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The eight candidates for Center Grove school board tackled top issues, such as teacher retention, students growth and parent mistrust in school officials during a public forum Tuesday.

Indiana’s surplus might seem massive but the state could operate only 33 days using nothing but rainy day funds — lower than the national median of 42.5 days, according to 2022 data analyzed by Pew Charitable Trusts.

Township governments across Johnson County bring in thousands in taxpayer dollars each year — but many townships don’t spend all of their budgeted assistance money.

A monthly gas sales tax will rise beginning Tuesday in Indiana, after a brief autumnal reprieve, to 23.1 cents per gallon. That’s up a cent from last month and up more than 5 cents from November last year.

Voters who live in Franklin and Whiteland have one candidate on their ballots to select for county council, however, that candidate moved out of state months ago.

By the time noon rolled around Saturday, more than 1,100 Johnson County residents had already cast their ballots at the county’s five early voting centers.

Purple for Parents of Indiana rescinded their endorsement of a Franklin school board candidate who publicly disagreed with the group’s stance on social emotional learning, or SEL.

Of the 27 school board candidates on ballots in Johnson County, 15 replied to a questionnaire from the League of Women Voters of Johnson County.

Legislators will consider a new approach to funding higher education based on school-specific goals rather than blanket recommendations, and they got their first look at Wednesday morning’s State Budget Committee meeting.

The Johnson County Board of Commissioners is seeking interested individuals to serve on the following boards with terms beginning on January 1 next year.