The Mill Race Theatre Company in Columbus is looking for people to serve as both directors and producers for the 2017 season.
The oldest acting group in Columbus, is planning shows for 2017 including Proof, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery and a Charlie Brown Christmas.
If you are interested you can look for an application online at www.millracetheatre.org.
Hauser’s basketball teams will be collecting household items to aid those affected by the fires in Gatlinburg, Tenn. Organizers say that the teams will be collecting items Thursday night during the girls game and Friday night during the boys homecoming game. Retiring athletic director Dave Irvine will be delivering the donations to Gatlinburg in January.
Items being collected include:
Bartholomew County Sheriff’s deputies will be getting new radios in the coming weeks. Sheriff Matt Myers says the radios were originally a part of a larger overall package that included body cameras. However, he says that there has been issues with the quality of the video, so he’s decided to hold off on purchasing the cameras…
The $338,320 price tag is being funded, in part, out of the county’s Telecommunications Fund, controlled by the county commissioners.
The county council voted Tuesday night to fund the remaining balance. In all, the county will be paying $67,664 annually for five years, beginning in December of 2017. Sheriff Myers says that deputies should receive the new radios in early January. He adds that these new radio units should last about ten years.
A Milan High School student was killed in a Tuesday morning crash in Ohio County.
Indiana State Police say that at approximately 7 a.m., troopers responded to a two vehicle crash on State Road 56 just south of Rising Sun. Investigators say that a pickup truck driven by 16-year-old Dylan K. Levi, of Rising Sun, was traveling south on State Route 56 when, for unknown reasons, Levi’s pickup crossed the center-line into the path of a car driven by 17-year-old Micayla D. Acra, of Milan. State Police say the vehicles collided head-on.
Investigators say that Acra sustained fatal injuries in the crash and was pronounced deceased at the scene. Levi, who is a student at Rising Sun High School, reportedly sustained minor injuries. He was treated and released at a local hospital.
The investigation into the cause of the collision is ongoing. State Police say that the roads were wet at the time of the crash and may have been a contributing factor. They add that Levi submitted to a drug and alcohol test at a local hospital, although drug and alcohol use is not suspected at this time.
State Road 56 was closed for approximately three and a half hours for crash investigation and cleanup.
An effort to clean up medians in Indianapolis has inspired a Jennings County resident to clean up areas of North Vernon. Tyler Stock is a realtor…
Stock says that he wants to extend the program to North Vernon. Under the proposal, 17 areas of the city, mainly flower beds, will be offered up to those interested in keeping the area maintained…
The city will spend approximately $1,700 for signs to be placed at each site, recognizing those responsible for the areas’ upkeep. City Councilman Jack Kelley also noted that there would be an additional expense of mulch, as he would like all of the flower beds to have a uniform look.
The city council voiced their support for the program during its meeting on Monday night.
A Columbus man was arrested early Tuesday after allegedly breaking into a business on Jonesville Road.
Judy Jackson, Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman, says that deputies responded to Wischmeier Nursery at 3:18 a.m. after a burglary alarm went off at the business. When deputies arrived, Jackson says they found a broken window on the northeast side of the building, along with 36-year-old Timothy Schoettmer, of Hawpatch Drive.
Jackson says that once Schottmer was in custody, deputies, along with K9 “Bolt” searched the building to make sure there were no accomplices. Schoettmer was arrested on preliminary charges of Burglary and Public Intoxication. He is being held without bond.
Leaf pick-up service in Seymour ends this week.
Mayor Craig Luedeman’s office says that the city’s Department of Public Works will stop leaf pick-up at residences for this year on Friday. Until then, the service will continue as weather permits. The mayor’s office says that residents do not have to call for leaf pick-up.
Seymour residents who would like to take advantage of this service should rake their leaves as close to the curb as possible, without going in to the street or blocking catch basins. In addition, city officials say your piles of leaves should be free of branches and trash.
A school bus was involved in a two-vehicle crash Tuesday morning near the intersection of 25th Street and U.S. 31 in Columbus.
Lt. Matt Harris, spokesman for the Columbus Police Department, says that, just before 11 a.m., an engine from the Columbus Fire Department was responding to a fire alarm at Columbus North. A Jeep was able to stop to allow the engine through the intersection, but the bus, traveling behind the Jeep, was not. Harris says that the front of the bus ran in to the back of the Jeep. There were no students on the bus at the time of the crash, says Harris. He adds that both drivers, who have yet to be identified, were taken to Columbus Regional Health with minor injuries.
We will update this story as additional information becomes available.
With winter’s first dusting of snow in the area, new Bartholomew Consolidated Schools superintendent Dr. Jim Roberts is reviewing the procedures for determining when its time to call off classes due to the weather.
Roberts explains that the school district employees will start reviewing road conditions at about 4 a.m. on a snowy day, focusing especially on some of the rural routes. He said that since the first bus routes leave at about 5:45 a.m., the call must be made by 5:15 a.m. at the latest.
“We have a great team,” Roberts said. “With this size of a county, we a number of individuals out checking things early in the morning.”
After that the district then begins working to get the word out to parents, using radio and television, social media, text messaging and other means.
“That gives us a proper amount of time to get the information out so parents can hear it, and know what is going on,” Roberts said. “We have buses rolling out between about a quarter to 6 and six o’clock out of the lot. So even to get all of our drivers, to pull people back, to make those decisions, things have to come together pretty quickly.”
Roberts said the school district has five days during the second week of spring break that can be used as make up days before having to start the online, e-learning program for students at home.
Columbus police say that a local man has died, after accidentally shooting himself while cleaning his gun.
The incident happened yesterday morning at about 10 a.m. in the 300 block of Cleveland Street, says Lt. Matt Harris, spokesman for the police department. 69-year-old Michael A. Sporleder was found unresponsive in the living room and was pronounced dead at the scene, Harris said.
The man had been cleaning a 9 mm handgun when it went off and hit him.