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Kyle Walker Gives Insight And Updates
By: Sen. Kyle Walker Eliminating Textbook Fees For Families With Hoosier students getting ready to go back to school, families around the state are buying new school supplies and outfits so their child is ready for another year of learning. One expense Hoosier families won’t have to worry about this year is covering the cost…
Read MoreSilvernotes Among Homemakers Making Fair More to Sing About
By: Betsy Reason If you’re visiting the Hamilton County 4-H Fair this week, you’ll likely see a presence of Hamilton County Extension Homemakers. You’ll find them educating, volunteering, leading and making life more joyful. Every year at the 4-H Fair, the Extension Homemakers get up early and make breakfast, then lunch, then dinner in the…
Read MoreSummer Vacations For The ‘Retired’
by Mark Franke I spent my professional career in higher education administration, specifically in the enrollment and finance areas. What that meant was summer was my busiest time with students to enroll, orient and bill, and then there was the fiscal year closing accounting work. Other than a few days over the course of the…
Read MoreAsk Rusty – My State Pension Eliminated My Social Security Survivor Benefit
Dear Rusty: My husband of 21 years died in January 2022 at the age of 70. We were both retired at the time of his death, and they immediately stopped his Social Security payments. After many calls to Social Security asking why I was not receiving his benefits, I was finally told since I have…
Read MoreThe Line, Like Comedy, Is Subjective
By: Dick Wolfsie Last week, I shared with you some of the most common inquiries I have received from readers over the past 25 years about the writing of humor. Here are a few more. “Are there any taboo subjects in humor?” A well-known comic named Tig Notaro found out the day before a performance…
Read MoreWalters Says That Purdue Football Will Be Competitive This Season
By: Kenny Thompson For years, Purdue Hall of Famer Gene Keady has told the story of how he knew Matt Painter would be a basketball coach someday. “Ever since he was a player here, Matt has had one of the sharpest basketball minds I’ve ever been around,” Keady said in 2004, when it was announced…
Read More4-H Fair, Stone Soup Kids Musical, Street Dance, More
By: Betsy Reason Photos provided by Stone Soup Children’s Theatre Youth grades K-8 are featured in Stone Soup Children’s Musical Theater’s “Guys & Dolls” at 7 p.m. today and 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday at Noblesville High School Auditorium, directed by Joey Murello with tickets at $15. The Noblesville Street Dance is Saturday afternoon…
Read More4-H Fair Opens Today
It’s opening day of the Hamilton County 4-H Fair. And there’s a special celebration — a Bicentennial Groundbreaking — at 9 a.m. And what a wonderful opportunity to talk about our 4-H Fair. 4-H’ers checked in their farm animals all day Wednesday — swine arrived at 7 a.m., llamas at 9 a.m., cattle, goats, chickens,…
Read MoreFrom Time to Thyme
By Paula Dunn Hamilton Heights Huskies’ Family Tree My cousin, Kermit Ross, recently showed me a program book from the 2015 Hamilton Heights Alumni Association reunion that contains an impressive history of the Jackson Township and White River Township schools. (Both Jackson and White River Townships are covered because the two school systems have been…
Read More4-H Dog Leader Celebrates 50 Years
Lynda Arbuckle has been a Hamilton County 4-H Dog leader for 50 years. And she soon will have her own parking space and a sign with her name on it at the Hamilton County 4-H Fairgrounds in Noblesville. The 83-year-old Noblesville woman — who was presented a parking sign last Friday during the 4-H Fair…
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