Early voting began in early October if you want to travel to the Hamilton County Fairgrounds or the facility in downtown Noblesville.

Early voting begins in Fishers Wednesday.  Below is a listing of the days and times you can early vote in Fishers, followed by other locations.  If you live in Hamilton County, you are able to early vote at any Hamilton County early voting locations.

Now below is the full listing.

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Roy G Holland Memorial Park Building, 1 Park Drive, Fishers

Wednesday and Thursday, October 23 & 24 from 2 pm to 7 pm

Friday and Saturday, October 25 & 26 from 10 am to 3 pm

Wednesday and Thursday, October 30 & 31 from 2 pm to 7 pm

Friday and Saturday, November 1 & 2 from 10 am to 3 pm

Billericay Park Building, 12690 Promise Road, Fishers

Wednesday and Thursday, October 23 & 24 from 2 pm to 7 pm

Friday and Saturday, October 25 & 26 from 10 am to 3 pm

Wednesday and Thursday, October 30 & 31 from 2 pm to 7 pm

Friday and Saturday, November 1 & 2 from 10 am to 3 pm

Here are the details of early voting in Hamilton County.  You may early vote at any Hamilton County early voting location if you reside in Hamilton County:

Noblesville   

Judicial Center, One Hamilton County Square, Noblesville

Tuesday thru Friday, October 8 – 11 from 8 am to 4:30 pm

Monday thru Friday, October 14 – 18 from 8 am to 4:30 pm

Monday thru Friday, October 21 – 25 from 8 am to 4:30 pm

Saturday, October 26 from 9 am to 4 pm

Monday thru Friday, October 28 – November 1 from 8 am to 4:30 pm

Saturday, November 2 from 9 am to 4 pm

Monday, November 4 from 8 am to noon

Hamilton County Fairgrounds, Hall C, 2003 Pleasant Street, Noblesville

Tuesday thru Friday, October 8 – 11 from 9 am to 4 pm

Monday thru Friday, October 14 – 18 from 9 am to 4 pm

Monday thru Saturday, October 21 – 26 from 9 am to 4 pm

Monday thru Saturday, October 28 – November 2 from 9 am to 4 pm

Monday, November 4 from 8 am to noon

Westfield

Westfield City Hall, 130 Penn Street, Westfield

Wednesday and Thursday, October 23 & 24 from 2 pm to 7 pm

Friday and Saturday, October 25 & 26 from 10 am to 3 pm

Wednesday and Thursday, October 30 & 31 from 2 pm to 7 pm

Friday and Saturday, November 1 & 2 from 10 am to 3 pm

Cool Creek Nature Center, 2000-1 E 151^st St, Carmel

Wednesday and Thursday, October 23 & 24 from 2 pm to 7 pm

Friday and Saturday, October 25 & 26 from 10 am to 3 pm

Wednesday and Thursday, October 30 & 31 from 2 pm to 7 pm

Friday and Saturday, November 1 & 2 from 10 am to 3 pm

Carmel

Carmel Library, 425 E Main St, Carmel

Wednesday and Thursday, October 23 & 24 from 2 pm to 7 pm

Friday and Saturday, October 25 & 26 from 10 am to 3 pm

Wednesday and Thursday, October 30 & 31 from 2 pm to 7 pm

Friday and Saturday, November 1 & 2 from 10 am to 3 pm

Wilfong Pavilion at Founders Park, 11675 Hazel Dell Pkwy, Building A, Carmel

Wednesday and Thursday, October 23 & 24 from 2 pm to 7 pm

Friday and Saturday, October 25 & 26 from 10 am to 3 pm

Wednesday and Thursday, October 30 & 31 from 2 pm to 7 pm

Friday and Saturday, November 1 & 2 from 10 am to 3 pm

Jill Perelman Pavilion, 3000 W 116^th Street, Carmel

Wednesday and Thursday, October 23 & 24 from 2 pm to 7 pm

Friday and Saturday, October 25 & 26 from 10 am to 3 pm

Wednesday and Thursday, October 30 & 31 from 2 pm to 7 pm

Friday and Saturday, November 1 & 2 from 10 am to 3 pm

The Fishers Event Center construction is moving into the final stages, with the opening 30 days away.  Mitch List, General Manager of the Fishers Center, along with members of his staff,  provided an update Monday to the Town Hall Building Corporation on the state of construction.

The Fishers Freight Indoor Football League (IFL) team should have its schedule announced by the end of October.  List describes the schedule as “favorable” to the Fishers franchise.  The Indy Ignite women’s volleyball team has a draft schedule, not yet announced, but changes are expected.

The Event Center is staffed 100% with full time employees and 85% staffed for part time openings.  The budget is expected to be $300,000 ahead of schedule, or under budget, at the end of the year.

Several media events are scheduled between now and the opening of the Event Center, and others involving the public are expected before the opening of the new facility.

