Two Midtown nonprofits recently announced new hires. Shelly Snider is the new executive director at Indy Pride which serves Central Indiana’s LGBTQ+ community. The organization holds leadership development trainings, educational programs, and promotes community events […more…]
UPDATED 9/27/21. For thirty years, the Broad Ripple community has advocated and planned for a paved trail to connect the Monon Trail with Broad Ripple Park. After receiving a Neighborhood Infrastructure Partnership Grant from DPW […more…]
Veteran fund development officer, volunteer coordinator and youth development professional LaNisha Clark has been named the new executive director of Freewheelin’ Community Bikes. The Mapleton-Fall Creek neighborhood-based nonprofit supports hundreds of Indianapolis area youths with […more…]
by Thomas P. Healy Many Midtown residents have recently received notification of multiple requests for a variance of development standards to install wireless cell structures near their homes. During Mayor Joe Hogsett’s Sept. 22 virtual […more…]
by Thomas P. Healy Last year’s vote by the Indianapolis Public Schools Board of Commissioners to accept the IPS administration’s recommendation to “reinvent” the number and location of its high schools resulted in the shuttering […more…]
by Thomas P. Healy Two historic Midtown schools were affected by the City of Indianapolis Board of School Commissioners’ September 18 vote to “reinvent” Indianapolis public high schools. [PDF] Beginning with the 2018–19 school year, […more…]
by Jim Grim The Indianapolis Board of School Commissioners is scheduled to vote September 18 on a plan to move Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) to an “all-choice model” for the district’s high schools. The school […more…]
by Dan Carpenter Faced with the closure of Fire Station 16 at 5555 N. Illinois, Butler-Tarkington neighborhood tempers are running hot. Indianapolis Fire Department (IFD) Chief Ernest Malone attempted to put out the fire at […more…]
by Dan Carpenter Last summer’s U.S. Supreme Court decision affirming marriage equality seemed like a cause for celebration. Singing, dancing and awards-giving ensued among the newly validated and their many allies. Then, in short order, […more…]
by Thomas P. Healy As has been the case for more than two decades, the Indy North Levee project is floating slowly through the murky waters of bureaucracy. The Indiana Department of Natural Resources issued […more…]
