Looking Back – August 11

2007

Donner Pool officially closed for the season because most of the lifeguard staff, composed of 27 college and high school students, had gone back to school.

1992

Portions of River Road and County Road 500N closed for about a month while River Road was realigned to the east side of Flat Rock Cemetery.

1967

Federal agencies considered a plan to locate a 23,800-acre supersonic jet-age airport about 10 miles north of North Vernon to link Indianapolis, Louisville and Cincinnati.