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The Sage of Being Wolfsie’s Phone
Hi! This is Dick Wolfsie’s newest cell phone. The old phone talked to you many years ago, but since I have taken over the job, I wanted to update everyone on how things are going. Now that Dick is retired, I figured things would be easy compared to previous years when he was running around…
Read MoreKenny Looks Forward to Boilermaker Basketball
With just a third of the college football season completed, the official start of the 2022-23 basketball season took place Tuesday inside Purdue’s Mackey Arena and Indiana’s Assembly Hall. The 125th college basketball season in West Lafayette is loaded with question marks, just like their 13 Big Ten Conference rivals. Thanks to a mass exodus…
Read More‘Curious Savage’ Comedy Shows ‘True Collaboration’ at Westfield Playhouse
Basile Westfield Playhouse’s production of “A Curious Savage” — which opens tonight and runs for two weekends — is a wonderful example of “true collaboration” between local community theaters, says its play director Nancy Lafferty. Props, furniture and costumes not only come from the Playhouse but also from The Belfry Theater in Noblesville and Mud…
Read MoreGot The To Do Flu
I got the to-do flu? How about you? Got too many things to do? Got you down, got you blue? Sort of feels like the flu? How do you do! Guess I was channeling my inner Dr. Seuss. But there are a bunch of topics to catch up on. So without further ado . .…
Read MoreFeeding Team’s 3rd Hunger Awareness Music Festival to Bring 3 Live Local Bands
Noblesville husband and wife Mark and Lisa Hall, co-founders of the two-and-one-half-year-old Feeding Team, are raising awareness of the face of hunger in Hamilton County again this year. And they’re doing it in a big way, come Saturday. The setting is Federal Hill Commons Park just west of White River in downtown Noblesville. “It’s on…
Read MoreThe Myth of Crownland’s ‘Glowing Tombstone’
Are you familiar with the myth of the glowing tombstone in Noblesville’s Crownland Cemetery? I was a senior in high school when a classmate told me about it. My reaction ran along the lines of “Whuuut?” Although I’d lived here all my life, this was news to me. My friend went on to embellish his…
Read MoreEverybody Sure Loves A Homecoming Parade
Noblesville High School’s Homecoming Parade on Friday attracted the largest crowd I’ve seen at a Noblesville parade in a long time. So many Noblesville school families came out to watch the parade. Having such a great turnout just goes to show how much the community needs to hold onto our parade tradition, for Homecoming, July…
Read More2022 Lexus LX600 is Ideal for Bougie Bourbon Bar Crawls
My friends and I are ready for our annual bourbon run to northern Kentucky, or what’s in reality nothing more than a bougie bar crawl that usually requires a luxury conveyance equal our quest for distilled, barrel-aged corn liquor. And boy, did we get the right one this time in the 2022 Lexus LX600 that…
Read MoreOn the Sidewalk
I met Betty sitting outside on the sidewalk. Betty spends a lot of time there. She lives in the adjacent building. It is a place for older folks who need a lot of help and don’t have a lot of money. Betty lost both legs, below the knee, at some point. She wears a curly…
Read MoreNunn on the Putin Doctrine: ‘A Very Dangerous Time’
U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn was at a conference in Hungary when a coup d’etat toppled Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the summer of 1991. A Soviet contact called him. “You’ve got to get over here,” Nunn was told. “Big things are happening; great opportunities and huge dangers.” Once in Moscow, Nunn would spend half a…
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