- Fishers Digest
- Posts
- ⛵️ Rewind
Good Sunday Morning. This is Fishers Digest. The local newsletter that’s more fun than a NYE ball drop 🪩
🌨️ Today's weather: Scattered snow showers, with a high near 34°.
⛅️ 1st day of 2024: Partly sunny, with a high near 38°.
In today’s digest:
Best of 2023
Safest city in America
NYE Guide
Fast Food Secrets
This issue is 1,026 words, a 4-minute read.
The Digest
Best of 2023 🏆️
2023 was a fun year. Here’s the top 3 best issues for your Sunday reads (based on your readership).
This issue was the number one issue of the 2023. And it was all due to one, tiny section:
Restaurant report cards.
In August, the Health Department announced that every restaurant in Fishers is required to show their inspection grade near their front door. Food trucks will be required to do the same by the end of next year. The city made a dashboard that allows anyone to track a restaurants grade. It also shows you the public report and why they received that grade.
❯ Link to the restaurant dashboard and how it works here.
Foil Hats Required came in at a close second. This issue had more web views than the email itself did 🤯 Over the past few months, the City of Fishers has been revoking the permits for Verizon’s 5g tower deployments. The towers have been built in neighborhoods. And for whatever reason, Verizon went dark on their plans to continue. Even though most of their remaining permits have been revoked, they could get them again in the future.
❯ Link to the 5g tower dashboard here.
Third place goes to the trash issue. When Waste Management acquired Ray’s in 2022, everything went downhill. Fishers is moving into 2024 and there are still regular occurrences of entire neighborhoods with missed service, 100% rate increases, and more. Because of this, the City of Fishers is now looking into options for a city-managed trash service.
What do you think?
What were your favorite issues this year? There is a complete archive on both our website and here. I would love to know what you enjoyed the most and want to see more of in 2024.
#2 Safest City in America
One big thing: Fishers is the #2 safest place to live in America.
Every year, MoneyGeek, SmartAsset, and more do studies on cities with populations over 100k. Fishers consistently ranks in the top 10 for cities when it comes to safety. And so do neighboring cities like Carmel and Noblesville.
The list for 2024 was no exception. When it comes to crime, only one other city in the country has a lower “crime cost per capita”. In simpler terms, this is the cost of crime divided by the amount of residents. For Fishers, that number is $296 per resident.
Read the full report here.
The Happenings
Weekend preview 🥂 - NYE edition
The countdown is officially on to 2024. Here’s the best guide you’ll find to doing New Years Eve today. And sorry, we can’t help you choose who you kiss tonight.
🎆 There are no public firework displays happening in Fishers (and Indy for that matter). So if you want to see some, that’s on you and your neighbors. Luckily, from 10 am today to 1 am — you’re allowed to fire off whatever you like!
For an alcohol-free party experience, Memento Zero Proof is hosting their “Death to 2023” cocktail party in downtown Fishers. Happens from 8 pm - 1 am.
The Glitter Gala is a disco-themed party at Daniel’s Vineyard to ring in 2024 dancing 🕺 If you went to their holiday pop-up bar, you know they do events right. Buy your tickets here.
The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis is hosting their “Countdown to noon” for the kids you don’t want or plan on staying up till midnight. Learn more here.
Indiana Roof Ball Room will be hosting their 9th annual NYE party. They’ll have casino games, live music, multiple pop-up bars, tables to reserve, and much more. And hey, you can even get your palm read to see how your 2024 will go 🔮 Link to tickets.
The Colts host the Raiders at Lucas Oil Stadium @ 1 pm. The first 30,000 fans will receive a New Year's Eve party pack with necklaces, glasses, and other fun accessories. This is a must win game to keep their playoff hopes alive. Get your tickets here!
There will be plenty of watch parties at local bars like Ale Emporium, Mashcraft, Parks Place Pub, and more
None of these events your speed? Eventbrite has a great listing of other parties, dinners, paintings, and more to finish out the year.
Rapid Fire Hits
Quick headlines and things to know from all around 🌐
🌲 Carmel announced a 13m expansion to the Monon Greenway. Construction will start in the Spring and should be complete by the end of 2025. (link)
⌚️Were you confused why you couldn’t by certain Apple Watches around Christmas? Apple is currently in a legal battle that included a sales ban over patent dispute. That ban was temporarily lifted until a full ruling is made. (link)
The Indy Fuel (soon to be Fishers Fuel) are on a tear. Not only have they figured sold out their past 4 games, but they’ve won them too. This is great news for Fishers soon to be team!
You may have noticed from time-to-time, we’ll post about epic deals. Remember the $1 for a dozen at Krispy Kreme a few weeks ago? Here’s the secret, we get them from the Fast Food Secrets Club. These guys are awesome and were generous enough to sponsor part of this issue. Check them out to join 100k+ people saving money when you go out to eat!
Idaho has their own version of a crystal ball drop, the potato drop. Apparently, spec-taters come from all around for it. And they’ve done it for over 10 years. (link)
This begs a very important question…
What would Indiana's version of a "Potato drop" NYE be? |
Thanks!
If you found something useful, please share this with someone who is already doing their new year resolution.
Happy New Year! See you next year!
Reply