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Life Balance Fitness has grown its clientele more than sevenfold since opening last August. The small group studio hosts classes capped at 14 people throughout the day. Some allow parents to bring their children while they exercise. “One of the biggest things here, and it’s on all of our information, is that we’re fitness for … Read more

Quality of life was No. 3 in a list of top 10 factors businesses considered for site selection in 2016. That’s according to Jeff Pipkin, Hendricks County Economic Development Partnership executive director. Though it’s typically one of the last things businesses look at, it can be a difference-maker during the late stages of site selection. … Read more

On March 22, 2012, Sherri Foster, not her real name, arrived at the Sheltering Wings Center for Women with only what she was wearing – a tank top, shorts and house slippers. It had been two days since she left the man who mentally and emotionally abused her for more than 30 years. Danville-based Sheltering … Read more

The Avon Town Council assigned new leadership and made appointments to town boards and commissions at its Jan. 12 meeting. On the council, Councilman Aaron Tevebaugh was elected president after a 4-1 vote. Councilman Greg Zusan cast the only vote against. Councilman Steve Eisenbarth was elected vice president with a 5-0 vote. Tevebaugh was vice … Read more

Five years ago, Greenwood resident Carol Dolen and her family went on a seven-mile canoe trip down the Blue River in southern Indiana. She was in a canoe with two girls; her grandson was in another canoe with his wife; her husband, Mike, was in another with two people; and two older girls were in … Read more

Trails, trails, trails. Residents have an insatiable appetite for them, according to Avon Public Works Director Ryan Cannon and Parks, Recreation and Beautification Council President Charlotte Martin. “Every time we do anything, everybody, all the input we always get is people want more trails,” Cannon said. Avon has partly tried to meet the demand through … Read more

At the beginning of November, former Center Grove High School coach Carol Tumey called Nikki Cerbone. She asked where she was and if she could sit down. Cerbone told her she was at home and she could. She wondered what terrible news was about to be delivered. Then Tumey told her. Cerbone was selected for … Read more

Sister Mary Bede Betz wasn’t alone when she passed away Dec. 12. Another sister was with her. It was the end of a journey that began when she entered the habit in 1943 at Monastery Immaculate Conception in Ferdinand, Indiana. She was 18 years old. Seventeen years later, she moved with 112 other nuns to … Read more

When Beech Grove police officers remember former chief Dan Challis, they remember an even-tempered professional. Challis served as Beech Grove’s police chief for 11 years. He also served as a member of the department’s pension board. One of the people he hired was current chief Mike Swartz. “He never raised his voice or yelled at … Read more

Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry announced Dec. 20 that Monserrate Shirley was sentenced to 50 years in prison for her role in the Richmond Hill explosion. She was the fourth conspirator sentenced. Shirley, her then-boyfriend Mark Leonard, his brother Bob Leonard Jr., Gary Thompson and Glenn Hults conspired to and ultimately blew up the Shirley … Read more