Bartholomew County Road 200N (between 500W to 325W), will be closed to through traffic on Monday and Tuesday between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
That will be so crews can do an asphalt overlay. The work schedule depends on the weather. You should avoid the area if at all possible, or plan for delays.
The Alliance for Substance Abuse Progress in Bartholomew County and Centerstone are joining together to hold a Community Wellness Event from 5 to 8 next Friday at the Doug Otto United Way Center
The wellness event is being held in conjunction with National Recovery Month. It will feature recovery resources, employment opportunities, harm reduction information, prevention materials, testing for HIV, AIDS and HEP-C, recovery coaching, and more.
Sherri Jewett, executive director of ASAP, says this will be a great opportunity for the Recovery Community to get together and celebrate Recovery Journeys, together.
The Doug Otto United Way Center is at 1531 13th St in Columbus. For more information on the event, you can contact the ASAP Hub at (812) 418-8705.
Downtown Columbus will be taken over tomorrow by classic cars and cool hot rods as our sister station 106 1 The River holds the 25th annual Hot Rods and Rock & Roll car show from 3 to 7 p.m..
The car show will be along Washington Street and its side streets between Third and Eighth streets. Those streets will be closed before, during and after the car show.
If you want to take part in the car show, registration starts at 8 a.m. in the morning at the staging area in the Bartholomew County parking lot across Second Street from the jail. Registration will be going on until 1:30 p.m. Staff will be directing vehicles to parking spaces in the show area, 10 at a time. If you don’t register, you will not be allowed to park your vehicle in the car show area.
Seating is not allowed on the sidewalk. Car owners are asked to sit in the street between their vehicles and the sidewalk.
When you are taking your classic vehicle home, you are asked to drive north on Washington Street and to exit at Eighth Street.
There will be a free concert with Rick K. & the All-nighters starting at 7 on the stage near Third and Washington Streets.
A Statewide Silver Alert has been declared for a missing Greensburg boy, believed to be with his non-custodial mother.
Greensburg police are looking for 8-year-old Ryan Turner, who is 4 feet 8 inches tall with brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen with his mother, 34-year-old Alicia Turner, who is 5 feet 11 inches tall and 276 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes. They were last seen in a gray 2017 Jeep Compass with a Indiana paper plate of P162542.
Ryan was last seen at 10 on Wednesday morning. He is believed to be in danger.
If you have any information on Ryan Turner, contact the Greensburg Police Department at 812-222-4911 or 911.
Camp Atterbury officials released more details this week on the operations at the base to shelter more than 6,600 Afghan refugees during Operation Allies Welcome.
Mark Howell, spokesman for the operation, said that there have been an additional 1,312 military members brought in, 69 government employees and 83 non government volunteers.
Howell said the refugees are being housed in six neighborhoods with 82 lodging buildings. There are three community centers available, and two guest dining facilities with four additional locations for grab-and-go food.
The refugees will be going through a process to vet them and then to release them into permanent communities. He said that involves a medical phase, then biometrics and finally a phase of finding homes, sponsor families and employment for the refugees.
So far there have been just over 14 hundred fingerprint and photograph sessions and more than 1360 intake interviews.
Hoosiers can now donate needed items to the evacuees at Camp Atterbury.
Gov. Eric Holcomb has announced a regional collection system to receive, sort, and deliver the donations. You can drop off new items for the evacuees at the nine Indiana National Guard armories across the state.
Men’s and women’s unbranded, modest clothing, children’s clothing, socks and shoes, and powdered baby formula are the most needed. Items in original packaging will be accepted Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. starting next week.
Bartholomew County Road 1020 East, between Stafford Road and the county line, will be closing to traffic today from 8 to 5 while crews perform an asphalt overlay.
You should avoid the area if you can. The work schedule is dependent on the weather.
Ivy Tech Community College will be hosting express enrollment days from Monday Sept. 27th through Friday Oct. 1st.
Prospective students will be able to complete their enrollment steps and sign up for classes that start on October 20th. Walk-in’s are welcome and no appointment is needed.
Hundreds of classes are available in multiple formats, including in-person and online. Ivy Tech does require the use of a mask or face covering inside its buildings for everyone, vaccinated or unvaccinated.
The sessions will run from 9 to 6 daily.
For more information, you can visit www.ivytech.edu/eeday.
Cutting edge technology will be bringing the past to life next week on Fourth Street in Columbus. In celebration of the Columbus and Bartholomew County bicentennial, the “200 Years Together” audio-visual experience will be showing on the Ulrich Building from 8 to 10 at night on Sept. 23rd and 24th.
Organizers say there will be historical photos, videos and scenes shown on the building, set to choreographed to music. The goal is to remind us of things forgotten, to revisit important shared experiences and to leave us thinking about a bright future.
The show is 10 minutes long and will be shown on a loop each night. You can bring a chair. Food and drink will be available to purchase at the Fourth Street Bar and Grill.
There will also be a scavenger hunt, bicentennial-related booths and a family game area.
Organizers caution that the show does include flashing lights and strobe effects.
Story courtesy of Network Indiana
Fourteen Indiana colleges will waive application fees during Indiana’s College Application Week, from Sept. 20 – 24. And another 25 colleges already have no application fees, according to the Indiana Commission for Higher Education.
Indiana Commissioner for Higher Education, Teresa Lubbers, says she hopes Hoosier high school seniors will take advantage of College Application Week.
Schools offering free applications for high school seniors include:
Story courtesy of Network Indiana.
Thirty-four people have been rounded up in Johnson County, accused of dealing drugs in Operation United Front.
Jackson County authorities announced the arrests yesterday.
Prosecutor Joe Villanueva said there is an opioid epidemic, but methamphetamine is still king in Johnson County. He said the majority of people who were arrested were dealing meth. But, he also had a long list of other drugs that police found in the round-up, to include Xanax, morphine, heroin, fentanyl, ecstasy, hydrocodone, oxycodone, and suboxone, which is used to ween people off of opioids.
Franklin Police Chief Kirby Cochran said the busts are necessary to save lives in his city. There have been 38 overdose calls in the last seven and a half months, he said.
“We’re not going to allow these drugs to take over our neighborhoods,” Cochran said. “As long as I’m chief of police, narcotics enforcement will be a priority.”
Villanueva said there were some unusual arrests in the operation.
“We had somebody sell us some fake heroin and one guy was even charged with theft for giving the buy money to the narcotics officer and then never producing the drugs. He just stole the money.”
He said there were also two mother-daughter duos arrested.
“It’s not often that we see family members get caught or charged with dealing drugs together.”
Villanueva said the people arrested came from all over the county and ranged in age from 24 to 60.