New Blog Teaches You Anything in 5 Minutes
Want to learn how to play the piano online? Having trouble with your chip shot in golf? Or maybe you’ve always wanted to know how to snowboard. Then check out www.5min.com where you can learn anything in 5 minutes or less (at least that’s their tagline). [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.5min.com/Embeded/2443/" width="319" height="259" wmode="transparent" /] You can quit [...]
Bishop Chatard Girls State Basketball Game
Unfortunately, the Bishop Chatard girls varsity basketball state game didn’t go their way as they lost to Plymouth on a last second foul. Our roving reporter Mitchell Jacki was there and captured the game on video. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/Eip06sck-aA" width="300" height="250" wmode="transparent" /]
Representative Dan Burton to Join Friday’s “Meet the Candidates”
Representative Dan Burton will be joining Senator Bev Gard and Hamilton County Commissioner Steve Dillinger Friday night at the Indianapolis Yacht Club from 7:00-10:00 pm. This is a great opportunity to meet local elected officials, register to vote, and watch college basketball in the Yacht Club’s bar with neighbors and friends. The public is welcome!
Meet the Candidates, Friday Night
State Senator Beverly Gard and Hamilton County Commissioner Steve Dillinger will be on-hand at a special Meet the Candidates event to answer questions, invite your comments, and listen to your concerns. The event is being held at the Indianapolis Yacht Club, on Friday March 21st, from 7:00p until 10:00p. Appetizers and music will be in [...]
GUO Updates FAQ on SayNOtoFishers.com
The Geist United Opposition has updated their FAQ section of their website SayNOtoFishers.com to reflect the current issues facing unincorporated property owners around Geist Reservoir. Questions being answered include: Won’t tax reform make all this moot? Is annexation inevitable? What about SPORTS and parks? What about the Towns of Geist? Fishers promised me sewer connections [...]
atGeist Distribution Expands to Over 13,000
Residents in the Preserve at Indian Lakes, Oakland Hills, and Grey Eagle will start receiving the “atGeist Community Newsletter” this month thanks to the growth in advertising support. We are mailing 11,161 copies and distributing another 2,500 copies through the local Marsh and Kroger supermarkets. The March issue being mailed this week is the biggest [...]
Geist Fitness Offers 5K Training Program
Geist Fitness is excited to launch its very own 5K training program in conjunction with the Inaugural Geist Half Marathon and 5K race! This $20 program will prepare you and provide support while guiding you to a fitter, faster you! [kml_flashembed movie="http://youtube.com/v/KLucL5AUTGo" width="300" height="250" wmode="transparent" /] What: The program will mix lectures and training runs [...]
Clean Air? Action Air Offers Air Analysis
Kandie Dinger at Action Air just posted to her blog information about an air monitor service they provide called Air Advice. She says, …with todays tightly sealed homes, and is most helpful to folks with conditions such as asthma, allergies and respiratory ailments. Even healthy individuals can suffer the effects of indoor air pollution with [...]
Oakland Hills Open House Features 14 Homes on March 16th
Several area realtors along with Huntington Mortgage Group and Chicago Title are hosting the Oakland Hills Open on Sunday, March 16th from 1:00-5:00 pm. Over 14 homes for sale within Oakland Hills will be open for showings giving potential home buyers an opportunity to view some of Geist’s most luxurious and affordable homes. Oakland Hills [...]
Geist’s Own Samantha Peszek Takes 3rd at American Cup
Highland Springs resident, Cathedral High School student, and atGeist’s October 2007 Meet Your Neighbor Samantha Peszek took third place overall at the Tyson American Cup yesterday which was nationally aired on NBC. The top four finishers were all from the United States setting the stage for an exciting Beijing Olympics later this summer. For the results and [...]
Updated atGeist Newsletter Distribution Map
We mail over 10,000 copies per month of the “atGeist Community Newsletter” (and we don’t even get a ‘thank you’ card from the USPS!). Every two months, the post office changes their carrier routes and the boundaries of who gets a mailed copy shifts. I just posted an updated distribution map for anyone who is [...]
Free Blog Training for the Geist Blogs, March
Tom Britt, Publisher of atGeist.com and the Geist Blogs Network, will be hosting monthly blog training classes to help Geist area residents and business owners leverage the Geist Blogs Network. Training sessions will be :90 minutes long and free food will be served. The next class has been scheduled for: Geist Blogs Training Class Noon [...]
New atGeist.com Video Player Available
Check out our new atGeist Video Player link just under the Google search on the left hand side of the weblog! This new player highlights some of our more popular videos in one easy to navigate pop-up window. Across the bottom is a scroller with the latest atGeist.com news headlines.
Annexation Costs to Fishers Since Last Summer: $500,000+
Fishers has spent over $500,000 in legal, accounting, public relations, and consulting fees to Fishers taxpayers since July of last year. Over 60% of those fees have been paid to Church, Church, Hittle & Antrim, the legal counsel of record for the Town of Fishers which has accounted for $345,580 in fees in the last [...]
Latest Fishers Flyer Intended to Scare Residents
In a continued attempt to scare unincorporated Geist residents into rolling over and accepting the Town of Fishers’ annexation ordinances, a flyer was mailed out by town officials entitled “Fire Sale! Don’t Sell Your Neighbors Short.” In short, the flyer is designed to sway unincorporated residents from signing the remonstrance petition being circulated by the [...]
Lads and Dads Night Raises Money, Awareness for LTSF
Sports of All Sorts hosted a first of it’s kind fundraiser last night to benefit the Lawrence Township School Foundation in two ways. [kml_flashembed movie="http://youtube.com/v/ID78POFykdk" width="300" height="250" wmode="transparent" /]“We wanted to give dads and their kids an opportunity to have a special night out while raising money and awareness for the foundation,” said Jeff Yu, [...]
Bella Vita Expanding to Charlotte with Rapper Ludacris
Ever since Henri Najem opened Bella Vita Ristorante 10 years ago, he always wanted to expand the concept to other parts of the country. This week, Henri along with Geist agent Tim Durham and rapper Ludacris signed a lease in a new upscale shopping mall across from the Charlotte Bobcat’s arena in North Carolina. “I’ve [...]
Geist Half Marathon Recruiting “Volunteer Commandos”
Picture a party for 3,500 people. Now picture that this party is 13.1 miles long and goes through subdivisions and busy streets. Oh yeah, and we need 500 volunteers to do everything from pass out water to pick up trash. We are recruiting a small group of “Volunteer Commandos” that will help the Inaugural Geist [...]
Female Odd Couple to Open Tomorrow Night! Meet the Director Video
Meet the director of the Female Odd Couple, Kathy Meyer with actress Melissa Deavers and past actress Ann Ellerbrook. Tom and Steve met up with them in the dressing room off stage to talk about the ties between this year’s production and the same show 20 years ago. The show starts tomorrow, February 15th at [...]
New course map available for Geist Half Marathon
A new course map has been added to the GeistHalf.com website, highlighting the waterstop locations, mile markers, and heavy foot traffic times for residents living on the course route. Download the Half Marathon Map (click here). Runners and walkers will enjoy a beautiful, residential route that takes them through some of Indianapolis’s most prestigious communities. [...]
