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The Community Education Coalition (CEC) has been awarded nearly $40,000 for its plans to pilot a coaching and accelerator program for child care providers in the Columbus area.

The Bartholomew County Council has granted an additional appropriation from the county’s general fund for additional expenses incurred from jury trials.

State officials have awarded $718,280 to three organizations that plan to undertake projects that officials say will significantly expand substance abuse recovery housing in Bartholomew County.

The local Joint Narcotics Enforcement Team arrested two suspects Monday, closing out a drug trafficking investigation in Columbus.

The Bartholomew County Commissioners are considering whether to add a second list of road improvement projects to their plans this year.

Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. is considering changes to how it conducts public comment and other aspects of school board meetings.

The Bartholomew County Public Library teen subcommittee has proposed that the library’s teen section be moved to the opposite side of the adult nonfiction section of the building to give it more space, to more clearly separate the section from other areas and also to allow for better monitoring by staff.

Renovations are continuing at Parkside Elementary, with members of the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. board touring the building Monday night to see how things are progressing.

Bartholomew County Sheriff deputies have arrested three teens on kidnapping, robbery, criminal confinement and battery charges after a 19-year-old male said he was attacked and beaten in an ambush at a barn on the east side of the county.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana state lawmaker isn’t facing any immediate legislative discipline after pleading guilty to drunken driving charges for crashing his pickup truck through an interstate highway guardrail and driving away.