give to Tri Kappa sorority’s annual Noblesville Red Stocking Fund. Every year in November, Tri Kappa asks us at The Times newspaper to partner up in the promotion of…

Only eight days until Christmas, and there are still so many things to do to get ready for the holidays. Visit Santa and give him your Christmas list. Go see a holiday ballet. Go ice skating at Federal Hill Commons. Take a carriage ride. See the Merry Prairie lights. Take a train ride. Mark your…