Nashville Utilities has declared a boil water advisory for some customers after a water main break at West Washington Street and South Bittersweet Lane.
Affected areas include some customers on Van Buren, West Washington and South Johnson streets.
Affected customers should boil any water before using it for drinking or in food preparation until 4 p.m. Wednesday afternoon.
If you have any questions you can contact Nashville utilities at (812) 988-5526.
A Columbus man was arrested Sunday evening on drug related charges after a traffic stop.
According to Columbus police reports, officers stopped a vehicle for a minor traffic violation at about 6:55 p.m. Sunday evening. Officers smelled marijuana in the vehicle and a search revealed an electronic smoking device, two digital scales and cocaine in the center console.
The driver, 20-year-old Zackary K. Torres was arrested on preliminary charges of possessing cocaine, marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
Ivy Tech Community College and IU are expanding a partnership guaranteeing admission to community college students in five areas of study.
The agreements will allow Ivy Tech students who have earned an associates degrees in those five areas to transfer as juniors and choose from among nine related bachelor’s degree programs at IU Bloomington. The degrees include four in psychology, two in biology and one each in elementary education, informatics and criminal justice.
Students who enrolled at Ivy Tech after June 1st, are eligible for the guaranteed admission option at IU. Admitted students will be awarded at least 60 semester hours of credit toward their bachelor degree.
More information is available on Ivy Tech’s guaranteed admissions webpage.
A driver died on Interstate 65 in Indianapolis after a crash sent a car through the cable barriers and into the oncoming lanes this morning.
According to Indiana State Police reports, the crash happed at about 5:20 a.m. Monday morning near 86th Street. Troopers arrived and found two heavily damaged vehicles, one with a man trapped inside. Firefighters rescued the man and he was taken to an area hospital where he died.
An investigation revealed that the driver ran off the road into the grass median, through the cables and came to a stop in the northbound lanes of the Interstate, where the car was hit by an SUV. The northbound lanes were shut down for about five hours and the crash is still under investigation. Investigators do not suspect drugs or alcohol were involved in the crash.
The names of the drivers have not yet been released.
Indiana State Department of Health’s COVID Strike Team and the Indiana National Guard will be offering another testing and vaccination clinic in Bartholomew County this week according to the county health department.
The clinic will be from 12 to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Bartholomew County 4-H Fairgrounds in the midway area, off of County Road 200S.
Rapid antigen and PCR tests will be available. You can choose either the Pfizer or Johnson and Johnson vaccine. Both vaccines are fully tested and effective at preventing serious illnesses from COVID-19 according to the agency. The Pfizer vaccine is the only vaccine available to children ages 12 to 17.
No appointment is necessary.
The Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce will be holding a sneak peek of the new Propeller Community Innovation Center on October 7th.
The tour will be for innovators, entrepreneurs, members of the Chamber and the community. Propeller features machining and woodworking shops, robotics, electronics and programs to help start and accelerate new business ventures.
The tour will be from 5 to 7 on Thursday, Oct. 7th at the facility at 4750 Ray Boll Boulevard.
Columbus Regional Health’s Healthy Communities will be sponsoring a drive-up vaccine and testing clinic Wednesday at the former Fair Oaks Mall.
The event at Nexus Park will be from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the former JC Penney parking lot. The Johnson and Johnson one-dose vaccine will be available for those 18 and older and doses of the Pfizer vaccine will be available for children 12-18.
You can get more information at crh.org.
The Columbus Engineering Department says that crews will be paving portions of 8th and 10 Streets, between Central Avenue and McClure Road starting today and lasting through Friday. The work is being done as part of the Community Crossing Matching Grant program.
Contractors are also working on resurfacing streets in neighborhoods near Deaver Road this week as part of the city overlay project
You should use caution while traveling in the areas and plan to obey flaggers and traffic control signs.
Tonight will be the first BCSC school board meeting to be held virtually, in efforts to prevent out-of-order commentary and the ignoring of COVID-19 restrictions by some members of the public.
The school board made the decision to go virtual last week after members of the public opposed to COVID-19 restrictions repeatedly attended meetings and made personal attacks, interrupted and heckled speakers, exhibited threatening behavior and refused to wear masks and to social distance.
Indiana law does not require a public comment period during most public meetings. The meeting will be live streamed on the BCSC YouTube channel starting at 6:30.
The Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Department is warning of fake pills circulating in the community that could lead to overdoses and deaths.
The department announced last week that the pills, meant to look like prescription medications such as Oxycodone, actually contain fentanyl. The unexpected powerful synthetic pain killer can easily kill a person, with even a single pill says Sheriff Matt Myers.
If you have any information, regarding the illegal possession, distribution, or production of illegal substances, you can contact the Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Office at 812-379-1650.