Weekly View’s Story Archive

$2 Million in Proposed City Budget for Mental Health Response Team

INDIANAPOLIS – Officials recently celebrated the inclusion of $2 million for a clinician-led response pilot program in the proposed 2023 City-County operating budget. In 2016, the City convened a criminal justice task force to assess the effectiveness of existing programs and facilities in Indianapolis. The task force’s review revealed the … Read More

Indiana Grown Announces New Director

INDIANAPOLIS — Caroline Patrick has been named the new director of the Indiana Grown program and will lead its nearly 2,000 members. Patrick’s background focuses on culinary arts and local food procurement. She was most recently Director of Food Nutrition at Community Hospital East in Indianapolis where she started a … Read More

Applause: Sept. 16-22

• Stage Door Theater in Irvington, at 5635 Bonna Ave., is open for business, with the next event scheduled as the Songwriters @ the Stage Door on Saturday, Sept. 24 at 7 p.m. Come on out and support local musicians and songwriters in this new space. Doors open at 6:30 … Read More

Broad Ripple Ave. Closed For Construction

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Department of Public Works (Indy DPW) has begun Phase One of construction on Broad Ripple Avenue from east of the Winthrop Avenue intersection to Guilford Avenue. The Phase One closure will allow the contractor to set stormwater structures in the intersection and along Broad Ripple while … Read More

“Over My Dead Body” at Buck Creek Sept. 30-Oct. 9

INDIANAPOLIS — Buck Creek Players and Director Nickie Cornett recently announced their production of Over My Dead Body by Jean Blasiar. A ghost and her husband are prepared to haunt the house below before they’ll let their family sell the house that has been theirs for three generations. Miranda and … Read More