Welcome to the Paoli Hometown Hub. This site is an expansion of the Paoli Hometown Greeters program started during the spring of 2024. The goal is to provide a consolidated space for information, activities, opportunities, and businesses of Paoli, Indiana.
I had a conversation with a young man just before Halloween 2023. I asked him what he was doing for Halloween that year in hopes to invite him to come check out our Halloween display. He said he didn’t know what was going on since he’d only been in town for eight months. He didn’t know where the usual Halloween festivities were, didn’t know where the school was, and barely knew his way around town. I thought “You’ve been here for eight months and barely know your town?” (I didn’t say that, of course, since he could’ve had his own reasons I wasn’t aware of).
That got me thinking .. if I moved to Paoli right now with nothing of what I know now then how would I find out what was going on? We don’t seem to have one place to go to find anything out. Sure, we have the Facebook group(s) but good luck seeing all the posts there of upcoming events given the news feed algorithm. There’s also the town website but that’s certainly not everything relevant to a newcomer. Where can you take trash? When are they open? Public services? Events and festivals? I guess if you dig hard enough you can find those things but who wants to dig through twenty different websites and calendars after you’ve been working all day, chasing kids, and keeping up with life? So that’s the goal here. One place to go to see it all.