Garden City Mobile Home Park. Image courtesy of Columbus Planning Department. A tied vote by Columbus City Council last night means an expansion of a Garden City mobile home park will move forward, despite city planning staff recommending the rezoning be turned down. The proposal would allow property next to the Garden City Mobile Home Community to be added to the park and changed from single-family use to mobile homes. The planning department staff urged city officials not to approve the development because of the lack of sidewalks, transit, utilities and green space at the site. The planner ..read more

Bartholomew County voters will be choosing members of local school boards when they go to the polls in November. But with a filing deadline of noon on Friday, Aug. 21st there are few names to go on the ballot. County Clerk Jay Phelps said that there are three seats on the Bartholomew Consolidated School board up for election this fall, and two seats on the Flat Rock-Hawcreek School board. The only candidate to file so far is Todd Grimes, who is running for the BCSC district 3 seat. The incumbent for District 3 is James Persinger who was first elected four years ago. Also up for BCSC are the D ..read more

Markquiel Derrick. Photo courtesy of Fort Wayne Police Department A Fort Wayne murder suspect was arrested near the Indiana Premium Outlet Mall in Edinburgh Friday night. Fort Wayne police say that their homicide detectives worked with Indiana State Police and the Columbus Police Department’s Intelligence Led Policing unit to locate and arrest 27-year-old Markquiel Derrick after stopping his vehicle in Bartholomew County at about 7 Friday evening. Derrick is accused of a shooting death of Antonyo Stephens just after midnight early Friday morning. Fort Wayne news reports that the 42-year-old ..read more

Photos courtesy of Seymour Police Department The Seymour Police Department is warning residents to use extreme caution if using an ATM after dark. That’s after a victim was robbed by a man with a gun early Tuesday morning at a Centra Credit Union ATM. Police say the attack happened at about 3:55 Tuesday morning at the ATM on South Jackson Park Drive. An unknown man was hiding in an nearby back yard and when the victim withdrew $200 from the ATM, the suspect hit the victim in the face with the gun and took the money. He then ran from the scene and was last seen on video in the 600 block of Mil ..read more

Indiana State Police troopers, Columbus police and Bartholomew County deputies will be joining with about 200 other law enforcement agencies across the state for this year’s Drive Sober of Get Pulled Over impaired driving blitz. Through Labor Day, agencies will be conducing overtime patrols looking for impaired drivers and showing zero tolerance for anyone found drinking and driving. Funding for the patrol blitz comes from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and is administered by the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute. According to the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute, in 201 ..read more

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COLUMBUS, Ind. – After asking for more transparency at the beginning of the week, the Columbus Educators Association (CEA) and Flat Rock-Hawcreek Teachers Association (FHTA) announced that they will be notifying the public when positive COVID-19 cases occur in their school buildings. “We're encouraged by the decision of our local administration to keep the public informed of outbreaks in our schools,” said Andrea Reed, President of FHTA. “As parents are making difficult decisions about how their children will receive the best and safest education this year, they deserve to be fully informed ab ..read more

COLUMBUS, Ind. – After asking for more transparency at the beginning of the week, the Columbus Educators Association (CEA) and Flat Rock-Hawcreek Teachers Association (FHTA) announced that they will be notifying the public when positive COVID-19 cases occur in their school buildings. “We're encouraged by the decision of our local administration to keep the public informed of outbreaks in our schools,” said Andrea Reed, President of FHTA. “As parents are making difficult decisions about how their children will receive the best and safest education this year, they deserve to be fully informed ab ..read more

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COLUMBUS, Ind. – At Tuesday evening’s meeting, the Columbus City Council’s vote on rezoning the Garden City Mobile Home Park from single-family residential to manufactured home park resulted in a tie. This was the second reading of the ordinance. Because of the COVID-19 crisis, the time span between the first and second readings exceeded the 90-day limit imposed by state law on city councils for making the final decision on such matters. The Columbus Plan Commission’s favorable vote on the rezoning, therefore, stands as the final decision on the matter. During discussion prior to the vote, opi ..read more