Dear All, The plans are to start working on resurfacing Crawfordsville Road from Cunningham Road (stop light at the Speedway Shopping Center by Arby’s) to Auburn Street (last stoplight heading east before the round-about) and 16th Street from Poco Street (by the track) to Lafayette Road on Monday.  The Monday start date does depend on […]

Dear All, Hopefully some of you were able to go out to the park this past weekend and watch part of the NCAA Women’s Rowing Championships.  They were really quite exciting to watch, especially as many times positions changed the closer they came to the finish line.  The colleges that these young ladies represented came […]

Dear All, The calendars are attached for the many special activities that are going on during June at the three Indianapolis Public Libraries that are closest to our district – Eagle, Pike, and Wayne.  Check out the dates and times for what is going on.  Each library has their own events, times and days offered, […]

Weekend plan: Construction around Marion County May 31 – June 3 INDIANAPOLIS – The Indiana Department of Transportation will continue work in Marion County this weekend. Five projects will be working simultaneously in Marion County throughout the weekend. INDOT would like to remind people to plan extra time this weekend to drive to their destination and […]

What was it like at the Indianapolis 500 in 1948? Pagoda in 1948 –  The Pagoda looked a lot different in 1948 than it looks today, as did a lot of other things at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.  This is a picture taken on Race Day 71 years ago.  Did you recognize it as being […]

Dear All, An organized “Trash Cleanup” on Tuesday, May 21st, from 5:15 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. is planned by a couple of us.  If we can get a group of volunteers, we should be able to get the area from Dandy Trail to I – 465 done in that time along 56th Street.  If we […]

Dear All,   I hope that you will join me in thanking our men and women who work so hard each day to protect us and try to keep our City safe.  When you see a police officer, please take time to say “Thanks for what you do.”  This can be in your neighborhood, at […]

– A huge THANKS goes out to the volunteers from Salesforce and KIB (Keep Indianapolis Beautiful) for their recent work with planting trees and spreading mulch at Faculty Park.  When they arrived that morning there were flags showing where the trees were to be planted.  Teams worked on moving the trees to the locations, digging […]

Trees had been placed by KIB the day before, they were ready to be planted, but then came the rains.  Would the volunteers come out and help get the trees in the ground?  Yes!  A large group of all ages showed up ready to learn to properly plant a tree and get the job done. […]

Another project during the rainy day was spreading mulch on the playground at Robey Park.  The big dent was made in the huge pile of mulch as wheelbarrows were loaded.   One young lady worked very hard with her rake to spread the mulch so it would make the playground a nicer place for children […]