How people power can create positive change
By ERIN KELLEY Guest Columnist Every year for the past 27 years, Spirit & Place has held a community-wide festival exploring a yearly theme through the lens of the arts,…
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Ken’s favorite kooky characters are back at Beef & Boards
By KEN KLINGENMEIER A Seat on the Aisle Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre’s latest offering of The Addams Family, last produced here in October/November 2015, seems an upgrade of the…
When faith gets messy
By JANET HART LEONARD From the Hart Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Proverbs 3:5 NLT “Father God, I’m trying to…
Surge protector vs. power strip: know the difference?
By NIK ROBERTS Tech Tips Welcome to another edition of Noble Geeks Tech Tips brought to you by the Hamilton County Reporter. This week we visit a customer’s location about…
My passion for lifting
By RYKER REAM Sheridan High School Student The Sheridan Student Column is brought to readers by Sheridan High School’s 10th grade English class, taught by Abby Williams. Everybody has topics…
Is VA health care enough?
By SYLVIA GORDON Guest Columnist If you qualify for health care at the Veteran’s Administration, you will have access to the lowest prescription drug prices in the nation. How much…
A ghost writer’s brush with evil
By SCOTT SAALMAN Scaramouch A few years ago, a woman I did not know called and complimented the columns I write for a small newspaper in my Indiana hometown. Then,…
Bard Fest’s ‘Lysistrata’ still hits home after 2,500 years
By CARRIE NEAL A Seat on the Aisle Bard Fest continues its inclusion of “The Prestige Project” in the Indy-area fall theatre festival, which is to say, presenting a play that…
My first conversation with my birth mother
By AMY SHANKLAND Perfectly Imperfect As my adoption and reunion story continues, I’ve changed some names, places, and dates. I had no idea how long it would take a letter…
Rep. Schaibley: ‘Go Purple,’ stand up to domestic violence
By DONNA SCHAIBLEY State Representative October marks National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, which helps spread awareness, and lift up and support those who may be in or survived an abusive…