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MAYOR TO ATTEND NEIGHBORHOOD GROUP’S MEETING
The Ninth Street Area Neighborhood Watch Group will meet at 6:30 p.m. April 21 at Second Baptist Church, 1325 10th St. Columbus Mayor Jim Lienhoop is the featured guest. The meeting, which is open to the public, will include time for neighborhood residents to share concerns and receive updates. The watch group is supported by the Lincoln-Central Neighborhood Family Center, partnering with the City of Columbus and Columbus Police Department. For more information, call 812-379-1630.
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A statewide bicentennial and a local centennial will converge in Columbus late this summer. Sept. 18 will be the day when the Indiana Bicentennial Torch Relay,
which travels along a 3,200 mile route through all 92 Indiana counties, arrives in Columbus. Although a number of events are planned that Sunday for the relay, the
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Man charged in fatal wreck After her parents were arrested, she was adopted at age 3. Now, 35 years later, one Seymour woman discovers
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discovering on their own that they had been adopted through Indiana’s foster care system in the early 1980s. When he was a teenager, Meyer found his adoption file in his father’s desk and learned he had biological parents and siblings, including their names. When she was a teenager, Ford was told by her adoptive mother that the boy she remembered as
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A Jennings County man faces charges in connection with a March 12 wreck that led to the death of a man living in a motel on Seymour’s east side and left four people hurt. Christopher Boggs, 21, of North Vernon, was arrested Thursday on a Jennings Circuit Court warrant for a Level 4 felony charge of operating a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol content of 0.15 or greater and three Level 6 felony counts of causing serious bodily injury while operating while intoxicated. The charges are tied to a wreck at 9:52 p.m. March 12 on State Road 3 between county roads 650S and 700S in southern Jennings County. Michael D. Mathis, 46, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a press release from the Jennings County Sheriff’s Department. When first responders arrived at the scene north of Commiskey in Lovett Township, they found Mathis trapped in the passenger side of a 2010 Chevrolet Impala, police said. Although investigators were told Mathis was originally from Columbus, his driver’s license listed a Greensburg address, Jennings County Sheriff Gary Driver said at the time. Most recently, Mathis had been staying in a motel room in the Seymour area, where many of his belongings were later recovered, Driver said. Mathis was in a
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Pictured from top: Cory Meyer, right, provided these baby pictures of himself and his sister Becky, left, from one of their foster homes before they were separated when adopted. Meyer and Ford are pictured together Saturday at Chateau de Pique Winery in Seymour. They were separated for the past 36 years after being adopted by different families.
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brother and a sister dropped into the Indiana foster system and adopted by separate families when they were young recently found each other through an archived newspaper story. Becky Ford of Seymour and Cory Meyer of Indianapolis had been looking for each other for years, each
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a missing link to her past. She and her brother are now
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Pictured: Former congressman Lee Hamilton, left, makes suggestions during a 2016 Indiana Bicentennial Commission meeting Friday at the Columbus Area Visitors Center as former lieutenant governor Becky Skillman looks on.
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A West Lafayette native who has spent decades studying art all over the world will keynote the Columbus Area Arts Council annual report to the community. Richard McCoy studied art conservation at New York University. As a Fulbright scholar,
he spent a year in Madrid striving to understand the masters of old Spain. He’s worked at both the Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, two of the largest and most prestigious art galleries in the United States. But throughout all of that, there
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IF YOU GO WHAT: Columbus Area Arts Council annual report to community WHEN: 5:30 p.m. April 28 with refreshments available at 4:30 p.m. WHERE: YES Cinema,328 Jackson St. COST: Free