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Tractor-Driving Champs
What’s it take to be the best tractor driver? Just ask 16-year-old Arcadia resident Grady Piel or 12-year-old Westfield resident Graham Curtis. Piel won the Hamilton County 4-H Fair’s senior division of the 4-H Agriculture Tractor Driving Contest. Curtis won the Fair’s junior division. Piel is going into his junior year at Hamilton Heights High…
Read MoreThe Likely ‘Model’ For Looming Indiana Abortion Restrictions
With the Indiana General Assembly and Gov. Eric Holcomb on the precipice of historic abortion restrictions in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court rendering Roe v. Wade moot with its Dobbs ruling, the architect of what happens beyond July 25 will likely be Terre Haute attorney James Bopp Jr. Asked if he is currently…
Read MoreThe Perfect Pet
My mother has found the perfect pet. She just doesn’t realize it yet. A clever little red squirrel has been trying to get my mother’s attention for months. “He’s such a pest!” my mother complains. But the squirrel does not give up. He has become quite tame, hanging out below the bird feeder, waiting for…
Read More2023 Nissan Z Drives Greg Brady and George Jetson Together
Too many automakers have tried to update classic designs with a retro flair to put an amber light on their boring product line. That’s not the case with the 2023 Nissan Z. While design references the original 1970 Z, and the chassis dates to the last Z, absolutely nothing about the driving experience or technology…
Read MoreExplaining the Complexity of Cold Sores
I saw a patient with a rather large “cold sore” on his upper lip just before I retired and he asked me to write a column on this unsightly condition. People use the term “cold sore” to describe different types of lesions that occur on the lips or inside the mouth. I’m not sure of…
Read MoreSave The Children!
The child’s frenzied shriek pierced the summer afternoon dullness. It supercharged the epinephrine in my bloodstream until my legs involuntarily sprang from the kneehole of my desk, and sent me hurtling toward the children’s play area behind the house next door. The incessant shrill, now coming from more than one child, brought me to despair.…
Read MoreExtension Homemakers Showing Well at the Fair
Look around at activities that Hamilton County Extension Homemakers are doing and you find them helping others, striving onward and upward and making home life lovely. Every year at the Hamilton County 4-H Fair — which this year runs through Monday — the Extension Homemakers have their own Extension Homemakers’ Flower Show exhibit. I stopped…
Read MoreSights, Sounds and Smells of 4-H Fair
If you’ve driven by the Hamilton County 4-H Fairgrounds in Noblesville this week, you’ve probably noticed that the big tents are set up, barns are open and the parking lot is bustling with 4-H’ers checking in their 4-H Fair projects. We love the Fair and look forward to it every year. Maybe it’s the smell…
Read More4-H Fair, String-Time bluegrass, Cool Creek Campfires, Concerts
The Hamilton County 4-H Fair is happening all weekend in Noblesville, with Conner Prairie’s Symphony on the Prairie continuing, live band at Cook Creek Park tonight, with Kids Day at the Noblesville Farmers Market and String-Time on the Square bluegrass on Saturday night. Here, we offer our Times readers 20 things to do this weekend…
Read MoreNew ‘22 4-H Fair Queen Hopes to Make a Difference at Fair
Cicero’s Faith Hittle — the newly crowned Miss Hamilton County 4-H Fair 2022 Queen — hopes to be a good role model for young 4-H’ers and to educate them that they can be whoever they want to be. What’s it mean to be crowned 4-H Fair Queen? “It means so much to me. Because I…
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