Monthly Archives: August 2016

Presidents and Candidates and Guns, Oh My!

August 11, 2016 | by Al Hunter

Politics and gun control occupy the headlines as the pressing issues of our time. Rightfully so. The two seem to go hand-in-hand, perhaps never more so than in 2016. The problem of differentiating between responsible gun owners and lunatics with guns is a constant water-cooler debate. It got me to … Read More

Sounds of Silence

August 11, 2016 | by CJ Woods III

Bombs were bursting in air over a neighborhood in southern Indiana; a hissing sound came from the roof as debris settled onto the house, the deck and the lawn. Inside the house that I was watching for my friend, her terrified Maltese dog hid under a bed, and her cat … Read More

Applause!: Aug. 12-18

August 11, 2016 | by Weekly View

• The Board of Directors, members, and volunteers of Buck Creek Players and the family of Blaine Jarrett recently announced this year’s Blaine Jarrett Memorial Scholarship recipient as Emma Kivett. Ms. Kivett was presented her scholarship on Sat., Aug. 6. She is a senior at Mooresville High School who will … Read More

100 Years Ago This Week: Aug. 12-18

August 11, 2016 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis News, Saturday, August 12, 1916: Thousands of men who came from counties around Indiana to live in Indianapolis are to be counted in a census that will be taken in the business district next week. The purpose is to organize reception committees to receive visitors from the … Read More

Get a Life! Part 2

August 11, 2016 | by Rose Mary Clarke

Henry David Thoreau wrote in the chapter in Walden entitled “Where I lived and what I lived for,” “Our life is frittered away by detail . . . I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand . . . “ Montaigne, … Read More