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Kelly Tews joined a prayer circle at Columbus East High School as students around the country gathered around their schools’ flagpoles for the annual “See You at the Pole” observance in 1998.
From The Republic archives
Sept. 22
2013
Columbus Plan Commission approved a plan by Menard Inc. to build a 10,000-square-foot strip mall on the city’s west side, on the vacant lot between Wendy’s and Buffalo Wild Wings, beginning in the spring of 2014.
1998
One of the four bodies taken from shallow graves in Waymansville was identified as missing camper Jamie Engleking.
1973
By a 46-31 vote, employees of the city’s streets, sanitation and utilities departments unofficially approved Local No. 741, Laborers International Union of North America, as their exclusive bargaining agent.