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The Postscript by Carrie Classon
“Dog Friends” My husband, Peter, is trying to impress a local collie. Peter knows better than this. He had a collie for many years. Collies are not easily impressed. They have their own priorities and their own agenda and if it happens to coincide with yours, you can pretend they did something on your behalf—but…
Read MoreAsk Rusty – Why Should a Non-working Spouse be Entitled to Social Security Benefits?
Dear Rusty: Why can a non-working spouse claim half of their working spouse’s benefit even though they have not contributed to the Social Security system? This doesn’t seem right or fair to those of us who have contributed for years from our paychecks. Signed: Inquisitive Dear Inquisitive: This is a question which needs a bit…
Read MoreUpdate #104 from Dr. Derek Arrowood, Superintendent, Hamilton Heights School Corporation
Beginning April 1, the community can enjoy an up close and personal visit to 12 different historical sites in Jackson Township (Atlanta, Arcadia, and Cicero) through self-guided video tours. These videos, created by a talented crew of HHSC educators and staff including, Jeff Beechler, Connor James, Lucia Garber (HHMS), and Melissa Martin and Julie Davis…
Read MoreEaster Egg Hunt, Train Ride, Live Music, Conner Prairie, More
There are plenty of things to do this weekend and beyond. Here’s our Times’ list of 35 things to do. 1. Hamilton County Passion Play “Behold the Lamb” will be on stage today and Saturday at Noblesville High School Auditorium. Sold out. Info at https://www.beholdthelamb.com/ 2. Enjoy live music with Craig Thurston tonight at Primeval…
Read MorePurdue Fans Growing Tired of Wait for Next Year
As a Chicago Cubs fan, Matt Painter is well aware how many times “wait ‘til next year” was uttered by the Wrigley faithful between 1909 and 2015. Millions of Cubs fans went to their graves without seeing their team attain baseball’s version of the Promised Land, a World Series championship. Today, Purdue basketball fans are…
Read MoreBAGELS ARE ONE OF AMERCA’S MOST DANGEROUS FOODS
That headline was the title of an article I read on an app called SmartNews. The story makes it clear that if you show up at an emergency room with a fishhook in your nose or your fingers super-glued together, there is a good chance you will be sitting in the waiting room next to…
Read MoreHow 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,…
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