Update No. 99 In last Friday’s Indiana Department of Education Weekly Update from Dr. Katie Jenner, she shared several goals, including a statewide literacy goal of 95 percent of third…
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By SAM CARPENTER Guest Columnist Time spent in our Indiana parks and natural spaces grounds us. It helps us slow down, helps us connect with friends and family and it…
By LARRY ADAMS A Seat on the Aisle “What we need to do is have a big conversation!” – Kevin “I mean, if you’re a hero, that implies a villain,…
I heard a recent lecturer ask, “What is truth?” He remarked that Pilate had asked Jesus this very question. Society has been struggling with that question in the 2,000 years…
By TOM KENLEY Guest Columnist I truly enjoyed my two terms as Noblesville Township Trustee and one term as a township board member. It was a rewarding experience for me…
Most of us are familiar with the old rhyme “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.” While many of us may have been told…
By VICKIE CORNELIUS PHIPPS A Seat on the Aisle Playwright Pearl Cleage’s 1992 historical drama, Flyin’ West is set in the all-Black town of Nicodemus on the Kansas frontier in…
Addressing the wickedness of slavery in 1850, the great American abolitionist Frederick Douglass said the practice “violates the great law of liberty, written on every human heart.” Further, he said,…
A few years before my husband and I had our first child, we suffered two early miscarriages. The first loss was devastating; the second loss was terrifying. I truly did…
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius I don’t know about you, but I do feel that I have slowed…