While the holiday season can bring joy for many people, it can also bring on a case of the winter blues. Lack of sunlight, shopping pressures, family issues, and setting unrealistic expectations during the holidays […more…]
by Thomas P. Healy Adam Schmutte, urban naturalist manager at Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, leads a team that completed a major habitat restoration project along Fall Creek’s 30th Street bridge embankment. Once overrun by honeysuckle and […more…]
by Thomas P. Healy The October resignation of Mapleton-Fall Creek Development Corporation (MFCDC) executive director Leigh Riley Evans is just one of a series of setbacks that has beset Central @ 29, the long-anticipated redevelopment […more…]
Tuesday, Nov. 19, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Broad Ripple Park Family Center, 1500 Broad Ripple Ave. The City of Indianapolis continues to work on designs for the updated community center proposed for the park in […more…]
by Thomas P. Healy Global trade wars have local consequences that could thwart taxpayer-supported efforts to expand public transit options. For example, buried in the massive National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2020 […more…]
The Marion County Prosecutor’s Office has several divisions, one of which is the Community Prosecution Division (CPD). To encourage community involvement in crime prevention, the CPD offers a variety of free community education programs, including […more…]
by Katie Grieze Just because something’s green doesn’t mean it’s necessarily good, says Rebecca Dolan, who retired in 2018 as director of the Friesner Herbarium at Butler University. Some plants invade areas in harmful ways, […more…]
by Thomas P. Healy When Spider-Man and his dad wove their way through a crowded bus on Red Line launch day, no villains were on board. Instead, one rider gazed admiringly and wondered aloud if […more…]
City officials continue to meet with representatives of The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis to discuss the future of its property at 3060 N. Meridian St., the Drake apartment building. Historic preservationists were stunned when the […more…]
by Sheryl D. Vanderstel Tucked away along the high, eastern banks overlooking White River, near one of the busiest intersections of Indianapolis, Golden Hill is a small community of early 20th-century homes. Farmland in the […more…]
