Franklin News

This summer, three Franklin elementary schools will get new intercoms and a new entrance design requiring visitors to go to the main office.

Scott and Karen Armacost have shell casings and other items on display in their living room to honor veteran son Tyler who died in a vehicle crash in Kentucky on March 25, 2013.

This month's Memorial Day biscuit and gravy breakfasts will help fund transportation costs for area veterans who go to Richard L. Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Indianapolis.

In this Saturday, May 11, 2013 photo, Aretha Franklin performs during McDonald's Gospelfest 2013 at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. Franklin has canceled performances in Chicago on May 20 and Connecticut on May 26 under a doctora TMs recommendation for treatment.

But getting new business downtown and fixing the exteriors of buildings, helping people pay for and make repairs to their homes and making U.S. 31 look unique through Franklin also are high-priority items.

A woman was in the apartment when the fire started, but got out on her own, Ridpath said.

Magen Kritsch Natalie Simmons, , 4th grade, Addison Baldridge, , 4th grade and Denise Leonard, gym teacher, test the PH of the water at Hurricane Creek in Province Park in Franklin.

Franklin resident Kathy Edwards holds her two children, 6-year-old Stormy and 4-year-old AJ.

The public is invited to meet May 25 at the cemetery to help place flags on the graves of veterans.

Joseph Hewett, who staved off health problems several years ago to open the restaurant of his dreams in downtown Franklin, died in his sleep this week at his home, said friend Thom England.

Special assignment teacher Erin Peck and Franklin College senior student teacher Gunner Erwin take students on a walk around the school during a break from ISTEP testing Tuesday, May 7, 2013, at Northwood Elementary School in Franklin, Indiana.

Mutual Savings Bank in Franklin on June 8 will conduct a parking lot garage sale that will benefit the bank's Habitat for Humanity Women Build team.

This month's Memorial Day biscuit and gravy breakfasts will help fund transportation costs for area veterans who go to Richard L. Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Indianapolis.

Rick Service, right, is graduating this semester from Ivy Tech Community College.

Hoopingarner helped the Grizzlies sweep Anderson and earn a berth to HCAC Tournament.

Three new franchisees have agreed to develop Fazoli's restaurants in travel centers, while two existing operators also have new travel center units under construction.

Fusing down-south flavors with modern haute cuisine, he turned his downtown Franklin restaurant the Indigo Duck into a dining experience unlike anything else in Johnson County.

Tens of thousands of soldiers passed through Camp Atterbury each year when the post was still mobilizing them to go to Iraq and Afghanistan, and that meant an economic boost for local businesses.

A 77-year-old Franklin woman is worried that she or one of the art students she teaches will trip and fall on the crumbling steps at her Main Street home, but she can't afford to make the repairs.

On April 27, a wonderful event took place in Franklin. At the site of the now in-development urban forest, more than 135 citizens spent the morning planting trees.