Archive for category: Local News

Spring Means Farmer’s Markets, Healthy Food

Spring Means Farmer’s Markets, Healthy Food

0 / May 22, 2012 4:18 am

Spring is here and summer is just around the corner. As we make our way outside after a long winter, our thoughts often turn to the garden. We all want fresh food, but we don’t all have a green thumb. [...]

Gary Harris: Indiana’s Youngest Mr. Basketball is Just a Kid at Heart

Gary Harris: Indiana’s Youngest Mr. Basketball is Just a Kid at Heart

0 / April 24, 2012 8:55 am

Hamilton Southeastern High School’s Gary Harris, the fourth student-athlete to represent Hamilton County as the recipient of Indiana’s Mr. Basketball award, the state’s highest individual basketball honor, is believed to be the youngest ever to don that No. 1 jersey. [...]

Grant Could Fund Sidewalk Along Carroll Road

Grant Could Fund Sidewalk Along Carroll Road

3 / April 16, 2012 1:03 pm

Residents living in Admirals Bay, Treasure Pointe, and Cardinal Woods know the dangers of trying to walk, bike, or run along Carroll Road just south of 96th Street. A sidewalk from the Hamptons at Geist dead ends just across from [...]

Focus On Your Child’s Future With a CollegeChoice 529 Plan

Focus On Your Child’s Future With a CollegeChoice 529 Plan

0 / March 6, 2012 4:48 am

The journey of life starts when a child is born. Parents welcome their bundles of love into the world with open arms and love in their hearts. First steps of parenting usually concentrate on providing daily emotional and materials needs [...]

Fishers Resident Takes the Go Red BetterU Challenge

Fishers Resident Takes the Go Red BetterU Challenge

0 / February 25, 2012 2:29 pm

Fishers resident, Ruthann Graham, is one of seven women selected to participate in the American Heart Association’s 12-week Go Red BetterU Challenge. As one of the faces of this year’s challenge, she hopes to inspire others by sharing her personal [...]

City of Fishers? Debate Over Reorganization Plan Goes to State Supreme Court

City of Fishers? Debate Over Reorganization Plan Goes to State Supreme Court

3 / February 21, 2012 3:33 pm

In 1990, the Town of Fishers was an exit off of I-69 with a McDonalds, gas station, and only 7,200 residents. According to 2010 census data, the town has grown to 76,794 residents, nearly 10 times the size in just [...]

Fishers Town Hall Becomes Art House

Fishers Town Hall Becomes Art House

0 / January 17, 2012 7:45 am

The walls of Fishers Town Hall are now adorned with beautiful oil paintings and pastels as the public building, at One one Municipal drive will now include an art gallery setting to showcase the work of local artists. Fans braved [...]

Rent Your Home for the Super Bowl for $10,000?

Rent Your Home for the Super Bowl for $10,000?

0 / January 14, 2012 3:16 pm

Super Bowl XLVI is right around the corner and everywhere you look there is some sort of Super Bowl story or advertisement. A particularly interesting sign spotted around town claims that you can earn up to $10,000 per day by [...]

New Fishers Board Seeks Input on $2.5 Million Fund

New Fishers Board Seeks Input on $2.5 Million Fund

0 / January 10, 2012 2:54 pm

After a four-year fight by the Geist United Opposition, the unincorporated areas on the north half of Geist Reservoir officially became the Town of Fishers’ newest residents on January 1, 2010. A new voting district was formed to give these [...]

Countdown to Superbowl XLVI

Countdown to Superbowl XLVI

0 / January 10, 2012 5:02 am

The NFL Superbowl XLVI is coming to central Indiana in February and one Geist resident and local radio DJ is super excited about the big game coming to town! “Deuce,” as he is known on radio station X103 weekdays 2 [...]

Mother Daughter Brunch Celebrates 20 Years

Mother Daughter Brunch Celebrates 20 Years

0 / December 27, 2011 8:15 am

Twenty years is a long time to maintain Christmas traditions, particularly among people who aren’t related by blood. But there are eight young women and their mothers who have been best friends and manage to carve out time each year [...]

Geist Gets New Fireboat

Geist Gets New Fireboat

0 / December 22, 2011 5:23 am

The Fishers Fire Department recently purchased a new Boston Whaler boat to use on Geist Reservoir. The purchase came after a number of residents in the Geist community requested that the Fall Creek Township Trustee, Jeff Hern, purchase a new [...]

Having Your Baby Your Way

Having Your Baby Your Way

0 / December 20, 2011 5:54 am

Most of us don’t care about the icky stuff that goes along with babies. Some of us find it amusing. In fact, most of my conversations with friends and strangers alike is the bowel movements of my children. Boy, I [...]

Zionsville Goes the Whole Nine Yards for SB 2012

Zionsville Goes the Whole Nine Yards for SB 2012

0 / December 13, 2011 8:01 pm

Indianapolis will not be the only place bustling with Super Bowl madness this February. With over 150,000 people flooding to the Circle City, the suburbs are stepping up to shoulder some of the burden. These 150,000 people need places to [...]

96th Street Property Owners Petitioning Fishers to Rezone

96th Street Property Owners Petitioning Fishers to Rezone

0 / December 11, 2011 3:41 am

Eight property owners along the newly improved 96th Street between Mollenkopf and Fall Creek Road have filed a petition with the Town of Fishers to rezone their properties from R2 residential to C2 commercial. Rezoning these homes would make way [...]

Eleanor Rozella’s: My Happy Place

Eleanor Rozella’s: My Happy Place

0 / November 23, 2011 7:49 am

Cindy Grove, owner of Eleanor Rozella’s gift shop in Noblesville, refers to herself as the “third sister” to her two employees, sisters Tammy Daubenspeck and Tina Dell. Their camaraderie sets the tone for the fun-loving experience that is Eleanor Rozella’s [...]

LearningRx Sponsors A Community Autism Resources Event

LearningRx Sponsors A Community Autism Resources Event

0 / November 1, 2011 6:02 am

Husband and wife team Phillip and Amy Parham faced an extreme challenge together when they appeared on season six of The Biggest Loser, but their need to get physically healthy wasn’t the only challenge they have faced as a family. [...]

Respecting the Ghostly Graveyards of Geist

Respecting the Ghostly Graveyards of Geist

0 / October 24, 2011 2:37 am

The word, “Geist” is German for spirit or ghost. Appropriately so, the graveyards within the Geist area have been here for hundreds of years enduring many obstacles, ranging from weather, erosion, falling trees, construction work, vandalism, fire and time. A [...]

Roundabout Geist

Roundabout Geist

0 / October 18, 2011 9:16 am

What’s your comfort level when driving on roundabouts? These bagel-shaped junctions are starting to “make their rounds” towards the Geist and Fishers area. A new one just opened at the corner of 96th and Fall Creek and another one is [...]

Beware! Halloween Haunts Sure to Scare

Beware! Halloween Haunts Sure to Scare

0 / October 15, 2011 12:54 pm

What’s happening for Halloween? Have a Howl! From werewolves to witches, chilling to thrilling, haunted to headless, there’s plenty of ways to scare the heck out of your family and friends this October. 1. Cool Creek Haunted Trails Ghouls and [...]