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  • Meet Your Neighbor: Laura Villanyi

    The City of Fishers is proud to recognize Laura Villanyi, a long-time Fishers resident and artist, as this year’s City of Fishers Apparel Design contest winner. The Apparel Design contest took place in late 2021, where residents were invited to submit their designs to be included on apparel sold in the City’s online store. This…

  • Meet Your Neighbor: Fishers Armed Services Commission

    The Fishers Armed Services Commission originated from a breakfast with Mayor Scott Fadness, George Stavropoulos and Fishers City Council Member Brad DeReamer, where the conversation was focused on how the City of Fishers could not only continue to honor veterans, but also encourage military service and pay tribute to those who are actively serving.   From…

  • Meet Your Neighbor: Check Your Shelf Book Club

    In honor of Fishers’ celebration of National Disability Awareness Month, we’re featuring community stories related to disability and inclusion throughout the month on the This is Fishers blog. Learn more about the celebration and how you can be an ally for disability inclusion at fishers.in.us/DisabilityAwareness.    On the first Thursday of each month, the Hamilton East Public Library hosts a…

  • Meet Your Neighbor: Travis Breeding

    In honor of Fishers’ celebration of National Disability Awareness Month, we’re featuring community stories related to disability and inclusion throughout the month on the This is Fishers blog. Learn more about the celebration and how you can be an ally for disability inclusion at fishers.in.us/DisabilityAwareness.   Travis Breeding is a new Fishers resident, originally from Fort…

  • Meet Your Neighbor: Aunna Fadness

    Meet the First Lady of Fishers, Aunna Fadness, and learn more about her background, her favorite things about Fishers, and more.     Tell us a little about yourself.  I am originally from Union Mills, a small town in northwest Indiana. I attended Purdue University for my undergraduate degree in Aquatic Science and received my master’s…

  • 5 Things to Know About Fishers’ Driverless Car

    This week, a new (and free!) AV shuttle launched in downtown Fishers, and there’s a lot of buzz around these Together in Motion self-driving vehicles from May Mobility. So, here’s five things to know about Fishers’ newest public transportation service. It’s an SUV (but completely decked out with the latest AV technology!) To create the autonomous shuttles, modifications were…

  • Meet Your Neighbor: Noreen Nowak, Gold Star Family Member

    On November 8, 2004, Robert (Bobby) Paul Warns II, a corporal with Marine Corps Company 2/24, was killed alongside four of his comrades in an IED blast while on patrol in Iraq. From that point, the lives of his family, including his aunt, Noreen Nowak, were changed forever. “Losing a family member, while deployed, tears…

  • Meet Your Neighbor: Alhuda Mosque

    The Al Huda Foundation opened Al Huda Masjid off of Lantern Road near the Nickel Plate District. After three years of planning, the largest congregation of Muslims in the state opened the new $8.8 million mosque. Led by the imam (religious leader) Nasser Karimian, the mosque serves over 3,000 congregants from Fishers and surrounding communities.…

  • 5 Things to Know about the Blazing the Trail Mural

    Blazing the Trail, a mural by Indiana artist Becky Hochhalter, was celebrated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on July 14, 2021. The mural, located on the back of the Fishers Police Department parking garage on the municipal complex, faces the paved portion of the Nickel Plate Trail just north of 116th Street. The colorful mural is…

  • Meet Your Neighbor: Naptown Hepcats

    The local band Naptown Hepcats will be performing at this year’s Spark!Fishers festival ignited by First Internet Bank on Saturday, June 26! You can find them on the Main Stage at the Nickel Plate District Amphitheater sponsored by Ed Martin Toyota and Nissan at 3 p.m. I sat down with frontman and Fishers resident Spencer…