Monthly Archives: April 2025

School Staff Team up to Help Zoey’s Place

April 10, 2025 | by Weekly View

FORTVILLE — In January, Mt. Vernon Community School Corporation’s (MVCSC) Superintendent Dr. Jack Parker and Assistant Superintendent Mr. Chris Smedley visited Zoey’s Place Child Advocacy Center to learn more about the vital services the organization provides to children across Hancock County — including Mt. Vernon students. Moved by the center’s … Read More

IndyPL Recognized by Employ Indy

April 10, 2025 | by Weekly View

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Public Library is proud to be recognized as a Certified Good Wages Initiative employer of choice by EmployIndy. This designation highlights The Indianapolis Public Library’s commitment to providing a competitive wage of at least $18 per hour and offering health benefits to full-time employees. Last fall, … Read More

The Poetry of April: Redux

April 10, 2025 | by CJ Woods III

This column first appeared in April 2024. My friend in Florida sent me a text message telling me to expect an early birthday gift. My birthday is in March, but her gift was delivered to me late in February. She was excited about the present because she knows that I … Read More

100 Years Ago: April 11-17

April 10, 2025 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis News, Tuesday, April 14, 1925: Madge Oberholtzer died this morning at her Irvington home, 5802 University Av, after suffering nearly a month from bichloride of mercury poisoning which she took following an alleged attack by former Ku Klux Klan grand dragon D. C. Stephenson. She had been … Read More

The Polo Grounds’ Indianapolis Connection, Part 1

April 10, 2025 | by Al Hunter

This column first appeared in April 2014. Fifty years ago this month, an American baseball shrine breathed it’s last breath. On April 10, 1964, a two-ton steel wrecking ball crashed into the side of the Polo Grounds located beneath Coogan’s Bluff in upper Manhattan. The walls came crashing down under … Read More