Writer / Ray Compton Their personal roads to the stage at the Civic Theatre in Carmel were strikingly different. The journeys varied greatly, almost if you were to compare an...

Writer / Ray Compton In his first assignment as a PA announcer with a professional sports league almost two decades ago, Mike Jansen was chirping for a minor league hockey...

Writer  /  Ray Compton  .  Photographer  /  JJ Kaplan If you combine the ages of these three World War II veterans, you arrive at a staggering number. They have piled...

Writer  / Ray Compton Photographer  /  JJ Kaplan Before discussing the world of jammers, hip whips, snowplows and other descriptions from the world of roller derby, let’s play the game...

Cindy Simon Skjodt reflects on the 70th Anniversary of Auschwitz Liberation Writer / Ray compton Undoubtedly, there were numerous eerie similarities between January 25, 1945, and January 25, 2015, that...

Writer  /  Ray Compton Photographer  /  JJ Kaplan It would be easy to assume that the boys swimming team at Carmel High School could fall victims in shouldering a growing...

Writer  /  Ray Compton All of us who have pounded the American sidewalks sometime during the last 78 years have read, seen or heard about mild-mannered newspaper reporter Clark Kent...

Theory and history seem to agree when it comes to the evolution of the superb athlete. They both will say the athlete picks up his or her preferred weapon, or...

Writer/Ray Compton • Photographer/ JJ Kaplan If Mayor Jim Brainard needs to uncover a poster family to promote his new Carmel, he may wish to turn to a couple of...

Writer / Ray Compton . Photos / JJ Kaplan No one can say that the Vintage Motorcycle Swap Meet is your typical Indiana garage sale. But then again who could...