“We are touching fourth-generation families. It’s the true meaning of community newspapers.”
The 317 Project tells stories of life in all of Indianapolis’ vibrant neighborhoods – 317 words at a timeIt’s the familiar place where 60,000 readers in Perry and Decatur townships learn what their neighbors have accomplished, how the high school baseball team fared, where to find a good plumber or who just died.Who better, then, to deliver the news than editors and writers with years — and years — of experience.
Voice owner Kelly Sawyers, a mere 57, drops bundles at 400 locations. She started the paper in 2009 when Spotlight folded after several decades. The paper might be a throwback but most readers are online, where they voted the “Reminiscing “and “Personal Recollections” features as faves. In Recollections, Fred Shonk, 80, writes about old friends, businesses and neighbors, like that time in 1956 when Jack and Minnie Whalen were burglarized and Roy Drake got arrested for it.
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