VIDEO: Long Distance Pen Pals Describe Their Forty-Seven Year Relationship
ByWe talked with pen pals Mare Castner and Susan Smith who talked about their long-lasting friendship while remaining miles apart.
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We talked with pen pals Mare Castner and Susan Smith who talked about their long-lasting friendship while remaining miles apart.
After two years of cancellations, the Muncie Bridge Dinner returned Thursday. The event, held on the Washington Street bridge in Muncie, attracted members of the community, including Muncie locals and Ball State University students.
Daily New's sports editor Daniel Kehn took a visit to the recreational center to understand more about Quadball and to try out the unusual sport.
August 10, 2022, Ball State Daily News sophomore photographer Amber Pietz captured photos of one of Ball State University's landmarks, LaFollette Complex, under demolition.
Though it didn’t go exactly to plan, Fire Up DWNTWN took over Walnut Street and the rest of downtown Muncie, Indiana, August 6, 2022. Hot air balloons still briefly took the skies, local businesses set up shop under tents, food trucks lined the street and countless other events ran from 1-10 p.m., prompting Muncie’s community to show out in full form.
As a part of Kia of Muncie and Toyota of Muncie's Tent Sale, Indianapolis Colts quarterback Matt Ryan signed autographs from 2-4 p.m. July 22, 2022.
Art on the side of two buildings in downtown Muncie, Indiana, pictured the morning of July 19, 2022. This art not only showcases the artists' ability but promotes the local businesses inside the building the art is featured on.
Charles W. Brown Planetarium in Muncie, Indiana offered three free shows July 15, 2022.
A series of photos taken July 12-13, 2022, feature art in downtown Muncie, Indiana. Some photos include art that showcase love for the Muncie area and some simply show art itself. (Kyle Smedley/DN)
Students in the 2022 CCIM + Summer Experience workshop at Ball State University composed a four-minute video with two sources talking about the current reconstruction of the Cooper Science Complex. Sources and photos in the video show the active construction as well as the desired goal.
Former editors of the Ball State Daily News talk about how the DN prepared them for their career, the impact it gave them as journalists, and what they hope to see in the future for the Daily News.
A former 80,000-square-foot laundry facility in Muncie holds limitless possibilities. Boombox music fills the second floor while artists move tables to set up for First Thursday, a monthly event to draw people to explore art and culture downtown. A woodworker helps children build birdhouses while Steven Knipp colors hair in his salon a few doors down. Adjacent businesses invite people in for gift shopping or ax throwing.
A maintenance worker at Ball State's geothermal plant describes the process of geothermal heating and the change it has brought to campus.
With a bottle of water, reading materials and a phone charging on the table beside her, Sharon Kay Brown sits in her favorite rocking chair every Tuesday evening and tunes into NBC’s “Chicago Fire.”
"I'll be following the men's team as long as I live. I'm just trying to carry on the Shondell tradition."
Assistant director Christian Pullings talks about the upcoming musical "Newsies" coming to The Muncie Civic Theatre on Feb. 17-20 and 24-27.
Freshman diver Ashleigh Provan talks about her recent qualifications for the NCAA Zone meet and the unrelated sport that got her there.
Students and members of the Muncie community came together to remember Martin Luther King Jr. and to raise awareness for societal change.
