Looking Back

Looking Back – October 9

0
2006 The old Kenny Glass building on Jackson Street across from the Cummins Corporate Office Building was leveled to make way for...

Looking Back – October 8

0
2006 With nearly 60 years of law enforcement experience between them, Democrat Richard Funch and Republican Mark Gorbett campaigned for the office...

Looking Back – October 7

0
2006 Members of Old Union United Church of Christ, at the intersection of County Roads 800N and 50W, celebrated the church’s 190th...

Looking Back – October 6

0
2006 Cummins stock price spiked $8.26 and hit a record high closing price of $129.79, shattering the previous record high closing by nearly $6. 1991 Teresa Western...

Looking Back – October 5

0
2006 Johnson Ventures of Columbus purchased Indianapolis-based Central Restaurant Products, a distributor of equipment and supplies to restaurants, hotels, hospitals, schools and government facilities. 1991 The 19th...

Looking Back – October 3

0
2006 Plans for a revamping of The Commons included a merging of public and private facilities and adding a hotel, all designed to make the...

Looking Back – October 2

0
2006 Columbus won the America in Bloom national contest with an “exceptionally high” score that edged its more experienced competitors. 1991 Calvary Pentecostal Church on Chestnut Street...

Looking Back – October 1

0
2006 Cummins Inc. asked the Indiana Department of Environmental Management for permission to change its environmental permit to allow the use of biodiesel fuel in...

Looking Back – September 30

0
2006 More than 400 students piled onto Smith Elementary School’s new track for a ceremony dedicating the project, which took five years and $12,000 to...

Looking Back – September 29

0
2006 Juan Garcia of Su Casa Columbus estimated that 10 percent of Bartholomew County’s population, or about 7,000 people, were Hispanic, although...