By Sherri Coner Got a hankering for a fresh, messy elephant ear? Your wait is nearly over. Opening day is July 16 for the Johnson County 4-H & Agricultural Fair. This full week of history-making […]
By Curtis Honeycutt As soon as I wrote a column on Caps Lock, the lowercase, a.k.a. “minuscule” letters, demanded an essay of their own. The irony is that both of my Apple keyboards have decapitalized […]
By Mark Ambrogi Grant Sawa didn’t start catching until practicing at the end of his freshman year. The 2023 Center Grove High School graduate proved to be a quick learner. “To see Grant grow has […]
By Sherri Coner Members of Boy Scout Troop 245 love rowdy stuff like hiking, camping in the wild and learning all kinds of cool survival skills. But when they recently participated in an American military […]
By Stefanie Davis Jessica George’s debut novel, “Maame” is about coming of age, family, race, culture and finding yourself. Maddie was born in London to immigrant parents. Her dad has Parkinson’s, and Maddie has been his primary […]
By Sherri Coner As a North Grove Elementary School second grader, Adam Norman barely noticed Amy Meadows’ existence because, well … cooties, you know. By the time they entered Center Grove High School, the cootie […]
By Sherri Coner Although Aarav Agrawal, 17, looks forward to starting his senior year at Center Grove High School, he has also made a commitment toward teaching. “I offer free classes to kids 9 and […]
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By Mark Ambrogi Center Grove High School coach Keith Hatfield had no doubt his baseball team would keep fighting. “It’s one of the most resilient groups of kids I’ve ever been around, so that didn’t […]