This is the time of year I travel around Indiana and spent a good deal of the past week in South Bend, Indiana. The biggest surprise was the weather, with temperatures in the 60s & 70s during my stay there. There was a lot of excitement about Notre Dame’s last home game of the year (the loss to Virginia Tech will be a tough one for the Irish fans to stomach).
Back here in Fishers, our local community was officially recognized by the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce for being their Community of the Year. The announcement was made several weeks ago, but the official recognition was part of the chamber’s annual awards dinner this past week.
There was another sad railroad announcement this past week. After the state fair train was cancelled this year for the first time in many years, The Indiana Transportation Museum announced the cancellation of the popular Polar Bear Express. The Transportation Museum, a nonprofit organization, hopes to have train safety improvements completed by spring of 2017, allowing train service along the line to resume.
Deloitte Technology has named local Fishers high-tech firm Cloud One as number 190 in its listing of the Fast 500 technology firms in America. The listing by Deloitte measures the fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies in North America.
When posting a story on this news blog, I never know which stories will strike the fancy of my readers. The most recent surprise came when I wrote the piece on Harley-Davidson of Indianapolis coming to Fishers with a new dealership building near 126th & State Road 37. I immediately began to see plenty of comments and a large number of people reading the story. If this interest is any measure, this motorcycle store will have plenty of customers.
As most of my regular readers know, this blog and my podcasts are purely a volunteer activity for me. So, when I invited all 9 Hamilton Southeastern School Board candidates to appear on podcasts, I had no idea how many would agree. They all said yes. That is good news in the sense that they all wanted to appear. The tough side was scheduling the recording sessions, preparing for each and doing all the post-production work needed to get those podcasts posted. So, thanks to the candidates for appearing. Also, thanks to the audience for listening. The number of people listening to one or more of those podcasts is nearly 800, which is a large number for a locally-focused set of podcasts.
Finally, I invite you to listen as I posted a podcast interview with Fishers City Councilman Eric Moeller November 19th. You can listen by using this link.