Tim Timmons

Notes scribbled on the back of a Sears & Roebuck Christmas catalogue . . . I LOVE Christmas in Noblesville!There are so many reasons and I suppose it’s a bit different for each of us. For me it starts and ends with Santa’s House on the courthouse square.Back in the day when the Christmas season…

A couple of weeks ago, I asked the following question in this column: Do you want more? Do you want less? Or do you want less AND more? Still sounds like a trick question — but it’s not. I was (and still am) asking about The Times, a newspaper that has been serving Noblesville and…

Tomorrow is our traditional day to give thanks, right? It’s a tradition that goes back to the pilgrims, Plymouth Rock and the beginnings of a twinkling in the eye for a new nation. Fast forward 300 years or so and the holiday has changed. Actually, it’s kind of getting lost, isn’t it? Think about it.…

Used to be, back in the day, I really enjoyed Halloween. Us kids had a ball trick or treating in the neighborhood – getting a haul of candy in a pillowcase and feeling like we hit the mother lode! Some of it was home-made, popcorn balls, caramels wrapped in wax paper and the jackpot, apple…

EDITOR’S NOTE: In the spirit of the season, we are sharing a popular Timmons column about Halloween. Halloween’s a few days away and it seems a good time to share a story I’ve never told anyone. Years ago, I was a young sportswriter working late nights and loving every minute of it . . .…

It had been a while since I had heard from Bubba Castiron, my “friend” who is about three plates, four forks, two spoons and a couple of glasses away from having a full set of dishes. No idea why he was on my mind – maybe I just didn’t have enough to do – but…

In the spring of 1968, just four and a half years removed from the assassination of our country’s 35th president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, we watched a year dawn unlike any we had seen in our young lives. Martin Luther King was gunned down in April. Bobby Kennedy was murdered two months later. And two months…

A quarter of a century almost? Has it really been that long since that awful Tuesday morning? Most of us can remember exactly where we were 24 years ago as the Sept. 11 morning news began to trickle in. The idea that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center caught our attention. A…

Here we are again – writing and reading about a school shooting. Another school shooting. Another. Damnable. School. Shooting. We know the details. A Minneapolis Catholic Church and school, Church of the Annunciation, was the site. An all-school mass took place during the first week of classes. An 8-year-old and a 10-year-old died while sitting…

I’ve written a time or three about the national deficit, the absolute evilness that it has become. Pardon me for dragging my soapbox out again, but our politicians (and yes, whether we want to claim them or not, they are ours!) have shamelessly and recklessly spent more than they bring in year after year after…