Happily Ever After After years of believing I didn’t deserve to lead this paper, I am proud to say my story has a happily ever after, because now, I finally believe I deserved it all along.
Letsinger's Legacy: After 22 years teaching at Muncie Central High School, Lisa Letsinger is retiring and leaving behind a legacy The artwork-lined hallways of Muncie Central High School (MCHS) have been Lisa Letsinger’s second home for 22 years. Since January 2000, when she rolled textbooks classroom to classroom on a cart to teach accounting and personal finance, Letsinger has rooted herself at the heart of MCHS and in the hearts of her students.
There's No Place Like Home: Former Daily News adviser and editors reflect on 100 years The newsroom wasn’t always Doug Toney’s home. When he was a freshman at Ball State in 1969, Toney was on track to become a history teacher. Born and raised on the farm, he said it made sense to have summers off and help his family out on the property. But, after one mass communications class with George Harper, former professor of journalism, Toney was “hooked.”
Habitat’s Heroine 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.”
A PAWsitive Impact: Pets throughout the 8twelve Coalition help neighbors connect with one another After getting home one day, Lezlie McCrory was greeted by both a neighborhood cat and a man on the street near her house in Muncie on 9th Street. McCrory told the man the cat had been greeting her for years, not necessarily wanting to be touched or let in the house.
Ball State alumnus Braxton Williams shares how he hopes to help others through his book, "The Infinite Horizons" Every afternoon, when the bell rang for lunchtime and his classmates’ stomachs grumbled at the thought of chips in their lunchboxes, Braxton Williams swung his backpack over his shoulder and made his way to reading class.
If there’s one thing 2021 taught me… The only constant you will ever have, for every new year you celebrate, is yourself, so you may as well treat yourself kindly and give yourself room to grow.
The Fashion Merchandising Association hosts fundraiser to create more opportunities Since joining the Fashion Merchandising Association (FMA) her freshman year, senior fashion merchandising major Brandi Osthimer has been working to raise the club from the ground up.
The Fashion Merchandising Association holds resale pop-up shop for fundraiser Since joining the Fashion Merchandising Association (FMA) her freshman year, senior fashion merchandising major Brandi Osthimer has been working to raise the club from the ground up.
Grammy and Academy award winner Tiara Thomas reflects on her career success Tiara Thomas started teaching herself how to play guitar at the age of 12. She took her guitar with her to school, telling her classmates she would win a Grammy one day before she knew how to play the instrument. At the 63rd annual Grammy Awards earlier this year, Thomas proved her 12-year-old self and her classmates right.
Hemp Farm 9/1/2022, 9:00am Meet the Owner of Delaware County’s ‘Hemp-ire’ By Evan Chandler Brian Nixon went from a full-time physical therapist to one of the only hemp farmers in Delaware County.
LGBTQ Pride 9/5/2022, 5:29pm Muncie OUTreach hosts its first Pride festival in Canan Commons Park Sept. 3
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