Monthly Archives: November 2013

Front Page Profile: Hart Bakery Puts the Heart in Baking

Hart Bakery is a full line bakery that has been serving up the best cakes, cookies, doughnuts, breads, pastries, and brownies in town for many years. In 1946, “Uncle Joe” started the bakery after returning from World War II. Sandy Taylor, the current owner, came to work for him after … Read More

Indy Robotics Champions Named

INDIANAPOLIS — The Franklin Central High School Auto Flashes were the winners of the VEX Excellence Award at the 2nd Annual City of Indianapolis VEX Robotics Championship (IndyVRC) presented by Roche Diagnostics at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. Students from the winning team will receive scholarships from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, … Read More

Christmas at the Greenfield Riley Home

GREENFIELD — In the Charles Dickens story, “A Christmas Carol,” Ebenzer Scrooge is visited by three ghosts who show him different versions of Christmas in his life. The first ghost is that of Christmas Past— who reminds Scrooge what his life used to be like — happy and merry and … Read More

Thanksgiving Sesquicentennial

One hundred and fifty years ago, President Abraham Lincoln signed a proclamation declaring Thanksgiving as an official Federal holiday to be celebrated on the fourth Thursday of the month of November. Secretary of State William Seward authored the document which declared and established an official day of “Thanksgiving and Praise … Read More

Green, Brown, White

First frost withered the 26 tomato pants and 8 pepper plants a few weeks ago, signalling the end of the season in Lowarth a Winslow (that’s Garden of Winslow in Cornish). Paula came out to help me dig out the sweet potatoes — we got a full bushel of lovely … Read More