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2022 Ford Escape PHEV Makes EVS Normal
This year will go down as the year during which electric vehicles hit critical mass and became normal. Auto buyers are engaged in all they offer, but many are not quite ready to throw away normalcy for an advanced all-electric future. They might like an EV that still cradles a gasoline engine for longer drives…
Read MoreShelley’s Beautiful Hats
This past week we attended the memorial for my husband Peter’s oldest sister, Shelley. Shelley went through a long battle with cancer, and Peter lost his second sister in two years. The pandemic had just started, her husband had just died, and Shelley moved 900 miles across the country to live near her kids. Then,…
Read MoreWhat Happened to That $200M Senate Race?
Once upon a time if you ran a U.S. Senate race in Indiana, you would spend between $4 million and $5 million, like Evan Bayh did in 1998. By the time Republican Dan Coats sought his return to the Senate in 2010, the number grew to about $6 million. That was the year of the…
Read MoreWhat You Need to Know About Norovirus
Stomach flu has been making the rounds lately. I have to start by dispelling a common misconception people have that all types of “flu” are the same. “Stomach flu” is not caused by the same viruses that cause respiratory illnesses. Flu shots, given this time of year to help prevent respiratory influenza, will not protect…
Read MoreLet the ‘Whistle-Pig’ Run Free!
When I was finally old enough to go get the mail on my own –– shortly after overcoming the dread of being shredded to pieces by Laddie, the mean collie dog living next door –– I still made it a point to run to the end of the long driveway as fast as I could.…
Read MoreMarilyn’s Place Non-Food Pantry Having Moving Sale
Old Town Noblesville resident Glenn Conn, with the help of co-founders Marie Marks and Hilary Ricks, started Marilyn’s Place Non-Food Pantry on South Eighth Street in Noblesville two summers ago. For Conn, it has been a way to help others in need because someone once helped him. “I’ve been homeless myself and been in need…
Read MoreHarvest Moon Fest, NFD’s Open House, Fall-A-Palooza, Final Farmers Market, More
Sheridan’s Harvest Moon Festival is this weekend, Carmel Community Players opens “Tick, Tick … Boom!” and the Headless Horseman rides at Conner Prairie in Fishers. Noblesville Fire Department Auxiliary serves up pancakes during its open house, Noblesville Farmers Market is open for the last day of the season and we’re only six days away from…
Read MoreKenny Takes a Midseason Look at the Big Ten
At the halfway point of the 2022 Big Ten Conference football season, it’s no surprise that Ohio State looks nearly invincible again and that Purdue is in contention to win its first West Division championship. It was expected by all but some in the national media that Nebraska would struggle and that former hometown hero…
Read MoreSleeping Aground
We had just landed at the L.A. International Airport, excited about our vacation. As we walked through the terminal I saw a man—I think it was a man—head slumped over, legs draped over his carry-on bag. Normally I wouldn’t have given him another thought. Goodness knows, I have always boasted of my own daytime slumbering…
Read MoreTwins, ’44 CHS Grads, Preparing to Turn 96
Imagine getting readying to turn 96 and having a sister who looks like your mirror image. Yes, Rosemary VanCauwenbergh Griffin and Marjorie VanCauwenbergh Miller are identical twins and mirror images. I wrote about the twins just before their 90th birthday in 2016, and I’m sharing the story again. The twins were born during the Depression,…
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