Some customers of Nashville Municipal Utilities are under a boil water advisory.

According to the water company, due to a water main repair on East Mound Street, a boil water is in effect until 4 p.m. Friday. The affected customers are on Artist Drive, Wells Drive, Oak Run, Locust Lane and Commercial Drive, including Brown County Government Offices, the library and the Post Office.

Under a boil water advisory, you should bring water to a full boil for five minutes before drinking it or using it in food preparation.

If you have any questions you can call the town offices at 812-988-5526.

An ice skating marathon by the manager of the Hamilton Ice Arena is raising funds for a girls locker room at the facility.

According to the Columbus Parks and Recreation Department, Carleen Fry has already skated more than three quarters of the way toward her 26.2 mile goal. Fry says that interest in girls hockey has grown exponentially in recent years, but the team members and other female skaters have no locker room to get ready for games and activities.

Although the facility has four locker rooms, none are set aside for female skaters. Fry said that the girls’ hockey team members now use the equipment room and bathrooms to suit up.

Fry said that 289 laps of the arena equals the length of a marathon. And while she is a novice skater herself, she has already finished 243 laps toward the goal as of this week. The financial goal is to raise $400,000 for the new locker room.

You can find a link to support the efforts through the Columbus Parks Foundation here: http://Cbusinparks.com/girlslockerroom

Columbus City Council has approved a tax break for a Columbus company planning a $5.5 million investment in its plant on Marr Road.

Last night, the council approved a tax abatement request from Analytical Engineering Inc. for new equipment at its plant. Company officials said that the high-tech company need to upgrade and improve its equipment.

Robin Hilber with the city’s community development department explained that the tax abatement would save the company just under $300,000 in property taxes over the 10-year life of the tax break. However, the company would also be paying about $200,000 more in property taxes than it does now.

According to documents filed with the city, company officials say that the expansion will allow 47 jobs to be retained and 3 new jobs added in the next two years, with average wages of $27 an hour.

The council approved the request unanimously.

A Greensburg man is dead, killed Monday when his minivan was struck by a train.

According to Indiana State Police, 78-year-old Charles Papenhaus was driving the van and turned southbound onto Decatur County Road 200 East from State Road 46, into the path of a Indiana and Ohio Railways train crossing the county road. That was at about 12:30 Monday afternoon.

Papenhaus suffered fatal injuries in the crash and was pronounced dead at the scene by the Decatur County Coroner’s Office. The two occupants in the train were uninjured.

State troopers were assisted at the scene by the Decatur County Sheriff’s Department, Greensburg Fire Department and Decatur County medics.

Photo courtesy of Indiana State Police

State Road 46 in Brown County will have lane restrictions starting next week and lasting through August.

According to the Indiana Department of Transportation, the project will be about seven miles east of State Road 135 near Henderson Creek. Starting Monday, crews will be working on the shoulders of the road during the day and reopening lanes at night. During the next phase following the shoulder work, a small drainage structure will be replaced and the lanes will be restricted around the clock. You will see a temporary traffic signal in place during that phase of the project.

The work is expected to last through the end of August, but the work schedule is dependent on the weather.

INDOT asks you to slow down, to use extra caution and to drive without distractions in all work zones.

A Columbus man is facing charges of child pornography after an investigation by Indiana State Police.

According to troopers, the investigation began in August after a cyber tip was received from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The nearly 10-month long investigation led to investigators serving a search warrant at a home on Poshard Drive in Columbus yesterday morning.

That search recovered evidence which led to the arrest of 29-year-old Joshua J. Johnson. He is facing preliminary felony charges of Child Exploitation-Dissemination of Child Pornography, and and Child Exploitation-Possession of Child Pornography.

Troopers and detectives from the State Police Versailles district were assisted by the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.

A group urging gun owners to secure their weapons will be giving away cable locks at the Bartholomew County 4-H Fair next week. There will also be a chance to win a biometric gun safe.

Be Smart Bartholomew County is partnering with Safe Kids, the Columbus Police Department and the Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Department to give away the locks. On Kids Day, June 28th, you can stop at the police tents at the fairgrounds to pick up the cable locks, and to enter to win the safe.

The local coalition was announced in December with a campaign to educate and to encourage gun owners to make sure that all guns in homes with children are kept locked up and unloaded. The group seeks to reduce the number of shootings, suicides and homicides that come with an unsecured gun in homes with children and teens. Supporters of the initiative include the city and county governments and law enforcement, Columbus Regional Health, schools and businesses.

You can get more information at BeSMARTforKids.org

The Bartholomew County 4-H Fair starts on Friday and runs through July 1st.

File photo courtesy of Columbus Police Department.

An Ohio murder suspect was caught in Jackson County yesterday during a traffic stop on Interstate 65.

According to the Indiana State Police, a trooper began pulling a northbond vehicle over for a traffic violation north of Seymour yesterday. The driver pulled off onto State Road 11.

The driver initially gave a fake name, but eventually was found to be 34-year-old Shannon W. Liccardo of Twinsburg, Ohio. Troopers found that Liccardo was wanted on a warrant for murder in Maple Heights, Ohio.

He was taken into custody without incident and booked into the Jackson County Jail. He is being held on the warrant awaiting extradition back to Ohio.

There is still time to make your thoughts known on the possibility of allowing news media to use cameras and recording equipment in some Bartholomew County courtrooms.

The county’s judges say the commenting period for the proposed rule change is open until July 1st.

The Supreme Court of Indiana bans broadcasting of court proceedings in the state but will allow local courts to make exceptions.

The Bartholomew County proposal sets out requirements that the news media must be unobtrusive and quiet, may not move around the courtroom or conduct interviews in the courtroom. Cameras would have to be on a fixed mount and cannot be moved, tilted or panned when court is in session. Handheld cameras would not be allowed.

Violations of the rules could result in contempt of court charges or other sanctions.

Broadcasting will always be prohibited if the proceedings are closed to the public.

You can find the online comment form here: https://www.bartholomew.in.gov/clerk.html#local-court-rules-and-ammendments

Bartholomew County residents in need can get relief from the heat through Lincoln-Central Neighborhood Family Center.

Lincoln Central and the Bartholomew County Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative are distributing free fans to Bartholomew County households without air conditioning.

The home must not have air conditioning and you must show proof of Bartholomew County residency. Organizers say there are a limited number of fans available and they are on a first-come, first-serve basis. Fans are limited to one per household.

You can pick up a fan at Lincoln Central at 1039 Sycamore Street in Columbus. For more information you can call the center at 812-379-1630