Library Connection Corner Shafer Library (Ivy Tech) Bracken Library (Ball State) Media Newspapers The Star Press Television As part of the Indianapolis market, Muncie receives Indianapolis' network affiliates. East Central Indiana's PBS member station, WIPB, is located in Muncie. The Joy of Painting was filmed at WIPB. Radio stations WCRD WERK WMXQ WLBC WMUN WNAP-FM WNAP WBST WXXC Transportation Air Delaware County Regional Airport (not a commercial airport) Fort Wayne International Airport at and Indianapolis International Airport at are the nearest commercial airports. Highways Interstate 69 U.S. Route 35 State Road 3 State Road 32 State Road 67 State Road 332 Rail CSX Transportation Norfolk Southern Until 1986 Muncie's Wysor Street Depot at 700 East Wysor Street was a passenger train stop on the Chicago-Cincinnati service of Amtrak's Cardinal. Until 1971, Muncie Union Station was a stop on the Penn Central's Indianapolis-Cleveland on the route of the New York Central's former Southwestern Limited (St. Louis-New York City) and Cleveland Special (Indianapolis-Cleveland). Mass transit Muncie Indiana Transit System (MITS) provides 14 fixed bus routes daily, except Sundays. Sister cities Muncie has five sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International: Changhua, Taiwan Deyang, China Isparta, Turkey Taraz, Kazakhstan Zhuji, China Notable natives and residents Note: This list does not include Ball State University graduates. Please see List of Ball State University alumni for notable alumni. General Jolly Blackburn, cartoonist, creator of the comic strip Knights of the Dinner Table, writer for and creator of the magazine Shadis and Alderac Entertainment Group. Current partner with Kenzer & Company. Ray Boltz, Contemporary Christian musical artist Minnie Thomas Boyce, writer, poet, playwright, lived in Muncie Ball Brothers, industrialists and philanthropists, founders of the Ball Corporation Francis Focer Brown, American impressionist painter that also served as the head of the Fine Arts Department at the David Owsley Museum of Art at Ball State University. Angelin Chang, Grammy Award-winning classical pianist Trevor Chowning, pop artist and former Hollywood talent agent/producer Benjamin Victor Cohen, key figure in the administrations of Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman Mary Jane Croft, actress George R. Dale, editor of Muncie Post-Democrat (1920–1936), gained national attention speaking out against the Ku Klux Klan Jim Davis, cartoonist, creator of the comic strip Garfield Bertha Fry, supercentarian, third oldest person on earth at time of death, November 14, 2007 (113 years) Maybelle Goodlander, photographer Ida Husted Harper, suffragette and writer Emily Kimbrough,