It's that time of year when everyone is thinking good thoughts and sending along good tidings!

From our friends at the Sheridan Public Library comes this wish for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

At the home basketball game on Tuesday, Dec. 18, former Sheridan basketball player Rex Pitts will be honored. Pitts is being inducted into the Hamilton County Sports Hall of Fame.

Pitts played for the legendary Larry Hobbs at Sheridan High School and was on the starting five squad for four consecutive sectional champion teams in 1949-1952. He was named to the All-County Teams in 1950, 1951 and 1952; 

Abigail Davis of Sheridan High School has been named a recipient of a four-year, full tuition scholarships as part of the 2019 Boone County Lilly Endowment Community Scholars. Davis will receive full tuition to an accredited public or private nonprofit college or university in Indiana and a $900 stipend for required books and equipment.

Davis, daughter of Richard and Nicole Davis of Whitestown, has served her community in a number of ways.

The Good Samaritan Network of Hamilton County, in collaboration with the Sheridan Rotary Club, is sponsoring a free Thanksgiving Day meal in the South Room of the Sheridan Community Center at 300 E. 6th St. in uptown Sheridan.

The meal will be held on Thanksgiving Day and the serving line will be open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Sheridan schools, along with all major Hamilton County school systems and many other schools and businesses are either on a weather delay or are closed today. An ice storm hit the area overnight and more ice and snow are expected this morning.

Sheridan schools are on a two-hour delay.

Sheridan residents, listen up! There is a winter weather advisory in effect beginning at 1 a.m. tonight and going until 7 p.m. Thursday. A mixed bag of snow and ice is expected. And while the snow may only total two inches or less, a tenth-of-an-inch of ice could hit the town.

If that happens, there could be issues with power lines and certainly road conditions.

Hamilton County Commissioner Mark Heirbrandt recently spoke to Sheridan Rotarians and several other interested community members about various Hamilton County infrastructure projects currently under way or planned for the near future.

Projects talked about included the planned upgrade to State Road 47 along the southern border of the Sheridan community, the widening of West 236th Street through the Bakers Corner community and the ongoing drainage project on the east edge of town. These were the three projects that will most directly affect Sheridan in the next couple of years.

It's Halloween time and everyone is getting into the (pardon the pun) spirit of the season!

Sheridan Public Library director Steve Martin and Majestic Care of Sheridan’s new Marketing Director Allyson Combs combined their talents recently to create a pumpkin made from books. And they took the time to send along the photo for everyone to enjoy!

The historians who visited Sheridan last spring from Cadiz, Ky., have announced the release of their newest publication. Mrs. Randolph, a small town portrait is a 282-page coffee table book from the desks of Kim Fortner and Paul Fourshee.

Mrs. Randolph was a photographer in Sheridan from 1914 to 1946. She began her photography career at the young age of 17 when her husband purchased the studio of Quarles and Keates (rhymes with gates) in downtown Cadiz in 1893. She moved in 1914 to Sheridan and purchased Grace Bartlett’s Studio (the George Glass Studio) and continued her photography business until her death in 1946.