By Sarah Michalos
Johnson Co. Daily Journal

A recently renovated gun range in the Atterbury Fish and Wildlife Area will close next week due to financial woes - but officials plan to reopen early next year.

The private manager of the Atterbury shooting range said he's been losing so much money the past year that he's had to stop operating the range, which was funded and constructed by the state.

The Department of Natural Resources received proposals last week from private companies interested in operating the range, said Cary Schuyler, property manager of the fish and wildlife area.

Those proposals will be reviewed in the next few weeks, and a new manager will be selected to run the range, he said.