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⛵️Answered: Best ice cream in Fishers🍦
PLUS: trash frontrunners, gen con tickets, and your weekend preview
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Good Friday morning. This is Fishers Digest. Welcome home to the cool side of local news. Saved you a seat 🪑
In today’s digest:
You picked the best ice cream 🍦
Trash frontrunners
Gen Con Tix
Your weekend preview
— Written by Lindsey Watson and Skyler Braun
This issue is 1,520 words, a 5-minute read.
The Digest
You voted this as the best ice cream in Fishers🍦👑
Handel's absolutely crushed, scooping up 57% of the 300 votes. With Graeter’s and Bruster’s following behind. The other seven options were grouped together so you didn’t have to squint reading the infographic for the full scoop (pun intended).
Two flavors mentioned a few times were Graham Central Station from Handel’s or Bruster’s, and anything chocolate chip from Graeter’s like Black Raspberry Chocolate Chip.
If it was a non-dairy competition, Bruster’s would have won easily. They had a ton of entries hyping that up.
Big thanks to everyone who voted and our friends at SMARI for crunching the numbers. Mike and Imara - you rock. If you need market research, they are your world class option and best part is they’re local.
Fishers' trash plan is getting real
Republic Services might be handling your garbage come 2025. A new proposed 10-year contract would start at $16.39/month and go up a little every year. That's less than what 87% of us pay now. Plus it includes trash, recycling, leaf pickup, and a new “snowbird” option.
Want to weigh in? There's a public hearing on August 13 at the Board of Public Works.
That’s the key info you need to know. But if you want to get into the nitty gritty trash details, including a full history into how we got here, we have them on our website.
Submit your nominations!
This week we got over 10 nominations for our Fishers version of the IBJ’s “Indiana 250”. Which is 10 more than I was expecting 🎉 So we are going through with making a list!
Just to keep things simple, July 31st will be the last day to nominate someone. If you need a refresher, here’s the rules:
You have to be nominated by someone else
The nominee has to be doing something objectively cool in Fishers
Can’t be related to politics
All you have to do is reply to this email with who you are nominating. List will be released on August 2.
Everyone cleans their clothes and dishes regularly but when was the last time you actually made sure that the appliance responsible for doing the cleaning was clean itself?
Sad Fact: Dirty appliances don't clean well. You wouldn't bathe in a dirty bathtub so why are you washing your things in dirty machines?
Join the over 1 million happy customers who use ACTIVE's viral cleaning tablets and stop worrying whether or not your appliances are actually cleaning like they're supposed to again!
Personal note from Fishers Digest writers: We’ve tried these and they rock. Our washing machine was starting to get a little funky and we used their tablets above and it made a world of difference 👍️
The Happenings
Weekend preview 📆
ICYMI from Tuesday’s issue:
> The Fishers Flower Farm is hosting a brand new flower workshop this Saturday
> The Olympics start today 🥇 There is a watch party in Carmel at midtown for the opening ceremony from 12 - 4 pm
> Today and tomorrow is your last chance to get Mark Pi’s!
> Friends of the White River are hosting an educational float with Conner Prairie on Saturday
> Only a few days left to bid on millions of dollars of pickleball gear from Christy’s Indiana
Learn why there’s a town underneath Geist 🌊
Catch a glimpse of Geist before it was, well, Geist. The Fishers Historical Society, Indy Sailing Club, and Log Cabin Animal Hospital are teaming up for a history lesson you won't want to miss.
What: Germantown and Geist Reservoir history presentation
When: Saturday, July 27th, 11 AM
Where: Indianapolis Sailing Club
Signups are free here.
Movies at The Yard 🎥
This Saturday at 8:30 PM, The Yard will set up an inflatable movie screen to play “101 Dalmatians”. Bring your own blankets, chairs, and food/drinks. More details here.
Red Carpet Movie Premiere this Sunday
Hollywood is coming to Indy 😂 It’s not often that Indy is the host of a movie premiere. This is a full on red carpet event for “THE DUEL”, which features Dylan Sprouse (Remember the Suite Life of Zach and Cody?)
