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Jerry Donald Noel was born September 2, 1941, in Cincinnati, OH to Gladys Kennedy Noel Peck and Estell Noel. Jerry relocated shortly after to the family farm in Elizabethtown, KY, where he was raised. After his Army service, Jerry married Rosemary Cox, who preceded him in death in December 2023....

COLUMBUS, Ind. – Friends of Columbus Animal Care Services (FCACS) will be handing out free pet food through their Furry Friends Food Bank distribution this Thursday, July 18, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at Columbus Municipal Airport, 4770 Ray Boll Blvd. The pet food will be given out in the parking lot in front of the plane, Charlie 119.

The Greenwood City Council approved using federal relief funds to cover the cost of two road projects, along with using other city funds for a proposed road impact fee study Monday night. Council members unanimously voted 9-0 to approve using about $2.5 million in funds from the American Rescue Plan...

The Johnson County 4-H and Agriculture Fair continues today in Franklin. What: Visit the Daily Journal’s booth to say “hi” to our friendly staff, enter to win Indianapolis Indians and Holiday World tickets and learn about subscriber offers. Where: Herring Hall. Family Fun Zone. When: All day.

GREENFIELD – Four Greenfield police officers were recognized for various acts of service at last week’s city council meeting. Proud parents, spouses and young kids packed the city council chambers July 10 to witness police chief Brian Hartman share how each officer bravely answered the call of duty in serving their community.

Kyle Shipp has been an athletics director before, so moving into that role at Hauser Junior-Senior High School won’t be anything new. Shipp was confirmed by the Flat Rock-Hawcreek School Board at Tuesday night’s meeting. “Spending over 20 years in high school athletics in some capacity, this is...

Ingrid Andress can sing. The country artist has the Grammy nominations to prove it. But we all have bad days. In honor of her painfully strained rendition of the national anthem at Major League Baseball's Home Run Derby on Monday in Arlington, here are a few other singers who likewise failed to hit it out of the park.

Jackie “Jack” D. Gray, 76, of Edinburgh, passed away July 12, 2024, at his home and surrounded by his loving family. He was born January 22, 1948, in Columbus, to the late Arthur and Pauline Metzger Gray. He married Marsha Kay Abbett Gray on July 22, 1967, in Columbus, and she survives.

GREENFIELD – The Community Walk of Fame highlighted several business and nonprofit leaders June 27. The Greenfield Area Chamber of Commerce hosted the event. Honorees included Derek Rogers of Shepherd Insurance, businessman of the year; Kathy Hall of Berkshire Hathaway Home Services, businesswoman of the year; Bentley’s Buddies and Friends, nonprofit of the year; Hart Summeier of Level Up Real Estate Group, entrepreneurial spirit of the year; Kelly Holden, Chamber Champion of the year; and Louise Thompson, ambassador of the year.

GREENFIELD – Registration is open for the 11th annual Sister Cities 5K Run/Walk. The event is at 9 a.m. Aug. 17 and begins at the Sister Cities Park on the Pennsy Trail, next to the Greenfield Police Department. The course follows the trail, heading west before turning around and returning to the park.

Saturday, July 13, 2024, started out for Raymond Turner, 89, of Edinburgh, the same way that the last few days had been going. He was under hospice care, in the bed at his home on Holland Street, preparing to cross the valley of death. The fact that he was at home is a testimony to the love of His wife and family. He had lived in that house for the last 50 years and it was where he wanted to die. And so, the family kept a long-standing promise they had made to him—to care for him at home until the end. And so it was, after several days of people coming and going, people caring for him, loving him, telling him how much he meant to them, praying, reading Scripture, the house was quiet for a few minutes on Saturday afternoon. He was alone in the house with his beloved wife of over 68 years, Bobbie J. Bohannon Turner. She came into his room to check on him and see if he needed anything. At 3:30 p.m., she found that the man she married when she was 16 years old was gone. That’s what she said when she called the rest of the family, “He’s gone.” Gone where is the question though, isn’t it? The fact is that a very real and significant part of Ray Turner, his physical body, was still lying in his bed. The glorious truth is that the other part of Ray Turner, his soul, had been carried away. At the very moment he took his final breath, he opened his eyes to the most glorious sight? The sight that he had been longing to see. Not breathtaking garden vistas or golden streets or any of the other beautiful realities of heaven?Ray opened his eyes across the great divide and found himself looking into the face of the King of all creation and the One who died to rescue him from death. Ray has now seen His great reward and the reward is Jesus Christ. O, what glory!

INDIANAPOLIS — A Jennings County man who has been accused of selling hundreds of thousands of dollars in guns without a license to two individuals who allegedly arranged to transport them to Mexico has asked a federal judge to delay his trial next month as negotiations over a potential plea agreement continue.

NexusPark Design Review Oversight Committee — 8:30 a.m., NexusPark, 2380 25th St., Columbus. Toddler Time — 9:15 to 9:45 a.m. and 10 to 10:30 a.m., Bartholomew County Public Library, 536 Fifth St., Columbus. This relaxed program is a toddler-friendly introduction to storytime. Toddler time features books and activities geared toward children ages 18 months to 3 years old.

The Columbus Park Foundation’s efforts to add a girl’s locker room to the Hamilton Community Center and Ice Arena continue with a crowdfunding project through the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority. The IHCDA’s CreatINg Places program takes online donations and matches the goal amount if it is...

COLUMBUS — Flo Ellen Small, 94, formerly of Vincennes, passed away Saturday July 13, 2024, a…

Local social media users posted bittersweet thoughts the past two days over the death on Saturday of fitness fanatic Richard Simmons at age 76. But 33 years ago, on May 4, 1991, many in a crowd estimated at 5,000 people — security personnel said it might have even been more — at then-FairOaks Mall on 25th Street in Columbus shed tears of joy when he led an oversized aerobics class of sorts clad in his trademark Globetrotters-style shorts.

COLUMBUS, Ind. — Bartholomew County Sheriff deputies arrested a local woman after a traffic stop and a foot chase, followed by an altercation with deputies and Columbus police. At 2:52 p.m. Friday, Sheriff Deputy Ryan Smith was driving north on State Street when he observed a silver SUV traveling...

Dennis DeYoung and his band, Styx, stepped up to be the headliner of the free annual Our Hospice of South Central Indiana concert after the classic rock band Kansas had to pull out of the Columbus show. 1999. Arvin Industries Inc.’s Board of Directors elected James E. Perrella as a...

The Connersville Spartanette Dance Team will host a youth dance camp for incoming pre-K through eighth graders in the Fieldhouse at CHS from 1 to 3 p.m. from Tuesday, July 23 through Thursday, July 25. The thirtieth annual Fayette County Free Fair youth dance recital will occur at 5:30 p.m....