Monthly Archives: January 2016

Community Service Work Program Big Success in 2015

January 14, 2016 | by Weekly View

INDIANAPOLIS — The Marion Superior Court Probation Department’s Community Service Work Program is dedicated to providing opportunities for probationers to repay the community through unpaid service for the damage (direct or indirect) caused by their offense. The Community Service Work Program offers two main components to ensure that all probationers … Read More

100 Years Ago This Week: Jan. 15-21

January 14, 2016 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis News, Wednesday, January 19: Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city board of health secretary, personally led sanitary inspectors, nicknamed “spitz hounds,” in an ant-spitting campaign today and arrested thirty-two persons for violation of the anti-spitting ordinance. Attorneys, salesmen, merchants, and laborers were among those arrested and must pay … Read More

Everything Old is New Again: Vintage Fabric

January 14, 2016 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

From designer limited-stock to flea market finds, vintage fabric has found an audience in the current MCM craze. Whether you go small with throw pillows and trendy little Bohemian shoulder bags, or reupholster a set of chrome kitchen chairs, Mid-20th Century fabric is available, affordable, and fun to work with. … Read More

World War 1 100 Years Ago: Jan. 15-21

January 14, 2016 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis News, Friday, January 21: Henry Lane Wilson, chairman of the Indiana Commission for the Relief of Belgium, is sending letters to thousands of Hoosiers seeking $20,000 (2014: $461,213.36) to aid the Belgians. Despite the tremendous response to earlier pleas, the Belgium relief effort has not been able … Read More

The Lyric Theatre, Part 1

January 14, 2016 | by Al Hunter

This week the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. will open a new exhibit called “Sinatra at 100″ honoring Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday last December 12. The National Museum of American history will surely put up a classy display, but I seriously doubt that our fair city will be mentioned at … Read More