Ivy Tech Community College in Columbus is hosting a College 101 event on Thursday so high school students and their parents can learn about the college.

School officials will be on hand offering information about academic programs, including Aviation, Business,Criminal Justice, Cyber Security, Visual Communications and Welding. Tours of the campus will also be available.

College 101 at Ivy Tech Columbus will be at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14th at the College’s Poling Hall, 4475 Central Ave. You can RSVP at IvyTech.edu/College101. For more information call 812-374-5129.

Columbus police say they found a suspect hiding behind a couch in the business he is accused of burglarizing.

According to police reports, officers were called to an auto repair business on 25th Street at about 8:15 a.m. Monday morning after an employee found broken windows at the shop, along with items out of place in the office. And then noticed the man hiding behind the couch.

Columbus police took 29-year-old Tyler A. Small into custody without incident on a preliminary charge of burglary.

Experts will be giving their insight into the national, state and local economy tomorrow morning at the Indiana Business Outlook Panel being held at The Commons.

The panel discussion is aimed at business professionals trying to make educated decisions on what the future will hold, says Dr. Ryan Brewer. He will be a panelist and is associate professor of finance at IUPUC.

Steven Mohler concurred with Brewer’s spaghetti metaphor. Mohler will  also be a panelist and is a visiting assistant professor of business at IUPUC

Brewer and Mohler said that the local labor market will be a topic for tomorrow’s discussion.

Tomorrow’s panel will feature professors and analysts from IU and IUPUC including Brewer, Mohler, Sun Yoon and Ellie Mafi-Kreft .

The event is cosponsored by IUPUC’s business division and the Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce. It will start at 7:30 a.m. with breakfast and the panel discussion starting at 8 a.m. upstairs at The Commons in downtown Columbus.

Tickets are $25 and are still available at columbusareachamber.com

The Bartholomew County Emergency Management Agency has issued a travel advisory for local roads and streets. Shannon Hinton, director of the agency, says that the county’s travel status has been upgraded due to the reports of some poor road conditions throughout the county.

A travel advisory is the lowest level of local travel condition, and means that routine travel or activities may be restricted in areas because of a hazardous situation, and individuals should use caution or avoid those areas.

Hinton recommends that you slow down and use caution when traveling. You should also allow extra time for travel this morning and make sure there is extra distance between you and the vehicle in front of you.

Brown County is also under a travel advisory.

The National Weather Service in Indianapolis is reporting a low temperature this morning of 9 degrees. They say that is the earliest single digit temperature in Indiana history.

Yesterday brought a little more than two inches of snow to central Indiana, a new record for the day. The last record  for Indianapolis was 1.2 inches set in 1932 and 1995.

A full call out of snowplow trucks is underway across the Indiana Department of Transportation’s Southeast District in anticipation of accumulating snow.

INDOT says that plow drivers will work in 12-hour shifts until snow subsides and road conditions improve. Below is the call out schedule by subdistrict:

– Columbus: 31 plow trucks beginning at 3 p.m.
– Bloomington: 29 plow trucks beginning at 3 p.m.
– Madison: 30 plow trucks beginning at 4 p.m.

Tips for drivers:

– Reduce speeds: Allow extra time to reach your destination, be patient as snowplows travel below posted speed limits.
– Safe distance: Do not tailgate and give snowplows plenty of room to work, allow plenty of time to slow down.
– Pay attention: Drive distraction-free, focus on safe driving, be aware of surroundings and changing road conditions
– Know before you go: Check road and traffic conditions at indot.carsprogram.org or the INDOT mobile app.

Republican incumbent Columbus City Councilman Dascal Bunch will file for a recount after losing the District 1 race by a single vote. Our news-gathering partners at “The Republic” are reporting that Bunch met with attorney Scott Andrews on Monday to discuss his options. Bunch told the newspaper that he will officially request a recount by the end of this week.

Democratic challenger Jerone Wood defeated Bunch, 260 to 259. Wood was one of four Democrats who won city council seats last week, giving the Democrats their first majority on the council since the 1980s. A recount has the potential keep the council in Republican hands.

For more on this story, visit therepublic.com.

A driver with a blood alcohol level of more than three times the legal limit was arrested by Columbus police Saturday morning.

According to police reports, officers stopped a vehicle after noticing it swerving across the road at 18th and Sycamore streets at about 3:15 Saturday morning.

The driver, 25-year-old Cody L. Wooten, had a strong odor of alcohol on his breath and failed several field sobriety tests. A portable breath test revealed a blood alcohol level of .284 percent.

Wooten was taken to Columbus Regional Hospital for a blood test and then arrested on a preliminary charge of operating a vehicle while intoxicated, with a prior conviction.

Veterans Day is Monday and Bartholomew County will be honoring county veterans who have passed away in the past year.
Veteran Zack Ellison says expected poor weather is moving the event indoors.

Monday’s event was originally scheduled to be held at the county’s Memorial for Veterans on the grounds of the

Bartholomew County Courthouse. It will still be held at 11 a.m. with a balloon release to follow. As each name is read, a balloon is released by funeral home staff.

Ret. Air Force Gen. Mark Pillar talked recently with John Foster on AM Columbus about the remembrance ceremony.

You are invited.

If you can’t attend the ceremony in person, you can listen to it live on News Talk 1010 WCSI and 98.1 FM beginning at 11 a.m. Monday.

A local woman was arrested on drug charges after a Thursday night traffic stop. Just before 8:30 p.m. Thursday, a Bartholomew County Sheriff’s deputy was near the intersection of Second and Sycamore Streets in Columbus when he observed a car without taillights. The deputy pulled the vehicle over and spoke with the driver, 45-year-old Carrie Pitts, of Columbus.

While speaking with Pitts, the deputy smelled a heavy odor of marijuana coming from inside her vehicle. A vape pen was located as well as two corner cut baggies. One bag containing a grey power suspected to be heroin and the other containing a white power believed to be methamphetamine.

Pitts was arrested on preliminary charges of:

Possession of a Controlled Substance
Possession of Heroin
Possession of Methamphetamine
Possession of Marijuana
Possession of Paraphernalia

She remains behind bars in lieu of $126,000 bond.

A local veteran will be honored Sunday with a high honor from the French government.

Rob Derringer explains that  95-year-old World War II veteran Marvin Sabatino, a Columbus resident, will receive the French Legion of Honor.

The award grew out of Sabatino serving as grand marshal of last year’s Ethnic Expo parade, where France was the host country.

The ceremony will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Indiana War Memorial in Indianapolis.