The 12 days of Christmas, Southside-Indy style

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By Sherri Coner-Eastburn Acknowledging your true love during The Twelve Days of Christmas may sound like the ultimate of romantic holiday ideas. But maybe you wonder about today

Southsiders Dance on Butler Stage

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State grants nearly $1 million for Beech Grove greenway trail to begin

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By Mike Alexander The city of Beech Grove was awarded nearly $1 million in a matching grant by the state of Indiana to begin development of a 4.2-mile greenway walking trail. City officials plan to meet with an Indianapolis engineering firm to turn the plans into action, said Terry Dilk, president of the redevelopment commission. The state

Children need Santas and so do seniors

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By Sarah True Over the years, they

High school sports fan bring $36.3 million into local economy

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By Scott L. Miley Indiana high school sports championship games brought 140,000 visitors to Indianapolis who spent $36.3 million last year, based on a study by the Indiana High School Athletic Association. That amounts to a per-person expenditure of $259 for dining, lodging and shopping.

Property tax crisis may push back Greenwood park opening

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By Mike Alexander GREENWOOD - The ongoing property tax dilemma may push back plans for opening a 72-acre park on Greenwood

Personal curators build bad burgers

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By Mike Redmond very once in a while, you see something in the paper that makes you say

Being a Christmastime flunkie

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By Sherri Coner-Eastburn Tis the season, ladies and gentlemen. Tis the season to spend too much, eat too much, drink too much. It is also the time of year when some of my friends turn into Mrs. Santa-wantta-bes. One hour after Thanksgiving dinner has been served, they drag out the December d

Lifestyle Center wants customers to try on clothes (and toss the catalog)

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By Sherri Coner Eastburn Until this month, Coldwater Creek fans shopped in catalogues or online unless they drove north to Indianapolis. Just in time for holiday shopping, the Southside now has its own Coldwater Creek store, located at Greenwood Park Mall. Shoppers couldn

Children leave Santa with as many memories as he gives them

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By Santa Claus It was 38 nights before Christmas, and all through Greenwood creatures were stirring . . . from each and every house. As the Victorian Carolers sang, Melanie Titzer, a student at Northeast Elementary School in Greenwood, assisted me in lighting the 30-foot evergreen tree at Madison Avenue and Main Street. In the flick of an eye, her small hand touched the magic switch and