List told the Corporation board members that sales for all the events scheduled with tickets on sale are going well, with many sold out already.  About 3,000 tickets have been sold for the December 20th Mudsock rivalry basketball game between HSE and Fishers High Schools, with ticket sales expected to pick up as we are closer to the date of the contest.

Lincoln Square Pancake House, with a number of locations in Central Indiana, will be locating a restaurant in Fishers on 96th Street.

Fishers Economic Development Director Megan Baumgartner told the Town Hall Building Corporation Monday that the Lincoln Square operation in Fishers will be in a building east of Lantern Road on 96th Street.

It is not clear when the location plans to open, but Baumgartner tells LarryInFishers the firm has cleared a number of hurdles, including obtaining the proper permits.

Critical Role, a leading force in innovative storytelling, has announced a slate of live shows for 2025 in partnership with AEG Presents and Frontier Touring. The shows, running from April through October, will take place in five cities worldwide, with a stop at the newly opened Fishers Event Center in Fishers, Indiana, on August 2, 2025.

Tickets for the Fishers event will go on sale starting Monday, October 28 at 10 a.m. local time for Beacon members. A local presale will follow on Tuesday, October 29, with general sales beginning Wednesday, October 30 at this link.

The 2025 tour coincides with Critical Role’s 10th anniversary. What began as a group of voice actors playing a tabletop game has evolved into a fast-growing media company centered on storytelling and community. This global tour provides an opportunity for fans, known as “Critters,” to experience unique live events.

The Fishers show will be Critical Role’s first one-shot adventure set in Exandria, powered by the new Daggerheart roleplaying game from Darrington Press. The show will feature Critical Role’s original cast, led by Game Master Matthew Mercer, and will include a mix of characters from across Exandria.

“Embarking on a global journey to bring Critical Role to the stage in brand new cities with our ragtag group of adventurers is nothing short of a dream,” said Marisha Ray, Co-founder and Creative Director at Critical Role. “Let alone during our tenth year of telling stories together; I couldn’t imagine a better way to celebrate!”

Following the success of the Mighty Nein Reunion show at London’s OVO Arena Wembley in 2023, Eliza-Jane Oliver, Promoter at AEG Presents, shared her excitement: “We couldn’t be happier to be working with Critical Role to bring these shows to life and to give Critters the chance to experience Critical Role Live.”

I have had a fascination with the Electoral College.  When foreign countries that are also democracies try to figure out our system for electing a president, people in those nations scratch their heads trying to figure our how we elect our president.

if you study history, the reason the Electoral College exists is due to 2 major issues – states’ rights in the Constitutional Convention and slavery.

When the convention was held in Philadelphia to write the constitution, people related more to their state of residence and less to being a citizen of the United States.  The Electoral College preserves the rights of states and empowers smaller states, since every state has 2 senators.  The number of senators and members of the House determine the number of electoral votes given to that state.

Slavery was an issue at the convention because there was a major dispute about slaves – are they counted in determining the number of electoral votes for a state?  The convention compromised with the “three-fifths compromise” which treated each slave as three-fifths of a person, even though slaves could not vote and had few, if any, rights at that time.

Once the Civil War was over, the three-fifths compromise no longer existed and former slaves were given rights of citizenship under the Constitution.  The Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws of the south limited those rights until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were passed into law..

The Electoral College has come under attack in recent decades as an indirect way to elect a president and has created situations where the candidate with the most votes did not win a majority of the electoral votes.  Al Gore and Hillary Clinton are two examples in recent history of presidential candidates winning the popular vote and losing in the Electoral College,

The argument often heard for preserving the Electoral College is that the largest population centers would receive all the candidates’ attention and the rest of the country would be left out.  I always felt this was a persuasive argument.

However, I have changed my mind.  Just look at the current situation.  Both presidential campaigns are concentrating their efforts on 7 swing states.  That means 43 of our 50 states are virtually ignored by the candidates.

This is not a strategy to zero-in on the most populous states or areas. Instead, the campaigns are spending time and resources on the 7 states where the polls show the election outcome is close.

Is the Electoral College still the best way to elect a president?  That’s a questions each of us must answer to ourselves.

The Indy Fuel’s road trip hit a bump in Atlanta on Saturday night, as they fell 1-0 to the Gladiators in the first of a two-game set. The game turned into a goaltending masterclass, with Atlanta’s Drew DeRidder stealing the spotlight by earning a shutout in a tightly contested match.

1st Period
Both teams struggled to find any offensive rhythm in the opening 16 minutes, with only one penalty to break the stalemate—a slashing call against Indy’s Chris Cameron. Atlanta quickly capitalized on the power play, with Cody Sylvester scoring the game’s only goal just eight seconds into the man advantage. It was Sylvester’s first of the season, and it provided Atlanta with the lead they would not relinquish. Despite the low scoring, the period was evenly matched, with Atlanta outshooting Indy 8-7.

