A big week coming up for the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic. Margaret Powers is executive director of the organization.

Powers talks about what the expansion will be utilized for.

The philharmonic building is located at 315 Franklin Street. Powers says construction is set to take about seven to nine months.

For more on the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic, or if you would like to help donate to the cause, visit thecip.org.

Bartholomew County Road 1000 East, from 400 South to 360 South, will be closed to traffic on Tuesday, April 2nd, from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. and possibly Wednesday, April 3rd, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. for tree removal. The County Highway Department asks those coming in and out of the Grammer area to please use County Road 300 South.

Otherwise, you are asked to avoid the area if at all possible.

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The University Library of Columbus is hosting its third annual comics convention Thursday.

The event will include local artists and authors, comics and book stores, filmmakers and vendors including jeweler and board games.

Librarian Abby Hillyard explains.

There will be a panel discussion with filmmaker Mark Bessenger with the theme of “The Future Is Fantasy.” That runs from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Summerville Room.

Hillyard explains that there are a lot of people locally with an interest in comics..

Hillyard explains the cultural change from her childhood, where comic books and fantasy are suddenly hugely popular.

The Comic Con is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the library in the Columbus Learning Center and it is free to attend.

The family of a missing Brown County man is thanking rescue workers for helping save him last week.

They say that 76-year-old Joseph L. Carmer was found safe Friday afternoon after spending the night outside in the rain. Carmer suffers from dementia and was last seen at his home Thursday afternoon. He was found about a mile and a half away from home, says his daughter, Robin.

After searching almost all night Thursday, rescue workers called off the search at about 3 a.m. Friday, and started searching again a few hours later.

Carmer said her father was finally found by a woman with a search dog in an area that had already been searched before.

They believe he found shelter from the weather underneath an abandoned bulldozer in the area. By Friday afternoon, family members were losing hope.

Carmer credits her father’s survival with all of the volunteer efforts to help him. Those includes search parties, searchers on horse, rescue dogs, four-wheelers, hikers and others looking for him.

Bartholomew County deputies helped end a police chase that started in Indianapolis early this morning.

The department reports that Indianapolis and Edinburgh police asked for assistance in catching robbery suspects fleeing from Fishers at about 2:40 a.m. this morning. Deputies set up position just south of the Edinburgh exit on Interstate 65 and deflated the vehicle’s front tires using stop sticks.

The vehicle pulled in the nearby rest park and four people were taken into custody by Indianapolis officers.

A Louisville man was arrested at a Bartholomew County rest stop Friday afternoon, accused of making a southern Indiana woman drive him at gunpoint up the interstate.

Deputies say that the suspect, identified as Ravon T.T. Briggs is facing charges of criminal confinement and possession of marijuana.

The incident here started at about 1:21 p.m. Friday afternoon after deputies received word from Clark County dispatchers about a possible kidnapping. A deputy noticed a suspect vehicle parked at the rest stop between Columbus and Edinburgh. A resident in the nearby Northgate Addition also called dispatchers, saying that the victim had come to the home looking for help after escaping the vehicle.

She told deputies that she was cleaning out her car in Clarksville when Briggs forced her to drive toward Indianapolis. He ordered her to stop at the rest stop and when he left the vehicle she fled.