Articles By: Tom Britt

Lindner Learning Center: To the Stars Through Difficulties

Lindner Learning Center: To the Stars Through Difficulties

0 April 30, 2012 3:38 am

Lindner Learning Center has served the community for over 20 years as a 1-to-1 ratio learning center and school for non-traditional learners. The students at the learning center span from elementary school age to adults in need of study skills, [...]

Founder’s Day Prints Available

Founder’s Day Prints Available

0 April 3, 2012 4:11 am

Personalized celebratory posters depicting scenes from Carmel’s early years and present lifestyles are a keepsake you won’t want to miss. Carmel is a special place and local artist Carol Skinner has captured the beauty and history of our city in [...]

Thank You from Orchard Park Elementary

Thank You from Orchard Park Elementary

0 April 2, 2012 12:31 pm

On behalf of the families of Orchard Park Elementary, thank you to our vendors, sponsors, auction & raffle donors, and the 500+ guests who chose to spend their evening supporting our students! We broke all records this year and are [...]

Carmel to Get “Chopped”

Carmel to Get “Chopped”

0 April 1, 2012 1:33 pm

Tantalize your taste buds as Carmel native, Ted Allen, dishes up his new cookbook featuring amazing and colorful recipes complete with mouth-watering photos brought to the table by his affection for mixing unique ingredients with fresh techniques. On Friday, May [...]

Carmel High School Basketball Players Receive Kiwanis/Pacers Scholarship

Carmel High School Basketball Players Receive Kiwanis/Pacers Scholarship

0 March 22, 2012 1:47 pm

Carmel residents Austin Kyker (fourth, right), a senior at Park Tudor High School and Daniel Wagner (second, right), a senior at Bishop Chatard High School each received a $1,000 Indiana Pacers Boys Basketball Academic All-Star Scholarship by the Kiwanis Club [...]

Jumping Up and Down in Fishers

Jumping Up and Down in Fishers

0 December 14, 2011 6:19 am

A new Fishers franchise has customers jumping up and down. Sky Zone Indoor Trampoline Park just off of 121st and Cumberland Road (10080 E. 121st Street, Suite 182) in Fishers just opened a 25,000 ft2 facility boasting 16,000 ft2 of [...]

Corner Vise is the Perfect Gallery & Frame Shop!

Corner Vise is the Perfect Gallery & Frame Shop!

0 December 5, 2011 11:51 am

Nestled in the charming town of Zionsville, renowned for its quaint brick street and Victorian charm, you will find a successful framing and art operation that has been in place for over 30 years. In 1986, Barbara Jennings was working [...]

City, CHS Students, and DAO Hold Free Electronics Recycling Event  Nov. 12

City, CHS Students, and DAO Hold Free Electronics Recycling Event Nov. 12

0 November 7, 2011 12:41 pm

Carmel Utilities, Carmel High School students, and DAO Recycling, have teamed to hold a major electronics and large item recycling event to celebrate America Recycles Day. The event will run from 8 A.M. to 3 P.M. Saturday, November 12, 2011 [...]

Dealing with Dyslexia

Dealing with Dyslexia

0 September 22, 2011 9:12 am

When Wendy Blaylock’s son Nick was 9 or 10, she noticed he was having some issues in school. He kept asking his teachers to repeat things and often said, “I don’t understand what you’re asking.” As several years rolled by, [...]

First Annual Carmel Mayor’s Youth Council 5K “Starts Strong”

First Annual Carmel Mayor’s Youth Council 5K “Starts Strong”

0 August 24, 2011 8:10 am

The Carmel Mayor’s Youth Council’s (CMYC) first annual Carmel Youth Fitness Run/Walk: 5K START STRONG took place on August 13 at Northview Church’s Carmel Campus. With the theme “Start Strong,” the event’s goal was to motivate Carmel youth to start [...]

Hitting the Air Waves

Hitting the Air Waves

0 July 18, 2011 6:39 am

TownePost.com and WZPL 99.5 FM Form Media Partnership, Tom Britt Debuts on the Smiley Morning Show That six-page, black and white photocopied Geist Community Newsletter that started just over seven years ago is now expanding into the Indianapolis radio airwaves. [...]

Carmel Schools Name Jim Streisel ‘Teacher of the Year’

Carmel Schools Name Jim Streisel ‘Teacher of the Year’

0 May 9, 2011 2:00 pm

In a surprise ceremony on May 4, Jim Streisel, Carmel High School (CHS) journalism teacher and HiLite newspaper advisor, was announced as the 2011 Stephen A. Backer Teacher of the Year. Carmel Clay Schools Superintendent, Dr. Jeff Swensson, Susan Backer, [...]

CHS Students Receive Recognition, Proclamation from City of Carmel

CHS Students Receive Recognition, Proclamation from City of Carmel

0 April 20, 2011 2:25 am

Carmel High School Net Literacy Student Volunteers were honored at a special presentation by Mayor Jim Brainard; in recognition of the contribution that they are making in Carmel and throughout the state of Indiana. Mayor Jim Brainard presented the Carmel [...]

Spring Open House at L’Evento on April 9

Spring Open House at L’Evento on April 9

0 March 24, 2011 3:11 am

L’Evento Event Resource Boutique is hosting a Spring Open House at their location in downtown Carmel’s Arts & Design District on Saturday, April 9, 2011. The Open House will take place during the area’s monthly gallery walk, occurring that evening [...]

Newly launched CMYC seeks to improve the community for youth

Newly launched CMYC seeks to improve the community for youth

0 March 21, 2011 4:18 pm

Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard today announced the launch of the Carmel Mayor’s Youth Council (CMYC), created to identify and address issues youths face today and to encourage greater teen involvement in the community. The concept of the CMYC originated from [...]

Enter Primrose Schools’ Family Dance-off Video Competition

Enter Primrose Schools’ Family Dance-off Video Competition

0 February 3, 2011 12:13 pm

Primrose Schools, The Leader in Educational Child Care, is stepping up its fight against childhood obesity with its second annual Family Dance-off, benefiting Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. Primrose Schools invites families across the country to submit their 30-second dance videos [...]

Arts & Design District Businesses Host Valentine Scavenger Hunt

Arts & Design District Businesses Host Valentine Scavenger Hunt

0 January 24, 2011 4:05 pm

Several businesses in the Arts & Design District of Carmel will host “Searching for Romance in the District,” a scavenger hunt, on Saturday, February 12, 2011, from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm. The hunt will take place during the area’s traditional Valentine Gallery [...]

Working Green, Saving Green at Carmel Clay Schools

Working Green, Saving Green at Carmel Clay Schools

0 November 4, 2010 5:44 am

Some folks seek attention and recognition for a job well done. Others do their work quietly and diligently, day after day, without any fanfare, yet make a huge contribution to our community. Two men who work for Carmel Clay Schools [...]

First of 60 Computers Donated to Carmel Clay Students

First of 60 Computers Donated to Carmel Clay Students

0 October 29, 2010 5:16 pm

Through a partnership between Bright House Networks and Net Literacy , The Carmel High School Net Literacy chapter will repurpose and donate the first of 60 computers for K-12 students in the Carmel Clay school district on free assisted lunches [...]

Recording pairs Michael Feinstein, Carmel Symphony Orchestra

Recording pairs Michael Feinstein, Carmel Symphony Orchestra

0 September 1, 2010 4:24 pm

Michael Feinstein and the Carmel Symphony Orchestra joined forces over two days to record a collection of American standards. The album will be released later this year in anticipation of the Palladium concert hall’s grand opening. Proceeds from sales of [...]