Looking Back – August 8

2007

Temperatures in the high 90s for several days in a row prompted city officials to open City Hall’s Meeting Hall to anyone who needed a break from the heat in an air-conditioned room where water and ice were available.

1992

Bartholomew County’s jobless rate remained 1 percentage point below the statewide average according to June unemployment figures.

1967

Two Indianapolis men were charged in connection with an $8,000 burglary of the Tempo Department Store in Columbus Center.