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Interesting Days Ahead For College Football
Flex Protect Plus sounds like a Medicare supplemental insurance commercial you might see on MeTV. It’s a different kind of insurance, though. One that should ensure the Big Ten Conference will be well represented in the upcoming 12-team College Football Playoff. It’s also an opportunity for Purdue to perhaps build some momentum under Ryan Walters.…
Read MoreDirector Says Everyone Can Relate to ‘Godspell’
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…
Read MoreRemembering John Marlowe
Seven months ago, John Marlowe was doing CrossFit workouts, writing a weekly column for The Paper of Montgomery County and the Noblesville Times and basically enjoying life. This week, he is dead. Cancer is an insidious beast. If he could, John would tell people that his legacy boils down to a few things: He would…
Read MoreHamilton County Offers Value For Retirees
For anyone on the fence considering retirement, I would highly recommend it. As I have mentioned before, seeing our son more than a handful of times per year entered into my wife and I choosing to move to Noblesville. That said, it was only one of many reasons. Hamilton County remains in the top tier…
Read MoreCUT fathers day car show:
Want TO GO? What: Central Indiana Vintage Vehicles’ 31st annual Father’s Day Car Show. When: 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Sunday, registration for cars 9 a.m. to noon. Where: Forest Park, 701 Cicero Road, Noblesville. How much: Free to spectators, $10 to enter a car. Eligible cars must be built prior to 1994 or may…
Read MoreFrom Time to Thyme
By Paula Dunn Washington Township Quiz As I noted a couple of weeks ago, the Hamilton County Bicentennial Commission is featuring Washington Township this month. Are you ready to test your knowledge of Washington Township history? 1. Who were Washington Township’s first settlers? 2. During World War I, Westfield’s George Van Camp and Sons canning…
Read MoreNoblesville Author Draws From Noble Family Values
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…
Read MoreCreating A Summer Tablescape For Warm Weather Entertaining
For those summer barbecues and dinner parties ahead this summer, setting the table before those plates of homemade potato salad, grilled pork chops, dripping watermelon and pie fill the table can be a great way to set the mood and invite warm conversation to your summer soiree. Your table setting is a simple way to…
Read MoreUpdate from Washington, D.C.
Spartz Honors Our Fallen Heroes This week, as we honor and remember the brave heroes who stormed the beaches of Normandy 79 years ago, Rep. Spartz spoke on the house floor to share a memorial service note from LTC David Strysko to his fallen brother-in-arms Master Sgt. Benjamin Franklin Bitner. Judiciary Highlights On Wednesday,…
Read MorePence Faces An Arduous Tight Rope To White House
By BRIAN A. HOWEY Throughout nearly two and a half centuries, more than a dozen Hoosier men have looked into a mirror and beheld a future president. Only two — grandfather and grandson Presidents William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison — ended up living in the White House for a combined total of four years…
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