HENDRICKS COUNTY – Swimming is a favorite activity for many Hendricks County residents, and local public health officials want everyone to take steps to make swimming a healthy and safe activity. “Swimming is a great exercise and mood booster for people of all ages and physical abilities,” says Julie Haan, …
Read More »Rural Routes to Main Street Cultural Trail to Expand into Third County This Fall
DANVILLE, IN (May 16, 2016) –What started in 2010 as a true Hendricks County cultural destination and expanded into Morgan County in 2013 will extend into a third county this fall. The Rural Routes to Main Street Cultural Trail, a self-guided, self-directed driving tour which features sites such as art …
Read More »Governor Pence Hosts Boy Scout Campout at the Governor’s Residence
Indianapolis – This weekend, Governor Mike Pence hosted a Boy Scout Campout at the Governor’s Residence, the first-ever campout held at the Governor’s Residence in Boy Scout of America’s 106-year history. During one of the program rotations, Scouts toured the Governor’s Residence and interviewed the Governor to meet one of …
Read More »Donnelly and Coats Pleased Senate Judiciary Committee Will Hold Hearing on U.S. District Court Nominee Winfield Ong
Washington, D.C.—Today, U.S. Senators Joe Donnelly (D-IN) and Dan Coats (R-IN) issued the following statements in advance of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee holding a hearing Wednesday to take up judicial nominations, including that of Winfield D. Ong. He was nominated to fill the vacancy on the U.S. District Court …
Read More »Marion County Woman Pleads Guilty to Unemployment Insurance Fraud
INDIANAPOLIS (May 13, 2016) – Indianapolis resident Florence McNeil, 44, pled guilty in Marion County Criminal Court One to unemployment insurance fraud, a Class C felony. Through the use of agency records, an Indiana Department of Workforce Development (DWD) employee began an investigation and determined that McNeil was working and receiving …
Read More »Coats Chairs Finance Committee Hearing on Nominations of Social Security and Medicare Trustees
WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Dan Coats (R-Ind.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, chaired a Finance Committee hearing on Wednesday to consider the nomination of Charles P. Blahous III and Robert D. Reischauer as Social Security and Medicare Trustees. Senator Coats chairs a Senate Finance Committee hearing Coats offered …
Read More »Grants available for field trips to state parks, lakes
Educators interested in taking students, grades K-12, on field trips to an Indiana state park or state-managed lake in the 2016-2017 school year can receive financial help through the Indiana Natural Resources Foundation (INRF). The Discovering the Outdoors Field Trip Grant Program is for public, private, parochial or home-school educators, …
Read More »Brownsburg manufacturing company acquires local business
INDIANAPOLIS – Brownsburg-based Fab2Order announced it has acquired Monrovia-based Machine2Order (formerly Winners Circle Engineering), a precision machining company. Fab2Order, a metal fabrication company located in the Brownsburg Eaglepoint Business Park, moved Machine2Order and its current employees to the business park with an expansion that increased Fab2Order’s facility size. “We saw …
Read More »Driver of fleeing vehicle is arrested after fleeing from officers with two children and adult passenger in the car
INDIANAPOLIS – The driver of a fleeing vehicle is arrested for several preliminary charges stemming from his refusal to stop for police who were attempted to make a traffic stop for traffic violations. At about 9:00 p.m. an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department police officer observed a vehicle in the area …
Read More »Jane Rich named Indiana Small Business Development Center State Director
INDIANAPOLIS — Lt. Governor Eric Holcomb announced today Jane Rich has been named the State Director of the Indiana Small Business Development Center (ISBDC), a statewide network within the Office of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (OSBE) that helps Indiana entrepreneurs and small business develop and grow. “Jane has spent years in Indiana’s small business …
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