Let the show choir competition season begin!

What a great start to Noblesville High School’s show choir competition season. NHS Singers, the high school’s top mixed show choir, on Saturday night took home Grand Champion of the Jay County Show Choir Spectacular, along with Best Choreography and Best Vocals awards. Their traveling companion choir, New Dimension, NHS’s top all-female show choir, won…

Read More

Life and other deep subjects

Scattershooting about the meaning of life . . . and other deep subjects (like, why do hot dogs taste better with coney sauce . . . and why are some coney sauces sweet while others are not) . . . * * * WHETHER WE are talking about The Times in Noblesville or our paper…

Read More

The white heat of salesmanship

I didn’t intend to devote two columns to Col. R. C. Foland, but while I was researching his Polar Bear activities, I noticed his auctioneering career was pretty interesting, too. He put as much energy into promoting auctions as THE way to sell real estate as he did in trying to recruit members for his…

Read More

It’s a shame that it is now January

I’ve come to the conclusion that, if December is the season of Hope, then January must be the season of Shame. I base this conclusion primarily because advertisers tell us it is so. No sooner do the last holiday fruitcakes make the annual transition from Christmas delicacy to New Year’s doorstop, advertisers start reminding us…

Read More

Interesting thoughts while clearing out a holiday notebook

Here are some thoughts while clearing out my holiday notebook: COVID-19 has recorded its first significant impact of the 2021-22 Big Ten men’s basketball season. Michigan, probably the biggest disappointment in the league, called off games against arch rival Michigan State on Jan. 8 and preseason co-Big Ten favorite Purdue on Tuesday night because school…

Read More

Timmons missing in action

Tim Timmons is missing in action this week, but he must be hiding somewhere warm and out of this chilly weather because we can’t find him or his column anywhere. Hopefully, we’ll find him wandering around and will have his column back and ready for next week.

Read More