Detour could close
If the bar isn’t able to offer outdoor venues, it might be forced to leave the Arts & Design District behind.
Articles By: Robert Annis 
Carmel proposing cycling regulations
Carmel drivers will have to give a wider berth to cyclists if a proposed new ordinance is passed. The city council is considering a three-foot passing rule as part of a new ordinance that proponents say could make traveling on two wheels much safer in the city, particularly on the Monon Greenway. Indianapolis already has a similar three-foot passing rule, [...]
Work begins on $6M retail complex
The next phase of Carmel’s City Center came a step closer to reality last Wednesday. Officials from the city and Anderson Birkla broke ground on a $6-million retail and office complex nicknamed The Mezz. The new facility, housing 44 luxury apartments and Anderson Birkla’s corporate headquarters, will be on both the east and west end of the Tarkington Theater building. [...]
CHS grad charged with rape
Police are still trying to find the motivation behind the alleged rape of a Ball State woman by a former Carmel High School football star. Police claim Aaron Jeffery King II visited his ex-girlfriend’s Muncie apartment on April 24. When she attempted to leave for class, King physically stopped her and forced her to engage in sex. Although the victim [...]
Complaint seeks to reject CCS’s contract offer
The long-standing contract dispute between the Carmel Clay School district and the teachers union could be resolved within the next 90 days, depending on the outcome of a recent hearing. The Carmel Clay Education Association filed an 11-page complaint with the Indiana Education Employment Relations Board against the district late last year. The teachers union claims numerous “incorrect or incomplete [...]
Coats’ voices strong opinions at roundtable
Entitlement programs, immigration and health care reform were some of the topics on the menu as dozens of Hamilton County’s leading business people gathered at Shapiro’s for a roundtable discussion with Sen. Dan Coats on Wednesday. During his opening remarks, Coats criticized President Barack Obama’s economic policy, calling it the slowest recovery from a recession in our nation’s history. (The [...]
Reflecting poorly
The Veteran’s Memorial is in dire need of repairs The Veteran’s Memorial reflecting pool at City Center will likely get a much-needed facelift sometime this year. Ten years after it was completed, the concrete coping at the edge of the pool has already begun to crumble. Residents have been complaining about the reflecting pool’s condition for months, but those concerns [...]
Upland to open Friday
Bloomington-based Upland Brewing Co. will finally open its first Hamilton County taproom this Friday. The imaginatively named Carmel Tap Room will have a soft opening Friday with a standard grand opening the following day, said Andrea Lutz, Upland’s Director of Marketing. Doors open at 11 a.m. and will stay that way until 1 a.m. both days. As part of the [...]
Council tables arts grants
Fifteen local art groups might not receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding from the city this year, as Carmel City Council members try to resolve a budget shortfall. The council voted to table the more than $707,000 in grants for the time being after Councilor Eric Seidensticker raised objections, citing repaving concerns and the incomplete Illinois Street project. [...]
Reconstruction has some worried
Reconstruction of U.S. 31 at the 116th,111th and 106th streets intersections isn’t slated to begin until 2015, but some Carmel residents are already foreseeing “a nightmare.” Construction of Illinois Street between 116th and 111th streets is ongoing, likely opening by the end of this summer. But plans to extend the road even farther south, intersecting with Spring Mill Road, are [...]
