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NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (WISH) — Early voting will continue Friday, Saturday and Monday in Hamilton County at multiple locations.

The Hamilton County Government and Judicial Center at 1 Hamilton Square, and the Hamilton County Fairgrounds at 2003 E. Pleasant St. will be the initial sites for early voting. Later, early voting will be extended to sites in Carmel, Fishers and Westfield.

The Hamilton County Government and Judicial Center at 1 Hamilton Square will be open these hours:

The County Fairgrounds will be open these hours:

Six additional locations opened Oct. 26 for early voting in Hamilton County: Billericay Park, 12690 Promise Road, Fishers; Cool Creek Nature Center, 2000-1 E. 151st St., Westfield; Holland Memorial Park, 1 Park Drive, Fishers; Jill Perelman Pavilion, 3000 W. 116th St., Carmel; Mercy Road Church-Carmel, 2381 Pointe Parkway; and Westfield City Hall, 130 Penn St. Here are the hours for all locations:

The deadline to register to vote was Oct. 11.

Hoosiers can check their voter registration statuses at indianavoters.in.gov.

In Hamilton County, residents can call the voter registration office at  317-776-9632.

NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (WISH) — Early voting will begin Wednesday in Hamilton County at two locations in Noblesville.

The Hamilton County Government and Judicial Center at 1 Hamilton Square, and the Hamilton County Fairgrounds at 2003 E. Pleasant St. will be the initial sites for early voting. Later, early voting will be extended to sites in Carmel, Fishers and Westfield.

The Judicial Center will be open these hours:

The County Fairgrounds will be open these hours:

Here are six additional locations that will open Oct. 26 for early voting in Hamilton County: Billericay Park, 12690 Promise Road, Fishers; Cool Creek Nature Center, 2000-1 E. 151st St., Westfield; Holland Memorial Park, 1 Park Drive, Fishers; Jill Perelman Pavilion, 3000 W. 116th St., Carmel; Mercy Road Church-Carmel, 2381 Pointe Parkway; and Westfield City Hall, 130 Penn St. Here are the hours for all locations:

The deadline to register to vote was Oct. 11. Hoosiers can check their voter registration statuses at indianavoters.in.gov. In Hamilton County, residents can call the voter registration office at  317-776-9632.

SHERIDAN, Ind. (Inside INdiana Business) — Greenwood-based Indiana American Water(IAW) has marked the completion of a nearly $10 million upgrade of its Sheridan wastewater treatment facility. IAW says the investment enabled the project to triple the facility’s ability to handle daily flows, add a larger capacity clarifier and a second aeration treatment basin, among other improvements. 

Indiana American Water President Matt Prine says the wastewater system had received several notice violations of its national discharge permits for several years following bypass and overflow events.

“These improvements will provide significant additional treatment capacity so we can treat wastewater that historically has overflowed or been bypassed into the environment,” said Prine.

Prine says most of Sheridan’s wastewater system was built decades ago and was nearing the end. He adds investments made at the Sheridan facility since 2018 will enable the space to again be compliant with state and federal regulations.

“The sale of the system to Indiana American Water allowed us to bring the expertise, economies of scale and needed capital to provide a solution to issues the Town was facing. At the same time, it also gave them the resources to focus on other community needs and priorities,” said Prine.

Wessler Engineering and Reynolds Construction designed and built the new wastewater facility, which serves approximately 2,500 wastewater customers.

SHERIDAN, Ind. (WISH) — An 83-year-old Boone County man died after being struck by a sport-utility vehicle Thursday afternoon, police said.

Leon Brandenburg, of rural Sheridan, had just visited his mailbox when he was struck, investigators found.

Police were called to a report of a pedestrian struck about 5:35 p.m. Thursday in the 8300 block of East State Road 47. That’s in a rural area east of the intersection with U.S. 421 between the communities of Elizaville and Sheridan in northern Boone County.

Kristen Valdez, 41, of Kirklin, was driving the 2007 Toyota RAV4. A news release from the Boone County Sheriff’s Office in Lebanon did not indicate whether Valdez was cited.

A fatal alcohol crash team was called to the scene, but alcohol does not appear to be involved, the release said.

SHERIDIAN, Ind. (WISH) – Each and every week Dick Wolfsie shares an interesting and fun story that has a special connection to central Indiana.

This time Dick went to Hamilton County to check out Blackhawk Winery.

He met with Deb Miller of Blackhawk Winery. 

She discussed how she and her husband got interested in wine, how long the winery has been in existence and described some of their wines, including their Chambourcin.

To hear more about Blackhawk Winery, click on the videos. 

SHERIDAN, Ind. (WISH) — The Blackhawk Winery north of Sheridan is right in the middle of Indiana farm country.

With livestock including an aging turkey and his mate, the farm is similar to many small Indiana family-owned farms; the owners do everything. 

The owners of Blackhawk Winery are Deb and John Miller, both transplants to Indiana with a hobby of making wine. Their hobby has grown into a full-time business, and the business has cleared multiple hurdles. 

Small winery operators such as the Millers are hoping a bill before the Indiana legislature will pass so farm wineries can sell their products wholesale and in larger quantities.

The vineyards on the the Millers’ farm produce enough grapes for a couple thousand gallons of wine a year. Blackhawk Winery’s variety of wines has grown through the years and garnered a respectable following.

Until recently, Indiana farm wine was distributed by a large statewide wine wholesaler, but the state pulled the wholesalers’ permit on a technical issue. The Millers had signed a distribution agreement with the wine wholesaler, but they would like more control over the sale of their product.

