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We just got back from Washington DC. I was there for a reunion with old college friends who I worked with on The Hatchet, our award-winning newspaper back in the 60’s at The George Washington University. I was a humor columnist and that’s where I got my start in journalism. Mary Ellen and I had…
Read MoreEn Pointe ‘s ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Ballet Will Bring Nonsense to Life
I have been hearing good things about En Pointe Indiana Ballet’s newest production, “The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland,” since before rehearsals began. Every time that I watch a production by the Noblesville-based dance school — from “En Pointe Christmas” and “Don Quixote” in the Noblesville High School Auditorium to “Curiosity” on the big screen…
Read MoreSlate Of Hate Has It All Wrong
How do you argue with . . . silly . . . illogical . . . nuts? Our world is upside down and I don’t know anyone who knows how to get it back. Case in point: A library allows sexually explicit books of – at best – questionable value and gets ripped for not…
Read MoreMake Plans to Attend Today’s Noblesville Taste of Business
Six new restaurants and food-service establishments join this year’s Taste of Business – Made in Noblesville 2023. The addition of more eateries brings the total to 17 restaurants to taste their chefs’ favorites during today’s Noblesville Chamber of Commerce event. Chamber president Bob DuBois is thrilled about this year’s event, open 4 p.m. to 7:30…
Read MoreFrom Time to Thyme
By Paula Dunn Hamilton County Quiz, Adam Township Adams Township is the Hamilton County Bicentennial Commission’s featured township in May. That means it’s time for the Adams Township quiz! Here’s another chance to test your knowledge of Hamilton County history . . . 1. Sheridan wasn’t always known as Sheridan. What was it originally called?…
Read MoreNoblesville Woman Shares Story Of Childhood Abuse, Writes Book On Her Journey
Jessica Pearson shares her story of abuse that she experienced as a child and the raw recounting of the effects of that abuse, as well as her journey to healing, in her first book, “Imagining the Darkness,” released today. “The book is a love letter to myself and anyone who has suffered at the hands…
Read MoreDominant Indiana GOP Taking Aim At Big Cities
By BRIAN A. HOWEY Indiana Democrats will be facing an existential election this November. Already purged from rural areas and many small to medium-sized cities, holding no Statehouse constitutional offices, only two of 11 federal offices, and with superminority status in the General Assembly, the party has been relegated to the state’s big cities and…
Read MoreAll-New Honda Accord & Subaru Crosstrek Immigrate To Indiana
By Casey Williams Honda recently celebrated forty years of building the Accord at its plant in Marysville, Ohio – the first domestic assembly plant for the automaker. By 2025, the just-redesigned Accord will transfer to Greensburg, Indiana as Honda refocuses Ohio operations on EVs. Similarly, Subaru has long built models like the Outback, Legacy, Impreza,…
Read MoreLeaflets Three…Let It Be!
It appears that consistent warm weather has finally arrived in Indiana and people are finally able to get out to commune with nature. This will probably result in a lot of rashes showing up in doctors’ offices. Most of the rashes we see in the summer are caused by poison ivy, one of three plants…
Read MoreCouncilman Still Learning in Month 4
Welcome to the Timesheet. This column is a report of work done on behalf of the people of Hamilton County. It’s to be informative too, a place to learn about projects and how our county government works. As your employee, it’s important to me that you know what is being worked on as transparently as…
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