Looking Back, Aug. 28

Language arts teacher Courtney Lumbley unpacked books in her classroom at Northside Middle School in preparation for the first day of school in 1998.

From The Republic archives

Aug. 28

2013

Tim Solso, Cummins CEO from 2000 through 2011, was chosen as the inaugural winner of the Mitch Daniels Leadership Prize for “bold leadership that dramatically advanced Indiana.”

1998

Water on athletic fields at Columbus East High School put construction about two months behind, creating headaches for student athletes and construction crews.

1973

Two Columbus men were charged with bootlegging, the second set of bootlegging arrests in a week.