Looking Back, Oct. 13, 2023

From left, Sara Wilson, Taylor Collier, Taylor Davis and a stage full of students from Schmitt and Mount Healthy Elementary schools mimicked a dancer from Chicago’s Sundance Production Performing Arts Co. demonstrating dance steps to music from South Africa and the Caribbean on the first day of Ethnic Expo in 1998.

From The Republic archives

Oct. 13

2013

New rules were adopted about hosting events in the main lobby area of The Commons and prices for renting that area for parties, weddings and other events were substantially increased.

1998

Sandy Hook United Methodist Church members held a ground-breaking service for a $1.5 million, 7,300-square-foot wing addition to the building on Taylor Road.

1973

Columbus East High School Student Assembly members cleared a wooded area owned by the Parks and Recreation Department across from the school on South Marr Road.