Bartholomew County News

Johns, who stepped down after fellow Democrats became frustrated with Johns' inability to find any Democratic candidates for the May election.

A central Indiana city has adopted a new tornado siren policy intended to prevent confusion among the public when the sirens are sounded.

Emergency warning sirens in Bartholomew County will sound when a tornado warning is issued, but not during a tornado watch or severe thunderstorm warning.

They are those from Bartholomew County who were killed or died in the service of their country during the wars of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

It contains a mix of different approaches to art and design ranging from the "old," such as the Irwin Mansion and Gardens and the restored City Hall building, to the "new," such as the "EOS" sculpture and the former Irwin Union Bank and Trust building by Eero Saarinen.

Indiana's low recycling rates are putting the squeeze on makers of glass, plastic and aluminum beverage containers, and companies say the higher manufacturing costs could deter others from moving to the state.

Hundreds gathered in lawn chairs and on blankets laid out on the lawn Friday night beside the Bartholomew County Memorial for Veterans to hear and feel the The hot, muggy weather did little to thin the crowd, which spread across Second Street and up to the front doors of The Republic.

The Midwest TQ Racing League made another attempt at getting the season under way Saturday night at the Bartholomew County 4-H Fairgrounds.

TRACY Fugate didn't surprise me when she mentioned that 140,000 people last year had visited Strawberry Fields Mercantile - the tea room and store she operates in Hope.

26-year-old Lee T. Bybee, of Columbus, is accused of pointing the pellet gun, which was painted black and looked like a real gun, at residents on Regency Drive and motorists driving in the area.

THE bottom line to the value of using trained dogs in police work was pretty well summed up recently by Bartholomew County Sheriff Mark Gorbett, who said simply, "It's a valuable tool for law enforcement." Gorbett knows whereof he speaks.

A local community is considering changing its policy on when to sound the sirens with severe weather moving through.A A Because Indiana is a home rule state, each county has its own siren standard.

The former sheriff's deputy and wife of Sgt. T.A. Smith with the Bartholomew County Sheriff's Department was appointed to the position by Republican caucus and sworn in Wednesday evening, according to Ted Ogle, chairman of the Bartholomew County Republican Party.

A program on Human Trafficking will be presented at 6:30 p.m. May 29 at the Bartholomew County Public Library Red Room.

For the past four years, they have been engaged intimately in an educational program that represented a significant change from how high school students have been prepared to move on to the next stage in their lives.

Legislation enacted in the aftermath of a fatal, wind-driven stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair in 2011 is forcing changes to temporary stage events statewide.

AT issue in the "break-up" of the boards of the Columbus Area Visitors Center and the Bartholomew County Convention, Recreation and Visitor Promotion Commission are two conflicting sentiments that in this case can be summed up by a couple of well-known adages.

City and county officials are moving to dissolve the relationship between the Columbus Area Visitors Center and the public body that divvies up funds to promote tourism in Bartholomew County.

A two-car crash at Seventh Street and Central Avenue in Columbus Thursday occurred after police said they received multiple reports of one of the vehicles driving erratically.

Chin Fong, from Trinidad, hope to convert a whole new group of people to become faithful participants in or followers of the sport through a Cricket Camp in late summer here.