Local Features

Paul Dasovich took this photo of an orchid in full bloom in their house.

This is one of those situations for which you could never fully prepare.

For a week now, students from Kelly Warren’s creative writing class at Jennings County High School have been preparing to read their self-created children’s books to young kids at North Vernon Elementary School.

Larry Brackney, of Columbus, shot this close up of a honey bee working on their bronze sedum plants in their flower garden.

Tom Dowd of Columbus captured this shot of fireworks over Tipton Lakes on Sunday, Sept. 3!

Comic illusionist Matt Donnelly, known by some audiences as “the mind noodler,” entertains nationwide with a fairly bold confidence while seemingly passing thoughts into people’s psyches. But he’s far too sharp to be needled to noodle in one area at the beginning of a recent media chat when asked if he can plant excellent questions in an interviewer’s mind.

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It hardly can be considered surprising anymore when, at least once each year, thousands of folks descend on the so-called surprising little town of Hope, estimated population 2,200.

Dominic Piper shot this aerial image of Stafford Field, at CEHS, and its surroundings on Aug. 25 from an airplane flying above the field.

Columbus’ Mike Goodart photographed this art piece at the Visitors Center in Nashville this summer.