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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.

EDINBURGH — Edinburgh, with the help of HWC Engineering, is creating a new comprehensive plan and residents will be able to share their thoughts on it next week.

The Whitfield Drive Walmart Supercenter was temporarily closed Friday after four employees reported possible Freon leak exposure.

Columbus City Utilities Quality Control Lab announced that it has passed its Indiana Wastewater Environment Association (IWEA) Laboratory Excellence Award Audit with a 99.8%.