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Find 16 Ways To Have Easter Fun
It’s time to get out your Easter baskets and get ready for some local Easter Egg hunts and Easter happenings. Here are 16 Easter happenings to put on your calendar: 1. The first hunt of the season is the annual Community Easter Egg Hunt at 6 p.m. Monday at the Hamilton County 4-H Fairgrounds in…
Read MoreUpdate #103 from Dr. Derek Arrowood, Superintendent, Hamilton Heights School Corporation
Hamilton Heights is extremely fortunate to have the Hamilton Heights Educational Foundation (HHEF). The Foundation was initially created as an opportunity to elevate the learning environment by raising funds to support learning across our campus. The local visionaries who founded the organization, many of whom still live and work in the community, certainly knew it…
Read MoreCelebrate St. Paddy’s with Gatsby, Live Music
It’s St. Patrick’s Day with plenty of things to do all weekend and beyond. Here’s our Times’ list of two dozen things to do. 1. Enjoy St. Patrick’s Day Music with Rusty Musket with Celtic folk songs, old sea shanties and Irish tunes at 7 p.m. today at Primeval Brewing, plus Primeval opens early at…
Read MorePundits Pooh-Pooh Purdue’s NCAA Chances At Own Peril
The national media is suffering from a case of selective amnesia. That’s the diagnosis from your friendly neighborhood basketball doctor, who watched hours of NCAA Tournament selection analysis this week. “Duke is a bad matchup for Purdue, especially in Madison Square Garden,” the drum beat begins. “Marquette is the kind of team that gives Purdue…
Read MorePHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY…
Returning from our vacation in the Virgin Islands last month, I sent my digital camera through the scanner at the airport. Then I forgot to retrieve it from the tray after it rolled out on the conveyor. When I came back five minutes later, it was gone. I almost aways use my cell phone on…
Read MoreNew Play Director Brings Out Best in ‘Great Gatsby’ Actors
Saturday Show Will Feature ASL Interpreters Any community theater would be lucky to have play director, Noblesville’s Andrea Odle. She’s very organized. “Being organized is a must,” she said. She is all about teamwork. “Surrounding yourself with people smarter than you are is the best way to ensure we all succeed,” she said. She is…
Read MoreFrom Between the Lines to Outside, Derrick Clore Finds a Way
The long, curved drive leading to the house in Carmel is a long way from his middle class roots – physically and figuratively. One of the neighbors is the former vice president of the United States and governor of Indiana, Mike Pence. New Market, Indiana it ain’t. Derrick Clore, a kid I covered back in…
Read MoreVirtual Museum Features New Exhibits
From Time to Thyme By Paula Dunn Spring has brought a change of exhibits to the From Time to Thyme Virtual Museum! Come on in and don’t crowd — there’s room for everyone (especially since this is a museum that only exists in cyberspace.) Our first exhibit is an artifact Jacob Case dug up in…
Read MoreHSE Senior Is DAR Good Citizen of the Year
Kate Lantzer epitomizes the four qualities — dependability, service, leadership and patriotism — that define a Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Good Citizen. The 17-year-old Fishers resident, a senior at Hamilton Southeastern High School, was named winner of the 2023 Good Citizen of the Year Award by the Daughters of the American Revolution, Horseshoe…
Read More“More Useful”
I spent last week trying to be useful. I volunteered for a writers’ conference in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where my husband, Peter, and I stay. I love writers’ conferences. I love that people will travel from far away just to talk about writing, to meet other writers, to learn about writing, to listen…
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