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Let The Kids’ Consignment Sales Begin
Want TO GO? What: 18th annual Indy Kids Sale offering new and gently used children’s clothing up to teen sizes, toys, furniture and gear. When: 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday (half-price sale). Where: Mojo Up Sports Complex at Finch Creek Fieldhouse, 16289 Boden Road, Noblesville. Cost: Admission…
Read MoreHamilton County, Working For Us
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 county government works. As a body, the Hamilton County Council deals with large volumes of information. We are responsible for approving budgets,…
Read MoreHammer Questions New Battlefield
I was reading a story about this plan to forgive college student loan debt. It made me think of the day I made my last college loan payment – and how absolutely drunk I got that night. Paying off that boat anchor was like the 4th of July, Christmas and VE Day all rolled into…
Read MoreNHS Theater Students Apply Classroom Learning On Stage While Sharing 1861 History
Not only do Noblesville High School students involved in the spring play learn about acting, building sets, costuming, stage lighting and sound, the students are also learning about history this semester. “Mrs. Packard” — onstage at 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the NHS Auditorium — is a play based on historical events, set…
Read MoreOur Man Inside The Carter Administration
From Time to Thyme By Paula Dunn When I heard the sad news about former President Jimmy Carter entering hospice care, my thoughts automatically drifted back to Noblesville’s man in the Carter White House, Tim Kraft. I never met him, but I sure knew his father, Dr. Haldon Kraft. Dr. Kraft delivered me and was…
Read More‘God of Carnage’ Director Takes on Dark Comedy
Meet Nicole Amsler. This week, she’s directing a play for the Hyperion Players in Noblesville, “God of Carnage,” which is on stage Friday through Sunday. She’s also a playwright. She wrote her first play at age 10, has written and sold her scripts and last Christmas directed one of the holiday one-act plays that she…
Read MoreMedicine No. 771 Hodgkin Lymphoma
Last week I tried to explain the very complex non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL). This week I want to cover Hodgkin lymphoma, more commonly known as Hodgkin’s Disease (HD). It gets its eponymous name from Dr. Thomas Hodgkin who first described it in 1832. Hodgkin’s is a potentially curable malignant lymphoma that carries a much better prognosis…
Read MoreLosing The Republic My Ancestors Fought To Preserve
By BRIAN A. HOWEY I am a descendent of two Hoosiers who fought in the American Civil War. Two of my great-great grandfathers enlisted in Indiana regiments to preserve the United States. When an emerging Republican congressional “leader” – U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia – used “Presidents Day” to call for a “national…
Read MoreWITH AVERAGE NEW CAR PRICES APPROACHING $50K, THESE TEN IMPRESS AT HALF THAT PRICE
By Casey Williams The average new vehicle price approached $50,000 at the end of 2022, but that doesn’t mean you have to spend that much to get a car with much. Putting a cap of $30,000, and many far below that, these ten vehicles provide impressive style and technology for surprisingly little coin. 2024 Chevrolet…
Read MoreThe Postscript by Carrie Classon
“Mr. Muscles” My husband, Peter, is learning Spanish his own way. I do Duolingo online. It is free. It is easy to do. The whole thing is designed like a game, and dancing animated creatures hop up and down and celebrate every time I get five answers in a row correct. This shouldn’t matter to…
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