Please join the Historic Irvington Community Council as we conduct our regularly scheduled meeting tonight at 7pm in the basement of the Irvington Presbyterian Church.  The agenda below gives an outline of items on the docket.  Agenda is subject to change. Historic Irvington Community Council Agenda June 21, 2011 – 7pm 7pm – Call to Order Introduction and installation of newly elected Council members Nomination and elections of HICC Officers for 2011-2012 business year May 2011 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]