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Delta Faucet builds innovation machine in Carmel

One of Indiana’s most innovative companies in the past decade doesn’t make surgical instruments or drugs or engines. It makes water faucets and toilets. Delta Faucet Co. has secured 589 patents in the past 20 years.

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Crowd funding taps passionate fan base for fantasy figurines

A growing number of small game companies will join a pantheon of industry titans starting Aug. 15 at the Gen Con Indy gaming convention. The small guys are there largely because they can get the money they need to keep themselves alive via the fundraising technique known as “crowd funding” or “crowd sourcing.”

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Software firm finds beer business is a frothy market

Carmel-based Blue Horseshoe Solutions develops software that manages supplies, warehousing, deliveries, worker productivity and other logistical complexities connected with any number of goods-producing businesses, but about 25 percent of its business falls within the beverage category.

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Friday fun: County 4-H fairs

An ice cream churn-off, model tractor pull, rabbit costume contest and the Llama Limbo. This weekend’s schedule of events can mean only one thing: It’s 4-H fair season in Hamilton and Boone counties.

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Will residential boom end commercial bust in West Clay?

Residential construction is booming in The Village of West Clay, the already-sprawling Carmel development designed to mimic small-town life at the turn of the (last) century. But not everything has gone according to Brenwick Development’s ambitious plans. Two commercial nodes remain largely undeveloped, and one property owner’s legal woes led to several high-profile vacancies that have yet to be filled.

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Familiar face returning to Fishers politics

Walt Kelly was appointed to the Fishers Town Council in 1977 and went on to be elected to the position, serving as the panel’s president for 17 years. He resigned more than a decade ago because of professional obligations.

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