Looking Back – September 3

2007

After 12 people died in a bridge collapse in Minneapolis, a study of Federal Highway Administration statistics from 2006 revealed 26 bridges in Bartholomew County were classified “functionally obsolete.”

1992

The annual United Way campaign kicked off with a goal of $1,617,080.

1967

St. Peter’s Lutheran Church announced the Rev. Eldon L. Brandt of Marion, Iowa, had accepted the call to become pastor of the church, a position that had been vacant 21 months.