Tickets for start at $50. You can also purchase tickets for the afterparty, which will be at The Lume at Newfields. Tickets for the afterparty are $150.
Cars and Coffee 🚗 ☕️
Car buffs, mark your calendars. Indy Cars & Coffee hits Knowledge Services + The Club (9800 Crosspoint Blvd) on Saturday, July 27, 8-11 AM. Free entry, free Jack's Donuts (while they last), and Java House coffee will be for sale. Anyone is welcome, and all proceeds will be going to the Folds of Honor.
You know this is going to be a big event when they’ve coordinated with police and have a map for where to enter and park your car, based on how nice it is.
Football is back 🏈
Colts Training Camp is back! This is your chance to witness the Colts practice as a team for the first time this season at Grand Park in Westfield. It’s free admission (but you do need to pick up tickets), and that gets you exclusive player access, giveaways, and more. You can pick the days you want to attend here.
🎶 Live Music
Your weekend pick: We’re giving this week’s pick to Parks Place Pub again. Why? Because it’s a good vibe and they’ve got a nice Friday/Saturday option for you:
Joe Hess | Friday 8 pm
Camp Brothers | Saturday 8 pm
For next week….Does Blink 182 bring back any school-aged ear worms? The band is doing a “one more time” tour and they’ll be at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on August 2nd. Tickets here.
If none of these shows are your thing, that’s cool. You can always find more live music venues list on our site below 👇️
Coming Soon 🔜
Gen Con returns to Indy August 1-4
The only badge left for next week’s 4 day event is Sunday. Which hey, is better than nothing if you don’t already have one. They say these will likely be sold out shortly. Get a badge here.
There’s a massive amount of events going on next week that won’t require a badge though. Almost 24,000 to be exact. Which you can view on their site here.
Don’t know what Gen Con is? It’s “The Best Four Days in Gaming”, which started as a meeting between friends to play games in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Now we have Gen Con 👾
It’s almost that time of year again — back to school! 🛎️
Does the sound of a school bell make you cringe with anxiety, too? 😆 The 3rd annual “Before the Bell” will be August 1 at the Nickel Plate AMP starting at 5:30 PM. All HSE students, preschool to 12th grade, are invited for games, inflatables, community vendors and booths, and even a touch-a-bus opportunity. No stress here — this will be a fun evening to get the kids amped for the school year again! More details here.
Local Business
Have you tried the new Birria Tacos from Tako Seoul?
Birria Tacos from Tako Seoul
You have to try these. If you haven’t been, Tako Seoul is a fast casual Mexican restaurant with a Korean twist. They’ve got the usual suspects when it comes to taco options, and these new Birria Tacos they have are 🔥
You’ll find Tako Seoul at 8235 E 116th St Ste. 201, Fishers, IN 46038
Why the heck is there a duck floating on the river in Indy?
What you are looking at is a 1,600 lb duck that was brought here courtesy of the University of Oregon. This week was Big 10 Media Days here in Indy at Lucas Oil. And the Oregon Ducks are a new team that have been brought to the Big 10, which is now 18 teams. We don’t follow college sports but.. shouldn’t it be called the Big 18 now? 😂
I do not know if this duck is still terrorizing the river but if you head to downtown Indy this weekend you’ll have to let us know if you see it.
Rapid Fire Hits
Quick headlines and things to know from all around 🌐
The City of Noblesville approved a Downtown Outdoor Recreation Area (DORA), which means you can legally buy and walk around with alcohol outdoors. (Noblesville Gov)
Livability ranked Fishers as the #4 city to live in America. We were also this rank last year. Nice! (Livability)
If you’re a fan of the MLS, it’s probably not coming anytime soon. Although commissioners for the league are saying Indy is doing “everything right” (IBJ)* May require a subscription to read
Ale Emporium is opening their fourth restaurant. This time in Avon.
Niyyah Coffee is opening up another coffee shop, this time in Broad Ripple. They’re a local Fishers business that started as a stand and since opened up a full shop at the Hub and Spoke (Instagram)
I69 and 465 on the southwest side will finally open up again this August (WTHR)
Weekly recap
Here’s what readers clicked the most the past week 🏆️
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