“Our winery is so small that in the greater scheme of the portfolio of these large distribution centers we are down here on their priority list,” Deb Miller said.

If the Millers were selling eggs from their chickens, they could freely market the eggs to local grocery stores and restaurants and open a stand at the farm.

To sell the wine the same as their eggs, though, requires a different permit and one of the Millers would have to step away from the winery. 

“And the microwholesale distribution permit is the permit that is supposed to help small wineries like us start to do distribution so that we can get into those smaller markets and get that name and build that market that makes us more attractive to the larger distribution companies.” Deb Miller said. 

Indiana state Sen. Ron Grooms is trying to change state law with Senate Bill 609. The bill passed the Senate 43-6 and was referred to the House of Representatives for consideration. 

“A winery can be involved in the transportation or ownership of a wholesaler plus a brewery, which makes that very different,” said the senator who serves part of Floyd and Clark counties on the Ohio River.

SHERIDAN, Ind. (WISH) — After more than two decades, investigators in Hamilton County hope new photographs will help solve an unusual cold case involving a man who may have been using a false identity.

According to the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office, Paul Raymond Harrod left his home near Sheridan the day after Thanksgiving in 1992. He has not been seen or heard from since. Harrod left his wife a $100 bill and a note stating he “needed to get away for awhile.”

His wife filed a missing person report with the sheriff’s office on May 7, 1993.

Over the years, detectives have uncovered several new clues that raised even more questions:

The 1992 white Geo Metro Harrod left in was sold in Denver, Colorado in 1994.

Harrod’s Social Security number was not issued until 1987.

The high school Harrod listed as attending has no record of him.

A Paul Raymond Harrod with the same parents’ names and date of birth was killed by a car when he was 5 years old.

Investigators recently received new photos of Harrod. One photo showing only Harrod was taken on Thanksgiving Day in 1992, the day before he disappeared. Detectives would also like to identify and interview the best man seen in Harrod’s wedding photo.

“There are clearly things about the case that don’t make a lot of sense,” said Capt. Mark Bowen with the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office. “We’re trying to put those pieces together and determine exactly who Mr. Harrod is and if he’s who he presented himself to be. Was he running from something, did something happen to him? These are the things we’re trying to ascertain and determine as far as this case is concerned.”

Detectives believe Harrod may now be in his 70s.

Anyone with information or who may have known Harrod during his time in Hamilton County is asked to contact the Hamilton County Sheriff’s office at 317-773-1282.

WESTFIELD, Ind. (WISH) — A Sheridan woman faces two murder charges and an involuntary manslaughter charge after her car struck another, killing two people in the other car and leading to the death of her unborn child, court documents show. 

The crash occurred about 9:08 a.m. April 19 in the area of Mule Barn Road and State Road 32 in west Westfield, according to a Westfield Police Department officer who investigated the crash. 

Bridgette Elmore, 31, also faces charges of operating a vehicle while intoxicated causing deaths, a charge of operating a vehicle while under the influence of a controlled substance and a charge of endangering a 6-year-old girl who was in her car.

Rhonda Scherer, 50, and Theodore Scherer Jr., 60, died of blunt-force injuries in the crash, a coroner determined.

The unborn child, a boy believed to be about 28 weeks old, died a few minutes after the crash from complications of premature delivery. A drug test found the baby had amphetamine in its blood. Police found two Adderall pills in Elmore’s purse. She had been prescribed medications while battling depression. 

The 6-year-old girl suffered an injury to her eye. 

During the investigation, Elmore told an Indiana Department of Child Services caseworker that she felt responsible for the crash due to her marijuana use.

Elmore’s initial hearing was Wednesday. No further dates were set in Hamilton Circuit Court. 

Elmore was in the Hamilton County Jail on Wednesday night. 

SHERIDAN, Ind. (WISH) – The already popular Stuckey Farm is trying something new this year. 

The farm in Sheridan is holding its first Sunflower Festival this weekend and next. 

The farm has 18 varieties of flowers growing. 

In addition to the sunflowers, there will be apple picking, cider tasting, pig racing, a corn maze and a 90-foot tube slide. 

Ticketing is limited and must be purchased online to ensure admission to the event.

You can buy tickets here.

Ticketing options include: 

The address to Stuckey Farm is 19975 Hamilton Boone Road in Sheridan, Indiana. 

SHERIDAN, Ind. (WISH) – A 120-pound weight loss has earned a Hamilton County man recognition from the American Heart Association.

Rick Huffman was awarded the organization’s Real People. Real Change. Lifestyle Award. after an online vote among seven finalists.

Huffman’s story of a lifestyle change started when tragedy impacted his family in 2007. The emotional toll from the death of his young daughter also became physical.

In May of that year, Huffman discovered his two-year-old had died in the middle of the night after a bunk bed collapsed.

“It was devastating for us. It took a real toll on our family,” Huffman said. “After that happened, I just kind of gave up on things and just turned to food and just kept getting heavier and heavier and heavier and just kind of fell into a trap.”

Huffman was motivated to improve his health after learning two of his children were at risk of heart disease and other deadly diagnoses themselves.

“I realized that because of all the things that I had been doing, I haven’t really set a good example for them,” Huffman said.

Huffman started using his employer’s fitness center and overhauled how his entire family approached food. The difference amounted to the loss of 120 pounds in one year.

“I really didn’t realize before I started this, how bad I felt until I’ve lost this weight and I see how good I could feel,” Huffman reflected. “What I tell people is if you cannot do it for yourself, you need to do it for somebody else because you have people that love you and people that depend on you and that’s what motivated me.”

Huffman said his wife and five children have collectively lost 300 pounds.