Carmel Topics

Carmel -- The $33.2 million bond issue to finish the final stretch of the Keystone project has been reduced to $26.6 million. Full Story »

Carmel -- Conseco is seeking an amendment to its credit facility to delay repayment and reduce minimum capital requirements through 2011. Full Story »

While the recession has made it more difficult for people to open their wallets this year, Carmel Financial Corporation still has surpassed its food drive goal. The annual drive collected 94,873 food items, topping last year's record of 85,000 items. Full Story »

Carmel-based Conseco Inc., the life insurer that snapped eight straight quarters of losses this year, is seeking an amendment to its credit facility to delay repayment and reduce minimum capital requirements through 2011. Full Story »

A major power consortium is looking for a new home for a $35-million backup data facility after Boone County spiked its proposal. Full Story »

The Carmel City Council will discuss a proposed $33.2 million bond to help complete roundabout interchanges at its monthly meeting tonight. Full Story »

In another sign of the hard times for the real estate industry, the publically listed asking price for the most expensive home in Indiana has been cut in half. Full Story »

CARMEL, Ind. -- When Noblesville went to the fourth quarter trailing Carmel by 12 points Friday night, history pointed to an Andrew Lively-led Millers comeback. Full Story »

A free pet-microchipping event Saturday kicks off December events for the Humane Society for Hamilton County. Microchipping is free to the first 50 people from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Old National Bank at Kroger, 17447 Carey Road, Noblesville. Full Story »

NOBLESVILLE, Ind. -- Dozens of chairs, 14 microwaves, 34 fork trucks, seven metal lathes, three grinders. The list went on and on and on. Full Story »

An 83-year-old woman was fatally injured when she was struck by a pickup truck Friday in downtown Noblesville. Patricia A. Kneip, 83, died at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis about three hours after the 11:45 a.m. accident at Ninth and Conner streets. Lt. Bruce Barnes, spokesman for the Noblesville Police Department, said Kneip was crossing Conner Street when she was hit by the truck driven by ... Full Story »

CARMEL, Ind. -- It was a night that didn't have quite the drama as when the two schools met in the Class 5A football state title game last Saturday. Full Story »

The Hamilton County Health Department has shortened its two upcoming H1N1 vaccine clinics. The clinics, which are scheduled for Monday and Wednesday, will last only three hours instead of four, according to a news release. Full Story »

Boone County officials turned down a major power consortium's proposed $35 million project late Wednesday, but company executives are hopeful the project can still go forward. Full Story »

Carmel resident Linda Mitchell-Powell figures she will be performing the music she loves and helping a good cause, too. Mitchell-Powell is part of a 65-member wind ensemble known as the Lapel Community Band. Full Story »

After taking a week off for Thanksgiving, the Grand Junction Task Group will resume its work at 9 a.m. Friday. Full Story »

The J. Everett Light Career Center will hold an open house to show off its 26 programs from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight. Full Story »

The holiday season will kick off in Westfield this weekend with the opening of the Santa House and a lighting ceremony. Full Story »

Westfield firefighters and members of Westfield Middle School's National Junior Honor Society chapter will be checking fire detectors in downtown Westfield homes Saturday. Full Story »

Westfield will hold a free H1N1 vaccination clinic next week -- the first city or town in the county to organize its own flu-shot session. Full Story »

NOBLESVILLE -- It's will be the end of an era Thursday morning when Firestone Industrial Products' air-spring factory in Noblesville sells at auction the last remaining bits and pieces of a 400,000-square-foot plant that at one time employed 1,500 workers. Full Story »

Just off of an obscure northern Hamilton County road, trees in a small forest hide one of the state's largest great blue heron rookeries. Full Story »

A crane picked up a 60-pound slab of limestone off the ground and lifted it 30 feet in the air. Full Story »

The Carmel Clay School Board's search for a new superintendent is nearing its conclusion. Board President Andy Klein said the search is down to two finalists. Full Story »

Congregation Shaarey Tefilla is hosting a Mendelssohn concert Monday night in honor of the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth. Full Story »