Looking Back – March 3

2007

An estimated 5,000 big, noisy sandhill cranes made pit-stops near Azalia on their way from their winter vacation spots in southern states to nesting locations in the Great Lakes states and Canada.

1992

Police and sheriff’s authorities searched from the person or persons responsible for making homemade bombs with chemicals and plastic bottles and planting them in mailboxes around the county.

1967

Columbus planning officials looked into an offer by National Homes Corp. of Lafayette to build an “instant” subdivision of small homes on small lots to help reduce the shortage of low-cost homes in the community.