Opinion

Best weekend ever

This coming weekend is the best weekend of the year. May is arguably one of the best months of the entire year. The race we’ve been running all year is…

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The Great Purge of 2025

It was time. I took a deep breath and opened the closet door. Janet, you can do this! And so, the great PURGE of 2025 began. Stay with me on…


May madness: a bloom of chaos & joy

May in Noblesville is like December in disguise – only swap out the Christmas lights for sunshine, peonies, and a whirlwind of end-of-the-school-year chaos. We’re only halfway through the month,…


Benefits of playing high school sports

By BRIELLE GARNER Sheridan High School Student Editor’s note: The Sheridan Student Column is brought to readers by Sheridan High School’s 10th grade honors English class, taught by Tanya Busailah….


The fun parent

I think with every parenting duo, there’s the “fun” one and there’s the “all-business” one. The fun parent does things like telling great stories and jokes, playing video and board…



The power within

If there is anything that living with a disability has taught me, it is that we are all far more capable of what we allow ourselves to imagine. At times,…



Old dude stuff

As a 40-something newspaper columnist, I often find myself writing about how things change as I get older. I know I’m not “old,” but I definitely act in ways now…


Filling hunger gaps through expansion

Last summer, hundreds of thousands of Hoosier families who qualified for food benefits and reduced-price school meals received a summertime boost: $120 per child monthly for food while schools were…