Proud Crowd: More Details on Muncie's First Pride
By Baylie Blake / August 21, 2020SteVen Knipp, the head of Muncie Pride, says it has taken about 10 years for the idea of Muncie Pride to finally come true.
SteVen Knipp, the head of Muncie Pride, says it has taken about 10 years for the idea of Muncie Pride to finally come true.
In September, Muncie will have its very first Pride festival. SteVen Knipp, one of the organizers, attributes his 17 years as a Muncie resident to him feeling comfortable putting together an event like Pride.
Tee Cozy’s mission is to spread love, and he does that through his restaurant, Cozy Noodles n’ Rice.
Muncie, Indiana has a sister city in Zhuji, China. Relationships between sisters form a special kind of bond. For many, sisters are not only family, but a best friend.
Starting in fashion, Georedt Michael Huggins did not see himself as one day being a photographer and a creative support for youth in Muncie.
Muncie was once a factory city, but in recent years has experienced rapid deindustrialization.
Muncie is known nationally as America’s Middletown thanks to a series of sociological studies. However, some crucial perspectives were left out of its pages.
With summer in session, warm nights are the perfect time to get outside and look at the sky.
Amanda Hughes, owner of Forever Young Children’s Boutique, has always known she was a business woman at heart.
Tyler Hollis, junior actuarial science major, is spending his summer as intern working virtually for CNO Financial Group.
Follow the growth of bicycles in Indiana and Kirk’s Bike Shop, established in 1865 and still thriving.
The buildings alongside Walnut Street were wrapped in corrugated aluminum, hiding the historic brick facades. Some had been renovated to the styles of the ‘80s. It was a mishmash of architecture. The street was paved over as a plaza for pedestrians to walk from store to store — except they didn’t.
The First Thursday events during the months of April and May in downtown Muncie were not bustling as usual.
Jennifer Erickson, anthropology professor at Ball State, will be traveling to Bosnia during the spring 2021 semester after winning a U.S. Scholar award from the Fulbright program.
A spotlight on three Muncie Businesses and organizations that support the LGBTQ community.
This April, much like she had done in the past 10 years, Stefanie Onieal held a poetry activity for her second-grade students over the Zoom video conference platform.
While the greenhouse continues to remain closed for in-person visits, it is still conducting its annual orchid sale entirely online — the first time in the sale’s nine-year history that it has taken this form.
A ten-minute phone call saved Mike Stetzel’s life. On the other end, Stetzel’s donor coordinator told him he’d receive the kidney he’d been waiting on for four years to cure his polycystic kidney disease.
When Taylor Poer came home from the hospital the day she was born, she said, she was told she was already wearing Ball State socks.
When she was in high school, Erica Forstater said, she participated in the Student Conservation Association (SCA), a non-profit group whose members protect and restore land throughout the U.S.
