Looking Back – May 8

2007

Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. detailed a suggested overhaul at Columbus East High School, with a projected cost of $63 million.

1992

Area unemployment rates declined slightly for the third consecutive month, to 5.5 percent.

1967

Robert E. Rouse, principal at Booth-Setser Elementary School, was named to direct the federally financed Head Start program in Bartholomew, Brown and Jackson counties.