Based in Lafayette

25/07/2025

19/07/2025

Check this gallery from Friday night's visit by the blues guitar legend.

18/07/2025

Coo coo for these cucurbits.

17/07/2025

Downtown Lafayette bars and restaurants along and near Main Street can start selling drinks to go.

Expanded ‘DORA’ (finally) arrives Friday in time for Gallery Walk, Downtown Blues and Jazz Fest ... and beyond.

Plus, Braun brings U.S. Education Secretary McMahon to Purdue. Lawsuits targeting SK hynix rezoning merged into one as site work continues. $350M District at Tapawingo advances. And more.

17/07/2025

A lot going this mid-summer week. Tim's Picks is here to break it down.

--> Damn right, blues legend Buddy Guy's in town, Friday at Lafayette's Loeb Stadium.
--> First up, Gary Allan brings his tour to Loeb Stadium tonight/Thursday.
--> Randy Houser's headed to the Neon Cactus.
--> A full slate of art openings Friday (Artists' Own, The Weather Station, The Bindery, McCord Candies, Generation NA, more) at downtown Lafayette's Gallery Walk.
--> It's almost Tippecanoe County 4-H Fair week.
--> Lafayette Blues and Jazz Fest, via Friends of Downtown

All the details here to read/tag/share: https://www.basedinlafayette.com/p/tims-picks-damn-right-buddy-guys

16/07/2025

Coo coo for these cucurbits.

It’s this week’s Market Report.

Coo coo for these cucurbits.

14/07/2025

Stepping in today, Tim Brouk with this Q&A out of Civic Theatre Youth.

An all-girl cast from Civic Youth makes waves, earns awards and rave reviews at national competition

11/07/2025

Purdue and company officials didn’t offer explanations for why Southern Airways is preparing to pull out of Purdue Airport, whether it was a matter of ticket sales or other factors.

Southern Airways was the first passenger service out of Purdue Airport in 20 years.

More here ...

The reason why isn’t clear, but the first passenger service in 20 years will end Aug. 5 – the same date SkyWest and Purdue’s new terminal are expected to arrive

11/07/2025

NEW TODAY: IU Health announces it will put $214 million into new facilities in Greater Lafayette, including West Lafayette’s first hospital with inpatient care and a cancer center on the IU Health Arnett Hospital campus in Lafayette.

Details in Based in Lafayette:

Location for hospital still being finalized in West Lafayette, part of plan that will add a cancer center at IU Health Arnett campus, renovations at West Side specialty offices

11/07/2025

"I’ll tell you that we have plenty of people that will be able to secure these housing units. We won’t have vacancies."

Lafayette offers recently acquired land for apartments for homeless seniors, veterans. LTHC’s McCarty Hope Apartments find a potential home.

LTHC’s McCarty Hope Apartments find potential home. Plus, fundraiser set for victim ID’d in fatal July 4 fire. Details surface on proposed new Meijer location. And plenty more.

10/07/2025

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Auction link is live today: https://givebutter.com/c/sixthsouth2025/auction/items/1093253

Sixth and South details/ticket link: https://mbx.studio/sixthsouth