Looking Back – March 18

2007

Gov. Mitch Daniels, Honda executives and other dignitaries broke ground on the $550 million auto assembly plant to be built in Greensburg, where 200,000 vehicles would be produced annually.

1992

Kyrmen Rea, a 1991 graduate of Columbus North High School, was one of 20 backup singers who performed live on television with Marie Osmond during the Music City News Country Songwriter Awards show.

1967

About 150 people protested the loss of their homes when Columbus Redevelopment Commission formally adopted the city’s first urban renewal project which would change the area between the downtown business district and White River into an all-commercial area.