This just in: Late-summer opening targeted for Red Line
The city’s first rapid-transit bus route – the Red Line – should be ready for action by the end of summer, according to a revised schedule announced Feb. 5 by …
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History 301: Building helps celebrate 100 years of Slovenians
By CONNIE ZEIGLER If a friend invited you to “the Nash,” would you know where to go? You would if you grew up in the Haughville area west of White …
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Autumn Leaves: Beautiful or Dangerous? How to keep our communities clean during the fall
By: Jill Hoffmann, executive director of the White River Alliance Autumn leaves – a beautiful symbol of changing seasons or a notable source of water pollution? Both. As the weather …
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National Night Out comes to Mass Ave
National Night Out has been staged across the nation – and in several Urban Times neighborhoods – for years, but 2018 marks the first time the event to promote police-community …
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Merchants team up for Sidewalk Sale on Aug. 11
The Mass Ave Merchants Association has organized the avenue’s first-ever Sidewalk Sale. It will take place from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 11. Participating merchants currently include Rooster’s …
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This just in… SEND to invest $1.5 million in affordable housing
This information came to Urban Times after the August 2018 went to press. Southeast Neighborhood Development – which has taken some criticism for its sale of the Wheeler Arts Community, …
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This just in… IndyGo sets dates for series of public meetings
The Indianapolis Public Transportation Corporation (IndyGo) will lead numerous public meetings related to the Purple and Blue Line rapid transit services. The meeting dates are as follows: July 19, 6 …
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Building a Better Bikeway
Just over two years ago, Indianapolis built its fist “parking protected bike lane.” The purpose behind this bike lane was to demonstrate that parking could be used as a means …
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This just in… FACE Low-Cost Animal Clinic expanded medical facility for companion animals officially open
FACE Low-Cost Animal Clinic officially cut the ribbon on Saturday, February 24 to open its new medical facility that serves as the state’s largest low-cost, high-volume clinic for companion animals. …
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Indiana Humanities
Mari Evans’s “Ethos and Creativity” Three Decades Later: Art and Race in Indianapolis By DAVID HOPPE I had never met Mari Evans—more to the point, I was unfamiliar with her …
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