Looking Back – January 17

2007

Sheriff Mark Gorbett announced his decision to outsource inmate food service at Bartholomew County Jail, saving an estimated $96,000 annually.

1992

A group of seven volunteers designed Rockcreek Elementary School’s first logo, refinished and cleaned the gymnasium floor and applied the black-and-gold logo featuring the school’s Bulldog mascot while students and teachers were on Christmas vacation.

1967

An old-fashioned bucket brigade put out a fire on the wood-shingle roof at the James Snider residence in Old St. Louis north of Hope before volunteer firefighters arrived.