Monthly Archives: December 2024

Indy Library Store Book Sale Dec. 13-17

December 5, 2024 | by Weekly View

INDIANAPOLIS — Shop for recent bestsellers, timeless classics, DVDs, Blu-rays, music CDs, LPs, audiobooks, and more — all at unbeatable prices during the Indy Library Store Book Sale Friday, Dec. 13-17.. With options for adults, kids, and teens, you’re sure to find something for everyone on your list. The sale … Read More

A Role I Was Born to Play

December 5, 2024 | by Steve Nicewanger

First published Nov. 24, 2017 I have a Facebook buddy named Gay Lyons. Gay and I go way back. We went to kindergarten together and continued through grade school, junior high and high school at Arlington. After graduation I lost track of Gay for a very long time, but through … Read More

Applause!: Dec. 6-12

December 5, 2024 | by Weekly View

• Safe Park Indy is working on opening another parking facility for individuals living in their cars due to a big waitlist. Plans call for another to open in January next year on the north side. If you would like to donate to this initiative (the only one in Indiana), … Read More

100 Years Ago This Week: Dec. 6-12

December 5, 2024 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Sunday, December 7, 1924: Cool temperatures and damp streets did not keep Ku Klux Klan members from parading through downtown streets last night. Observers estimated 1,660 (Klan leaders claim 4,000) persons clad in robes and hoods tramped three abreast from the Pennsylvania Railroad Park at Hamilton … Read More

Irvington’s Disney Prince — Bill Shirley

December 5, 2024 | by Al Hunter

Al Hunter is on vacation. This is a reprint of an article he wrote in 2008. During the World War II years on through the I Like Ike years in America, Irvington had it’s own representative in Tinseltown. Irvingtonian Bill Shirley made fifteen movies starting in 1941 starring with Hollywood … Read More