2nd Period
As the game wore on, tempers flared. The second period saw the physicality increase, with both teams trading blows and engaging in scrums after the whistle. However, the referees kept the penalties limited, only assessing coincidental roughing minors at 11:58. The Fuel had their chances to equalize, earning two power-play opportunities, but they couldn’t solve DeRidder, who faced a barrage of 15 shots in the period. Meanwhile, Indy goaltender Peyton Jones was less busy, only facing four shots as the Gladiators struggled to sustain pressure.

3rd Period
The final period saw more of the same: strong goaltending on both ends and an inability for either team to score at even strength. Desperate to tie the game, the Fuel pulled Jones with less than two minutes remaining for an extra attacker, but DeRidder remained a brick wall. His calm under pressure, especially against the aggressive Fuel attack, sealed the shutout victory.

Penalties continued to rack up in the third period, with both teams combining for 12 penalty minutes, matching the total from the first two periods combined. Despite outshooting Atlanta 25-20 over the course of the game, the Fuel left empty-handed, unable to break through DeRidder’s wall of defense.

The two teams will meet again in Atlanta as the Fuel look to rebound and find their scoring touch in the rematch.

It’s time for the weekly road construction update.  Here is the latest information, from the City of Fishers, for the work week beginning Monday, October 21st:

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(NOTE:  The Indy Fuel ECHL hockey team calls the new Fishers Event Center as its home for the 2014-2015 season.  The team will be on the road until the home opener December 6, once the Center construction is complete.  I will feature game summaries, based on information provided by the Fuel, here on this blog as the team starts its season.  The first Fuel game of the season was Friday night.  Here is the summary below.)

The Indy Fuel’s 2024-25 season got off to a rough start as they fell to the Savannah Ghost Pirates 4-1 in their season opener on the road. Savannah controlled the game from the start, holding the Fuel scoreless until the final minute of play.

1st Period: The Ghost Pirates set the tone early when Riese Gaber found the back of the net just 3:35 into the game. Savannah added to their lead in the final minute of the first period, scoring twice in just 25 seconds to take a commanding 3-0 lead. Indy struggled to generate offense against Savannah goaltender Evan Cormier, despite a few early chances. Penalties to Ty Farmer and Bryan Lemos for slashing also disrupted the Fuel’s momentum.

2nd Period: The second period saw no goals, but both teams continued to create opportunities. The Fuel outshot the Ghost Pirates 14-7 in the frame, but Cormier was a brick wall in net, turning away everything Indy threw at him. A heated moment at 10:14 brought the crowd to life when Darby Llewellyn of the Fuel and Savannah’s Liam Arnsby dropped the gloves near center ice, earning both players five-minute majors. Despite the physical play, neither team could capitalize on their chances.

3rd Period: Savannah’s Dennis Cesana extended the lead to 4-0 in the third, earning his second point of the night alongside Gaber. Indy goaltender Gaudreau, who finished with 25 saves on 29 shots, kept the game from getting further out of hand, but the Fuel offense couldn’t break through until the final moments. Rookie defenseman Adam McCormick spoiled Cormier’s shutout bid with just 33 seconds remaining, scoring his first professional goal.

Cormier finished the game with 28 saves, holding off Indy’s offensive surge in the later stages. The Fuel will now head to Atlanta for a two-game series as they look to regroup after a tough opener.

Final Score: Savannah 4, Indy 1

Patrick Alexander

Two men from Indianapolis are facing multiple charges, including auto theft and drug-related offenses, after a brief vehicle and foot pursuit in Fishers on Wednesday, October 16, 2024.

Fishers Police Department (FPD) officers spotted a black GMC Yukon, suspected to be stolen, and confirmed the vehicle’s status. When officers attempted to pull the vehicle over, the driver refused to stop, leading to a brief vehicle pursuit. After a short chase, the suspects abandoned the vehicle and fled on foot.

Lee Flegal, one of the suspects, was apprehended following a brief foot chase. The second suspect, Patrick Alexander, was found hiding in a nearby dumpster and was also taken into custody without further incident.

Upon searching the stolen vehicle, police say they discovered drug paraphernalia, including syringes and glass pipes.

Patrick Alexander faces several serious charges, including:

• Auto Theft (Level 5 and Level 6 felonies)
• Conversion (Level 5 felony)
• Resisting Law Enforcement (Level 6 felony and Class A misdemeanor)
• Unlawful Possession of a Syringe (Level 6 felony)
• Maintaining a Common Nuisance – Controlled Substances (Level 6 felony)
• Reckless Driving (Class C misdemeanor)

Lee Flegal was charged with:

• Unauthorized Entry of a Motor Vehicle (Level 6 felony)
• Unlawful Possession of a Syringe (Level 6 felony)
• Resisting Law Enforcement (Class A misdemeanor)

Both men remain in custody as the investigation continues.