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July 26, 2026

Concerts, Back-to-School Bashes & 70 Years of GM

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Now, this week: it's a full one around the Mississinewa. The Collingsworth Family and Hubie Ashcraft Band bring live music to town, GM is hosting an open house to celebrate 70 years, back-to-school bashes and haircuts are helping families get ready for school, and the Community Foundation is spreading some serious grant money around for local entrepreneurs and Team Marion USA.

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  • A Modest Proposal for the People of Matthews

    A Modest Proposal for the People of Matthews

    By Ryan Kellermeyer, Marion· ✓ Verified

    To the Editor:

    For too long, the people of Matthews, Indiana, have watched the Cardinal Greenway — the longest rail-trail in our fair state, sixty-two proud miles from Marion to Muncie to Richmond — arrive at our doorstep and simply stop. Cyclists pedal confidently out of Gas City, full of granola and optimism, only to be dumped onto county roads to dodge traffic. The trail resumes near Gaston as if nothing happened. Matthews sits squarely in this gap, connected to nothing, known for nothing — save one lovely covered bridge, which, God bless it, can only carry a town's reputation so far.

    I write not as a resident of Matthews but as a neighbor from up the trail, and I humbly propose that Matthews close this gap itself, with a dedicated path routed around town. I propose we call it the Matthews McConaugh-way.

    The design principles are simple. Every turn on the Matthews McConaugh-way shall be a right turn. Three of them, in fact, in gentle succession as the path curves around town… “all right, all right, all right.” Signage will confirm each one. No left turns will be permitted or, frankly, philosophically tolerated.

    Consider the benefits:

    Civic connectivity. The McConaugh-way would finally link Gas City to the Gaston-Muncie stretch, making the Cardinal Greenway whole and putting Matthews at the very heart of Indiana's premier trail — not to mention the Great American Rail-Trail, a route that will someday run from Washington, D.C. to Washington State. Coast-to-coast cyclists would pass directly through Matthews. Some of them might even buy sandwiches.

    Tourism. People drive hours to see a covered bridge. Imagine how far they'll drive to ride a pun. The gift shop possibilities are endless.

    Regional identity. Gas City has gas. Gaston has, presumably, more gas. Matthews would have something no town in America has: a piece of transportation infrastructure named after an Academy Award winner who has never been there and is not aware of it. That is exactly the kind of confidence Matthews needs.

    To the skeptics who say Matthews cannot afford it, I quote Matthew McConaughey himself: “It'd be a lot cooler if you did.”

    Greenlight this, Matthews.

    Respectfully submitted from up the trail,
    A Concerned Neighbor with a Bicycle and a Dream

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  • Hibiscus Bloom in Marion

    Hibiscus Bloom in Marion

    By Ryan Kellermeyer

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  • Help wanted: OurWeek's first team member (Grant County)

    By OurWeek

    Be the person who puts the paper on the counter.

    OurWeek is Grant County's free weekly — local events, news, sports, and classifieds, on paper, on the web at ourweek.in/grant-county, and in a Sunday-morning email. It's written by your neighbors and free to read. Now it needs one well-connected person to help it show up everywhere in the county.

    The job has two halves:

    1. Get the paper out. Every week we print a one-page community calendar. You'd keep a route of 20–30 spots stocked — coffee shops, diners, waiting rooms, barbershops, the library, the Y. A couple of hours a week, on your own schedule. Every flyer carries a QR code we count, so you'll see exactly how many people your route brings in — your impact is on a dashboard, not a guess.

    2. Bring local sponsors in. OurWeek runs on a handful of local sponsorships — only six slots per week, $20 to $75 each ("Events brought to you by Hometown Hardware"). You know which businesses should be in front of every household in Grant County; your job is the conversation. The sponsor page handles sign-up and payment, so you're never chasing invoices.

    The pay is straight commission, and here's the exact math: you keep 50% of every sponsorship you bring in, for as long as that sponsor stays, paid monthly. All six slots together are $225 a week — sell the paper out and your half is $112.50 a week, which works out to $487.50 a month, ongoing, for keeping those relationships warm. No salary, no cap. And as OurWeek adds more towns, you will be the first in line to grow with it.

    You might be right for this if you already know everybody — you're a highly networked local who can't get through the diner without three conversations. No sales experience needed; you're recommending something local businesses actually want, at a price that isn't hard to say yes to.

    Interested? Email hello@ourweek.in with a few sentences about who you are and how you know the county. That's the whole application.

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