Monthly Archives: March 2024

Construction Begins on Next Segment of Pogue’s Run Trail

March 7, 2024 | by Weekly View

INDIANAPOLIS —Construction has begun on the next segment of the Pogue’s Run Trail, a $7 million project that will link the Spades Park neighborhood to the Pogue’s Run Art and Nature Park at 23rd and DeQuincy in the Otterbein neighborhood. Work on the trail includes additional drainage, plus paving the … Read More

The Gauntlet

March 7, 2024 | by Ethel Winslow

We’ve all thrown down the gauntlet — a phrase that roughly means to challenge or confront a foe. A gauntlet is a heavy armored glove developed by medieval knights, who literally would fling their gauntlet down in front of their opponent, which was an insult that had to be answered … Read More

Street

March 7, 2024 | by CJ Woods III

The calico cat came out to greet my granddaughter and me as we neared the East parking lot of the Irvington Community Schools on University Avenue. We were walking to what Myah calls “The Fountain.” Irving Circle was one of the places the four-year-old would willingly walk to with her … Read More

They Stole Charlie Chaplin’s Body! Part 2

March 7, 2024 | by Al Hunter

On March 1 & 2, 1978, 24-year-old Polish refugee Roman Wardas, and his cohort, Bulgarian Gantscho Ganev, aged 38, entered a small country graveyard in Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland to dig up Hollywood movie legend Charlie Chaplin, who had died on Christmas Day of 1977. The weather was right out of central … Read More

100 Years Ago: March 8-14

March 7, 2024 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Thursday, March 13, 1924: The increasing use of automobiles has seen the demand for paving alleys account for more than half of the street improvements according to Elmer Williams, of the Indianapolis board of works. With many people having some kind of automobile, alleys are more … Read More