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Happy Feet this weekend at the Gathering Place
By Shannon Veerkamp
Follow the paper footprints. On March 1, children and adults will take their starting stance to race during Happy Feet.
Mackenzie Hassee, 18, organized the race at the Gathering Place for her senior project. The registration cost of $20 or less, depending on division by age group, finances scholarships for children wanting to participate in many sports leagues at the Gathering Place. Dan Carmichael, Program Director, is her senior project mentor.
Taking a STAND for drug education
By Sara Gentry
About a year ago, healthcare consultant and former English teacher Mary Beth Acra was snowbound and passing time surfing the Internet when she came across a Web site promoting drug use. She remembered her first day as an English teacher at her own high school, when she was calling roll and was shocked to hear that a student wasn
New trash pickup to improve service for Beech Grove
For The Southside Times
Beginning Tuesday, March 11, the City of Beech Grove will implement a four-day-a-week trash pickup system (Tuesdays through Fridays), providing enhanced efficiency for residents and improved routine vehicle maintenance that will result in a cleaner community.
According to Public Works Director Sam Merl, his department
The Caterpillar Kids program helps children handle grief
For the Southside Times
Consider the caterpillar: It builds a cocoon and remains safe until it transforms and emerges into a new life, one that takes flight.
Death is a part of the life cycle, and it
An apology is due for the ignorance of fibromyalgia
By: Wendell Fowler
“Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.”
Message to self: Until you
Beech Grove named the only Four Star high school in Marion County
By Sara Gentry
Each year, the Department of Education honors a select group as the state
Giving pink a new meaning
By Sherri Coner-Eastburn
From the moment a girl child enters the world, she is swaddled in and surrounded by pink.
It