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Bartholomew County

City officials have formed a subcommittee tasked with helping nearly 100 low-income residents, including some who are elderly or disabled, who are facing displacement from their homes after their landlord announced plans to close an affordable housing complex next year.

Northwestern Mutual management advisor Matthew R. Carothers has been recognized on the Forbes Top Wealth Advisor Best-in-State list.

Thrive Alliance has unveiled plans to tear down a vacant nursing home in Columbus to build a housing complex for low-income families and seniors.

Attorneys representing Republican Joseph “Jay” Foyst, who was elected to the Columbus City Council in November amid a legal fight over his eligibility, have urged a panel of judges to reject an appeal in a lawsuit seeking to declare his candidacy “null and void.”

A Columbus East High School junior and a fifth-grade student at CSA Lincoln Elementary School are winners in the annual Mill Race Marathon poster design contest.

The Bartholomew County Commissioners have approved purchasing body cameras for Community Corrections officers who are assigned to work with local offenders on a regular basis.

An engineer at Columbus-based Cummins Inc. has been chosen as one of an exclusive group of young professionals recognized for early career accomplishments in Indiana’s advanced manufacturing and logistics industries.

Legal Aid will have a free Legal Phone Clinic for residents of its eight-county district on Tuesday. The district includes Bartholomew, Brown, Decatur, Jackson, Jennings, Johnson, Rush, and Shelby counties. The phone clinic will be from 3 to 5:30 p.m. and registration is required between noon and 2 p.m.

Indiana University Columbus recently welcomed Ashanée Player as its new director of development. Her predecessor, Brenda Vogel, retired on April 30.