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How Low Can We Go? Answers Are Evident
Remember Harry Belafonte’s version of the Limbo song. . . that rich baritone asking how low can you go? Harry is 96 today and I’m guessing might be surprised at the answer to that question. Why? Because today, in this country, we’re proving over and over and over we can go pretty doggone low. And…
Read MoreFormer Sheriff Dan Stevens, To Retire After Nearly 5 Decades As Public Servant
Dan Stevens has been serving our community for nearly 50 years. Listening. Using common sense. And doing his best to help others. That’s been his philosophy for the past 49-½ years. “I hope I helped to make a difference,” said the 71-year-old Noblesville man, a two-term former Hamilton County Sheriff. For the past 14 years,…
Read MoreFrom Time to Thyme
By Paula Dunn Forget robins. There are two even more reliable signs that spring has arrived — Gatewood’s is open again and selling pansies, early vegetable plants and other items for the garden, and the Herb Society of Central Indiana is taking registrations for their annual Spring Symposium. The theme of this year’s HSCI Symposium…
Read MoreRemembering Our Last Democratic Governor, Joe Kernan
To the congressional Republican rank and file, Democrats today are often described as “radical leftists” or “socialists” and even “Marxists.” There have been Hoosier Republicans who described Democrats as partisans who “don’t love our country.” I would have loved to have seen the reaction to this type of criticism from the last Indiana Democratic governor,…
Read MoreThe Postscript by Carrie Classon
“Enough Steps” Anxiety likes numbers. I only recently realized that a lot of my anxiety fixates on meaningless numbers. I like to know how many there are of a particular thing and then attach meanings—usually sinister, sometimes hopeful, always unreasonable—to these numbers. How many words are in this column? Six hundred exactly. Why are there…
Read MoreThe Season of Sneezing
It’s once again time to run my annual column on allergies. Some of our readers may already cursing the annual return of allergy symptoms. Tree pollen levels (Oak, Cedar/Juniper and Birch) in Indiana have been high recently. Spring allergy symptoms can make it even more difficult to differentiate who might have an upper respiratory infection,…
Read MoreVolvo Builds A Better Turbo Wagon In The 2023 Cross Country
When I was a car-obsessed kid back in the ‘80s, one of my favorites was the Volvo Turbo Wagon, made iconic in an advertisement showing it sitting next to a Lamborghini Countach pulling a trailer. The comparison was apt – a superwagon with no penalties of a supercar – a very practical way to haul…
Read More10 Local Ways For Kids To Spend Spring Break
Noblesville Schools’ two-week spring break begins on Monday. For some, vacation plans have long been made to head out of town. For others, it’s a “staycation” at home, finding things to do here locally. When my now junior daughter was elementary age, camps where participants can learn something new were always high among the choices.…
Read MoreAsk Rusty – Widow Stung by Social Security’s “Claw Back” Rule
Dear Rusty: My husband of 48 years died on December 30th, and he received a Social Security direct deposit for December’s benefits in early January, but Social Security demanded the bank return his December payment. I used part of his December benefits to pay for household expenses, so his bank account was overdrawn after his…
Read More‘Great Gatsby,’ Live Music, Gardening, Egg Hunts, Play Auditions, Prairie to Open
There are plenty of things to do this weekend and beyond. Here’s our Times’ list of 35 things to do. 1. Hamilton County Theatre Guild’s The Belfry Theatre presents “The Great Gatsby,” directed by Noblesville’s Andrea Odle, with performances at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, at Arts for Lawrence’s…
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