Congratulations to the new 2011-2013 HICC Board of Directors.  Elections were held on-line and the results were announced at the May HICC meeting.  The new board will take their place at the regular council meeting on Tuesday June 21, 2011 at 7pm in the basement of the Irvington Presbyterian Church.  Please come out and meet the new council members.  Executive Officers for the new board will also be voted on and announced at this meeting. [...]

Voting for the 2011 HICC Board of Directors is now open. Nominations were made in person at the April HICC meeting on Tuesday April 19th. The nominees are as follows… District 1:  Sally Johnson, Stan Denski and Bill Aughe District 2:  Kyla Thompson District 3:  Steve Nicewanger, Dale Harkins, Marty Powell, Jeff Coppinger, and Stephanie Smith District 4:  Seth Brooke, Mike Spilbeler, Ryan Trester, and Tom Padgett Board members will be limited to no more [...]

Nominations are currently being accepted for the 2011 HICC Board of Directors.  Any Irvington resident, property owner or business owners/managers of Irvington businesses age 18 or over may nominate up to five individuals from their district (including themselves)s. Nominations must be made orally at the April 19th HICC meeting at 7pm in the basement of the Irvington Presbyterian Church. If you would like to nominate yourself or someone else for the 2011 Board, please be [...]

IUMC Preschool registration is now open to the public for the 2011-2012 school year Irvington United Methodist Church Preschool began in 1988 as the brainchild of a group of mothers interested in finding a quality preschool program for their children.  The school has blossomed from 18 children and 4 staff positions to over 100 children and 32 staff positions today.  A variety of classes are available from the 18 month-old Bunny class to the full-day [...]

Grassroots Indy: Beer, barns, bats, biking — and books. via Metromix: Kathleen Madinger Angelone’s store, Bookmamas — located in the historic Masonic Lodge in Irvington — brings together many of the things she loves most. “Reading, Indiana history, old books and old buildings,” she said as she stood in the store at 9 Johnson Ave. that’s filled with 35,000 new and used books. “It’s all here: the wood floors and smell of the old books. [...]

Check out this article about Indianapolis LISC grants in Irvington, featuring George Thomas Florist and Amandula Henry of the Irvington Development Organization. via WishTV: INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – If you travel along Washington Street through Irvington, you’ll notice changes throughout the year. “So many people pass through and they don’t know they’re going through a really cool neighborhood,” said Amandula Henry from the Irvington Development Organization. It was once an area of sleepy sidewalks with vacant storefronts. “When we acquired [...]

Dale Harkins and the Irving Theatre are featured in the The Indianapolis Star: When Dale Harkins bought the Irving Theater in 2008, he collected a stack of newspaper clippings about former owners who tried — and failed — to bring the Irvington landmark back to life. The theater opened as a movie house in 1913 and flourished for half a century. Howard Caldwell, author of “The Golden Age of Indianapolis Theaters,” recalls taking dates to the Irving [...]

Our friend Wayne Kimmell, a renowned Irvington artist, passed away unexpectedly on Dec. 27th. Our condolences go out to his family. He was an amazing artist and a wonderful person. Wayne was the artist for the 2007 and 2009 Irvington Halloween Festival posters. He will be missed. The family has set up a website with a guestbook for messages: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/waynekimmell Via IndyStar: Wayne M. Kimmell 70, of Indianapolis, passed away December 27, 2010. He was [...]