Monthly Archives: June 2023

Shelter Dog Graduates as a Service Dog

June 29, 2023 | by Weekly View

INDIANAPOLIS — Medical Mutts, an Indianapolis-based nonprofit dedicated to training rescue dogs as service dogs, recently announce the graduation of their next group of service dogs. One extraordinary canine graduate they are especially proud to introduce is Valentine. Valentine is a shelter dog who was rescued from Nashville Metro Animal … Read More

A New World Coming

June 29, 2023 | by CJ Woods III

“There’s a new world coming, and it’s just around the bend…” When I lived in Los Angeles California in the early 1970s, I had the good fortune to be able to see Nina Simone in concert. She introduced one song by saying, “There are 12 million Black people in this … Read More

Collectible Jeans

June 29, 2023 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

This column first appeared in March 2012. The great surge of adventurous Americans who rushed to California to pan for gold in the mid-1800s brought with them very few personal possessions. They did, however bring with the great opportunity for the area businessmen. One such industrious young man was 24-year- … Read More

The Stanley: Stephen King’s Shining Hotel, Part 1

June 29, 2023 | by Al Hunter

This article is being written in the Stanley Hotel high up in the Rocky Mountains of Estes Park, Colorado. If that name doesn’t ring a bell, you might be more familiar with its literary nom de guerre: The Overlook Hotel from Stephen King’s 1977 horror novel The Shining. Should you … Read More

100 Years Ago: June 30-July 13

June 29, 2023 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Times, Wednesday, July 4, 1923: Early today, members of the Ku Klux Klan were hissed by a crowd of young men after a special interurban car carrying the Klansmen through Indianapolis to a tri-state celebration in Kokomo stopped at the downtown Terminal Station. Police were called to … Read More