Looking Back – May 12

Around Columbus

May 12

News around Columbus and the surrounding area as reported on or about this date in the pages of The Evening Republican and The Republic 10, 25 and 50 years ago.

2005

The area escaped serious weather-related accidents, fire or injuries when heavy rain and lightning pounded the county, toppling trees, flooding roads and tearing power lines from their poles.

1990

Area farmers were “twiddling their thumbs” after recent rainfall and the probability of more, kept fields too soggy to work.

1965

Camp Atterbury was listed by state officials as one of three places that might qualify as the site for a planned $280,000,000 atomic energy facility they sought to have located in Indiana.