(SUBMITTED PHOTO) Center Grove senior Ben Nicoson is the first recipient of the “We before me” award from the Matt English Foundation. Nicoson, left, is with Indianapolis mayor Joe Hogsett. The first award honors Nicoson for launching and raising $22,000 with the Hoops for Haskins drive for funds donated to the Rashawn Haskins family. Haskins was a senior Southport High school student-athlete who was killed late last year in a traffic accident in Greenwood. The award was presented at the 73rd annual Kiwanis Indiana high school basketball state finals awards luncheon presented by Pacers Sports & Entertainment on the Southside at Primo’s.

(SUBMITTED PHOTO) Beech Grove schools students of the month for March are, from left, Sophia Malone, South Grove Intermediate School; Emily Johnson, Beech Grove High School; Samantha Garcia, Beech Grove Middle School; Isabelle Roach, Hornet Park Elementary; and Olivia Duncan, Central Elementary.